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OF A COMMONWEALTH AND THE BlJIL-DToG 

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WILLIAM RICHARD CUTTER, A, M, 

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presc-iit work, "(.ieiiealogical and F"amil)' History of Central Xtrw \'ork," jirc- 
sents ill the aggregate an amount and variety of genealogical and |)er^>onal infor- 
mation and portraiture unequalled by any kindred publication. Indeed, no similar 
work concerning the families of this region has ever before been presented. It 
contains a vast amount of ancestral history never before printed. The object 
clearly detiiied and well digested, was threefold: 

l*"irst. To jjreseiit in concise form the history of Central .\ew N'ork haniilies ot 
the Colonial Days. 

Second. To ijre-.erve a reconl of tlit proiLiiient pn^ent-tla)' peojile of the regiuii 
'''Third, 'i'o present through personal skr-ichcs the relation of its prominent falnilie.^ of 
all tiiiKs to the growth, singular prosperity and wides]jiead influence of this portion of llie 
lunpire ^tate. 

TIkti' are luimerous vidumnu'Us lu-i.^rirs (.1 I'.ic S'.at-., makinj; n luinecessary ui O.u-^ 
work to f\eii outline it.i annals. Wha: 1ms been p(i')liii:(l. luiv.ever. relates principally to 
civic life. The anipliticatioii necessary tc co'.ir.lrte tii-, i)KUire "f the section, old auii 
ilovvada\s. is what is su]>plied in large meaiure \i\ ti,e>e ' i-ncul' '.<,'ic.i! and I'aMilly .Meiii^io. 
in other v.ord', while others have written of "the iimo< " the piovmce of thi' wi;rk is to 
be a chronicle of the people who have mr.ile Ceniial .\'e.\ \oil,- what il ;-. 

I 'ni(|iK' in conception and treatment, this work constil\ites one of the most original riiid 
]irrmaiu"ntl> val.i.'ible i:ontributions ever made to the sricial hist, ry of an .\merii an ci;m 
nioiiweahh. in it are arrayed in a lucid and di^nii'ifd nr..i]n(-r all (h.e iin]j(.i"tani fact-, 
r. garding the ancestry. [>ersonal careers and inatriu'nni.'il .-I'lu/ues of !.:inv. •,,h(> 111 cacli 
succeeding generation, have been accorded leaiiuig po-,iii.,n-- \v the sociai. i,<roies.;ioiial aiMl 
Ir.isiness life of the State. .Xcr has it been based upon, neuhcr does ii minister to, aristo- 
cratic ];rtju.lices and assimiptions. On the contrary, it.- fuiulanicnral iders are thoroughly 
.\nierican and democratic. The work evcA'where conveys tlie lesson rha; iiist;n.-ti(.ii lias 
been gained only by honorable pulilic service, or ny usefulness in priv;ne station, anil dial 
the develo])ment and prosperity of the region of which 
it treats has been dependent upon the character of its 
citizens, and in the stiimdiis which they have given to 
Commerce, to industry, to the arts and sciences, to cdu- 
cruion and religion — to all tliat i. comprised in the 
highest ci\ili>'.ation of the present day — through a ■ on- 
tinual progressive development. 

The inspiratio'i underlying the present work is a 
icrvent apjireciation of t!-,e trjth so well expressed 
by Sir Walter ScoU. that "the:e is no heroic poem in 

the world but is at the bottc.m the life of a man." .And jAMii.s I'l MPKi.i.r, 

with this goes a kindred truth, that to know ama.i, and '^'""',\i'''-^r"J'?-"r,-'" '^'."'-w'"" 




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rightly measure his character, and weigh hi-i 
achievements, we must know whence he came, 
from what forbears he sprang. Truly as heroic 
poems have been written in human lives in the 
paths of peace as in the scarred roads of war. 
Such examples, in whatever line of endeavor, are 
of much worth as an incentive to those who come 
afterward, and as such were never so needful to 
be written of as in the present day, when pessi- 
mism, forgetful of the splendid lessons of the 
[)a>t, withiiolds its effort in the present, and views 
the future only with alarm. 

I'.very community with such ami)le hi^tciry as 
this, should see that it be worthrly supplemented 
i)\ (jcnealogical and Personal Memoirs of its 
leading families and prominent citizens. Siicii <i 
wor.k' is that which is now presented. And, it 
should be ail.iiiaed. the undertaking possesses 
value nf the liiglie>t importance — in its historic 
utility as a iiieniurial of the development and 
progress of the community from its very founding, and in the personal interest which 
attaches to tlj.j record made by the individual. On bolii these accounts it will prove a highlv 
useful c.untnbution to literature, and a valuable legacy to future generations. Out of the-- 
considerations the authors and publishers have received the encouragement and ajjproval of 
authorities of the highest standing as genealogists, historians and litterateurs. In the i^ro- 
duction of this, work, no pains have been spared to ensure absolute truth — that quality upon 
which its value in every feature dejjcnds. The material comprising the genealogical and per- 
sonal records of the active living, as well as of the honored dead, was gathered by nun and 
women experienced in such work and acquainted with local history and ancestral families. 
These have appealed to the custodians of family records concerning the useful men of pre- 
ceding generations, and of their descendants who have lived useful and honorable lives. 
Such custodian.-, who have availed themselves of this o|..portunity of having this knowledge 
l>laced 1:1 ijresei vable and accessible form, have performed a public service in rendering 
lioiKjr to sviiom honor is due, in preserving the distinction which rightfully belongs to theii- 
families, and which distinguishes them from later immigrations ; as well as in inculcating 
the most valuable and enduring lessons of patriotism and g(X)d citizenship. 

There is ])robably no section of the United States in which are so well preserveil the 
ideas ;u)d characteristics of the original New England immigrants as in Central Xew '>'(>rk. 
.-\l the time when most of the pioneer settlers located in this region, the war for .\nnrican 
Independence had just closed, and many of them were fresh from the struggle, imbued >vitli 
the highest principles of patriotism, and all brought to their new homes and instilled iii 
their children the i>ractice oi the simple virtues, the indu.-try anil enterprise which have 
made the sons of the Empire State pre-eminent in every walk of life throughout the 
.X'atioii. Another important element in the settlement of this section wa.'- made up of the 
early Uutcli settiers wIk) came to New .Vmsierdam (Ne\\' "^'orkl before the alopiion of 
surnan;e'> among them. 



INTRODUCTORY. v 

Than this region no other offered a more pecuHarly interesting field for research. Its sons 
— "native here, and to the manner born," and of splendid ancestry — have attained distinction 
in every field of human effort. An additional interest attaches to the present undertaking 
in the fact that, while dealing primarily with the history of native New York, this work 
approaches the dignity of a national epitome of genealogy and biography. Owing to the 
wide dispersion throughout the country of the old families of the State, the authentic 
accoimt here presented of the constituent elements of her social life, past and present, is 
of far more than merely local value. In its special field it is, in an appreciable degree, 
a reflection of the development of the cotmtry at large, since hence went out representa- 
tives of historical families, in various generations, who in far remote places — beyond the 
Mississippi and in the Far West — were with the vanguard of civilization, building up com- 
munities, creating new commonwealths, planting, wherever they went, the church, the school 
house and the printing press, leading into channels of thrift and enterprise all who gath- 
ered about them, and proving a power for ideal citizenship and good government. 

It was the consensus of opinion of gentlemen well informed and loyal to the memories 
of the past and the needs of the present and future, that the editorial supervision of 
William Richard Cutter, A. AI., would ensure the best results attainable in the prepa- 
ration of material for the proposed work. For more than a generation past he has given 
his leisure to historical and genealogical research and authorship. He was the author, 
with his father, of "History of Arlington, Massachusetts," 1880; and edited Lieutenant 
Samuel Thompson's "Diary While Serving in the French and Indian War. 1758," 1896. 
He also prepared a monograph entitled "Journal of a Forton Prisoner, England :" sketches 
of Arlington and ^^'oburn, Massachusetts, and many articles on subjects connected with 
local historical and genealogical matters in periodical literature. He prepared a "Bibli- 




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ography of Woburn," and he has been 
editor of various historical works out- 
side of his own city. 

Others to whom the pubhshers desire 
to make grateful acknowledgment of 
services rendered in various ways— as 
writers, or in an advisory way in point- 
'^ ing to channels of valuable information, 

are ; Edward Kissam Clark an antiqua- 
rian authority, of Binghamton ; Edwin 
Jerome Brown, A. B., president of the 
Madison County Historical Society, of 
Oneida ; Mr. Alonzo D. Blodgett, of 
Cortland ; George Abraham Thomas, A. 
M., LL. D., antiquarian, of Norwich; 
Mr. Roswell Randall Moss, an authority 
on local history; and Mr. Leroy Wilson 
Kingman, author of "History of Tioga 
County," and for forty years editor of 
The Owego Gazette. 

In order to insure greatest possible 
accuracy, all matter for this work was 
submitted in typewritten manuscript to 
the persons most interested for correc- 
tion. If, in any case, a sketch is incom- 
plete or faulty, the shortcoming is ascrib- 
al)le to the paucity of data obtainable, 
many families being without exact records in their family line; while, in some cases, repre- 
sentatives of a given familx- are at a disagreement as to names of some of their forbears, 
important dates, etc. 

It is believed that the i)resent work, in s]5ito of the occasional fault which attaches 
to sucii imdertakings, will prove a real addition to the mass of annals concerning the his- 
toric families of Central Xew York, and that without it, much valuable information would 
lie inaccessible to the general reader, or irretrievably lost, owing to the passing away of 
custodians <>f family records, and the consequent disappearance rit material in their pos- 
session. 

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Dr. \\'illiam Nichols, immi- 
XICHOLS grant ancestor, was a Scotch- 
man by birth, who went to 
England to obtain his medical education, and 
then came to this country. He was born in 
1689, died January 13, 1754. He settled in 
Berkley, Bristol county, Alassachusetts, where 
he built a house and practiced his profession. 
He is buried in the Paull burying-ground. in 
Berkley. He married Joanna Paull, born in 
1697, died April 10, 1779. daughter of John 
and Dorothy Paull. Her father was born in 
1662, died ']\Iarch 23, 17 18, son of William 
Paull, who was born in 1622, died in 1704. 
Children: i. John, born November 22, 1721 ; 
married, in 1762, Elizabeth Valentine. 2. Will- 
iam, April 2, 1723; married Whit- 
marsh. 3. Eleazer, May 13, 1724, died July 7, 
1754; married, in 1749, Mary Tisda'le. 4. 
]\Ioses, October 22, 1725, died April 22. 1800; 
married, in 1748, Abigail Strange. 5. Joanna, 
September 9, 1727, died October 29, 1790; 
married Elder John Paull, of Berkley. 6. 
Aaron, March 5, 1729, died July 14, 1760; 
married Hannah Jones. 7. Margaret, Novem- 
ber 20, 1730, died in 1807. 8. James, men- 
tioned below. 9. ]\Iary, February 9, 1734, 
died November 24, 1756. 10. Edward, August 
22, 1737. II. Robert, June 28, 1739; married 
Grissell Nichols. 12. Peter, April 10, 1741, 
died 1762. 

(H) James, son of Dr. William Nichols, 
was born February i, 1732, died ^larch 2, 
181 1. He married Esther Dean. Children, 
born in Berkley: i. Paul, born 1765, died No- 
vember I, 1800: married Tryphena, daughter 
of j\Ioses Nichols. 2. James, 1768, died March 
29, 1792; unmarried. 3. Joseph, 1770, died 
October 3. 1817; married Phebe, daughter of 
Benjamin Crane. 4. Gilbert, 1773, died March 
2, 1836: married Rebecca, daughter of Benja- 
min Crane. 5 Sally, 1774, died December 30, 
1805 ; unmarried. 6. Abiel, mentioned below. 
7. John, May i, 1780, died June 4, 1848. 8. 
Joanna, 1782, died June 28, 1804; married 
Seth Winslow, of Berkley. 9. Esther, 1784, 
died March i, 1792. 

(HI) Abiel, son of James Nichols, was born 



in Berkley, 1777, died March 23, 1819. He 
married Fidelia, daughter of Abiel and Dyer 
(Paul) Briggs (see Briggs VI). Children: 
Abiel, mentioned below ; James, mentioned 
below ; Walter, married (first) Lucinda Har- 
vey, (second) Nancy Dean; Jerusha, married 
Asahel Crane. 

(JV) Abiel (2), son of Abiel (i) Nichols, 
was born at Berkley. He was a farmer and 
blacksmith in ^^'indsor, ^Massachusetts. He 
married (first) Jerusha Knight Parsons, by 
whom he had one son. Rev. Gideon Parsons, 
mentioned below. Married (second) Octavia 
Parsons, sister of his first wife, and they had 
three children: Jerusha Jane, Sarah Aurelia, 
James Walter. Married (third) Ruth j\Iiner. 
Married (fourth) ]\lrs. Nancy Miner. 

(IV) Rev. James Nichols, son of Abiel (i) 
Nichols, was born August 6, 1811. He was a 
graduate of Union College, 1835 ; Andover 
Theological Seminary, 1838. Later he was 
professor of Greek at Union College for three 
years, principal of Utica Female Seminary for 
three years, then became pastor of the First 
Presbyterian Church, Oneida, where he re- 
mained from 1844 to 1851, after which he was 
appointed principal of Temple Hill Academy, 
at Geneseo, New York, where he remained 
seven years, when he resigned to accept the 
position of principal of the Rochester Female 
Academy, where he remained imtil August, 
1862, when he received a commission as chap- 
lain of the One Hundred and Eighth State 
\'olunteers. As a result of exposure, he con- 
tracted a fever from which he died January 31, 
1864. He married, August 20, 1841. Sarah 
Jane Hastings, born March 15, 1818, died 
June 4, 1892, daughter of Ephraim and Lucy 
(Shepard) Hastings (see Hastings VI). Chil- 
dren: I. Lizzie Shepard, born 1842, died 1847. 
2. Delia Briggs, married Rev. Gideon Parsons 
Nichols (see Nichols V). 3. Jane Hastings, 
born December 3, 1845, resides in Rochester, 
New York. 4. Nancy, died aged three years. 
5. Margaret Dewey, born January 2, 1849, 
resides in Rochester, unmarried. 6. Elizabeth 
Borden, born 1853 ; married Lewis T, Sterling, 
has one child, Ruth Hastings ; they reside in 



NKW YORK. 



Iron Miiuntain. Michigan. 7. James Ephraim 
Hastings, born October, 1856: graduate of 
Rochester University, degree of A. B. ; College 
of Physicians and Surgeons, of Kew York 
City, degree of M. D. ; took special courses in 
diseases of the eye and ear, being a remarkable 
surgeon ; connected with Manhattan Eye and 
Ear Hospital, of New York City; died 1898; 
married Mary Winthrop Tappin, who died 
1899. (For further particulars of this fam- 
ily see Parson's Memorial work, published in 
1911 ). 

(\') Rev. (lideon Parsons Nichols, son of 
.\biel (2) Nichols, was born July 30, 1837, at 
Windsor, Berkshire county, Massachusetts. He 
attended the public schools there, and during 
his boyhood worked on his father's farm. At 
the age of seventeen he entered Temple Hill 
Academy, at Geneseo, New York, of which 
his uncle. Rev. James Nichols, was principal, 
and fitted for college. He entered Union Col- 
lege in 1856, and graduated in the class of 
i860. He was a charter member of Union 
Chapter of the Delta Kappa Epsilon frater- 
nity, and was valedictorian at commencement. 
He was a member of Phi r«eta Kappa. He 
taught for two years in the Academy of War- 
nerville. New York, and while there decided to 
enter the ministry in the Presbyterian church. 
In 1862 he went to Princeton Theological 
Seminary, from which he graduated, and in 
May, 1865, was licensed to preach by the Pres- 
bytery of Rochester, but he was stricken with 
ty]ihiii(l fever in the fall and prevented from 
an immediate beginning in his profession. He 
declined a call as pastor of the Calvary Pres- 
byterian Church, of Rochester, and accepted a 
position as teacher in the Rochester Female 
Academy there, ])reaching occasionally until 
June 7, 1866, when he took charge of the Pres- 
byterian church, of Victor, New York. He 
was ordained in the First Presbyterian Church, 
of RfKliester, in May, 1867. He remained in 
the Victor pastorate until September, 1869, 
when he was called to the Olivet Presbyterian 
Churcli, of Chicago. In March, 1871, he ac- 
cepted a call to the Immanuel Presbyterian 
Church, of Milwaukee, and moved thither im- 
mediately, remaining ten years. \\'hile there 
he was for several years a trustee of the Lake 
Forest University, and in 1 88 1 received from 
that institution the honorary degree of Doetor 
of Divinity. He then came to Binghamton, 
New York, to take the pastorate of the First 
Presbyterian Church. Excejjt for a few months, 



when he was pastor of the Central Presby- 
terian Church, of Denver, in 1887. he con- 
tinued to fill the pulpit of the Binghamton 
church until January I, 1906. when failing 
health compelled him to resign the charge. He 
was made pastor emeritus of the church with 
salary, and continued to reside in Binghamton 
as long as he lived. He declined several at- 
tractive calls, including the pastorates of Im- 
manuel Church, of Milwaukee, and Calvary 
Church, of Buffalo, and adhered to the Bing- 
hamton church, to which he was devotedly 
attached, and by the people of which he was 
greatly beloved and honored. He died Sep- 
tember 17, 1908. 

He married, June 22, 1871, Delia Briggs 
Nichols, daughter of Rev. James and Sarah J. 
(Hastings) Nichols, mentioned above. Chil- 
dren: I. Rev. Robert Hastings, born October 
2, 1873 • graduate of Y'^ale University, A. B., 
1894; Ph. B., 1896, and graduate of Auburn 
Theological Seminary, 1 901. He was pastor 
of the First Presbyterian Church, at Unadilla. 
1901-02. then went to South Orange, New 
Jersey, where he was pastor of Trinity Pres- 
byterian Church. 1902-10. at which time he 
was apixiintcd professor of Church History in 
the Auburn Theological Seminary, which posi- 
tion he still retains. He married. June 9. 1910. 
Marjorie Newton Wallace, of South Orange, 
New Jersey, graduate of Bryn Mawr, 1908. 
2. Margaret Parsons, born April 30, 1875 ; 
graduate of Bryn Mawr, A, B., 1897; mar- 
ried .August 31, 1904, William Hemans Smith, 
graduate of Harvard University, A. M. ; now- 
principal of Elmwood School, East Orange, 
New Jersey. Children: Delia Nichols Smith, 
born .\ugust 10, 1905 ; Margaret Hemans 
Smith, May 14, 1907: \Villiam Shepard Smith. 
April II, 1909. 3. Henry James, born May 
21, 1877: graduate of Y'ale University, A. B., 
and of the University of Pennsylvania Medical 
School, M. D. ; served in the field in the Philip- 
pines as surgeon from 1906 to 1909. and is 
now instructor in the .Army Medical School, 
at Washington, D. C, and captain in the Med- 
ical Corps : married, September 21, 1910, Grace 
Gundry, of Baltimore. Maryland. 4. Content 
Shepard, born February 3, 1879: graduate of 
Bryn Mawr College, A. B., 1899: A. M., 1900; 
unmarried. 3. James Knight, born March 28, 
1881 ; graduate of Yale University, .A. M., 
1903, then served two years on the editorial 
staff of the Hartford Coiirant. after which he 
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graduated in 1908 ; was admitted to the bar in 
September, 1908, and is practicing law in 15ing- 
liamton, New York. 

(The Briggs Line ). 

( I ) John Briggs, immigrant ancestor, was 
born in England, and was an early pioneer and 
settler of Newport, Rhode Island. He was 
admitted a freeman, October i. 1638; was liv- 
ing at Portsmouth, April 30, 1639, and in 1642. 
He was admitted a freeman at Aquidnet, Octo- 
ber I, 1640. He was appointed on the com- 
mittee to build a prison at Portsmouth, in 
1635 : was an assistant in 1648, and a commis- 
sioner for the purpose of effecting the union 
of the four towns of Providence Plantation, 
August 31, 1654. Children: John, mentioned 
below ; Thomas ; Susan, married North- 
way ; Enoch : Job. 

(II) John (2), son of John (i) Briggs, 
married Hannah Fisher, of Portsmouth, Rhode 
Island. Children: Edward, John, Job, Will- 
iam, mentioned below. 

(III) William, son of John (2) Briggs, was 
born in Rhode Island, about 1645, died May, 
1 71 6. He married (first), November 30, 1665, 
Sarah Macomber, who died March 20, 1680- 

81. He married (second) Elizabeth , 

born 1653, died .\ugust, 1716. He settled at 
Taunton. Children of first wife, born at Taun- 
ton : William, January 26, 1667-68; Thomas 
(twin), September 9, 1669; Sarah (twin); 
Elizabeth, March 14, 1671 ; Hannah, Novem- 
ber 4, 1672; Mary, August 14, 1674; Mathew. 
February 5, 1676-77; Amos, about 1678, men- 
tioned below ; John, March 19, 1680. Children 
of second wife: Susan, April 9, 1682; John, 
November 13, 1685, died January 21, 1712; 
William. January 11, 1688; Elizabeth, Decem- 
ber 2j. 1689; Thomas (twin), September 5. 
1693, died March 2;^, 1716; Deborah (twin); 
Job, August 3, 1696. 

(I\') .-Kmos, son of William l^riggs, was 
born about 1678. He resided in Berkley. He 
married, January 2, 1706, at Taunton, Sarah 
Pain, who is mentioned an heir in the will of 
Ralph Pain, April 23. 1722. She was a daugh- 
ter of Ralph and Dorothy Pain. Amos Briggs 
resided also at Freetown, Massachusetts, and 
died at Berkley. His will was dated March 
14, 1753, proved May 6, 1760. Children: 
Mercy, June 26, 1707; Sarah, June 16, 1709; 
i\Iary, May i, 1711; Hannah, November 5, 
1712 ; Amos, February 6, 1715 ; Thomas, Janu- 
ary 20, 1717, mentioned below; Abigail, June 



2~. 1719; John. September 18, 1721 ; Nathan- 
iel, December 18, 1724; Nathan, May 10, 1727. 
( \' ) Thomas, son of Amos Briggs, was 
born in Freetown, January 20, 171 7, died No- 
vember 10, 1779. He married Thankful .\x- 
tell, born December 8, 1725, daughter of Dan- 
iel Axtell. Daniel Axtell was born November 
4, 1673, died in January, 1735; married. May 
12, 1702, Thankful, daughter of Elder William 
Pratt, of Dorchester, Massachusetts, and South 
Carolina. Daniel Axtell went to South Caro- 
lina and lived there until 1707, and became a 
large landowner in Berkley, Massachusetts, 
then a part of Dighton and Taunton. Lady 
Axtell, widow of Landgrave Daniel Axtell, of 
.South Carolina, mentions him in her will. Chil- 
dren of Daniel and Thankful Axtell : Eliza- 
beth, born April 28, 1703; Daniel, October 24, 
1706; Rebecca, November 22, 1708; Hannah, 
April 10, 1710 ; William, April 13, 1713 ; Henry, 
June 24, 1715; Samuel, October 25, 1717; 
Ebenezer, March 24, 1724; Thankful, men- 
tioned above; Thomas. September 15, 1727. 
Henry .Axtell. father of Daniel Axtell, was 
born in England, in 164 1, and took up land 
with the first proprietors of Marlborough, 
Massachusetts, in 1660; married, June 14, 
1665, Hannah Merriam. He was killed by the 
Indians early in 1676. His widow married. 
July 5, 1677, Will Taylor. Children of Henry 
and Hannah Axtell : Samuel, born March 27, 
1666; Hannah, November 18, 1667; Mary, 
.■\ugust 8, 1670; Thomas, April 16, 1672 ; Dan- 
iel, mentioned above; Sarah, September 18, 
1675. Thomas Axtell, father of Henry Axtell, 
was the immigrant from Barkhamstead, Hert- 
fordshire. England. The earliest appearance 
of the name discovered in the records is dated 
1535. when John Axstyl's name is found in a 
conveyance of property at Gatesden, Hertford- 
shire. .\t St. Peter's Church, Barkhamstead, 
John Axtell, son of John, was baptized in 
1539, and William, son of John, 1541. Nine 
children of William .\xtell were baptized be- 
tween 1614 and 1628. Thomas was baptized 
Januarv 26, 1619. and was brother of Daniel, 
born 1622. colonel in Cromwell's army, who 
was put to death in 1660. after the Restora- 
tion. Mary, daughter of Thomas Axtell, was 
baptized in Barkhamstead, September 23, 1639, 
and Henry, mentioned above, October 15, 1641. 
The family then came to Sudbury, Massachu- 
setts. Thomas, the immigrant, died there in 
July. 1646. His widow married (second), 
September 19, 1656, John Gc>odnow. 



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(VI) Abiel, son of Thomas Briggs, was 
born about 1750. He married, at Berkley 
(intention dated December 9, 1775). Dyer 
Paul (see Paul III). Their daughter, Fidelia 
Briggs, born about 1777, married Abiel Nichols 
(see Nichols III). 

(The Paul Line). 

(I) William Paul, immigrant ancestor, was 
born in England, about 1624. He left Grave- 
send, England, in 1635, on the "Truelove de 
London," and settled in Taunton, 1637. In 
company with several others, he purchased 
land in what was known as South Purchase, 
in the town of Dighton, in 1672, and had lots 
3, 28, 45 and 85. He later deeded these lots, 
together with his house, to his sons, John and 
Edward, February 27, 1687. He was a weaver 
by trade, which he followed most of his life, 
and died at Taunton, Massachusetts, Novem- 
ber 9, 1704, aged eighty years. He married 
jMary, born 1639, died October 3, 1715, daugh- 
ter of John Richmond. Children : James, born 
at Taunton, April 7, 1657 ; John, July 10, 1660 ; 
Edward, February 7, 1664; Mary, February 
8. 1667: Sarah, July 5, 1668; Abigail, May 13, 
1673; Ebenezer ; Benjamin, mentioned below. 

(II) Benjamin, son of W'illiam Paul, was 
born in Taunton, in 1681, died at Berkley, 
January 12, 1757 (gravestone). He was well 
educated and taught school ; was selectman of 
Berkley, 1740-42. He had a son lienjamin, 
mentioned below. 

(HI) Benjamin (2), son of Benjamin (i) 
Paul, was born August 7, 1705, died January 
25, 1789. He settled at Berkley, formerly 
part of Taunton. He married Anne Staples, 
who died November 2, 1778, aged seventy- 
two. He joined the Berkley church in 1737. 
They had four sons and six daughters. Among 
their children were: Benjamin, who died May 
5, 1838, at Berkley, aged eighty-six; Seth, 
born October i, 1741, at Taunton, removed to 
Westmoreland, New Hampshire, and thence 
to South Barnard, married, December 8, 1765, 
Freelove French, daughter of Captain Samuel 
and Freelove (Andrews) French ; Dyer, men- 
tioned below; I'.enjamin Paul, died at South 
Barnard, W-rmont, August 21, 182^. 

Dyer, daughter of Benjamin Paul, married, 
December 9, 1775, Abiel Briggs (see Briggs 

(The Hastings Line). 

The name Hastings is older than the Nor- 
man Conquest in England. It was spelled 



Hastang also. The castle and seaport of Hast- 
ing were owned by the family that adopted 
the surname as early as 911, before the Nor- 
mans were in Gaul. There was a Danish 
pirate, not of this family perhaps, who was a 
formidable foe of the Saxons occupying a part 
of Sussex. In nearly every county of England 
the family has established itself. Branches 
bearing coats-of-arms are found in Agmon- 
(lisham, Buckshire ; in Dorsetshire and Lei- 
cestershire ; in Cambridgeshire ; in Gloucester- 
shire and Derbyshire; in Ireland; at Billesby, 
Lincolnshire ; at Hinton, Northamptonshire ; 
in Nottinghamshire and Northumberland; in 
Staffordshire; Yorkshire; Oxfordshire, and 
Scotland. Of the nimieroiis coats-of-arms the 
American branch claims the following: A 
maunch sable. Crest : A buffalo's head erased 
sable, crowned and gorged with a ducal coro- 
net and armed or. Supporters : Two man- 
tigers affrontee or, their visages resembling the 
human face proper. Motto : In virtute victoria. 
Also: Horiorantes me honorabo. 

(I) Deacon Thomas Hastings, immigrant 
ancestor, was born in England, in 1605. Thomas, 
aged twenty-nine, and his wife Susanna, aged 
thirty-four, embarked at Ipswich, England. 
April 10, 1634, in the ship "Elizabeth," Will- 
iam Andrews, master, for New England. He 
settled at Watertown, ^Massachusetts, where 
he was admitted a freeman, May 6, 1635. He 
owned land in Dedham, but never lived there. 
He was selectman, 1638-43-30-71 ; town clerk, 
1671-77-80; deputy to the general court in 
1673, and long held the office of deacon. His J 
wife Susanna died February 2, 1650, and he ' 
married (second), in April, 1651, Margaret, 
daughter of William and Martha Cheney, of 
Roxbiiry. He died in 1683. His will was 
dated March 12. 1682-83, and proved Septem- 
ber 7, 1683. The inventory amounted to four 
hundred and twenty-one pounds. Children ; 
Thomas, born July 1, 1632, mentioned below; 
John, March i, 1634; William, August 8, 
1653, drowned August, 1669; Joseph, Septem- 
ber II, 1657; Benjamin, August 9, 1639; Na- 
thaniel, September 23, 1661 ; Hepsibah, Janu- 
ary 31, 1663; Samuel, March 12, 1665. 

(II) Dr. Thomas (2) Hastings, son of Dea- 
con Thomas (i) Hastings, was born in Water- 
town, July 1, 1652, died at Hatfield, Massa- 
chusetts, July 23, 1712. He was admitted a 
freeman, February 8, 1678. He studied medi- 
cine and settled in Hatfield, praticing also in 
Northampton, Hadley and Deerfield, and was 



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for many years the only physician in those 
towns. He was also the first school teacher in 
Hatfield. A remarkable thing about Dr. Hast- 
ings' school was that girls were admitted on 
the same footing as boys. Elsewhere in New 
England, until after the Revolution, girls were 
not taught in the public schools. It was 1789 
before Boston schools were open to both sexes 
and not until 1802 in Northampton. Dr. Hast- 
ings married (first), October 10, 1672, Anna, 
daughter of John Hawks, of Hadley. She 
died October 25, 1705. and he married (sec- 
ond), February 14, 1706. Mary, daughter of 
David Burt, of Northampton. She died April 
13, 1734. Children of first wife: Hannah, 
January 19, 1677; Thomas, September 24, 
1679, mentioned below ; Hepsibah, .A.pril 6, 
1682: Alehitable, June 23, 1684: John, at Hat- 
field, September 18, 1689. 

(HI) Dr. Thomas (3) Hastings, son of Dr. 
Thomas (2) Hastings, was born at Hatfield, 
September 24, 1679, died April 14, 1728. He 
was also school teacher and physician in the 
field that his father occupied before him. He 
was taken ill in Boston while on a visit, re- 
turned to his home, and told his wife that he 
should die April 14, 1728, which prediction 
was fulfilled. He died a comparatively young 
man. He was thought to have been a victim 
of slow poison. A quaint unpoetical but flat- 
tering eulogv and an acrostic to his memory 
were written at the time of his death by Jo- 
sephus Nash. A record of a surgical case of 
note is preserved in Rev. John Williams's 
"History of Captivity and Deliverance" ( App. 
3). Dr. Hastings married, ]\Iarch 6, 1701, 
Mary, daughter of John and Mary Field, born 
February 20, 1680, died November 9, 1764. 
Children: Mary, born December 29, 1701, 
died January 10, 1702: Thomas, November 6, 
1702, died November 4, 1703; Mary, July 26, 
1704; Anna, October 13, 1706: Dorothy, July 
27, 1709, died July 29, 171 1 : Thomas. Alay 5. 
1713, died voung: \\'aitstill, June 3. 1714, 
mentioned below: Tabitha, October 6, 1715; 
Hopestill, April 13, 1718: Dorothy, March 20, 
1720, died April 6, 1720; Lucv, Februarv i, 

1723- 

(IV) Dr. Waitstill Hastings, son of Dr. 
Thomas ("3) Hastings, was born June 3, 1714. 
died April 22, 1748. He settled in Hatfield. 
Massachusetts, and there has been of this fam- 
ily a physician in that town ever since, except 
during the time after his death and the gradu- 
ation of his grandson, Dr. John Hastings. He 



married, in 1737, .\bigail Marsh. She married 
(second), April 10, 1751, Colonel John Bulke- 
ley, of Colchester, Connecticut, lawyer, judge 
of the superior court, and had Charles Bulke- 
ley, born May 22, 1752; Colonel John Bulke- 
ley, July 25, 1753. She married (third), No- 
vember 5, 1755, Rev. Ephraim Little, of Col- 
chester, and had several children. Children 
of Dr. \\'aitstill Hastings: John, mentioned 
below; Abigail, born February 28, 1739; Han- 
nah Barnard, March 16, 1742; Mary, January 
10, 1744: Samuel, IMarch 14, 1747, died young. 

iV) John, son of Dr. Waitstill Hastings, 
was born at Hatfield, January 10, 1738, died 
December 6, 181 1. He was a magistrate in 
Hatfield for thirty- four years ; representative 
to the general court and state senator twenty- 
eight years ; the foremost citizen of the town 
for many years. He married, November 29, 
1763, Content Little, born August 10, 1740, 
died April 9, 1829. Children, born at Hat- 
field: John Jr., born October 7, 1764; Content, 
September 14, 1766; Mary, January i, 1769; 
A\'aitstill, May 14 or 19, 1771 ; Elizabeth, 
March 7 or 8, 1773; Abigail, ]\Iay 7, 1775; 
Samuel, March 30, 1777; Ephraim, mentioned 
below: Son. born April 16. 1783; Justin, Feb- 
ruary 14, 1786. 

(\'I) Ephraim, son of John Hastings, was 
born at Hatfield, November 16, 1780. He 
married, December 24, 1806, Lucy, daughter 
of General ^^'illiam and Sarah (Dewey) Shep- 
ard. of Westfield. She was born December 
15, 1778, died in Heath, March 5, 1833. Her 
father was captain in the French and Indian 
war, and was general in the Revolution, in 
which he fought in twenty-two battles, being 
wounded but once, then in the neck. At 
Shay's insurrection he commanded the forces 
on Springfield Hill. General Lafayette pre- 
sented him with a dress sword which is now 
in possession of the family. General Shep- 
ard's wife, Sarah Dewey, whom he married 
January 31. 1760, was of remarkable ability 
for management, and during his absence ran 
the farm as well as the house. General Shep- 
ard was born November 30, 1739, died No- 
vember 16, 1817. Children: \\'illiam Shepard, 
born March 19, 1761, died July 13, 1823; 
Turner, September 16, 1762. died July 8, 1796; 
Charles, September 27, 1764, died May 11, 
1813; Sally, February 17, 1767, died April 3, 
1847: Noah, February 20, 1769; Nancy, Octo- 
ber 25, 1771, died February 17, 1802; Ware- 
ham, December 29, 1773; Lucy, December 15, 



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1778. died March 5, 1833. married Ephraim 
liastings. 

Ephraim Hastings went from Hatfield to 
Heath about 1805, and in May, 1848, removed 
to Nashua, New Hampshire, where he had 
bought a large piece of land. His daughter 
Margaret and her husband made a home for 
him. He died November 24. 1861, aged eighty- 
one. In 181 1 he was chosen first representa- 
tive for Heath and continued as representative 
almost constantly until 1834. when he was 
chosen senator, and two years later member 
of the council. He was most of the time 
selectman or assessor for Heath. Children : 
Twins, born and died January 18, 1813; Jane, 
born and died February 8, 1815; Nancy, born 
.\pril 21, 1816: Sarah Jane. March 15. 1818; 
married James Nichols ( see Nichols IV ) ; 
Margaret; Nancy S., December 28, 1820, died 
March 13. 1847. 



The DeW'itt familv. mentioned 
DeWITT in the following sketch, is de- 
scended from Claes DeW'itt, of 
Grootholt, in Sunderlant. Holland. The Sun- 
derlant, or as it was more frequently called, 
"The Sauerland or Surland," was the most 
southerly of the three natural divisions of the 
old Dutchy of Westphalia, and is described as 
"consisting of hills and vales, and having fine 
WLK)ds and meadows, suited for grazing and 
the dairy." In those respects it was distin- 
guished from the other two divisions, which 
were more productive of the cereals. Groot- 
holt is situated a little east of the river Rhine, 
between the Lippe and the Imster, and not far 
from the manufacturing town of Essen. 

DeWitt is one of the very few Dutch- 
.\merican names which were illustrious in the 
Fatherland. The grand pensionary. John De- 
W'itt, administered the government of Holland 
from I '^52 to 1672. He and his brother Cor- 
nelius, who also held important positions in 
civil and military life, were killed by a mob 
at the Hague, after years of faithful service to 
their country. They had incurred the hostility 
of the monarchical party. 

In the Royal Library, at the Hague, in Hol- 
land, "The Geschlacten \'on Dordrecht" gives 
the descent of the family in an unbroken line 
from the year 129s to September 8, 1639. 
After the death of John, of Barneveldt, Jacob 
DeWitt became "Land Advocate of Holland." 
John Jr. became "Grand Pensionary of Hol- 
land." 



The "History of Ulster County" (by Syl- 
vester), pp. 298-99, says: "Among the many 
old Holland families, who about the middle of 
the seventeenth century sought the shores of 
the New World, none has been more distin- 
guished in social and political life, none has 
numbered in their ranks more noted men than 
the DeWitts." 

They were natives of Dordrecht, one of the 
old burgher towns of Holland, and in later 
years dear to theology as the meeting of the 
Synod of Dort. After the death of John, of 
Barneveldt, Jacob DeW'itt succeeded to the 
high honors of "Land Advocate of Holland," 
his son Cornelius, the burghermaster of Dord- 
recht, at the head of a Dutch fleet with a 
staunch Dutch admiral to do his bidding, sailed 
up the Thames river, burning the English ships 
and sending consternation into the very heart 
of London. 

Another son, John DeW'itt, one of the most 
distinguished men in the history of the Nether- 
lands, became "Grand Pensionary of Holland." 
during the period of the separation of Spain 
and the opening of the "Thirty Years W'ar," 
a position which at that time required the 
most consummate ability and statesmanship. 
Through his guidance Holland became a power 
among the nations of Europe. Geddes. in his 
recent valuable work, "The History of the 
Administration of John DeW'itt, Grand Pen- 
sionary of Holland," says of him: "He was 
head and shoulders above nearly all of the 
notable men of his time and one, moreover, on 
whose public virtue there was hardly a blemish 
or spot." 

The coat-of-arms of the DeWitt family con- 
sists of the hare and hounds upon a shield, 
beneath which is a scroll and the words "Fortis 
et Fidus." 

Tjerck Claes DeWitt was the kinsman of 
John and Cornelius DeW'itt and came to this 
country from Zunderland about the middle of 
the seventeenth century. A history of John 
DeW'itt, and incidently his brother Cornelius, 
issued in 1885, by Pontalis, shows the political 
situation in Holland, during the time of the 
grand pensionarv. 

(I) Tjerck C'laeszn DeW'itt. son of Claes 
DeW'itt, immigrant ancestor of the family in 
this country, first appears in the records of 
New Amsterdam in 1656, when he married, 
according to the records of the old Dutch 
Reformed Church. Barbara Andriessen, who 
came from Amsterdam, Holland. He resided 



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in New Amsterdam until 1657, when he re- 
moved to Albany, and he finally located, in 
1661, at Wiltwyck (now Kingston), Ulster 
county. New York, where he resided until he 
died, February 17, 1700. His widow, Barbara, 
died July 6, 1714. In 1667, when the British 
sent Captain Ijroadhead and thirteen soldiers 
to take possession of Kingston, DeW'itt was 
one of those who opposed British occupation 
and among the complaints made afterward by 
the burghers was the following: "Captain 
Broadhead has beaten Tjerick Claeszen De- 
A\'itt without reason and brought him to prison. 
Ye reason why Capy. Broadhead abused Tje- 
rick DeWitt was because he would keep Christ- 
mas day on ye day according to ye Dutch and 
not on ye day according to ye English observa- 
tion." The remonstrance of the burghers sent 
to the governor against the imprisonment of 
Tarentson Slight, was signed among others by 
De\\'itt. He was granted leave, April 8, 1669, 
to build a house, barn and stables on land be- 
tween Kingston and Hurley. He appears to 
have been well-to-do and brought servants with 
him to Kingston. Complaint was made by an 
Indian before the court that DeWitt had re- 
fused to pay wages due and the court appears 
to have taken a rather absurd snap judgment, 
ordering DeWitt's banishment and fining him 
six hundred guilders. Upon appeal, the order 
of banishment was rescinded and the fine re- 
mitted, and De\\'itt was ordered, instead, to 
pay a reasonable sum for his services to the 
complaining Indian — about eighty cents. De- 
Witt was granted the right to occupy a mill 
site about five miles from Kingston and to 
erect and operate a mill there and a tract of 
seventy acres a mile farther distant, known as 
"Dead Men's Bones," was added for his sub- 
sistence. 

The old one-story stone dwelling on the 
road from Kingston to Hurley is probably the 
site of the house erected by Tjerck Claeszn 
DeWitt, in 1669, in pursuance of the license 
above mentioned. 

This property, with the adjoining estate, re- 
mained, in 1872, in possession of his descend- 
ants. The owners, in the year last mentioned, 
were the two daughters of Isaac DeWitt, who 
succeeded to the estate in 1826, through a 
series of devises and inheritances. 

The records of Ulster county also show that 
Tjerck Claeszn DeWitt owned negro slaves, 
and also possessed two sloops which plied 
upon the waters of the Hudson, and along the 



Atlantic coast, carrying on trade at various 
points. They also show that he sold one of 
the sloops, named "Ye St. Barbara," to Cap- 
tain Daniel Hobart, a mariner of the Island of 
Barbadoes, to be taken to that island for com- 
mercial trade. When Tjerck Claeszn DeWitt 
died, he left large bodies of real estate in and 
about the city of Kingston, and had about 
$8,000 in personal property. 

When the English required the oath of 
allegiance to be taken by heads of families in 
1668, he was one of the few who refused to 
suijmit. In the roll of heads of families in 
Ulster county, in 1689, his name is not given, 
nor is that of his son Andrew, but Tjerck C. 
was living at that time, as shown by the fact 
that he was a witness at a baptism of a grand- 
child in December, 1700. He was also evi- 
dently possessed of some Dutch stubbornness. 
Of his descendants nearly a hundred served in 
the Revolutionary army. Children: i.Andries, 
mentioned below. 2. Tjaatje, born about 1659, 
in Albany; married, in 1677, Matthys Mat- 
thysen Van Kensen ; she was captured by In- 
dians at the burning of Kingston in 1663, but 
afterward rescued. 3. Jannetje, baptized Feb- 
ruary 12, 1662, fliecl 1744; married Cornelis 
Switz. 4. Klaes, baptized February 17, 1664, 
died before 1698. 5. Jan, baptized February 
14, 1666, died before April 12, 1715 : married 
Wyntje Kiersted. 6. Geertruy, baptized Octo- 
ber 15, 1668: married, March 24, 1688, Hend- 
rick Hendrickson Schoonmaker. 7. Jacob, mar- 
ried Grietje \'ernooy. 8. Rachel, married Cor- 
nelis Bogardus. 9. Lucas, married, December 
22, 1695, Annatje Delva. 10. Peek, married 
(first), January 2, 1698, Maritje Jense Van- 
derberg; (second), December 21, 1723, Maria 
Tennis, widow of Jacob DeMott. 11. Tjerck. 
12. Marritje, married (first), November 3, 
1700, Hendrick Hendrickson Kortright ; (sec- 
ond), September 6, 1702, Jan Wacklin. 13. 
Aaggje, baptized January 14, 1684; married, 
August 23, 1 712, Jan Pawling. 

(II) Andries, son of Tjerck Claeszn De- 
Witt, was born in New Amsterdam in the 
early part of 1657. He married, March 9, 
1682, Jannetje Egbertson, baptized January 
II, 1664, died November 23, 1710, daughter of 
Egbert Meindertse and Jaepje Jans. He lived 
for some time on a farm at ^^arbletown, given 
him by his father, but afterward removed to a 
farm on which he settled, located about a mile 
southwest from Kingston, on the road to Hur- 
ley. From an old Dutch Bible, still preserved 



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at Kingston, we learn that on July 22, 1710, 
"Captain Andries DeWitt departed this life 
in a sorrowful way ; through the breaking of 
two sleepers (beams), he was pressed down 
and very much bruised ; he spoke a few words 
and died." He was buried in the old church- 
yard of the Kingston church, his grave being 
marked with a flat stone, fastened with iron 
bands to a red cedar post ; both are still stand- 
ing, as placed in 1710. Children: i. Tjerck. 
baptized January 12, 1683, died August 30, 
1762; married (first), January 18, 1708, Anne 
Pawling; (second), October 17. 1739, Deborah 
Schoonmaker. 2. Jacob, baptized September 
28, 1684, died in infancy. 3. Barbara, bap- 
tized August 22, 1686, died in infancy. 4. 
Maes, baptized April 30, 1688, died in infancy. 

5. Barbara, born October 30, 1689, died No- 
vember I, 1715; married, March 25, 1715, 
Johannes Van Leuven. 6. Jacob, mentioned 
below. 7. Mana, born January 21, 1693; mar- 
ried, October 30, 1713. Jan Roosa Jr. 8. 
Helena, December 7, 1695 : married, June 6, 
1719, Jacob Switz. 9. Andries, April i, 1697, 
died July 2, 1701. 10. Egbert, March 18, 1699; 
married, November 4, 1726, Mary Notting- 
ham ; their daughter Mary married General 
James Clinton and became the mother of Gov- 
ernor DeW'itt Clinton, of New York. 11. 
Johannes. March 26, 1701 ; married, June 27, 
1724, Mary Broadhead. 12. Andries, bap- 
tized February 20, 1704, died in 1764; mar- 
ried, December 3, 1731. Bredjen Nottingham. 

(IH) Jacob, son of Andries DeWitt, was 
born December 30, 1691 ; married. May 9, 
1731, Heyltje Van Kampen, baptized October 

6, 1700, daughter of Jan Van Kampen and 
Tjaatje Janse Decker. Children: i. Child, 
born probably in 1732, but the parish records 
of that time are lost. 2. Johannes, baptized 
September 22, 1734. 3. Jacob J., mentioned 
below. 4. Elizabeth, baptized September 25. 
1738. 5. Maria, baptized October 5, 1740. 

(IV^) Jacob J., son of Jacob DeWitt, was 
baptized at Rhinebcck Flats (then regarded as 
within "Nieu Englant"). August 22. 1736: 
married. March 30. 1758, Leah Kortwright. 
Children: i. Heyltje, baptized November 22, 
1759: married Uriah Masterson. 2. Moses, 
mentioned below. 3. Bodewyn, baptized Janu- 
ary 8. 1764. died before 1797. 4. Mary, bap- 
tized May 28, 1766. 5. Jacob. 6. Samuel, bap- 
tized .'\ugust 27, 1772. 7. Margaret. 8. Sev- 
eryn, born February, 1781. 

(\^) Moses, son of Jacob J. De\\'itt, was 



born October 23, 1761, died December 8, 1842. 
He married Margaret Wilson, who died May 
19, 1845. She was a daughter of Richard 
Wilson. Children : Hiram, born November 9, 
'^7^3', Olive, January 7, 1785; Jezereel, men- 
tioned below; Tjerck, April 19, 1788; Evi, 
June II, 1789; Moses, September i, 1790; 
Mar}-, April 20, 1792; Aaron, June 24, 1793; 
Elizabeth, January 20, 1796; ^largaret. Octo- 
ber 13, 1797; John, January 18, 1799; Naomi, 
March 23, 1801 ; Jacob, November 27, 1804; 
Catherine, March 23, 1806. 

The history of Sussex and Warren counties 
says that Moses DeWitt came to Wantage 
township. New Jersey, and that he held the 
office of captain in the revolutionary war. 
The Neil' Jersey Herald, of Newton. Sussex 
county, of July 7, 1892, says of Moses DeW^itt : 

He was at the battle of Minisink in 1779. Dr. 
Wilson says several attempts to break our lines had 
failed, but just as the fire began to slacken, one man, 
who guarded the northeast angle of the hollow square, 
and who had kept up, from behind a rock, a de- 
structive fire on every side, fell, and the Indian and 
Tory crew broke in upon our ranks like a resistless 
deluge. Edsall, in his centennial address, claims this 
man to have been Moses DeWitt. He escaped the 
massacre and after the war moved to Wantage. 

On the top of one of the highest mountains 
overlooking the Delaware river, near Lacka- 
waxen. New York, a inonument was erected 
in 1904, to commemorate the battle. 

The AVzc York Tribune, of July 17, com- 
mented upon the monument, and among other 
things said : 

The battlefield where it stands is in the town of 
Highland. Sullivan County, and is elevated above the 
Delaware River about a thousand feet. The field 
itself is a plateau, formed by a ledge of rock, which 
is covered with earth of a sufficient depth to support 
shrubbery. With an unobstructed view of the four 
points of the compass, its strategical value was recog- 
nized by both whites and Indians. 

The Indians belonged to the Delaware tribe, and 
had been harassing the whites in the vicinity of the 
Minisink and Goshen regions, in Orange County. 
Under the leadership of the noted half-breed. Brant, 
they committed many depredations. Colonel Hathorn 
organized a force of two hundred men and started 
in pursuit of the Indians, who retreated. Colonel 
Hathorn kept up this pursuit for more than fifty 
miles, and the forces met at 10 o'clock on the morn- 
ing of July 22, 1779, on the fields in the wilds of 
what was then Ulster County, now Sullivan. The 
whites had entrenched themselves upon the plateau 
and for hours Brant sought to break through their 
ranks. He had practically decided to give up the 
fight when he learned that the ammunition of the 
whites had given out. The Indians then cliarged 
upon the little band and massacred nearly all. 



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Moses DeWitt, though wounded, escaped 
from the fury of the Indians and Tories by 
descending the mountainside and swimming 
across the Delaware river into Pennsylvania, 
a short distance 'below Lacka waxen. After 
the war it is said that a large tract of land in 
Wantage township, Sussex county. New Jer- 
sey, was granted him by the government, in 
recognization of his services in the war. The 
farm upon which he lived and died is said to 
be still in the possession of some of the family. 

A large monument in memory of the soldiers 
who fell at Minisink has been erected by the 
citizens of Goshen, and still stands in that 
village. 

"Old Ulster," volume 2. at page 333, in its 
account of the battle, says : 

It was sunset. Brant was discouraged. He was 
just ordering a retreat when the defender of the 
northwest angle fell. All day he had kept his post 
which was the key of the position. His aim had 
been deadly, and from behind the rock which shel- 
tered him he could not be dislodged. He is said to 
have been a DeWitt, but his name does not appear 
among those inscribed on the Goshen monument. 
Brant saw him fall and rushed around the rock 
where the defender had stood. Many of the savages 
followed and before they could prevent it the patriots 
were overpowered. Their powder was exhausted, 
many of the Americans were slain, and the enemy 
was in possession. 

The season why Moses DeWitt's name did 
not appear on the moniunent at Goshen is be- 
cause that monument was erected to the mem- 
ory of those who died in the battle and did 
not purport to commemorate the survivors. 

In the same volume is a poem by Charles E. 
Stickney, entitled "Minisink." One of its stan- 
zas refers to Captain Moses DeWitt, in the 
following language : 

The sun to westward wheeled his blazing car. 

The river rolled its flashing waters by. 

While Hathorn's men through heat and worse by far. 

Dread thirst, fought on beneath the cloudless sky. 

When these at last had dark despair brought nigh. 

DeWitt fell wounded — powder all was spent — 

No chance was left except to flee or die. 

Yes flee, and leave their wounded ; as they went. 

Their cries for mercy with the roar of battle blent. 

John N. Dolph, late superintendent of the 
schools at Port Jervis, New York, a short 
time before his death, wrote: 

Moses DeWitt could have been only about 18 years 
old when he was at the battle of the Minisink. I 
have been to the battle ground. It was about one 
mile and a half easterly from Lackawaxen. The 



whites were on the summit of a hill. The Indians 
had them at a disadvantage. They surrounded the 
hill. The breast-works which were hastily thrown 
up by the whites are now plainly visible. There is a 
monument erected on the battle ground to com- 
memorate the event. The Indians had the white men 
cut off from all supply of water. 

"Old Ulster," volume 2, page 334, has a full 
page portrait of this monument. 

There has been considerable controversy in 
the public prints about the birthplace of Gov- 
ernor DeWitt Clinton, some maintaining that 
he was born at the residence of his grand- 
father, Egbert DeWitt, at Xapanoch, Ulster 
county, and others urging that the place of his 
birth was the residence of his uncle, David 
Rutsen DeWitt, at Peenpack, near Port Jervis, 
in Orange county. 

"Old Ulster," vohnne 6, page 362. review- 
ing the matter, said of David Rutsen De\\'itt 
and his place of residence: 

He built the old stone and frame house at the 
Xeversink River, and a grist mill. A fort was built 
contiguous to this house which was termed "Fort 
DeWitt" and was used as a place of refuge and 
safety for women and children during tlie Indian 
wars which preceded and continued during the years 
of the Revolution. This Fort DeWitt was located 
near the suspension bridge which crossed the Never- 
sink River leading from Port Jervis to Cuddeback- 
ville, about one mile south of Cuddebackville. The 
small house which stood in 1889 near the then dwell- 
ing of Jessie Tillson was on the foundation of this 
fort. 

"Eager's History of Orange County," pub- 
lished in 1846 and 1847, states: 

DeWitt Clinton was born March 2, 1769. at Fort 
DeWitt, at the residence of Captain Jacob DeWitt. 
This Fort was both a residence and Fort, being a 
stone house fortilied to an extent to be a protection 
against the Indians who for many years before the 
Revolution were troublesome in that vicinity, being 
on the outskirts of the white settlement. 

(\ I) Jezereel, son of Moses DeWitt, was 
born September i, 1786. He married Lucy 
Stoddard, born August 27, 1793, in Groton, 
Connecticut. She was the daughter of In- 
crease B. Stoddard, who had then removed to 
the township of Minisink, Orange county, New 
York. A portion of the last-named township, 
containing his farm and place of residence was 
afterwards set off and became part of the town- 
ship of Wawaywanda. The children of Jezereel 
and I^ucy Stoddard DeWitt were as follows : 
Simion Stoddard, born July 10, 1815. married 
Sally Venoy ; Evi, hereinafter more partic- 



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ularly mentioned; Jezereel, born June 5, 1822, 
married Lucy Loomis ; Increase B., born April 

3, 1825, married Maria : Diadama.born 

January 9, 1826, married Thomas B. Morgan; 
Abel Sinite, born April 26, 1830, married Kate 
Brown; Chauncy B., born March 19, 1833, 
married Elvira StowelL 

Lucy Stoddard DeWitt died May 31. 1834. 
Jezereel DeW'itt Sr. married Esther Lambert 
for his second wife, about 1835. Their son, 
Samuel M. DeWitt, was born in or about 
1836, and died, unmarried, August 23, i860, 
at the age of twenty-three years and six months, 
Jezereel DeWitt died ^larch 10, 1868, and 
Esther DeWitt departed this life February 16, 
1871, age seventy-seven years and six days. 

Jezereel DeWitt Sr. removed from Sussex 
county, New Jersey, to Brooklyn, Susque- 
hanna county, Pennsylvania, in or about 1823, 
where he died and his remains were buried in 
the public cemetery at Brooklyn Center. 

(VII) Evi, son of Jezereel DeWitt, was 
born in Montague township, near the old "Brick 
House," Sussex county. New Jersey, Novem- 
ber 14, 1819, died March 28, 1903. On De- 
cember 28, 1843, he married Annie Elizabeth 
Wilson, at Carbondale, Pennsylvania, who died 
February i, 1892. Their children were: Jer- 
ome, mentioned below ; Lucy, born at New 
Mil ford, January 22, 1847, died September 10, 
1848; Mary, born April 19, 1851, died Febru- 
ary 6, 1865; Levi Justine, born May 30, 1859, 
married Mary Curley, of Great Bend, Penn- 
sylvania, January 10, 1899; William Wilson, 
born September 10, 1861, died February 2, 
1865 ; Annie, born July 23, 1867, died October 
19, 1882; Agnes, twin to Annie, married Eu- 
gene M. Casey, April 10, 1896, and died at 
Oxford, New York, March 29, 1903. 

Annie E. Wilson, mentioned above, was 
born January 24, 1824, at or near Chorley, in 
Lancashire county, England, the daughter of 
William and Margaret Wilson. Her birth- 
place was on the .Avon river, near the home of 
Shakes])eare. When she was three months 
old her parents immigrated to this country, 
and lived for a short time in New York City. 
Afterwards at West-Farms, near Mott Haven, 
in Westchester county. New York, and, while 
.Annie E. was still young, moved to a farm in 
Brooklyn. Pennsylvania, where her father died 
at the age of thirty-three years. Her mother, 
with her two daughters, .\nnie E. and Mar- 
garet Wilson, then removed to Carbondale, 
Pennsylvania, in or about the year 1839. Annie 



E. Wilson was a person of superior education 
and intelligence and there opened and conduct- 
ed a select school for young ladies until the 
time of her marriage to Evi DeW' itt. He and 
she lived in Brooklyn one y«ar, then removed 
to Nicholson, Pennsylvania, where they re- 
sided for two or three years. They then re- 
moved to a farm in New IMilford, where they 
continued to reside until the time of their 
deaths. Evi DeWitt was a strong man, phy- 
sically, morally and mentally. He was one of 
the prosperous farmers of Susquehanna county. 

(VIII) Jerome, son of Evi and Annie E. 
(Wilson) DeWitt, was born at Nicholson, 
Wyoming county, Pennsylvania, February 16, 
1845. He married Ida Brougham, of Newark 
Valley, New Y'ork, January 26, 1892. When 
he was two years old he was taken to New 
Milford, Susquehanna county, with the fam- 
ily, to reside, and his father followed farm- 
ing there. He attended the public schools, the 
New Milford Academy and afterwards the 
Gibson Academy, in which he prepared for 
college. He entered the University of Michi- 
gan, at Ann Arbor, from which he was gradu- 
ated in 1868. In the autumn of the same year 
he came to Binghamton, New York, and began 
the study of the law, in the office of the Hon. 
William Barrett. After remaining there a 
year he read law with Judge Horace S. Gris- 
vvold for a year, and later with Judge Benja- 
min N. Loomis for about six months. He was 
admitted to the bar in the old general term, sit- 
ting at Albany, in February, 1871. He then 
became a partner with the late William H. 
Scoville in the practice of law, under the firm 
name of "Scoville and DeWitt," which partner- 
ship continued until the spring of 1890, when 
Mr. Scoville died. Since Mr. Scoville's death 
Mr. DeWitt has continued to practice alone. 
He has for many years occupied a prominent 
position in his profession, and has been honor- 
ed with many offices of trust. In politics he is 
a Democrat. 

Mr. DeWitt was a member of the old volun- 
teer fire deiiartment, joining the Excelsior 
Hook and Ladder Company. No. i, in the 
year 1871. He soon became, by election, assist- 
ant foreman of that company, and later was 
elected foreman, and twice reelected to the 
last-named position. He then became, by elec- 
tion, second assistant engineer for one year, 
first assistant engineer for a like term, and at 
the expiration of the last term was elected 
chief of the fire department, March 4, 1879. 



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That last position lie again filled for a sec- 
ond term, by reelection. In 1876 he was the 
candidate for his party for member of the 
popular branch of legislature. The county 
(Broome) being very strongly Republican in 
politics he was not elected, but ran some- 
thing over five hundred ahead of his party 
ticket. For the period of twelve years, ending 
April 12, 1894. he was the treasurer of the 
Binghaniton State Hospital for the Insane. 
He was one of the first fire commissioners of 
the city, under the act of the legislature of 
1888, creating a board of fire commissioners 
for the management of the volunteer fire de- 
parfment. He served two years under this 
appointment, which was made by Mayor Mor- 
gan, and was then reappointed by Mayor Ste- 
phens for a full term of four years, but re- 
signed May 26, 1893. 

In November, 1897, Mr. De\\'itt was elect- 
ed mayor of the city of Binghaniton, defeating 
ex-Mayor George E. Green. In the fall of 
1899 he was reelected mayor for a further 
term of two years ; William L. Griswold, Esq., 
being the Republican candidate. At the fall 
election, in 1906, he was the candidate of his 
party for the ofifice of county judge and surro- 
gate of Broome county, but the Republican 
majority being something over four thousand 
in the county, he was not elected. December 
10, 1906, he was appointed by Governor Hig- 
gins to be a member of the board of managers 
of the Binghaniton State Hospital for the 
Insane, to fill a vacancy ; and was reappointed 
by Governor Hughes for a full term of five 
years, April 4, 1907, but resigned April i, 
1910. 

He resides at No. 33 St. John avenue, and 
still occupies the old law office of the late 
Judge Griswold. where he studied ; which, with 
the library and belongings, he and Mr. Scoville 
purchased in 1871. In January of the present 
year (1911) he was appointed a member of 
the board of education of the city of Bingham- 
ton for the term of five years, a position which 
he still occupies. 



The surname Goodwin is de- 
GOODWIN rived from the ancient per- 
sonal name, Godwin, mean- 
ing good friend, common in northern Europe 
and England as early as the fifth century. Its 
use as a surname dates from the adoption of 
surnames in England. A Robert Goodwin 
lived in Norwich in 1238. 



(I) Ozias Goodwin, the immigrant, was born 
in England, in 1596, according to his deposi- 
tion in court, September, 1674, when he stated 
his age as seventy-eight. Elder William Good- 
win, his brother, and he came to this country 
about the same time, and both settled in Hart- 
ford, Connecticut. Ozias married, in Eng- 
land, Mary, daughter of Robert Woodward, 
of Braintree, county Essex. Her father's will. 
dated May 2"]. 1640, mentions her as a legatee. 
It is believed that the Goodwins were from 
this vicinity also. The first record of Ozias. 
in Hartford, is as a landholder among "such 
inhabitants as were granted lots to have only 
at the town's courtesie, with libertie to fetch 
wood and keep swine or cows by proportion 
on the common." His home, in February, 
1639-40, was on the highway from the cow- 
pasture to Mr. .-Mien's land on the west, ad- 
joining lands of Thomas Burchwood, Thomas 
Hale and Richard Lord. This lot is what is 
now Trumbull street, near Church street ; later 
he moved to a lot on the highway from the 
mill to the old ox pasture. He was one of a 
company from Hartford, Windsor and Weth- 
ersfield, who, April 18, 1639, signed an agree- 
ment to remove to Hadley, Massachusetts. 
He decided to remain at Hartford. Fie was a 
freeman as early as October 13, 1669. He 
died in the spring of 1683 and his inventory 
was dated April 3, 1683. The heirs signed an 
agreement of partition .\pril 6. 1683. Chil- 
dren: William, born about 1629; Nathaniel, 
about 1637, mentioned below: Hannah, about 
1639, married, 1661, William Pitkin, of Hart- 
ford. 

(II) Nathaniel, son of Ozias Goodwin, was 
born about 1637, and was admitted a freeman 
of Connecticut. October, 1662. He was a 
townsman of Hartford, 1669-78-82. He mar- 
ried (first) Sarah, daughter of John and Han- 
nah Coles, of Hatfield, Massachusetts, for- 
merly of Farmington, Connecticut. She died 
May 8, 1676, aged twenty-nine, and was buried 
in the Center church burying-ground, where 
her monument is still to be seen, the oldest in 
Hartford bearing the name of Goodwin. He 
married (second) Elizabeth, daughter of Dan- 
iel Pratt, of Hartford. Children of first wife: 
Nathaniel, baptized July, 1663, married (first) 
Lois Potter, (second), September 14, 1699, 
Sarah Easton, died March 12, 1746: Sarah, 
baptized 1668; John, baptized May 19, 1672, 

married (first) Sarah , (second), before 

June, 1740, Mary Olmstead, died February 6, 



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1757. Children of second wife: Samuel, men- 
tioned below : Hannah, baptized December 6, 
1685, buried January 31, 1693; Ozias, born 
June 26. 1689, married, June 6, 1723, Martha 
Williamson, died January 26, 1776; Elizabeth, 
October 14, 1691, married, September 12, 1713, 
John Cole, died December 28, 1773. 

(III) Samuel, son of Nathaniel Goodwin, 
was born August 22, 1682. He married, March 
18, 1707-08, Mary, daughter of Lieutenant 
James and Sarah (Barnard) Steele, of Hart- 
ford. She married (second), December 2, 
1714, Joseph Ashley. He lived in Hartford, 
and died before January 23, 171 1 -12. Chil- 
dren: Abigail, born December 12, 1708, mar- 
ried, March 23, 1737-38: Nathaniel Eggleston, 
died September 30, 1801 ; Samuel, mentioned 
below. 

(IV) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (i) Good- 
win, was born October 10, 1710, died September 

30, 1776. He married (first) Abigail , 

who died September 16, 1748, and (second), 
January, 1750, Laodamia Merrill, born Januar\- 
28, 1728-29, buried May 6, 1790, daughter of 
Moses and Mary Merrill, of Hartford. He 
lived in Hartford, and held numerous town 
offices there: hay ward, 1732; collector, 1737- 
45-47; grand juror, 1743. October, 1749, he 
was elected ensign of the First Company of 
Foot Guard, in the First Connecticut Regi- 
ment. Children : Samuel, born October 7, 
1752, married, January 18, 1781, Abigail But- 
ler, died April 6, 1807 ; James, mentioned 
below: George, January 7, 1737. married, De- 
cember 2, 1779. Mary Edwards, died May 13, 
1844; Abigail, May 28. 1759, married James 
Anderson, died December 23, 1843 ; David, 
August 7, 1761, married Susanna Pratt, died 
November 15, 1810: Theodore, April 18, 1764, 
married (first), November 11, 1792, Lucy 
Adams, (second), June 24, 1805, Harriet Prior, 
died March 21, 1845; Russell, September 14. 
1766, married, July 4, 1789, Ruth Church, died 
May 19, 1839: Mary, May 14, 1769, buried 
Mav 27, 1783. 

(V) James, .son of Samuel (2) Goodwin, 
was born in Hartford, DecemlDer 15, 1754, 
died in East Hartford, June 24, 1822. He 
married, March 10, 1783, Hannah, daughter 
of Nathaniel and Elizabeth f Allyn) Mather, 
born in Windsor, Connecticut, March 20, 1762, 
died February 22. 1805. Children: Roxana, 
born March 9, 1784, married, November it. 
1828, Chester Wells, died March 9, 1878; 



James Mather, mentioned below : Mary, May 
25, 1787, married, March 31, 181 1, Timothy 
Spencer, died August 28, 1870: Manning, May 
27, 1789, died July 6, 1789; Manning, August 
27, 1790, died June 15, 1832; Hannah, Decem- 
ber 20, 1792, married, November 27, 1814, 
Oliver \\'ells, died May 24, 1820; Erastus, 
March 14, 1795, married, August i, 1821, 
Anna Seaman, died June 7, 1882. 

(VI) James Mather, son of James Good- 
win, was born August 24, 1785, in Hartford; 
died March 30, 1870. He married, December 
21, 1809, Roxana, daughter of John and Theo- 
dosia ( Foote) Bulkley, born in Colchester, 
Connecticut, May 14, 1788, died August 9, 
1869. He began his business life as a \\^est 
India merchant in his native town and con- 
tinued as such until 1828, when he became 
secretary for the /Etna Fire Insurance Com- 
pany, of Hartford, and in 1837 was elected to 
the same position in the Protection Company. 
From 1819 to 1823 he was major in the Gov- 
ernor's Foot Guards. In religion he was an 
Episcopalian, and in 1837 was elected junior 
warden, and in 1829 and 1838 senior warden. 
Children : James Mather, born October i, 1810, 
married (first), September 16, 1834, Julia Ann 
Dickinson, (second). May 7, 1838, Charlotte 
Rebecca Johnson; Frederick, July 24, 1812, 
died October 27, 1845 ' Mary, February 3, 
1816, died March 17, 1817; j\Iary Jane, Janu- 
ary 26, 1818, married. May 16, 1838, Charles 
Haskell Brainard ; Henry \\'heaton, mention- 
ed below; W'illiam Alfred, February 14, 1831. 
died September 20, 1838. 

(VII) Henry Wheaton, son of James Math- 
er Goodwin, was born in Hartford, Connecti- 
cut, September 26, 1823, died at New Haven, 
Connecticut, November 5, 1876. He married. 
May 6, 1846, Caroline Althea, daughter of 
Joel and Alaria (Scovill) Hinman, born in 
\\'aterbury, Connecticut. July 9, 1827, died 
March 4, 1874. He lived for a time in Green- 
field. Massachusetts, and Waterbury. After 
his marriage he returned to Hartford, and for 
a number of years was engaged in the crockery 
business. In 1862 he removed to \\'est Hart- 
ford, and in 1870 to Cheshire. Children: 
Maria Hinman, September 20, 1847, married, 
January 13, 1868, Percival \\'. Clement; Al- 
fred Scovill, March 30, 1850, married, Febru- 
ary 5, 1880, Mrs. Emma Amelia (Atkinson) 
Ely; Henry William, January 29, 1855, mar- 
ried. May 27, 1875, Eleanor C. Steele; Caro- 



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line Anna, October 31, 1859, married, October 
13, 1880, John Dwight Parker; Frederick Ab- 
bott, mentioned below. 

(VIII) Dr. Frederick Abbott Goodwin, son 
of Henry Wheaton Goodwin, was born at 
West Hartford, August 28, 1865. He received 
his early education in the public schools of 
Hartford, in Rutland, Vermont, and Shoe- 
makertown, Pennsylvania. In 1885 he enter- 
ed the medical department of the University 
of Vermont, and graduated in 1887. He then 
took a post-graduate course at the Columbia 
University Medical School, and graduated in 
1888. From 1888 to 1890 he was surgeon in 
the Hartford Hospital. In 1890 he went to 
Europe, and studied medicine and surgerv in 
Germany and Austria for two years. From 
1892 to 1898 he practiced in New York City, 
and was also instructor in orthopedic surgery 
at the New York Post-Graduate School and 
Hospital. He then became surgeon for the 
Erie railroad and removed to Susquehanna, 
Pennsylvania, where he remained until 1907. 
For si.x years he was coroner of Susquehanna, 
and was the founder and organizer of the 
Simon Barnes Hospital. In 1907 he removed 
to Binghamton, New York, where he follows 
a general practice. He still continues as sur- 
geon to the Erie Railroad, and consulting sur- 
geon at the Susquehanna Hospital. He is 
a meimber of the Benevolent and Protective 
Order of Elks ; of the New York and New 
England Railroad Surgeons' Association, of 
which he is president ; of the Erie Railroad 
Surgeons' Association ; Broome County Med- 
ical Society, of which he is treasurer. He 
married, March 2, 1899, Minnie H., daughter 
of Dr. Francis Vinton and Mary Elizabeth 
(Bensel) Brush (see Brush VIII). She was 
a graduate of the New York Post-Graduate 
Training School for Nurses, class of 1898. 
Children of Dr. and Mrs. Goodwin : Dorothy 
Atherton, born April 5, 1900: Edith Brush, 
May 26, 1902. Mr. and Mrs. Dr. Goodwin 
attend the Episcopal church. 

(The Brush Line). 

The first of the name of whom there is any 
record was Robert De Brush, who went to 
England with the Conqueror in 1066. From 
this French De Brus or De Brewes are de- 
rived the English names of Bruse, Bruce, 
Bush and Brush. The following extracts show 
perhaps the source from which the family in 
this country sprang. William de Brus lived 



in lieworth, a mile to the north of Aycliffe. 
His son, Adam de Brus, "held the will by 
Knights service." William Brus, 1354, '"then 
styled Chivalier, held the Manor of Heworth 
by the fourth part of a Knight's fees and 40s. 
William Bruys son and heir, 1381. Rol>ert 
Bruys sold the estate in 1435." 

(I) Thomas Brush, immigrant ancestor, was 
born in England about 1610, and came to this 
country before 1653, in which year he is re- 
corded as owning a lot in Southold, Suffolk 
county, Long Island. In 1656 he witnessed a 
will in Southold, and attended a town meeting 
there in October, 1660. That same year it 
was agreed that "Gudman Brush" shall keep 
"the ordinary." He was made a freeman of 
Connecticut in 1664. In 1656 or 1657 ''^ re- 
moved to Huntington, Long Island, having 
sold his home in Southold to Thomas Mapes, 
his wife Rebecca assenting. About 1666 he, 
with two others, was sent by the "Inhabitants 
of Huntington with an Indian called Chichinee 
to the South Meadow" to find and fix the 
boundaries of a piece of land bought from the 
Massapagus Indians. This land was South 
Neck, and upon it was a marked tree, which 
was to serve as a witness to the bargain. The 
whites met there some twenty Indians, with 
their sachem, who was at first very reluctant 
to conclude the transaction. They finally agreed 
to point out the tree, however. Thomas Brush 
was ahead of the other white men, and went 
past the said tree, without noticing it. "Then 
an Indian called him back and showed him." 
He was one of the proprietors of Huntington 
in 1672. He was also chosen one of the over- 
seers of the town, and finally constable. He 
exercised his authority in the latter position, 
when, February 21, 1670, the town "refuse to 
repair the Fort" at New York because they 
felt deprived of the liberties of Englishmen. 

His wife was Rebecca, daughter of John 
Conkling. or Conolyne, who was said to have 
come from Nottinghamshire, England. He 
was received as an inhabitant of Salem, Massa- 
chusetts, September 14, 1640, and had four 
acres of land allotted to him in 1649. He was 
an active man, who "identified himself with 
every new enterprise with zeal and energy and 
soon became the cynosure of all the village." 
He moved later to Southold, and about 1660 
to Huntington, where he is numbered among 
the founders of the town. He is believed to 
have been born about 1600, and died in 1683. 

Thomas Brush died in 1670, and his son 



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Thomas administered upon his estate in 1677. 
It was vahied at three hundred and six pounds, 
which was a very fair sum for those times. 
Children : Thomas : Richard, mentioned below ; 
John, born about 1650; Rebecca, married, Feb- 
ruary 8. 1682, Jeremiah Hobart, or Hubbard. 

(II) Richard, son of Thomas Brush, settled 
on West Neck, on the south shore of Lloyd's 
Harbor. This property remained in the pos- 
session of his descendants until 1898. Like 
his father, he was a town officer, a commis- 
sioner to lay out lands and roads, and in 1663 
one of the seven trustees annually elected under 
the new patent. He married Hannah or Jo- 
anna Corey. Following the common practice 
of his time he divided his real estate among 
his sons during his lifetime. In 1700 he gave 
a farm to his son Thomas, with the con- 
sent of his wife. In 1709 he gave Richard 
and Thomas "Meado ws an d uplands." and in 
1710 his son Robert his Tiome lot. with \other 
property, including one-half of one hundred 
pounds right of commonage. Children : Rich- 
ard ; Thomas ; Robert, mentioned below ; Reu- 
ben. 

(III) Robert, son of Richard Brush, was 
born in 1695. He was a town trustee, and 
when a new meeting-house was built, was 
among the most liberal subscribers, giving the 
sum of twenty pounds. He was executor of 
the will of Jeremiah Hubbard Jr., his nephew, 
in 1730. He had four sons, of whom Reuben 
married Ruth Woods, February 11, 1739, and 
was a prominent citizen ; Jonathan, mentioned 
below. 

(IV) Jonathan, son of Robert Brush, was 
born and lived at Huntington. Long Island. 
H-e married Elizabeth Smith. Among their 
children was Joshua, mentioned below. 

(V) Joshua, son of Jonathan Brush, was 
born at Huntington, and always lived there. 
He married Margaret Ireland, of West Hills. 
Long Island. .Among their children vs'as Philip, 
mentioned below. 

(VI ) Philip, son of Joshua Brush, was born 
at Huntington and removed to Ridgefield, Con- 
necticut. He married Ruth Brush, a distant 
relative. Among their children was Jarvis, 
born January 6, 1787, father of Professor 
George Jarvis Brush, director of the Sheffield 
Scientific School, Yale University, from 1872 
to 1898; Conklin, mentioned below. 

(VII) Hon. Conklin lirush, son of Philip 
Brush, was born at Ridgefield, Connecticut, 
March 8, 1794, died July 4, 1870. He was 



educated in the public schools. Just after the 
war of 1812 he commenced business in New 
York City, with no resources but his good 
character and remarkable business tact and 
energy, and he very rapidly acquired a reputa- 
tion as a safe and successful merchant. He 
was a dealer in crockery and hardware. From 
1816 to 1840, including all the periods of com- 
mercial disaster, he was at the head of nine 
successful firms, no one of which ever failed, 
and all of which were highly prosperous. He 
came to Brooklyn in 1827 and made his home 
in that city the remainder of his life. When 
Brooklyn was made a city, in April, 1834, Mr. 
Brush was asked to occupy the chair during 
the election of the first mayor, George Hall. 
He was a member of the board of trustees in 
1830, of the common council in 1834-35, and 
president of the board. At the close of his 
term he was given a unanimous vote of thanks 
for the able and impartial manner in which he 
presided. In politics he was a \\ hig until that 
party was dissolved. In every movement for 
the development and welfare of Brooklyn he 
took an active part. When he moved thither, 
there was not a public street lamp in Brooklyn, 
which was then a village. In 1832 he took 
steps to have Hicks and William streets lighted 
at night and from that time the public lighting 
svstem was extended to all parts of the munici- 
pality. In 1834 he was chairman of the citizens' 
committee which secured for Brooklyn, against 
the o])position of New York City, the South or 
Atlantic Ferry. He led the movement to widen 
Fulton street below the junction with Main 
street against violent opposition. He was ap- 
pointed at a public meeting of the city on a 
committee to select and secure a site for a city 
hall and the committee secured the site on 
which the building was subsequently erected, 
though instead of a city hall costing $100,000, 
as proposed by the committee, a costly struc- 
ture was started and various scandals develop- 
ed before the city hall was finally completed. 
With Daniel Richards he projected the At- 
lantic docks, incorporated in 1840, and he was 
a director of the company for six years. In 
1848 he erected a grain elevator. In 1830 he 
was elected mayor of Brooklyn, as the Whig 
candidate, against John Rice, the Democratic 
candidate, and George Hall, independent, and 
he served the city with ability and credit dur- 
ing 1 85 1 and 1832. It has been said that the 
city never had a better mayor. His perfect 
familiarity with financial affairs secured for 



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him the confidence and support of the large 
property interests of the city. He was one 
of the organizers of the Mechanics' Bank, of 
Brooklyn ; its first president, remaining in that 
capacity until his death. He was influential 
in the movement to procure an adequate mu- 
nicipal water supply, and served, in 1857, on 
the first water commission. He was a promi- 
nent member and vestryman of the Protestant 
Episcopal church. In later years he was a 
Democrat in politics. For many years he was 
one of the commissioners of Prospect Park. 
His favorite motto was "Honesty is the Best 
Policy." He was public spirited and often 
served the city without compensation. 

He married Rosannah Hoyt, July 7, 1816, 
at Norwalk, Connecticut. Eleven children, 
four sons and seven daughters, among whom 
were : Delia ; Jane, married George Smith ; 
Anna ; Goold ; Henry ; Julia j\I. ; Francis \'in- 
ton. 

(VHI) Dr. Francis \inton Brush, son of 
Hon. Conklin Brush, was born August 26, 
1844, died July 8, 1882. He was educated as 
a physician and loved his profession, but ill 
health obliged him to retire from active prac- 
tice. He married Mary Elizabeth Bensel, 
daughter of James Mcjimpsey and Alary Eliz- 
abeth (Wright) Bensel. Children: i. Rosa- 
belle, married Herbert L. Joeckel, and had 
Dorothy Rosabelle Joeckel. 2. Marie Louise. 
3. Minnie H., married, March 2, 1899, Dr. 
Frederick A. Goodwin (see Goodwin VHI). 



Walter Dean or Deane, immigrant 
DEAN ancestor, was born in the parish 
of Chard, in Somersetshire. His 
brother John, who was somewhat older, was 
also born there. Chard is in Taunton Dean, 
and the family name is derived from the name 
Dean or valley. From Taunton Dean and 
vicinity came many of the families that settled 
in Taunton, Massachusetts. There is among the 
people of this section of England a proverb : 
"Where should I be born else than in Taunton 
Dean?" Meaning to express the utmost satis- 
faction with their native place. 

Walter Deane was born between 161 5 and 
1617. He was admitted a freeman of Taun- 
ton, Massachusetts, December 4, 1638, although 
he appears to have landed in Ijoston first and 
to have been in Dorchester for about a year 
before going to Taunton. His homestead was 
about a mile from the present centre of Taun- 
ton and adjoined his brother John's place. 



Their descendants own and occupy the farms, 
or did recently. Walter Deane was a tanner 
by trade. He was a deacon of the church. He 
was a deputy to the general court at Plxniouth 
in 1640, and was a selectman of Taunton from 
1679 to 1686 inclusive. He is mentioned by 
the historians as especially prominent in town 
affairs. At the time of King Philip's war he 
served on the committee of the town of Taun- 
ton to reply to the generous offer of other 
towns less exposed to Indian attacks, to shelter 
the people of Taunton. The letter declining 
the proffered aid and shelter and thanking 
those who made the oft'er was signed by Deane 
and shows tbat he, as did also his brother, 
used the fine! "e" in his surname, which is now 
generally spelled without it. 

He married Eleanor, daughter of Richard 
Strong and sister of Elder John Strong, who 
came in the ship "Mary and John" in 1630, 
and afterward settled in Northampton. His 
wife Eleanor was living in 1693. They had 
eight in the family in 1659, from which it is 
presumed that they had six children, but the 
names of three only are known, viz : Joseph, a 
shoemaker of Taunton: Ezra: Benjamin, who 
married Sarah Willia-ms and settled in Taun- 
ton. 

(II) Ezra Dean, son of Walter Deane, was 
probably born in Taunton, Massachusetts. He 
married, December 17, 1676, Bethiah Edson, 
daughter of Deacon Samuel and Susanna Or- 
cutt (Amory) Edson. Deacon Samuel Edson, 
of Bridgewater, was one of the first settlers 
and owned the first mill built in Bridgewater. 
Ezra Dean died between October 28, 1727, 
when his will was made, and F'ebruary 17, 
1732, when it was proved. He lived in Taun- 
ton and his children were born there. Chil- 
dren : Bethiah, born October 14, 1677, died 
November 2"], 1679 ; Ezra ; Samuel, born April 
II, 1681, died February 16, 1682-83; Seth, 
born June 3, 1683, lived at Taunton : Mar- 
garet ; Ephraim. married Mary Allen, of Reho- 
both. 

(HI) Ezra (2), son of Ezra ( i) Dean, was 
born in Taunton, Massachusetts, October 14, 
1680. He married (first) Abigail, daughter of 
Captain James Leonard. He married (second) 
Abigail Bretnall, who survived him. He died 
July I. 1737, at Taunton. Ezra Dean was a 
physician of note in his day. A writer in the 
Columbian, of Taunton, in 1825, stated some 
interesting facts about Dr. Dean's children. He 
had sixteen and their united ages, dead and alive, 



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amounted to thirteen liundred and seven years. 
The ages of eleven amounted to over a thou- 
sand years. His daughter Theodora lived to 
see descendants in the fifth generation, and 
was the mother of Dr. Job Godfrey, of Taun- 
ton, eminent for half a century. Descendants 
of several of his sons settled in Worcester 
county, some in Hardwick, some in Rutland 
and Westminster, and others in Oakham and 
vicinity. The children of Dr. Ezra Dean 
were : Ezra, died at eighty-nine years ; Theo- 
dora, died at age of one hundred years ; Abi- 
gail, died at ninety-five : Lk-thiah. died at nine- 
ty-six ; Nehemiah, died at ninety ; James, born 
1722, died February 9, 1812, aged eighty-nine, 
according to Oakham records, called ninety in 
the newspaper; Seth, died at eighty-eight; Sol- 
omon, died at sixty-one; Elkanah, died at 
eighty-seven; William, living in 1825, aged 
ninety-four, born 1731 ; George, died at eighty- 
six; Elisha, died at eighty-three; Nathaniel, 
died at twenty-five ; Esther, living in 1825, 
aged ninety-two, born 1733; Prudence, died at 
eighty; Stephen, died at fifty-one. The pre- 
ceding are probably not given in order, but no 
better record has been found. 

(V) William Dean, descendant probably in 
the fifth generation of Walter Deane, accord- 
ing to tradition, came from Rhode Island early 
in the eighteenth century and settled in Put- 
nam county. New York, where he bought 
eight hundred acres of land, some of which 
has been owned by descendants ever since. 
He had five sons : Seth, who settled in Putnam 
county, New York: Benjamin, who settled in 
Delaware county, New York; Ezekiel, who 
settled in Kent, I^itnam county. New York; 
Caleb, who settled in Kent ; John, mentioned 
below. 

(VI) John, son of William Dean, settled 
in Putnam county. New Y^ork, and was father 
of Niles, mentioned below. 

(VII) Niles, son of John Dean, married 
Nancy, daughter of Stephen Northrop (see 
Northrop V). Children: i. Milton N., born 
January i, 1815, near Carmel, Putnam county; 
died August 18, 1897; married, October, 1841, 
Phebe Jane Ilaveland. 2. Ranslear. born near 
Carmel, October 31, 1816; married Deborah 
Ann Peck, in Patterson, New Y'ork, May 16, 
1844. 3. Aner, born August 29, i8ig, near 
Carmel; died June 23, 1896; married Philip 
T. Smith, at Matteawan, New York. 4. Willis, 
born September 10, 1821, near Carmel; mar- 
ried (first) Katherine S(|nircs, December 22, 



1846, who died without issue, January 2, 1883 ; 
married (second) Jennie Van Voorhis, Sep- 
tember 10, 1889. 5. Ursula, born near Carmel, 
August 25, 1823; died January 8, 1892; mar- 
ried Benjamin Stone, in Pulteney, New Y'ork, 
January, 1849. 6. La Fayette, born near Car- 
mel, June ID, 1825 ; married Hattie Sinsebox, 
October 20, 1852 ; she died January 2, 1883. 
7. Jackson W., born at Carmel, July 20, 1827; 
married Elizabeth D. Knapp, February 22, 
1849. 8. Erastus, mentioned below. 9. Oliver, 
born near Carmel, March 6, 1831 ; married 
(first) Ellen Howe, April 2, 1862, and she 
died the same year ; married (second) Jane 
Squires, December 12, 1865; he died March 9, 
1898. Niles Dean died December 28, 1833; 
his wife died April 30, 1863. 

(VIII) Erastus, son of Niles Dean, was 
born near Carmel, New York, August 18, 
1829. He was apprenticed to learn the trade 
of a machinist, and because of his natural me- 
chanical ability he soon became an expert in 
the business. After working for a while in 
Fishkill, New York, he went, in 1840, to Bing- 
hamton, where for a time he was a Methodist 
preacher. He then found employment as over- 
seer for Shepley & Wells, and later entered 
the employ of A. S. Bartlett, where for thirty 
years he was superintendent of machinery, 
until his death. He married, April 30, 185 1, 
Mary S., daughter of Stephen and Sophia 
(Carpenter) Harris. Children: i. Frank W., 
born August 29, 1853; married (first). Sep- 
tember 3, 1875, Ella Rood; married (second), 
March 18, 1885, Minnie J. Brown; children: 
Edwin H., Minnie H. and Mabel A. 2. Amy 
jane, born January 28, 1859, died October 11, 
1859. 3. Mary L.^ born March 14, 1864; mar- 
ried, June 2, 1891, George H. Downing; chil- 
dren: Mildred and Richard B. 4. Arthur E., 
mentioned below. 

( IX ) Arthur E., son of Erastus and Mary S. 
( Harris ) Dean, was born in Binghamton, New 
York, October 12, 1870. He received his early 
education in the public schools of his native 
town and prepared for college in the Bingham- 
ton high school. He was graduated from the 
New York School of Pharmacy in 1895, and 
immediately engaged in business as a druggist, 
succeeding his brother, Frank W. Dean, in 
1909. His store is located at the corner of 
Chenango and Lewis streets, Binghamton. In 
religion Mr. Dean is a Presbyterian, and he 
is a member of Independent Order of Odd 
Fellows, and New York State Pharmaceutical 



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Association, Bingliamton Chamber of Com- 
merce and the Merchants' and Advertisers' 
Association. 

He married, March 5, 1896. Augusta J. Dun- 
lap, born in Ovid, Seneca county, New York, 
daughter of Arthur and Mary Helen (John- 
son) Dunlap. Her father was born in Ovid, 
Seneca county, New York, son of Andrew Jr. 
and Hannah (Kinney) Dunlap, and grandson 
of Andrew Sr. and Mary (Wilson) Dunlap. 
Andrew Sr. was son of John Dunlap, immi- 
grant ancestor, who came in 1760 to this coun- 
try, settled in New York state, and died, in 
1 80 1, in Seneca county. His wife was a Gil- 
lespie. 

(The Northrop Line). 

(I) Joseph Northrop, the ancestor of this 
family, came perhaps from Yorkshire, Eng- 
land. He was one of "Eaton and Davenport's 
Company, of good character and fortune," 
who came from England, in 1637, in the ships 
"Hector" and "Martin." They landed in Bos- 
ton, July 26, 1637, and settled at New Haven, 
in April, 1638. They were mostly from York- 
shire, Herefordshire and Kent. Members of 
this company and of Sir Richard Saltonstall's 
company removed to Milford, Connecticut, and 
the "free planters of the town" were enrolled 
November 30, 1639, but Joseph, not then being 
in the church following, appears in the list of 
names immediately after the free planters. The 
surname Northrop was spelled in the early 
records with the "u," with "rup," and some- 
times "roop," "rupp," and more often "rop," 
especially in latter days. January 9, 1642, 
Jose]5h united with the First Church, in Alil- 
ford. He married Mary, daughter of Francis 
Norton, who came to Milford from Wethers- 
field with the Rev. Peter Prudden and his 
party. He died September 11, 1669. His will 
was dated September i, 1669, and it men- 
tions of his children only Joseph, Samuel, 
Jeremiah and John. Codicil to his will says : 
"My mother shall have a living in my house as 
long as she lives" — perhaps meaning his wife's 
mother, Airs. Norton. His wife survived him, 
and made her will January 24, 1683, and men- 
tions Joseph, Samuel, Jeremiah, Zophar, Dan- 
iel, William and Mary, the last two being in 
their minority, also her mother, Mrs. Norton. 
The inventory of her estate is dated February 
28, 1683. Children, born in Milford: Joseph, 
July 17, 1649, mentioned below ; Samuel", Octo- 
ber 26, 1651; Jeremiah, January 14, 1653; 



John, September 7, 1656; Zophar, June 21, 
1661 ; Daniel, August 7, 1664; William, June 
2, 1666; Mary, January 6, 1670. 

(H) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (i) North- 
rop, was born July 17, 1649, baptized August 
9. 1649, at Milford. He was made freeman, 
Alay 12, 1670. He married Miriam Blakeman, 
daughter of James and Miriam Blakeman. 
Miriam, wife of James Blakeman, was daugh- 
ter of Moses Wheeler, and was born 1657, 
died about 1789. James Blakeman was son of 
Rev. Aaron Blakeman, who was born in Strat- 
fordshire, England, in 1598, and entered Christ 
College, Oxford, May 28, 1617 ; came to ^Amer- 
ica, in 1638; to Stratford, Connecticut, in 
1639; died September, 1665; his widow Jane 
died 1674; she was said to be sister of Moses 
Wheeler. Moses Wheeler, father of Miriam, 
wife of James Blakeman, probably came with 
Eaton to New Haven in 1638, and his wife was 
Miriam, sister of Joseph Hawley. Joseph 
Northrop died June i. 1700, and was buried at 
Milford. His widow Miriam gave an adminis- 
tratrix's bond, dated November 13, 1700. She 
married (second) John Smith, and had chil- 
dren : Johanna, Josiah and Abigail. Children 
of Joseph Northrop, born at Milford : Joseph, 
baptized October 29, 1689; James, baptized 
January 15, 1693, mentioned below; Moses, 
baptized Alarch 31, 1695; Miriam, baptized 
May 15, 1698. 

( in) James, son of Joseph (2) Northrop, 
was baptized at Milford, January 15, 1693. 
He bought lands at Milford with his brothers, 
Joseph and Moses, in 1715-21-27, and settled 
there. He also bought lands of Joseph Bene- 
dict, for sixty pounds, on March 29, 1714. He 
married (first) Hannah Hine, of Milford, who 
died about 1737. He married (second) Lydia 
Mills, widow. Children by first wife: James, 
born November 9, 1719, mentioned below ; Na- 
than. May 30, 1721 : Hannah, November 16. 
1623, died before 1731 ; Stephen, December 13, 
1725: Thomas, Decanber 5, 1727: Hannah, 
August 20, 1729; Anna. Children by second 
wife: Ambrose, April 30, 1740, died October 
7, 1745; John, November 28, 1743: I5enjamin, 
October 26, 1747. 

(IV) James (2), son of James (i) North- 
rop, was born at Ridgefield, November 9. 1719. 
He married, January 13, 1742, Rachel, daugh- 
ter of Samuel Smith, of Norfolk. She was 
born March 27, 1723. His estate was distrib- 
uted July 26, 1784. Children, born at Ridge- 
field: James, January 22, 1744-45, died before 



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July 15. 1751 ; Samuel, March 5, 1746; Mat- 
thew. April 6, 1749; James, July 15, 1751 : Na- 
thaniel. July 15, 1751. twin of James; Rachel, 
January 28. 1754: Hannah, February 28, 1755 ; 
Stephen, mentioned below. 

(\') Stephen, son of James (2) Northrop, 
was born at Ridgefield, January 22, 1759. He 
was a soldier in the revolution for one year 
and nine months. He removed to \'enice, 
Cayuga county. New York, and from there to 
Chardon, Geauga county. Ohio, October 9, 
1827. He was a carpenter by trade. He died 
October 17, 1831, at IMunson, Geauga county. 
He married (first) Betsey Murch; (second), 
about 1793, Deborah Robinson, who was born 
June 2. 1776, in Dutchess county, New York, 
and died October 4, 1844, in Munson, Ohio. 
Children liy first wife: Stq)hen ; Hannah, mar- 
ried Edward Covey, and went to Orange, Port- 
age county, Ohio ; Ruth, married Peter Baker, 
and lived in Broome or Tioga county, New- 
York; Nancy, married Niles Dean (see Dean 
VH) : Nathan, born February 22, 1791, in 
New London, Connecticut. Children by sec- 
ond wife: Amaziah, born April 8, 1795: Pru- 
dence, February 12, 1797, married and had 
children; Rachel, November 5, 1798; Lewis, 
March 5, 1801 : Margaret, March 15. 1803; 
Deborah. November 3, iSof), married, 1825. 
Nathan West, and died July 17, 1890. had 
children : Jane, Calvin, Alanson, Stephen, An- 
son, home near Chicago. Illinois ; James, Feb- 
ruary 25, 1809. 



.Among the representative fam- 
CORBETT ilies of Central New York, who 
for generations have taken a 
prominent part in the business world, is the 
Corbett family, the early ancestors of whom 
settled in Mendon, and later Milford, both of 
Massachusetts, then the first settlers of New 
Milford, Pennsylvania, and finally the found- 
ers of Corbettsville, New York, represented in 
the present generation (1911) by Merritt J. 
Corliett, of Binghamton, New York, one of 
the largest manufacturers of chemicals in the 
United States. The Corbetts settled in Massa- 
chusetts in the seventeenth century. They were 
Normans, descended from Roger Corbett, a 
military leader under William, the First, in the 
conquest of England. William, the eldest son 
of Roger, was seated at W'attsborough, while 
his second son. Sir Roger Corbett, had for his 
inheritance the castle and estate of Cons. Rob- 
ert's son, also named Robert, accompanied 



Richard, the First, in the Third Crusade, A. D. 
1 191, to the siege of Acre, bearing on his coat- 
of-arms two ravens. Another Roger Corbett, 
in 1649, was one of the signers of Charles, the 
First's death warrant, and was beheaded, with 
many others who had also signed this warrant, 
soon after Charles the Second, came to the 
throne. 

( I ) Robert Corbett, ancestor of this family, 
was in Weymouth early, and fought bravely in 
King Philip's war, in 1675-76. Many of the 
W"eymouth settlers became interested in land 
in Mendon and Woodstock, then in Massachu- 
setts, and Corbett was one of those who set- 
tled in W'oodstock about 1700. He married, 
February 23, 1682, Priscilla, daughter of John 
Rockwood, of Mendon. Children: I. Dr. John, 
born December 7, 1683; settled in the north- 
west part of Bellingham : married Mehitable 
Rockwood. 2. Joseph. 3. Daniel, mentioned 
below. 

(H) Daniel, son of Robert Corbett, was 
born in 1690, at Woodstock. He married, De- 
cember 14, 1 717, Sarah, born 1694, daughter 
of Elder John and Sarah Jones. They lived 
first at Bellingham, where he was a member of 
the Congregational church. Afterwards he 
belonged to the Mendon church, joining in 
1744. In 1742-44 he exchanged farms with his 
brother-in-law, John Jones, and he removed to 
North Purchase, Mendon, where he had four 
hundred acres of land. He was elected elder 
of the church in 1749, and "was altogether an 
influential member of both civil and religious 
society." Children, born in Bellingham: Mercy, 
September 2, 1718; Daniel. July 8. 1720. men- 
tioned below: Sarah, May 4, 1722: Nathaniel, 
March 21. 1724: Bridget, February 25, 1726; 
Lois. December 24, 1727 ; Eunice, May 4, 1728 ; 
Priscilla, May 9, 1732; Alice, February 23, 
1733. Elder Daniel Corbett died in 1753, 
and his widow Sarah administered his estate. 
His widow afterward married John Sawin, of 
Watertown, October 9, 1755. 

(Ill) Deacon Daniel (2) Corbett, son of 
Elder Daniel (i) Corbett, was born July 8, 
1720. He married (intention dated November 
4. 1741 ) Mary Holbrook. It is thought that 
they lived for a time in Wrentham West Par- 
ish, now Franklin. Massachusetts, but the births 
of children are not recorded there. Deacon 
Daniel Corbett inherited and left a large estate, 
which appears to have been equitably distrib- 
uted, after his death, among his children. He 
and his wife were among the temporary "come- 



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(Uiters" from the Congregational church, dur- 
ing the pastorate of Rev. Mr. Frost, and for a 
time were among the adherents of Rev. Samuel 
Hovey. Daniel Corbett died in 1761, and his 
widow married. February 7. 1770. Lieutenant 
Josiah Chapin. whom she survived. She died 
November 7, 1809. Children: Xathaniel. born 
at Bellingham, May 20, 1742, married Lucy 
Thaver ; Priscilla, Xovember 16, 1743. Born 
at Xorth Purchase, Mendon : Robert, mention- 
ed below; Daniel, October 22, 1746; Peter, 
.Vugust 23, 1748; Joseph. May 3, 1750; Eldad, 
March 3. 1752, married Hannah Stearns : Mary, 
July 28, 1753. died young; Mary, Xovember 
'5- 1755' married Elisha White; Hepzibah, 
July 21, 1757, married, June 4, 1777, ^Villiam 
Legg; Beulah. October 9. 1759. married, Au- 
gust 19, 1778, Daniel Thayer; John, Xovember 
22. 1761, married, April 6, 1786, Lydia Cheney. 
( I\' ) Robert, son of Deacon Daniel (2) 
Corbett, was born at Xorth Purchase, later 
called Mendon, February 10, 1745. He mar- 
ried Elizabeth Daniels, of Holliston, of an old 
Sherburn family. April 5, 1769. She was born 
in 1751, died September 25. 1840. Robert 
Corbett settled in Mendon, and was a soldier 
in the revolution from Mendon, a private in 
Captain Ger.shom Xelson's company, on the 
Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775. to Cambri'lge 
and Roybury, and also under the same captain, 
July 19, 1776 (p. 995 and p. 999. "Mass. Rev. 
Roils," iii). He was virtually the founder, 
and gave to the town of Xew Milford, Penn- 
svlvania. the name of his former home, Mil- 
ford, Massachusetts, formerly Xorth Purchase 
of Mendon. In 1790 he and his family located 
on the ground in Xew Milford, Pennsylvania, 
formerly occupied by a hunter named DeX'aux. 
The history of Xew Milford says he came 
from "near Boston," through the agency of 
Mr. Cooper, of Cooperstown, Xew York. In 
1709 a road w?s lai'l out from Corbett's home 
to Solomon Millard's house, in Nicholson, now 
Lenox. In 1801 Corbett was taxed as an inn- 
keeper, but must have left Xew Milford soon 
afterward, with his sons Sewell and Cooper, 
to locate at the mouth of Snake creek, now 
known as Corbettsville, New Y'ork, named for 
him and his family. His son .\saph remained 
in Xew Milford. and, in 1802, was an assessor 
there, in the Willingborough district, and about 
this time he probably built the first frame 
house in New Milford, on land later part of 
the garden of Henry Burnett. The house was 
removed manv years ago to the bank of the 



creek and seventy years later, when it was de- 
molished, the timbers were so sound that many 
of them were used in building the new house 
of Charles Ward. The old house was the 
tem])orary home of many of the early settlers. 
Asaph Corbett removed, about 18 12, to the 
west shore of Seneca lake, near Watkin's 
Glen, where he spent the remainder of his life. 
Robert Corbett died May 6. 1823. After he 
went to Pennsylvania he sold land at Milford, 
Massachusetts, November 21, 1795, giving his 
then residence as Salt Lick, Luzerne coun- 
ty, Pennsylvania. Children, born at Milford: 
Asaph, born September 24. 1770, married, at 
Hopkinton, Massachusetts, in 1790, Matilda 
Reed; Ede, born August 28, 1771, married 
Hasper Daniell Hunt; Pruda, July 30, 1773. 
died .-\pril 15, 1776; Puah, March 2, 177A, died 
March 28, following; Pruda, February 8, 1777; 
Ruby, married, March, 1794, Benjamin Hay- 
den, of New Milford, son of Samuel ; Ruth. 
June 19, 1781. married Daniel Leach; Eve, July 
15, 1783, married Captain Hezekiah Leach; 
Sewell, mentioned below ; Cooper, born at Xew 
Milford. lived at Binghamton, Xew Y'ork. to 
a great age ; Warren. 

( \ ) Sewell, son of Robert Corbett, was born 
at Milford, February 26, 1785, died February 
24, 1852. He was a farmer at Corbettsville, 
Xew York, and became active in other lines, 
owning and operating a gristmill and a saw- 
mill, a foundry, and conducting a general store. 
He was a prominent man in the community, 
living and dying on the homestead, where his 
father located in 1804, and on which the old 
house is still standing. He was a very large 
landholder, owning over eleven hundred acres 
of land, and at his death this was divided, and 
each of his children received a farm. A man 
greatly beloved and highly respected by all. 
The home of Sewell Corbett, at Corbettsville, 
was the stopping place of all the itinerant 
ministers in the early days. They frequently 
preached and held religious services under his 
roof. He was also postmaster, and kept the 
pest office in his house for a number of years. 

He married, in 1822, Chloe Smith, who was 
born September 23, 1804, in Mount Pleasant, 
Pennsylvania. Children: i. Julia \\\\\, born 
January 13, 1824. 2. Amanda Jane, April 17, 
1826. 3. Ruby Cornelia, Xovember i, 1828; 
married, January 31. 1854, John C. Fish, Esq., 
lawyer of Great Bend, Pennsylvania ; died 
September 2. i88fS. 4. Julius Smith, mentioned 
below. 5. Julia Ann Elizabeth. .-Vugust 26, 1835 ; 



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married, Xovember 26, 1853, Dr. Merritt H. C. 
Vail. 6. .\manda Jane, July 8, 1838 ; married, 
April 12, 1859, John Bayless. 7. Sarah, born 
September 6, 1842, died same day. 8. Sewell 
Frank, born September 26, 1843, died April 
II, 1845. 9. jNIyrtis Chloe, born January 31, 
1848; married, July 18, 1875, Marcus W. 
Scott, superintendent of Binghamton (Xew 
York) schools seventy-three years, a great 
teacher and educator; died May 9, 1891. 

(\^I) Julius Smith, son of Sewell Corbett, 
was born November 22, 1831, in Corbettsville. 
He was educated at the Binghamton Academy, 
and later at Homer, and as a young man be- 
came associated with his father, and after the 
latter"s death he changed the foundry to a tan- 
nery, and conducted this for a time. He then 
sold it to Friend H. Burt, of Boston. He also 
operated the gristmill and the sawmill, cutting 
most of the timber from the large tracts of 
land left by his father, and also purchased 
other timber lands. This he continued to 1881, 
then sold the mill, and, in 1883, came to Bing- 
hamton. Some time after selling the mill 
he became interested, with John Emmons, V. 
Mandville and ]\Ir. Nitckee, in the chemical 
business. They built the first plant at Livings- 
ton Alanor, the first plant of the kind in the 
country. Later he started the building of a 
plant at Rockland, New York, but his health 
failed and his son completed it and then dis- 
posed of it. After recovering his health he 
purchased a plant at Sherman and operated it. 
also had an interest with his son, and this con- 
tinued up to the time of his death. The Liv- 
ingston Manor plant is still operated by his 
.son, who later, with Mr. Stuart, purchased the 
plant at Sherman, both of which they still own. 
Mr. Corbett took a great interest in the temper- 
ance cause, and at a meeting of the town, of 
which he was chairman, a vote was taken by 
the citizens of the town on the question of 
license or no license. It was a tie vote, and he, 
as chairman, cast the deciding vote against 
license, and this has since been the policy of 
the town. 

For many years he represented tlie town of 
Conklin in the board of supervisors, and, al- 
though a staunch Republican, he was several 
times the candidate of both Democratic and 
Republican parties. He was an active member 
of the Presbyterian church, at Conklin, which 
he supported liberally, but after coming to Bing- 
hamton, at the earnest solicitation of Dr. Holly, 
pastor of the I'irst Congregational Church, he 



became an active member of that church. He 
was a fine example of a good, honest, upright, 
prosperous citizen. His business ventures have 
been of a nature that tended to the welfare 
and prosperity of numerous homes, and the 
happiness, of which he was indirectly author, 
was great. He was essentially a man of honor, 
and the integrity of his nature and the upright- 
ness of his character were ever visible in his 
business and social relations. Kind, manly and 
true hearted, Mr. Corbett was always an ex- 
ample for good among his associates, and the 
beneficent mfluence of his life and the im- 
pressions his sterling character have made 
upon men will not soon fade away. 

His death occurred ]\Iarch 7, 1899, at his 
home. No. 82 Chestnut street, Binghamton, 
and removed from that city one of its most 
prosperous and infiuential citizens. 

Mr. Corbett was of a nature so modest and 
unobtrusive that men accepted him for what 
he was, and came to reckon with him as a 
fixed and stable quantity. His death brought 
his personality and his life record into bold 
relief, bringing vividly before the mind of 
every one who ever had any dealings with him 
the picture of a character that might well 
awaken enthusiasm and an example well worthy 
of emulation. It is a satisfaction to contem- 
plate a personality so thoroughly wholesome, 
upright and four-square in its substantial out- 
lines as that of this quiet Christian gentleman. 
The keynote of Mr. Corbett's character was 
honesty and a scrupulous regard for every ob- 
ligation. He came of a family in which the 
sense of duty was very strong. "Full measure, 
pressed down and running over," was the law 
of his business dealings. He would rather pay 
a man more than was due him than run any 
chance of paying less. He usually planned to 
meet his obligations before they were due. A 
large employer of labor, he was universally 
respected and beloved by those who worked 
for him. He keenly appreciated the situation 
of the working man, and of those less for- 
tunately situatea, to whom life is an an.xious 
struggle for daily bread, and he felt it a part 
of his Christian obligation to deal generously 
with all such. Many was the debt that was 
never collected ; many the tenant, hard pressed, 
who found a month's rent generously remitted 
by his landlord. 

Mr. Corbett was a hearty and unquestioning 
believer in Christianity. He found in it the 
law of right living here and of hope for the 




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hereafter. Early in life he took his stand as a 
Christian, and the quality of his faith was testi- 
fied by his works. He was a man who appre- 
ciated the value of the great conservative insti- 
tutions of human society, the famih', the state, 
the church. In his relationship to his church, 
to his political party, and to his business asso- 
ciates, he was ever found loyal and steadfast. 
Mr. Corbett married, October 14, 1858, Emma 
Ruth, born near Chenanfo, Tioga county, New 
York, daughter of Rev. J- i**I- Grimes, a iSIeth- 
odist minister, member of the Wyoming Con- 
ference, and Rachel Candfield ( Taylor) Grimes. 
John M. Grimes, a member of Wyoming Con- 
ference, was born in the town of Candor, Tioga 
county. New York, November 19, 1812, died 
at his home, near Flemingville, New York, 
October 16, 1 89 1. His parents were members 
of the Presbyterian church, and after prayer- 
ful study of various church creeds and the word 
of God he became a member of the Alethodist 
Episcopal church, at Flemingville, New York, 
at about twenty. The pastor, John Griffin, 
gave him license to exhort, April 10, 1837. He 
received license to preach from George Her- 
man, presiding elder, November 19, 1839. So 
clear was his call to the ministry that the Quar- 
terly Conference, held at Flemingville, July 13, 
1844, recommended him to Oneida Conference, 
and also for deacon's orders, into which con- 
ference he was received on probation in Au- 
gust, and ordained deacon, by Bishop Hamline, 
August 2~,. 1844. John M. Grimes married 
Rachel C. Taylor, March 22, 1838. Her natural 
ability and scholarly attainments, united with 
her strong faith and clear Christian experience, 
qualified her to speak words of wisdom in 
private, and in public her prayers and testi- 
mony were always a power for good. Reverend 
Grimes was a minister fifty-two years, and a 
member of conference for forty-seven years, 
and never failed to be present at its regular 
sessions. For twenty-seven years he received 
regular appointments and always entered cheer- 
fully upon his work. He served seventeen 
charges, and his labors were blessed in the 
salvation of souls and the sanctification of be- 
lievers. During his ministry he led two thou- 
sand souls to Christ. Children of Mr. and 
Mrs. Corbett, born at Corbettsville : i. Nettie 
Eloise, March 15, i860, died May 13, 1907: 
married, February 28, 1883, John L. Stuart: 
children: Charlotte E., born October 4, 1885; 
Merritt C, born October 2j. 1887 ; John Leon- 
ard, October 23, 1892. 2. Julia Alice, Novem- 



ber 12. 1861 : married. September 26, 1883, 
Melvin C. Craver ; children : George C, born 
May 2, 1889: Emma Ruth, April 4, 1891 : 
Helen Louise, June 16, 1892. 3. Merritt J., 
mentioned below. 

(VH) Merritt J., son of Julius Smith Cor- 
bett, was born on the old homestead, at Cor- 
bettsville, New York, Alay 3, 1865. He at- 
tended the public schools of Corbettsville, New 
York, and the high school of Binghamton, 
New York. For a time he was bookkeeper 
for the firm of Anderson & Gregg, shoe dealers, 
and afterward in a similar capacity for the 
Merchants' Rank, of Binghamton, for four 
years. In 1885 he became associated with his 
father, as a partner in the manufacture of 
acids. This continued for about three months, 
when the partnership was dissolved, and Mer- 
ritt J. continued the business alone. After a 
short time he admitted his brother-in-law, and 
the firm became Corbett & Stuart, Mr. Corbett 
being the secretary and treasurer. They built 
their first plant at Harvard, New York, in 
1887, and their second, in 1890, at East Branch, 
New York, and, in 1892, a third plant at Trout 
Brook, New York, and later the}' purchased a 
plant at Sherman, Pennsylvania, and also one 
at Livingston Manor, New York, and, in 1898, 
they built their largest plant at St. Mary's, 
Pennsylvania, operating in all six plants. Of the 
above plants the first five are operated by Cor- 
bett &: Stuart, and the last plant, at St. Mary's, 
is operated by M. J. Corbett & Company. 
Julius S. Corbett, father of ]\I. J. Corbett, was 
for many years a stockholder in this concern. 

In addition to this business, which Merritt J. 
Corbett has built up to its enormous propor- 
tions, he has always taken an active part and 
interest in public affairs in Binghamton. In 
1907 he was appointed, by Governor Hughes, 
one of the board of managers of the Bingham- 
ton State Insane Asylum, to fill an unexpired 
term of two years, and at the expiration of this 
term, in 1909, he was reappointed by the gov- 
ernor for the full term of six years, to serve 
until 191 5. He has been a director of the 
First National Bank since 1904; secretary of 
"The Boys' Club" ; member of the Chemist 
Club, of New York: one of the organizers of 
the Binghamton Country Club, on the board 
of managers ten years and treasurer a number 
of years : member of Binghamton Press Club; 
one of the members of the executive committee 
and on the board of directors of the Manu- 
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Pennsylvania ; president of the Binghamton 
Cold Storage Company ; vice-president of the 
Broome County Realty Company; director of 
the Acrum Gypsum Company ; director of the 
Yorktown Chemical Company, and a member 
of the Lenape Mshing Club. He was for sev- 
eral years president of the Young Men's Chris- 
tian Association, of Binghamton, and under 
his direction the present magnificent new build- 
ing was erected. He is a trustee of the First 
Presbyterian Church. In politics he is a Re- 
publican. 

Mr. Corbett married, April 30, 1890, Julia 
Morgan, born July 24, 1867, daughter of Aloses 
and Sarah A. Alorgan. Thev have no children. 



Robert Ashley, immigrant an- 
ASHLEY cestor, is first mentioned as a 
resident of Springfield, Massa- 
chusetts, on January 13, 1638-39, when there 
was a rating of forty pounds agreed upon to 
meet a portion of the expense of the minister's 
residence and maintenance. At this time Rob- 
ert Ashley gave the sum of one pound sixteen 
sliillings, the fifth in amount on the list. The 
first allotment of land that he received was on 
January 5, 1640-41, when he had lot No. 3, of 
eight rods, he being unmarried, situated be- 
tween Widow Searle and John Dibble. The 
next important record of him is August 7, 
1 641, when Mr. Pynchon, founder of Spring- 
field, announced on this record the marriage 
of Robert Ashley and Widow Horton, which 
was to take place soon. At that time she gave 
over all her property to him, providing that he 
cared for her two sons. He married, 1641, 
^lary, widow of Thomas Horton, of Spring- 
field. The home lots of the inhabitants were 
laid out on the west side of what is now Main 
.street, extending to the Connecticut river, while 
on the east side of IMain street was the "wet 
meadow," which was allotted to each inhabit- 
ant in the same width, opposite his home lot, 
and running forty rods to the foot of the hill. 
.Adjoining the "wet meadow," on the eastern 
end, was also given a wood lot, eighty rods in 
length and eight rods wide. Robert Ashley's 
lot was on what is now the northwest corner 
of Main and State streets, and extended to 
the river. There were only four other inhabit- 
ants who owned more land than he did at this 
time, and, in 1647, he was taxed on fifty-one 
acres. In 1646 he was licensed to keep the 
ordinary, and, January 22, 1651-52, he received 
a grant of land on .Mill river, on condition that 



he do so. On June 27, 1655, he was forbidden 
to sell "eyther wine or strong waters to Eng- 
lish or Indians." He probably resigned his posi- 
tion as keeper of the ordinary in the fall of 

1660, for, December 31, 1660, Samuel Marsh- 
field was appointed to keep it. By this time 
Robert .Ashley owned much land on the west 
side of the Connecticut river, and his house 
lot there had been granted him in February, 

1661, "provided that he build and dwell there." 
He probably built soon after this, and he lived 
there the remaining twenty years of his life. 

He was often called to serve as juryman, 
his first appearance being January 2, 1639-40, 
when he was on the jury that tried Mr. Moxon's 
slander suit against John Woodcock. He also 
served on the juries at Springfield, February 
13, 1639-40, March i, 1654, and those in the 
month of September, in 1661-62-64-67-70. He 
and Miles Morgan were chosen for overseers 
of the fences of the house lots, November 3, 
1646. He and William Warriner were chosen 
overseers of fences for the fields in the upper 
part of the town, November 5, 1650. He was 
chosen surveyor of highways, with Nathaniel 
Bliss, November 4, 1651, and was again chosen 
to this office in 1652 and 1657. In 1653, at the 
reorganization of the town by the younger 
men, he was chosen one of the five selectmen, 
and was reelected annually until 1659, and in 
1660-62-65 • being first selectman in 1657. In 
1655 he, with two others, refused to serve, and 
were fined twenty shillings apiece. He took 
the oath of fidelity March 23, 1655-56. On 
February 7, 1659, he was chosen town con- 
stable, and, Alarch 5, 1659, sealer of weights 
and measures, being reelected to the latter office 
the next year. In .April, 1665 he, with several 
others, was fined for being absent from town 
meeting. On March 30, 1669, he was freed 
from military training on petition. In Feb- 
ruary, 1653, he received three .shillings as pay- 
ment "for the use of his mare for tlie use of 
the church." He was on the first seating com- 
mittee of the church, December 23. 1659, and 
sat in the first seat. In 1663 he was again on 
the seating committee. He took the oath of 
allegiance, with the other inhabitants of Spring- 
field, December 31, 1678. He died in West 
Springfield, November 29. 1683. and his wife 
died there. September 19, 1683. She and his 
son Joseph were made administrators of his 
estate, and he mentioned in his will, made 
October 9, 1679, his sons Jonathan, Joseph, 
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son David, and John Root. Children, born in 
Springfield: David (twin). June 3, 1642, men- 
tioned below: daughter (twin), June 3, 1642, 
died soon after : Mary, .\pril 6, 1644 : Jonathan. 
February 25. 1645-46; Sarah, August 2^, 1648, 
probably died young, as she is not mentioned 
in her father's will of 1679 : Joseph, July 6, 
1652. 

(II) David, son of Robert Ashley, was born 
in Springfield, June 3. 1642, died December 8, 
1718, in \\'estfield, Alassachusetts. He mar- 
ried, November 24, 1663, Hannah, daughter 
of Henry and Helena Glover, born May, 1646, 
New Haven; died June 7, 1722. Westfield. He 
settled in Springfield, and lived there until he 
had been married three years. He received a 
grant of land at W'oronoco. now Westfield, 
February 8. 1663-64, on condition that he and 
the other grantees "pay the Indians for their 
purchase within three years and that they go 
there to dwell." His father had also a grant 
of land there in 1661, the title of which was 
eventually confirmed on David. The latter 
was one of the original grantees on the Fort 
Side (Main street), July 6, 1666, and probably 
removed his family there in the spring of 1667. 
iMarch, 1668, a division of land was made into 
three parts, and lots cast for it, and his lands 
fell in the first division. He and Joseph Whit- 
ing received Sacketts creek, in March, 1669, 
"to set a mill thereon and grind corn." During 
King Philip's war he was one of a committee 
of three, appointed to convey to the govern- 
ment, at lioston, the protest of the town against 
a letter, dated March 20. 1676, which advised 
the inhabitants to abandon Westfield and re- 
treat to Springfield for protection against the 
Indians. He was granted, with three others, 
liberty to erect a sawmill on the brook, on the 
northeast side of the river. Towards the close 
of Queen Anne's war, June 9, 1712, his was 
one of the houses chosen for a fort. He held 
a number of responsible offices: juror, 1665; 
selectman, 1676-77-79-85-94-99 ; clerk of the 
writs, 1678-86-90; treasurer, 1694. He perform- 
ed the duties of these offices in a manner satis- 
factory to the town and was a highly respected 
citizen. He united with the Westfield church, 
January i, 1679-80, and took the freeman's 
oath, September 28. 1680. Both he and his 
wife were buried in the old Westfield cemetery, 
where their gravestones may still be seen. Chil- 
dren, the first two born in Springfield, the 
others in \\'estfield : Samuel, October 26, 1664, 
mentioned below ; David, March 10, 1666-67 • 



John, June 27, 1669; Joseph, July 31, 1671 ; 
Sarah, September 10, 1673; Mary (twin), De- 
cember 26, 1675, died July 19, 1676; Hannah 
(twin). December 26, 1675; Jonathan. June 
21. 1678 ; Abigail, .\pril 27, 1681 : Mary, March 
3, 1682-83; Rebecca, Alay 30, 1685. 

(HI) Samuel, son of David Ashley, was 
born in Springfield, October 26, 1664, died in 
Westfield, 1722. He married, April 27. 1686, 
in Hadley. Alassachusetts. Sarah, daughter of 
Lieutenant Joseph and Joanna Kellogg, born 
August 2/, 1666, in Hadley; died January 30, 
1729, in Westfield. He settled in the latter 
town, where he was a carpenter by trade. He 
was also engaged in farming, and kept the inn 
at Westfield for a number of years. He was 
a considerable landowner, and had a quarter 
interest in a gristmill at Two Mile Brook, in 
company with his brother. Deacon David .Ash- 
ley, and Lieutenant James Dewey. During 
Queen Anne's war, June 9, 17 12, three houses 
in the town were selected "to be forted," as a 
protection against the Indians, and his was one 
of the three. In 17 19 he sold to his brother 
David half the home lot which had belonged 
to their father, and his name appears on a large 
number of deeds of land during his residence 
in \\'estfield. He held a large number of town 
(offices: tythingman, 1697-98 and 1703; select- 
man, 1703-04-20; in 1700 he was chosen, with 
his brother David and two others, a committee 
to build the schoolhouse, and, in 1709, was 
elected constable, but refused to serve. March 
8, 1713-14. he was appointed one of a com- 
mittee to settle the bounds between Westfield 
and Springfield. He united with the church, 
.April 15. 1 7 14, and was an active member. He 
was ajjpointed on the committee to build a 
new meeting-house, in 17 19, and on its com- 
pletion was. chosen on the seating committee, 
1 72 1. His services in the church were con- 
sidered worthy of a special vote of the town 
after his death. Children, born in Westfield: 
Mary, March 6, 1687, died in infancy ; Samuel, 
November 3, 1688; Daniel, September 7, 1691, 
mentioned below; Sarah, September 11, 1693, 
died in infancy; Rachel, February 14, 1695; 
Jacob, September 24, 1697; Joanna, February 
6, 1699; Ezekiel, .April 27, 1701 ; Aaron, Janu- 
ary I. 1702-03; Abigail, Alay 23, 1708: Joseph, 
October 11. 1709. 

( I\' I Daniel, son of Samuel .Ashley, was 
born September 7, 1691, in Westfield; died in 
1726, before November 4. when his inventory 
was taken. He married ( intentions published 



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November 15, 1718), in Westfield, Thankful 
( Hawks ) Taylor, widow of Thomas Taylor, 
and daughter of Deacon Eleazer and Judith 
(Smead) Hawks, born in Decrfield, 1690. She 
married (third), March 6, 1728-29, Colonel 
William Symes. of Northfield, Massachusetts. 
He settled in Westfield, and was one of the 
original proprietors of the Lower Township, 
now Sheffield, on the Housatonic river. There 
is no evidence, however, that he ever removed 
there. He was appointed from Deerfield to 
attend the delegates from the Five Nations, 
who came to Albany in the summer of 1723, 
and were thence conducted to Boston to hold 
conference with the English commissioners. 
He was a farmer by occupation. Children, 
born in Westfield : Samuel, March 20, 1720, 
mentioned below; Martin, September 17, 1724. 
(V) Colonel Samuel (2) Ashley, son of 
Daniel Ashley, was born March 20, 1720, in 
\\^estfield ; died February 18, 1792, in Clare- 
mont. New Hampshire. He married, 1742, in 
Northfield, Eunice, daughter of Rev. Benja- 
min and Lydia (Todd) Doolittle, born July 
24, 1724, in Northfield; died in 1807, in Clare- 
mont. He spent his youth in Northfield and 
settled there after his marriage, in 1742. He 
had been an original grantee of the town of 
Winchester. New Hampshire, under the Massa- 
chusetts charter, and, in 1753, when by the 
settlement of the boundary between the former 
state and Massachusetts that town became a 
part of New Hampshire, he settled there, and 
became one of the first selectmen, fie was 
one of the "Hinsdale petitioners," August 29, 
1753, and also a petitioner and grantee of the 
towns of Windsor, Vermont, in 1761 ; Shrews- 
bury, ^'ermont, 1763, and Claremont, New 
Hampshire, 1784. In 1781, in the Vermont 
controversy, a contention in which New York 
claimed jurisdiction over the former state, Colo- 
nel Ashley, with ten others, protested against 
the proceedings of the convention, and bv 
united and determined action prevented civil 
feud. About this time he removed to Clare- 
mont, which had been granted to him, anil 
sixty-eight others, October 26, 1764, and was 
chosen first moderator. He and members of 
his family at this date, 1784, possessed twenty- 
two of the seventy-five shares into which the 
town had Ijeen originally divided. At a meet- 
ing of the proprietors. May 26, 1784. these 
shares were laid out into one tract, and the 
dividing line named "Ashley's Lane." The 



land thus accjuired was controlled independently 
from the other town proprietors. 

Colonel Ashley had a long and brilliant mili- 
tary service, from the French and Indian wars, 
through the revolution. He served at Fort 
Dummer, under Captain Josiah Kellogg, from 
August 7 to November 20, 1740, enlisted the 
following day in Captain Josiah Willard's com- 
pany, for duty at the same place, and was dis- 
charged, March 4, 1741-42. He served also 
in Captain Willard's company, from May 25 
to November 21, 1742, and from February 12, 
1748, to June 7, 1749. At the outbreak of the 
revolution he was a delegate to the provincial 
government, as representative from Winches- 
ter, and was at the session. May 10, 1774, at 
Portsmouth, at which a committee of corre- 
spondence was appointed for the purpose of 
exchanging information with similar commit- 
tees from other colonies. He was also a dele- 
gate to the convention held at Exeter, July 21, 
1774, which appointed representatives to the 
first continental congress, at Philadelphia, and 
also to those held there January 5 and April 
21, 1775. May 17, 1775, at the meeting of an- 
other convention, which styled itself the first 
provisional congress, the famous committee of 
safety was appointed, and at another session, 
held that same day, four more members were 
added to the latter committee, among whom 
Colonel Ashley was one. He was in continual 
attendance from June 14th to June 29th. He 
acted as mustering officer from the last date to 
October 31, 1775, and was commissioned colo- 
nel, August 24, of the first part of the regi- 
ment, formerly commanded by Colonel Josiah 
Willard. From October 31st to November 
1 6th he was again a constant attendant on the 
committee. He was elected a member of the 
council of eight, January 5, 1776, and served 
on that body until 1780. He was appointed 
first justice of the inferior court of common 
pleas, of Cheshire county, January 10, 1776, 
and, June 26th, the house voted to appoint a 
committee to consider a petition of Colonel 
Ashley, and others, for a company of "Rang- 
ers." They voted to raise four companies, of 
fifty men each, to guard the western frontier, 
and Colonel Ashley was to enlist one of these 
companies, muster and pay the men. The 
following July he was ap])ointed to muster 
men for the reenforcenient of the army in 
Canada. He marched his regiment to Ticon- 
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army there, and returned on November i6th. 
He marched again to Ticonderoga, on May 7, 
1777, with one hundred and nine men, and 
served until June i8th, when he was dis- 
charged. He reenlisted, on June 29th, and was 
present at the evacuation of Ticonderoga. He 
was discharged July nth, but volunteered for 
General Stark's staff, in the regiment which 
was then being raised to check Burgoyne's ad- 
vance, and was present at the battle of Ben- 
nington. He continued in the service under 
General Gates, at Saratoga, until Burgoyne's 
surrender, and held command of his regiment, 
the Thirteenth, afterwards the Sixth, New 
Hampshire, until he resigned, June 18, 1779. 
March 24. 177Q, he had been chosen a repre- 
sentative to the continental congress, but dt- 
clined. He continued a highly respected citi- 
zen of Claremont until his death. Children, 
the births of the first four recorded in North- 
field, and those of all of them in Winchester : 
Oliver. October 20. 1743: Tirzah, December 
24, 1745; Samuel. September 29, 1747, men- 
tioned below: Thankful, November 10, 1749; 
Eunice, December 17, 1751 : Daniel. January 
15, 1754: Luther, April ij , 1762. died in 
infancy: Luther, August 19, 1764: Susannah, 
December 16, 1766. 

(\T) Colonel Samuel (3) Ashley, son of 
Colonel Samuel (2) Ashley, was born in North- 
field, September 29, 1747; died October, 1820, 
in Springville, Pennsylvania. He settled in 
Claremont, where he lived on what is now- 
known as the Charles Ainsworth farm. In the 
spring of 18 18 he removed to Springville, and 
remained there until his death. He served in 
the revolution, was appointed first lieutenant 
of the Claremont company, Colonel Benjamin 
Bellows' regiment. Sixteenth New Hampshire, 
served from October 21st to November i6th, 
1776. During this time and the Saratoga cam- 
paign he acted as adjutant, on Colonel Bel- 
lows' staff. His company had also served at 
Ticonderoga until the evacuation, and were 
discharged July 8. 1777. He served in Lieu- 
tenant Jeremiah Spencer's scouting party, of 
twenty-four men. August, 1780. which went in 
pursuit of the enemy who had made a raid on 
Claremont and surrounding towns. About this 
time Lieutenant .\shley was made captain of 
the New Hampshire line. After the close of 
the war he continued to take an active part in 
military aft'airs. He was appointed lieuten- 
ant-colonel of the Fifteenth New Hampshire 



Militia Regiment. December 25, 1784, and its 
colonel, September 25, 1786.. 

He married. August 9, 1770, in Northfield, 
his cousin Lydia, daughter of Lucius and 
Sarah (Smith) Doolittle, born December, 1753, 
in Northfield. Children, born in Claremont: 
Content, 1771 ; Samuel, 1773; Solomon Will- 
ard, 1774; Sarah, 1776; Lydia, November 22, 
1779; Charles, 1782, mentioned below; Har- 
mony, January, 1784, died September 25, 1784; 
Friendly, 1786, died in infancy; Olive, 1788; 
Cynthia, August 8, 1791 ; Susannah, 1793. 

(VH) Charles, son of Colonel Samuel (3) 
Ashley, was born at Claremont. New Hamp- 
shire, in 1782; died March 30, 1848. in Water- 
loo. Wisconsin. He married, about 1802, at 
Claremont, Roccena, daughter of Nathaniel 
and Rachel (Gould) Goss. She was born 
February 11, 1784, in Claremont: died Novem- 
ber 9, 1 861. in Waterloo. Ashley took the 
oath of allegiance at Lexington, X'ermont, in 
1796, probably at the first town meeting. He 
removed to Danville. \'ermont. where he lived 
until 181 1, when he returned to Claremont. 
In 1818 he went to Springville. Susquehanna 
county, Pennsylvania, and afterward to Water- 
loo, (jrant county, Wisconsin. He was a farmer 
and held numerous town oflices. Children : 
Nathaniel, born 1803, died 1840: Lydia, born 

June 25, 1805, married (first), in 1825, 

Tucker, and (second), in September, 1831, 
Daniel Raymond Burt ; Charles, mentioned 
below: Roccena, 1809, married, in 1834, Jere- 
miah Dodge: Oliver, born January 2, 1811, 
died May 12, 1839, married, January, 1833, 
Catherine .\insworth: Samuel, June 18, 1813, 
married, October 24, 1843, Sarah Ann Chaffee : 
Lucius, born May 7, 1815, died February 15, 
1873, married, January 29, 1843, Caroline Bid- 
die: Caroline Jones, born April 10. 1817, mar- 
ried, April I, 1838, James I. Blakeslee ; Will- 
iam Drinker, born May 5, 1819, died July 11, 
1890, married, January 4, 1853, Angeline Jack- 
son ; Rachel Matilda, born July 4, 1822, mar- 
ried, in 1843. Jeremiah E. Dodge. 

(MID Charles (2), son of Charles (1) 
Ashlev, was born July 2. 1807. in Danville, 
\'ermont ; died October 9, 1865, in Stockton, 
California. He married (first), March 6, 1831. 
in Springville, Pennsylvania. Hannah Blakes- 
lee. born May i. 1805. in Springville; who, 
while crossing the plains on the way to Cali- 
fornia, in company with her husband, was 
taken sick near Fort Laramie, on the Piatt 



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river, and died there, June 4, 1852. He mar- 
ried (second), April 29, 1855, in Stockton, 
Margaret Curry, who died September 14, 1865. 
Charles Ashley came with his father to Spring- 
ville, when a child, and he lived there until 
1834. He removed, in 1836, to Mauch Chunk, 
Pennsylvania, thence to Rockport, Pennsyl- 
vania, and. in 1838. to Reading. Pennsylvania, 
where he remained for about a year. In the 
following summer he located at Waterloo. Wis- 
consin, with others of the family, and spent 
nearly ten years there. In 1852 he located at 
Stockton, California, where he lived the re- 
mainder of his life. For a number of years 
he conducted a livery stable. After moving to 
California he gave his attention to farming 
and stock raising. Children : Roccena, born 
December 29, 1834. died March 5. 1839; Sarah 
Catherine. August 28, 1837, married, Septem- 
ber 21, 1855, John E. AIcKenzie ; Edwin Lucius, 
born October 15. 1840. married. March 29, 1866. 
Emma Robinson Brannack : Charles Albert, 
born March 2, 1843. married, April i, 1866, 
Louise Jahont : Robert Asa, mentioned below. 
(IX) Robert Asa, son of Charles (2) Ash- 
ley, was born June 21, 1846, in a district called 
Bee Town, Wisconsin. He married. October 
18. 1876, in Mauch Chunk. Lida Rosina \'anne- 
man. born April 12, 1849, '" Auburn, Pennsyl- 
vania, daughter of Isaac Dana and Wealthy 
Zy])rah (Bennett) Vanneman. In 1852 he 
went with his father's family to Stockton. Cali- 
fornia, and. in 1870, came eastward and located 
at Mauch Chunk. Pennsylvania. A year later 
he went to Delano, Pennsylvania, where he 
was clerk in the store of his uncle, James I. 
Blakeslee. In 1873 he was appointed station 
agent of the Lehigh \'alley Railroad Company, 
at Delano, but he also continued in the store. 
In Xovember, 1878. he removed to Slattington. 
Pennsylvania, and thence to Ringhamton. New 
York, where, from June. 1879. to April, 1886, 
he conducted a retail grocery store. During 
the next two vears he was in the employ of 
the Crandall Typewriter Company, and since 
then (i.S<)o) he has been contracting freight 
agent of the Central Railroad of New 'Jersey. 
He is a member of the Free and Accepted 
Masons, Binghamton Lodge, No. 177; Im- 
proved Order of Red Men. Annawana Tribe. 
No. 41, having formerly been a charter mem- 
ber of the Wanasctta Tribe, but upon the 
organization of the Annawana Tribe he be- 
came a charter member of this and has passed 
all the chairs of this lodge: member of the 



Binghamton Club, anfl with his family attends 
Christ Episcopal Church. 

Children: i. Charles Asa, born Xovember 7, 
1878. died January 21. 1880. 2. Douglas \'anne- 
man. born May 23. 1881 : graduate of Princeton 
College, later the New York Law School, and 
now practicing his profession in Binghamton. 
New York, being a partner of Judge Olstead. 
of that city : he married, July 28, 1909, Eliza- 
beth R. Stone, of Binghamton, New York. 

(The Blakeslee Line). 

(I) Samuel Blakeslee, the ancestor of this 
family, came from England to this country 
with his brother John about 1636. From Bos- 
ton he came first to Guilford, Connecticut, and 
afterward to New Haven, where he married, 
December 3, 1650. Hannah Porter. He died 
in 1678. The following account of him is 
taken from the notes of a descendant. Captain 
Samuel Blakeslee. who had the facts from his 
father and other older men: "In the early set- 
tlement of .America there was two brothers by 
the name of Samuel and John Blakeslee, both 
blacksmiths by occupation, left England with 
their anvil, vises, hammers, tongs and other 
necessary tools fitted to their occupation, and 
landed at Boston. Massachusetts, and purchased 
what was and is since called Boston Neck, a 
poor barren strip of land which joins the penin- 
sula to the mainland upon which Boston is 
located ; here they lived for a few years with 
their families, following their trade of black- 
smithing. But the then villasre of P^oston was 
poor and the narrow neck which they had pur- 
chased was incapable of affording much for 
the subsistence of their families. These two 
brothers, being stout, robust, enterprising men. 
agreed to seek their fortunes elsewhere. With 
their families, they left Boston and proceeded 
bv the seashore to New Haven, in Connecticut. 
They did not dispose of their land in Boston 
Neck ; time passes and they died, and it was 
never disposed of. Samuel Ixiught land in 
New Haven and settled with his family, but 
his brother John went to the western part of 
the state to what is now Woodburv or Rox- 
bury." Children of Samuel: John, born 1631. 
Born at Guilford: Mary. November 2, 1659. 
Born at New Haven : Ebenezer, mentioned 
below : Hannah. May 22, 1666 : Jonathan. March 
'i. 1668, died young; Jonathan, April, 1672. 
died voung. 

(H) Ebenezer, son of Samuel Blakeslee, 
was born Jidy 17, 1664, in New Haven, and 



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was one of the earliest settlers of North Haven. 
In his house the Presbyterians held religious 
services until a church was established, and 
later the Episcopalians also held services in his 
mansion. He married Hannah Lupton. Chil- 
dren, born at North Haven : Ebenezer and 
Hannah, twins, born February 4, 1685 ; Sus- 
annah, May 21. 1689; Grace, January i, 1693- 
94: Abraham, December 15, 1695. mentioned 
below; Samuel, 1697; Thomas, 1700; Isaac, 
July 21, 1703. 

(Ill) Abraham, son of Ebenezer Blakeslee, 
was born in North Haven, December 15, 1695. 
He married, March 15, 1721-22, Elizabeth 
Cooper, born February 18, 1694, daughter of 
John Cooper, of New Haven. He died March 
6, 1759; his wife, January 2, 1776. His will 
was dated April, 1759, and proved in the same 
month. Children : John, born February 2, 
1724-25 ; Abraham, October 22. 1727 ; Zophar, 
mentioned below ; Stephen, September 24, 1732 ; 
Jude, March 31, 1735; Joel, December 11, 
1737, died young; Joel, June 30, 1739. 

(I\') Zophar, son of Abraham Ulakeslee, 
was born April 21, 1730, and his estate was 
administered in 1798. 

(\') Zophar (2), son of Zophar ( i ) Blakes- 
lee, married ( first ) Clarinda W'hitmore, and 
(second) Lucinda Taylor. Children by first 
wife: I. Sarah, married Judge Asa Packer, and 
had : Lucy ; Marion ; Mary, married Charles 
Cummings ; Robert, and Harry Packer. 2. A 

daughter, married Melvin, and had 

Gertrude Derwin. 3. Clarinda, married Will- 
iam ISaker. and had a son, Charles Baker. 4. 
Hannah, married Charles Ashley (see Ashley 
\'III). By second wife: 5. Wallace, married 
Tamer Bidle, and had : Emma, Darwin, Will- 
iam, Jesse. 6. Frank, married Bonncll, 

and had : Mary, Sarah, William, Edward. 7. 
Betsey, married Lyman Cogswell. 8. James I., 
married Caroline Ashley, and had : Eugene, 
Alonzo, Asa Packer, Charles Ashley. 9. Lem- 
uel, married Clementine Boiuiell, and had : 
Jessie, Carrie, Robert. 10. Lucinda, married 
.\braham Luce, and had : Mary, Irwin, George 
and one daughter. 11. Eunice, married John 
Crellen, and had : Lucius Pittston : Rollin, re- 
sides in Scranton ; Lizzie ; Caroline, who re- 
sides in White Haven. 



The surname Spaulding or 
SP.\ULDING Spalding appearsquite early 
in England. Some conjec- 
ture that it is a place name, the family deriving 



the name from the town of Spalding, in Lin- 
colnshire, which is said to have been named for 
a spa or spring of mineral water in the market 
place. There have been many distinguished 
men of this name in England, in ancient and 
modern times. Many of the family bore coats- 
of-arms. The Spauldings of America, with the 
exception of a few that have recently emigrated, 
are all descendants from three early settlers, 
one of whom located in Massachusetts, an- 
other in Maryland, and the third in Georgia. 
The latter are descended from the Ashantilly 
Spaldings, Perthshire, Scotland, from Sir Pierce 
Spalding, who surrendered Berwick castle 
to the earl of Murray. The Georgia pioneer, 
James Spalding, son of Captain Thomas, came 
to America in 1760, and married Anna Ler- 
month. 

( I) Edward Spaulding, immigrant ancestor, 
came to New England, between 1630 and 1633, 
and settled in Braintree, Massachusetts, where 
he appears among, the proprietors of the town 
as early as 1640, and was admitted a freeman 
of the colony. May 13, 1640. He removed 
thence to Wenham, and was one of the peti- 
tioners for the town of Chelmsford grant, Octo- 
ber I. 1645, and one of the early settlers of 
that town. He was a leading citizen ; select- 
man in 1654-56-6061 ; surveyor of highways 
in 1663. and juror in 1648. He died February 
26, 1670. His will was dated February 13, 
1666, proved April 5, 1670, bec|ueathing to 
wife Rachel, sons Edward, John and Andrew, 
and daughter Dinah. His wife Margaret died 
.August, 1640, and his second wife Rachel soon 
after he died. Children of Edward and Mar- 
garet Spaulding: John, born about 1633, men- 
tioned below: Edward, about 1635; Grace, died 
in May, 1641. Children of second wife: Ben- 
jamin, born April 7, 1643; Joseph, October 25, 
1646; Dinah, March 14, 1649: .Andrew, No- 
vember 19, 1652. 

(II) John, son of Edward Spaulding, was 
born about 1633, died October 3, 1721. He 
came to Chelmsford with his father, in 1654, 
and was admitted a freeman. March 11, i68g- 
()0. He received numerous grants of land in 
Chelmsford irom time to time. He was a soldier, 
under Captain Manning, in King Philip's war. 
He married. May 18, 1658, Hannah Hale (or 
Heald), of Concord, Massachusetts. She died 
.August 14, 1689. Children: John, mentioned 
below: Eunice, born July 27, 1660; Edward, 
September 16, 1663; Hannah, April 25, 1666: 
Samuel, March 6, 1668; Deborah, November 



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12, 1770: Joseph, October 22, 1673: Timothy, 
about 1676. 

(Ill) John (2), son of John (i) Spauld- 
ing, was born in Chehiisford, February 15, 
1659. He married (first) Ann Ballard, of 
Andover, Massachusetts, September 20, 1681 ; 
(second) Mary Fletcher, widow, November 
18, 1700. He removed with his family to Plain- 
field, Connecticut. Children, born at Chelms- 
ford : Anna, born August 25, 1684; Samuel, 
mentioned below; Jonathan, August 7, 1688; 
Deborah and Eleazer, twins, .A.ugust 12 and 13, 
1690; Dinah, January 24, 1693; William, No- 
vember 14, 1695. 

(I\') Samuel, son of John (2) Spaulding. 
was born at Chelmsford, .\ugust 6, 1686, died 

June 9, 1749. He married Susannah . 

Children, all born at Plainfield, Connecticut : 
John,.\pril 2, 1707 ; Jedediah, mentioned below ; 
.Abigail, ]\Iay 7, 171 1 : Elizabeth, July 16. 1714: 
Susannah, October 19, 1723. 

(V) Jedediah, son of Samuel Spaulding, 
was born at Plainfield, April i, 1709, died July 
8, 1776. He married Mary How, born March 
I. 1 71 5, died March 17, 1794, aged seventy- 
nine, daughter of Samuel How. Children, all 
born in Plainfield: Ezekiel, March 18, 1734: 
Timothy. February 15. 1737; Samuel. March 
28, 1749; Asa, October 6, 1751 : Stephen, .Vu- 
gust 19, 1754; Daniel, mentioned below; Lem- 
uel ; Jedediah ; James. 

(VI) Daniel, son of Jedediah Spaulding, 
was born at Plainfield, December 18. 1757. He 
was a soldier from Connecticut in the revolu- 
tion, in Captain Waterman Cleft's company 
(Sixth), Colonel Samuel Holder Parson's regi- 
ment, at Boston siege, in 1775; also in Lieu- 
tenant Clark's company. Twenty-first Militia, 
joining the army in New York state in 1776. 
He removed from Plainfield to Stephentown, 
New York, in the winter or early spring of 
1792, and lived there two or three years, re- 
moving thence to Coeymans, New York, now 
the town of Westerlo, New York. He mar- 
ried, November 18. 1781. Mercy Hewitt, born 
Novcnilier 14, 1758. in Preston, Connecticut, 
died I-'ebruary 6. 1828, in Westerlo, and he 
died January 4, 1852, in Westerlo. Children: 
Daniel, born .\pril 25, 1784; Mary, June 17, 
I78r),at Stonington, Connecticut, married David 
Foster: William, September 18, 1791, in Plain- 
field: lietscy, Septemlier 21, 1794: Moses, men- 
tionefl lielow. 

(MI) Moses, son of Daniel Spaulding, was 
born in Coeymans, New York, November 22, 



1800, was killed by the cars of the Erie rail- 
road, in the town of Conklin, Broome county. 
New York, near his home, ]May 11, 1854. He 
married Betsey AMllsey, January 2, 1822. Chil- 
dren : Willsey, born December 2y. 1824, died 
January 31, 1863, married Miranda Terboss : 

Amanda, January 7, 1827, married 

Cross; Daniel, born March 21, 1829, married. 
May 5, 1853, Emily I. Conklin ; .\nanias. Janu- 
ary 8, 1832, died IMarch 10, 1841 ; Sally Maria, 
born October 19, 1834, married, September 22, 
1863, Henry Terboss; Emily, born March 21. 
1837, married, December 25, 1855, Ezra P. 
Barton : William A., mentioned below ; Zerah. 
born December 28, 1844, died December 8, 
1862. 

(\'III) William A., son of Moses Spauld- 
ing, was born in Albany county. New York, 
March 11, 1841. He came to Broome county 
with his parents, when a small boy, and was 
educated there in the public schools. For many 
years he was engaged in teaming business. He 
is now retired, living at Binghamton. He 
married, November 22, 1863, Melvina Jaynes, 
daughter of Holloway and Sarah (Rought) 
Jaynes. Children : Renna Z., mentioned below ; 
Elizabeth Jaynes, born February 23, 1872. died 
May II, 1892. 

( IX) Renna Z.. son of William A. Spauld- 
ing. was born at Abington, Luzerne county, 
Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools 
at Factoryville, later Scranton, Pennsylvania, 
and the Binghamton high school. New York. 
The family came to Binghamton in 1877. when 
he was a youth. His first venture was as 
maker of cigars, and later as dealer. After- 
ward he engaged in the bakery business, in 
partnership with T. W. Russell, and the busi- 
ness was incorporated under the name of 
the Russell-Spaulding Company, of which Mr. 
Spaulding was president and ]\Ir. G. W. Rus- 
sell, vice-president. In 1905 they started a 
small shop and from that small beginning the 
business has developed into its present large 
proportion the largest in this line in the city 
of Binghamton, and according to the popula- 
tion the largest in the United States. 

In addition to being successful in business 
Mr. Spaulding has taken an active part in vari- 
ous fraternal organizations, being a member of 
the IVIasonic order, having passed through all 
the various bodies up to and including the 
thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite. He 
is a member of the Improved Order of Red 
Men. Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, 



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tlie Binghamton Club, and the Press Club, and 
also the Chamber of Commerce. He is one of 
the directors in the Merchants' and Adver- 
tisers' Association. He has been a member of 
the Volunteer Firemen's Association for some 
sixteen years ; treasurer of the local company 
seven years. 

He married. December 24, 1885, Jessie F. 
Slatter. Children : Bessie E., born January 6, 
1889, married, June i, 191 1, E. A. Brewer, of 
Cortland; Georgia Lucile, May 17, 1890; Eliz- 
abeth Jaynes, August 7, 1893. 

Sylvester Hayward Slatter, father of Mrs. 
Spaulding, was son of Samuel and Hannah 
(Hayward) Slatter, and was born in Sussex 
county, England, about 1822; married, Decem- 
ber 13, 1854, Emma Drake, at St. Mary's 
Church, Lewishaven, county Kent, England, 
and died December 22, 1878. Children of 
Sylvester Hayward Slatter: i. Alice Aliriam 
Slatter, born February 29, 1856: married, Au- 
gust 15, 1879, Harry Hart, and had: Isaac, 
Miriam, Esther and George Hart. 2. Adelaide, 
born December 24, 1857; married (first), Sep- 
tember 15, 1886, James Shaw; (second) Scott 
Bruce. 3. Sylvester B. Slatter, born July 29, 
1859; married, October 23, 1889, Nancy Brown, 
and had Marjorie, born June 30, 1893. 4. 
Walter Drake Slatter, born July 6, 1861, died 
January 22, 1890. 5. Jessie Florence Slatter, 
born January 17, 1866; married R. Z. Spauld- 
ing (see Spaulding IX). 6. Edna Bertha Slat- 
ter, born March 29, 1867, died March 11, 1869. 
Emma (Drake) Slatter was a daughter of 

William and (Chappel) Drake, and 

was born about 1831, died in September, 1879. 
Her father was a captain in the English mer- 
chant marine. Children of William Drake: 
Sarah, Maria, Benjamin, William, Emma, Re- 
becca and Jane Drake. 



Jacob McKinney, of Scotch 
McKINNEY ancestry, was born April 30, 

1 77 1, in Pennsylvania, and 
died February 4, 1848. He lived in Simsbury, 
Pennsylvania, and removed thence to North- 
umberland, New York, and finally to Bing- 
hamton, New York. He was a man of the 
highest character, and universally respected by 
the people of the community in which he lived. 
He had much to do with the early history of 
Binghamton, and was widely known by his 
title of "Judge" McKinney. In 1808 he was 
sherifif of the county, and, in 1809, county 
clerk. For a time he was partner of General 



Joshua Whitney in the business of general 
merchants. He married, August 8, 1805, Eliza 
Sabin, born November 28, 1780, died May 7, 
1844, daughter of Walter Sabin, mentioned 
elsewhere in this work, a surveyor by pro- 
fession, who came from Norwich, Connecticut, 
to Harpersville, Delaware county. New York, 
prior to 1788, and then removed to Broome 
county. New York, returning eventually to 
Connecticut, where he died, leaving a widow, 
five daughters and one son. Children: i. Ed- 
ward, mentioned below. 2. Ann Eliza, born 
June 17, 1808, died September 2, 1862. 3. 
Charles, born June 17. 1810, died June 8, 1884; 
married, May 27, 1839, Catherine B. Ely. 4. 
Samuel Sweetland, born April i, 1813, died 
June 25, 1837. 5. Sabin, born March 7, 1816; 
married, January 2."], 1847, Elizabeth Sheldon 
Corliss. 6. Silas, born November 2, 1818, died 
April 21, 1888; married (first), February 24, 
1847, Fannie M. Nelson; (second), 1865, Mary 
C. Burt. 7. Amelia, born May 4, 1823, died 
October 25, 1823. 

(II) Edward, son of Jacob McKinney, was 
born August 18, 1806, in Binghamton, New 
York, and died Alay 24, 1849. He married, 
April 21, 1832, Marcia Maria, daughter of John 
and Mehitable ( May ) Phillips, of Coopers- 
town, New York. Children : Frank, died young ; 
E. Paschal, mentioned below ; William, mar- 
ried Mary Eliza Niven. 

(HI) Major E. Paschal McKinney, son of 
Edward McKinney, was born at Phoenix, near 
Cooperstown, New York, February 23, 1838 ; 
married, June 18, 1868, Fanny Lee Fish (see 
Fish). Major McKinney was graduated from 
Yale University in the class of 1861. He im- 
mediately enlisted in the Union army, and was 
commissioned second lieutenant of Company 
G, Sixth New York Cavalry, October 17, 1861, 
and continued in service until the end of the 
civil war ; he was commissioned first lieutenant, 
Company C, January 20, 1863 ; captain and 
commissary of subsistence. United States \'oU 
unteers, May 18, 1864; brevet major, July 7, 
1865, "for efficient and meritorious service." 
Major McKinney passed through the follow- 
ing battles and operations : Siege of Yorktown,. 
Mrginia : battles of Williamsburg and Fair 
Oaks : the Peninsular Campaign : was escort to 
General Keyes, commanding Fourth Corps, 
Army of the Potomac, in battle of Chancellors- 
ville ; brigade commissary on stafif of General 
Thomas C. Devin ; acting adjutant of regi- 
ment, battle of Deep Bottom, Trevillian Sta- 



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tion and the Wilderness, Cavalry Corps, Army 
of the Potomac; battle of Cedar Creek, \'ir- 
ginia, commissary Second Brigade, First Di- 
vision, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac, 
and Sheridan's Cavalry Corps. He was wound- 
ed, August 13, 1864, at Berryville, Virginia, 
in an attack by General Mosby"s troops, while 
serving in the Commissary Department, under 
General Phil Sheridan. At the close of the 
war he returned to Binghamton, and engaged 
in the wholesale grocery business, in partner- 
ship with his uncle, Sabin McKinney, and this 
still continues. He is a member of the Military 
Order of the Loyal Legion, and of W'atrous 
Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of Bing- 
hamton. Children, born at Binghamton: i. 
Edward, born September 26, 1869; married 
Frances Xora Sexton ; children : Frances Ruth, 
March 8, 1900 ; Edward Phillips, May 24, 1902 ; 
Elizabeth, died in infancy; Marcia May, Octo- 
ber 31, 1908, and Georgia Christiane. 2. Marcia 
May, born December 27, 1871 ; married George 
Buell Hollister ; died February 12, 1909. 3. 
Fanny Lee, born November 7, 1876. 4. Carlos 
Tucker, born January 20, 1882, died in infancy. 

(The Fish Line). 

( I ) Nathaniel Fish, the immigrant ancestor, 
was born in England, and settled in Sandwich, 
Massachusetts, before 1640, when he was one 
of the proprietors of that town. His brother 
John was of Lynn and Sandwich, and his 
brother Jonathan of Lynn, Sandwich, and 
finally of Newtown, Long Island, was ancestor 
of the famous New York family to which 
Governor Hamilton Fish belonged. Nathaniel 
married Lydia, daughter of Rev. John Miller. 
and from her come the names Miller in later 
generations. The widow Lydia and her brother, 
John Miller, of Yarmouth, Massachusetts, ad- 
ministered the estate of Nathaniel Fish, who 
engaged before marriage to pay her as much 
as he had with her, £66. The inventory was 
dated March 14, 1693-94. Children : Nathaniel, 
born November 27, 1648 ; John, April 13. 1651 ; 
Thomas, mentioned below ; Samuel, August 
TO, 1668. died and bequeathed £8 to his aged 
father, February 2, 1691-92. 

(H) Thomas, son of Nathaniel Fish, was 
born about 1665. He settled at Duxbury, 
Massachusetts. Children, born at Duxbury: 
I. Thomas, May 22, 1700. 2. Ebcnezer, De- 
cember 13, 1703, died March 2, 1791. 3. Rev. 
Joseph, January 28, 1705-06; graduate of Har- 
vard, 1728: married Rebecca Pabodie (Pea- 



body), great-granddaughter of John Alden, 
December 6, 1732; he died May 26, 1781, and 
she died at Fairfield, October 27, 1783. 4. 
Lydia, born March 24, 1708: married Eliakim 
Willis. 5. Samuel, October i, 1710; married 
Elizabeth Randall. 6. Nathaniel, mentioned 
below. 

(Ill) Nathaniel, son of Thomas Fish, was 
born Ajiril 11, 1713, at Duxbury, Massachu- 
setts. With his brother. Rev. Joseph Fish, he 
settled at Stonington, Connecticut, afterward 
North Stonington. He married Mary Pabodie, 
a descendant of John .\lden (see Peabody). 
and sister of his brother Joseph's wife. Chil- 
dren of Nathaniel and Mary, born at Stoning- 
ton : Aliller. mentioned below ; William. April 
26, 1738: Eliakim, February 2, 1741 ; Joseph, 
March 21. 1744: Lydia. March i, 1746. 

( I\' ) Miller, son of Nathaniel Fish, was 
born in Stonington, October 9, 1737. He set- 
tled in Hartford, and, in 1790, had, according 
to the first federal census, five males over six- 
teen, one under that age, and three females 
in his family. His brother Eliakim had two 
females and no sons in his family at that time. 

(\') Miller (2), son of Mil'ler (i) Fish, 
was born about 1763, probably in New London 
county, Connecticut. He married, July, 1786, 
in Hartford, Connecticut, Huldah Corning, 
who died January 15, 1806. He died Septem- 
ber 16, 1816. He appears to have lived with 
his father until about 1790. Children, born 
at Hartford: Henry, mentioned below; Re- 
becca, September 28, 1790; John, January 15, 
1792, died May 23, 1807; Mary, December 26, 
1793; Frederick, .\ugiist 3, 1798; Edward. 
February 11, 1800; George H., September 5, 
1803; liuldah C, January 3, 1806, died Sep- 
tember, 1853, unmarried. 

(\T) Dr. Henry Fish, .son of Miller (2) 
Fish, was born October 15. 1788, died Decem- 
ber 29, 1830; married Rebecca Birch. He 
graduated from Yale College in i8o5, and 
studied medicine at Dartmouth Medical School, 
from wiiich he received the degrees of M. A. 
and M. n. in 1810. In 1826 he received the 
degree of M. D. from Yale College. He had 
what was then called a country practice in 
New York City, with an office in Deekman 
street. He removed later in life to Salisbury. 
Connecticut, where he resided and practiced 
his profession to the time of his death. Chil- 
dren: I. Henry F., born October 29, 1813; 
married, February 21. 1850, Lucy Wilcox. 2. 
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January i6. 1822; married, October 3. 1843, 
Lydia Ivilburn ; removed to California, and 
died there, Xovember 24, 1850. 4. William 
Tully, born January 13, 1825; married (first), 
December 6, 1849. 5. Mary Elizabeth, born 
June 13, 1826, died unmarried. 

(\'II) Myron HoUey, son of Dr. Henry 
Fish, was born at Salisbury, Connecticut, Sep- 
tember 21, 1820. He was educated in the pub- 
lic schools. In 1854 he went to Illinois and en- 
gaged in business as a merchant and banker, 
at Rock Island, and died there, December 3, 
i860. One of the last acts of his life was to 
vote for Abraham Lincoln for President. He 
married, August 25, 1845, Fanny Scoville Lee, 
born August 11, 1823, daughter of Elisha and 
Almira (Scoville) Lee. Children: Fanny Lee, 
married Major Edward P. McKinney : Eliza- 
beth Julia, burn April 26, 1850, died young; 
Mary, Alarch 24, 1853, died in infancy: Myra 
Ruth, born September 30, 1856. 

(The Coming Line). 

(I) Samuel Corning, the immigrant, was 
born in England, and came to Salem, Massa- 
chusetts, as early as 1638, and was admitted 
a freeman June 2, 1641. An acre of land was 
granted him. in 1641, for sowing hemp. He 
removed to W'enliam, Massachusetts. His wife 
was admitted to the church April 5, 1640. He 
was afterward prominent in Beverly. He was 
on the committee. May 15, 1665. equivalent to 
^he first board of selectmen, though the town 
was not incorporated until 1668. He was 
selectman in 1670-74-75-77, and perhaps in 
other years : collector of taxes in ^176, ensign 
in 1667 and afterward: on a committee to 
settle the boundary with \\'enham in 1(582: 
licensed to keep an ordinary in 1670; assistant 
of the colony in 1670: on various committees 
to lav out land for the town. He had many 
grants in 1671 and afterward. His widow 
Elizabeth survived him. His estate was divided 
among his children Samuel, Elizabeth and Re- 
member, and his wi^'ovv March — , 1694-95. 
Children: Remember, baptized May 3, i()4o; 
Samuel, mentioned below : Eliza, or Elizabeth, 
June 4. 1643. 

(in Samuel (2), son of Samuel ( i ) Corn- 
ing, was baptized March 14, 1640-41, and died 
]\Iay II, 1714, aged seventy-three years. He 
married Hannah P«atchelder. who died Febru- 
arv I-, 1 7 18, aged seventy-two years, daugh- 
ter of John Ratchelder. Children, bom at 
Beverly: Samuel, June i, 1670; John, 1676; 



Joseph, mentionetl below ; Daniel, September 
"17, 1686. 

(HI) Joseph, son of Samuel (2) Corning, 
was born in Beverly, November 19, 1679, and 
died in 17 18. He removed from Beverly to 
Norwich, Connecticut, and settled in the Pres- 
ton Society. He married, January 17, 1702-03, 
Rebecca Woodbury. Children: Hannah, born 
October 6. 1703 ; Joseph, May 22, 1707 ; Josiah, 
mentioned below; Nehemiah, April 25, 1717. 

(I\') Josiah, son of Joseph Corning, was 
born in 1709, and died February 27, i/(x). He 
married, January 10, 1733. Jane Andrews, 
of Norwich, who died March 21, 1803, aged 
eighty-eight years. Children, born in Preston : 
Sarah, October 13, 1734: Ezra, mentioned be- 
low: Daniel, July 18, 1739: Lydia, October 4, 
1741 : Elisha, July 25, 1745; John. November 
2 7,. 1746; Ephraim, died at sea; Polly, or 
Mary, May 22. 1749; Ann, April 22, 1751 ; 
Asa, December 3, 1753, resided at Hartford; 
Ephraim. 1755. 

(V) Ezra, son of Josiah Corning, was born 
at Preston, April 10, 1737. He was the first 
of the family to come from Preston to Hart- 
ford. He was a shoemaker by trade, and kept 
a grocery at Hartford. He lived near the site 
of the Governor Toucey house. He married 
(first) Mary, daughter of Captain Thomas 
Hopkins; (second) Catherine Hall; (third) 
Hannah Benton. Children: Mary, died young; 
Huldali, married. 1786, Miller Fish, of Hart- 
ford (see Fish) : Daniel, married \'ib- 

bert ; Ezra Jr. Children of second wife : George, 
Charles, Catherine, William : Henry, died 
young; Henry, resided at Harford. 

(The Peabody Line). 
The surname Peabody is of ancient English 
origin. The generally accepted explanation of 
the origin of this name is given by the English 
Heraldry office as from a leader of one of the 
tribes, a man of wealth and influence named 
Peabodie, who by his prowess and exertions 
in the battle on the river Douglass aided in ex- 
pelling the northern Savon invaders, and, hav- 
ing in his possession, the trophy taken by his 
ancestors from a Roman officer at the time 
Oueen Boadicea. of Briton, was subdued by 
Emperor Nero, the coat-of-arms was confirm- 
ed with additions by King Arthur. This an- 
cient Roman coat-of-arms is described : Paty 
per fesse nebule, gides. azure, two suns proper 
with a gare. Crest: A scroll. The familv motto 
\^: Munis aciicus coiisciciitia sana. Boadie. 



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wlio led the Britons in the battle with the 
Romans, escaped to the mountains of Wales. 
The word Pea, meaning a hill or mountain, 
was added to the name, and by it the tribe was 
known for centuries. The tribe maintained a 
separate existence for five hundred years. Upon 
the helmet and armor of the Roman officer was 
a Roman badge of honor and distinction, con- 
sisting of two suns proper in bordure. There 
was also a miniature likeness of the Empress 
Poppaea, wife of Nero. The spelliiig Pay- 
body, Paybodie, Pabodie and various other 
forms are found. 

(T) John Peabody, the .American immigrant, 
came to this country from England, about 
1636. and settled in the Plymouth colony. New 
England. His name appears on the list of 
freeman ^larch 7, 1636-37. He had grants of 
land at Duxbury. His will was dated July, 1640, 
and was proved April 27, 1667. He married 
Isabel . Children : i . Thomas, men- 
tioned in the will. 2. Francis, came, in 1635, in 
the ship "Planter"; ancestor of most of the 
Essex county families. 3. W^illiam, mentioned 
below. 4. Annis, married, 1639, John Rowe 
(or Rouse). 

(H) William Peabodie, or Pabodie, son of 
John, was born in England, in 1620, and died 
December 13, 1707, at Little Compton, Rhode 
Island. He married at Plymouth, December 
26, 1644, Elizabeth, daughter of John and 
Priscilla (Mullins) Alden. She was born in 
Plymouth, and died at Little Compton, Rhode 
Island, May 31, 1717. As her parents came 
in the "Mayflower," her descendants are eligi- 
ble to the Society of Mayflower Descendants. 
William Peabody spent his youth in Duxbury. 
In various documents he is called yeoman, 
boatman, planter, and, in 168 1, wheelwright. 
He was also a land surveyor. He bought land 
of John Holland and Hopestill Foster, of Dor- 
chester, November i. 1648, and other lands at 
Alatlapoisett and Sepccan. He removed to 
Little Compton. Rhode Island, about 1684. He 
was deputy to the general court, from Dux- 
bury, in 1654-63-68-71 to 1682. He was ad- 
mitted a freeman June 5, 165 1. His will was 
dated May 13, 1707. Children: John, born 
October 4, 1645; Elizabeth, April 2. 1647; 
Mary, August 7, 1648; Mercy and Martha, 
January 2, 1649; Priscilla, January 15, 1653; 
Sarah. August 7, 1656; Ruth, June 19, 1658; 
Rebecca, October 15, 1660; Hannah, October 
15, 1662: William, November 24, 1664; Lydia, 
April 3, 1667. 



(HI) William (2), son of William (1) 
Peabody, was born at Duxbury, November 24, 
1664. He removed with his father to Little 
Compton, and spent the rest of his days there. 
He was a farmer. He was admitted a free- 
man. May I, 1722, in Massachusetts. He died 
September 17, 1744. His will is dated August 

7, 1743. He married (first) Judith , 

born 1669, died July 26, 1714; (second) Eliz- 
abeth ; (third) Mary (Morgan) Starr. 

Children, born at Little Compton : Elizabeth, 
April 10, 1698; John, February 9, 1700; Will- 
iam, February 21, 1702; Rebecca, February 
29, 1704; Priscilla, March 4, 1706; Judith, 
January 23, 1708; Joseph, July 26, 1710; Mary, 
April 4, 1712, married, November 26, 1736, 
Nathaniel Fish (see Fish) ; Benjamin, Novem- 
ber 25, 1717. 



Lawrence Clinton, the first of 
CLINTON the name in New Haven, Con- 
necticut, was born in 1679. died 
in 1757-58. He settled in what is now North 
Haven, Connecticut, in 1704, and became a 
member of the Center Church, at New Haven, 
that same year, and was one of six men who 
united in forming an Episcopal Society in 
North Haven, in 1723. By occupation he 
was a mason. He married, about 1700, Mary 
Brockett; (second) Elizabeth (Barnes). Chil- 
dren of first wife: Elizabeth, married, January 
20, 1725-26, James Bishop; Abigail; Mary, 
married, October 21, 1725, Isaac Griggs ; Lydia ;' 
Sarah ; Anne, and Phebe. Children of second 
wife: Lawrence, January i, 1737; John, born 
April 9. 1740. 

(I) Shubael Clinton, possibly a brother of 
Lawrence Clinton, probably came with him to 
New Haven from Massachusetts, and was 
doubtless born in England, as early as 1690. 

He married Elizabeth . He joined the 

Episcopal church, at West Haven, and this 
religious affiliation is almost positive proof of 
English birth. Shubael, his wife Elizabeth 
and six children were baptized in the Episcopal 
church, at West Haven, in 1734. Children: 
Elizabeth, married, June, 1737, Eliphalet Ste- 
vens; Mercy; Mary; Shubael, died in the serv- 
ice in the French and Indian war (yi. 105. vol. 
ix. Conn. Hist. Society French and Indian 
War Rolls), he was in the Seventh Company, 
First Regiment, and was reported dead Octo- 
ber 13, 1756, he served under Captain David 
Baldwin, of Mil ford (Jesse, Henry, Joseph 
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Indian wars), in the inventory of his estate an 
item appears, "for service in his country's 
cause. 7 pounds" ; Henry, mentioned below. 

(II) Henry, son of Shubael Clinton, was 
born in 1727, probably at New Haven, and 
died April i, 1814, at Xorth Colebrook, Con- 
necticut. He was a soldier in the French and 
Indian war, inCaptain Joseph Woodrult's com- 
pany, of Milford, and, in 1757, marched to the 
relief of Fort William Henry (p. 220, vol. ix, 
French and Indian War Rolls). In 1790 he 
was living in Litchfield county. He settled 
at Barkhamstead, Connecticut, and afterward 
located at Xew Milford, Litchfield county, 
Connecticut, in 1763. He married, in 1760. at 
Derby, Rachel Pierson. Children: i. Elijah 
P., baptized at Derby, April, 1762, died young. 

2. Henry, 1765, at Xew Milford. 3. Sheldon, 
born in 1767, at Xew Milford. 4. Lyman, 
mentioned below. 5. Clarissa, born 1780, at 
Xew Milford; married, 1799, Ira Andrews. 

(III) Lyman, son of Henry Clinton, was 
born at Xew Milford, April 3, 1771, died April 
30, 1855, at Xewark \alley, Xew York. He 
moved from Colebrook, with his family, to 
Xewark, Tioga county, Xew York, in 1831, 
after visiting Xewark \ alley the previous year 
and buying si.x hundred acres of land, which 
he later shared with his sons. He married 
Mehitable Pease, who died at Xewark Valley, 
September 7, 1834, aged fifty-seven years. Chil- 
dren: I. Lyman, mentioned below. 2. Samuel, 
born .\pril 2, 1800, died December 6, 1858. at 
Ithaca. Xew York ; married Rachel Knapp. 

3. Henry, born September 2, 1802 : married 

^lary . 4. Mehitable. July 24. 1805, 

died September 29, 1868, at Xewark \'alley, 
unmarried. 5. Sheldon, born October 20, 1807 ; 
died June 22, 1876, at W'illiamsport, Pennsyl- 
vania ; married, in June, 1840, Elinor Ogden. 
6. George, born June 14, 1809, died April 17, 
1853. at Xewark \'alley. 7. Eli, June 25, 181 1, 
died August. 1892. 8. Rhoda, born June 12, 
1814, died March 9, 1875: married, in 1837, 
Albert Williams. 

(l\) Lyman (2), son of Lyman (i) Clin- 
ton, was born May 7, 1798, at Barkhamstead, 
Connecticut ; died July 4, 1873, at Xewark 
\'alley. Xew York. He removed with his 
father from Colebrook. Connecticut, to Xew- 
ark \'alley, in 183 1. His farm was a mile and 
a half east of Xewark Valley. By trade he 
was a cooper. In politics he was a Democrat. 
He married. Xovember i, 1821. Miranda Stone, 
born December 29, 1801, at Sharon, Connecti- 



cut, died February i. 1882, at Xewark \'alley, 
Xew York. Children, born at Colebrook and 
Xewark \"alley: i. Royal Wells, mentioned 
below. 2. Elizabeth, bom April 10, 1824, died 
January 26, 1899. 3. Annis M., born April 6, 
1825, died April 20, 1885: married James 
Ayres. 4. Julian, born May 6, 1826. died Sep- 
tember 30, 1857; married Alary Strong. 5. 
Stephen P., born Xovember 7, 1827, died Janu- 
ary 3. 1 88 1. 6. Corinda, born February 8, 
1830, died April 25, 1832. 7. Lucy, born Au- 
gust 27, 1831 ; married Myron Hayford. 8. 
Oliver P., born June 11, 1833. 9. Amaryllis 
P.. born February 23, 1837, died October 30, 
1898: married Edgar Boyce. 10. Gilbert S., 
born June i, 1840. died April 20, 1851. 11. 
Edwin \'., bom May 9, 1841 ; married, No- 
vember 16, 1861, Ellen Plasted. 12. Alvira, 
twin of Edwin \'., died April 20, 1842. 13. 
Alvira M., born October 11, 18+2, died Au- 
gust 7, 1872; married Porter Moore. 

(\ ) Royal Wells, son of Lyman (2) Clin- 
ton, was born at Colebrook, Connecticut, March 
I, 1823, died at Xewark \'alley, March 20, 
1895. He was educated in the public schools, 
and from his youth followed farming for a 
calling. From 1850 to 1865 he lived on a farm 
a mile and a half east of Xewark Valley, and 
from that year to 1895 in the village of Xew- 
ark X'alley. He built the first steam sawmill 
operated in Xew York, and was extensively 
interested in the lumber business for many 
years. In religion he was a Methodist, and 
for forty years was superintendent of the Sun- 
day school. He was a director of the South 
Central Railroad Company from 1868 to 1895, 
and a trustee of the Tioga Xational Bank, of 
Owego. He was generous and public spirited. 
He gave a handsome school building to the 
village of Xewark \'alley. In politics he was 
a Republican. For many years he represented 
the town in the board of supervisors. In 1891 
he represented the district in the state assem- 
bly and served on imjxjrtant committees. He 
married, at Xewark \'alley. May 16. 1844, 
Anna C. Knapp, who was born at Xew Marl- 
borough. Massachusetts, September 7, 1825, 
died at Xewark \"alley, June 13, 1882. Chil- 
dren: I. Ella ]., born .\pril 20. 1845 '■ married. 
Xovember 22, 1865, Morris Elwell, born Au- 
gust 3, 1840. died December 31, 1894: chil- 
dren: i. Cora, born August 20. 1867, married 
(first), October 27, 1886, at Scranton, Penn- 
sylvania, Grant Dilley, married (second), Feb- 
ruary 17, 1898, .\. L. Morrison; ii. Clinton, 



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born April 14, 1869, married, January 30, 
1895, Mary C. Lawrence; iii. Anna C, born 
March 20, 1879, married, September, 1901, 
Harry Miller. 2. Austin W., mentioned below. 

3. .\rthur G., born March 3, 1856; married, 
June 15, 1880, Addie Roy.s. born April 27, 
1858 ; children : Edith K., born August 8, 1881 ; 
Leonard, June 22, 1885; Ruth, May 15, 1892. 

(V'l) Austin W., son of Royal Wells Clin- 
ton, was born March 11, 1850, at Newark 
\'alley, New York. He attended the public 
schools of his native town, the Cazenovia 
Seminary, the Wyoming Seminary, and Cor- 
nell University, from which he was graduated 
in the class of 1872, with the degree of Bach- 
elor of Science. From 1872 to 1874 he taught 
natural science in W^yoming Seminary. He 
then when abroad, and upon his return, in 
1875, he located at Harford, New York, and 
engaged in the lumber business and operated 
a sawmill. In 1882-83 he was supervisor of 
the town of Harford, and for ten years was 
postmaster there. He removed to Galeton, 
F'ennsylvania, where he had lumber interests. 
Since 1895 he has been in the lumber business 
in LSinghamton, and has made his home in that 
city. He is a director of the Tioga National 
Bank, at Owego; of the People's Bank, in 
Binghamton ; treasurer of the Lestershire Lum- 
ber and Box Company, and president of Lester- 
shire Spool and Manufacturing Company. In 
politics he is a Republican, in religion a Meth- 
odist, and is a trustee of Tabernacle Church, 
of Binghamton, New York. 

He married, October 13, 1876, Alice Davis, 
of Scranton, Pennsylvania, daughter of David 
R. Davis. Children: i. Emelius, born July t,. 

1878, at Harford Mills, New York; died May 
28, 1892. 2. Harry Davis, born November 7, 

1879, at Harford; entered Cornell University, 
in the class of 1903 ; was a sergeant in the 
British army, in South .Africa, in 1901 : engi- 
neering in Ecuador, South America, in 1902 ; 
was in Cuba in 1903; at present manager 
of the Leicestershire Spool & Manufacturing 
Company; married, June 15. 1907, Elizabeth 
Newcomb, born April 7, 1886; children: Aus- 
tin W., born August 15, 1908; Harry Davi^ 
Jr., July 16, Kjio. 3. Louis Royal, born July 

4, 1881', at Harford Mills; entered Cornell 
I'niversity, in the class of 1901 ; married, Sep- 
tember 27, 1904, Jessica M. O.strom, born May 
20, 1880: child: Royal Duane, born January 
2, 1910. 4. Helen Bessie, born April m. 1883, 
at Harford; graduate of \'assar College, class 



of 1905. 5. Caroline Mabel, born March ii, 
1889. at Galeton, Pennsylvania: graduate of 
Vassar College, in 191 1. 



The Bliss family is believed to be 
BLISS the same as the Blois family of 
Normandy, gradually modified in 
spelling to Bloys, Blysse, Blisse, and, in Amer- 
ica, to Bliss. The family has been in England, 
however, since the Norman conquest, but is 
not numerous and never appears to have been. 
The coat-of-arms borne by the Bliss and Bloys 
families is the same : Sable, a bend vaire, be- 
tween two fleurs-de-lis or. Crest: A hand 
holding a bundle of arrows. Motto: Semper 
sursaiit. The ancient family tradition repre- 
sents the seat of the Bliss family in the south 
of England, and belonging to the yeomanry, 
though at various times some of the family 
were knighted. 

(I) Thomas' Bliss, progenitor of the .\mer- 
ican family, lived at Belstone parish, Devon- 
shire, England. Little is known of him ex- 
cept that he was a wealthy landowner, and was 
a Puritan, persecuted on account of his faith, 
by civil and religious authorities, under the 
direction of the infamous Archbishop Laud, 
that he was maltreated, impoverished and im- 
prisoned. He was reduced to poverty and his 
lienlth ruined by the persecution of the Church 
of England. He is supposed to have been born 
about i555-(K), and he died about 1636. ^\'hen 
the parliament of 1628 assembled, Puritans or 
Roundheads, as they were called by the Cava- 
liers or Tories, accompanied the members to 
London. Two of the sons of Thomas Bliss, 
Jonathan and Thomas, rode from Devonshire 
on iron-grey horses, and remained for some 
time — long enough, anyhow, for the king's 
officers and spies to mark them, and from that 
time they, with others who had gone on the 
same errand to the capital, were marked for 
destruction. The Bliss brothers were fined a 
thousand pounds for their non-conformity, and 
thrown into prison, where they lay for weeks. 
Even their venerable father was dragged 
through the streets with the greatest indignities. 
On another occasion the officers of the high 
commission seized all their horses and all their 
sheep. exce]:)t one poor ewe. that in its fright 
ran into the house and took refuge under 
a bed. .\t another time the three sons of 
Thomas Bliss, with a dozen Puritans, were led 
through the market place, in Okehampton, 
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heavily. On another occasion Thomas was ar- 
rested anil thrown into prison with his son 
Jonathan, who eventually died from the hard- 
ships and abuse of the churchmen. At an- 
other time the king's officers seized the cattle 
of the family and most of their household 
goods, some of which were highly valued for 
their s^e and beauty, and as heirlooms, having 
been for centuries in the family. In fact, the 
family being so impoverished, by constant per- 
.secution, was unable to pay the fines and secure 
the release of both father and son from prison, 
so the young man remained and the father's 
fine was paid. At Easter the young man re- 
ceived thirty-five lashes. After the father died, 
his widow lived with their daughter, whose 
husband. Sir John Calcliffe, was a communi- 
cant of the Church of England, in good stand- 
ing. The remnant of the estate was divided 
among the three sons, who were advised to 
go to America to escape further persecution. 
Thomas and George feared to wait for Jona- 
than, who was ill in prison, and they left Eng- 
land in the fall of 1635 with their families. 
Thomas, son of Jonathan, and grandson of 
Thomas Bliss, remained in England until his 
father died, and then he also came to Amer- 
ica, settling near his uncle of the same name. 
At various times the sister of the immigrants 
sent to the brothers boxes of shoes, clothing 
and articles that could not be procured in the 
colonies, and it is through her letters, long pre- 
served in the original but now lost, that knowl- 
edge of the family was handed down from 
generation to generation. Children of Thomas : 
Jonathan, died in England, in 1635-36 ; Thomas, 
mentioned below ; Elizabeth, married Sir John 
CalclifTe, of Belstone ; George, born 1591, died 
August 31. 1687, settled in Lynn, Massachu- 
setts, and later at Sandwich, in that province, 
and at Newport, Rhode Island : Mary. 

( II ) Thomas ( 2 ), son of Thomas ( i ) Bliss, 
was born in England, at Belstone, in Devon- 
shire, about 1585. He married in England, 

about 161 2, Margaret . It is believed 

that her name was Margaret Lawrence, and 
that she was born about 1594. She is said, by 
good authority, to have been a good looking 
woman, with a square chin, indicating great 
strength of character. After the death of 
her husband, which took place about 1639, she 
managed the afifairs of the family with great 
prudence and good judgment. She was ener- 
getic, efficient and of great intellectual capacity. 
Her eldest daughter married Robert Chapman. 



of Saybrook, Connecticut, April 29, 1642, and 
settled in Saybrook, where Thomas Bliss Jr. 
also settled, removing to Springfield, Massa- 
chusetts, on account of the malarial fevers 
then prevalent in Connecticut. She sold her 
property in Hartford and purchased a tract a 
mile sciuare in Springfield, in the south part 
of the tow^n, on what is now Main street. 
Margaret Bliss died August 29, 1684. full 
forty years after the death of her husband, 
and nearly fifty after she emigrated. Children : 
Ann, born in England ; Mary, married Joseph 
Parsons ; Thomas ; Nathaniel ; Lawrence ; Sam- 
uel, born 1624; Sarah, born in Boston, in 1635 ; 
Elizabeth, 1637, at P>oston. married Myles 
Morgan, founder of Springfield ; Hannah, born 
at Hartford, in 1639; John, mentioned below. 

(HI) John, son of Thomas (2) Bliss, was 
born at Hartford, Connecticut, in 1640, died 
September 10, 1702. He removed to North- 
ampton, in 1672, and was there through his 
sister's trial for witchcraft. He removed to 
Springfield, in 1685, and soon afterward to 
Longmeadow, where he spent the remainder 
of his life. He married, October 7, 1667, 
Patience Burt, born August 18, 1645, '^''^'^1 
October 25, 1732, daughter of Henry Burt, of 
Springfield. Children : John, born September 
7, 1669; Nathaniel. January 26, 1671 ; Thomas, 
mentioned below; Joseph, 1676; Hannah, No- 
vember 16, 1678: Henry, August 15, 168 1 ; 
Ebenezer. 1683. 

( I\' ) Thomas (3). son of John Bliss, was 
born at Longmeadow, October 29, 1673, died 
there, August 12, 1758. He married, Alay 27, 
1714. Mary, daughter of William and Alar- 
garet Macranny. She was born November 2, 
1690, died March 30, 1761. Children, born 
at Longmeadow: Mary, December 4, 1715; 
Thomas, May 3, 1719; Henry, December 5. 
1722, died young; Henry, mentioned below. 

(V) Henry, son of Thomas (3) Bliss, was 
born August 21, 1726, at Longmeadow; died 
February 7-8, 1761. He was a farmer at Long- 
meadow. He married Ruby Brewer, of Leb- 
anon (published December 22, 1749). The 
widow and children removed, in 1765, to Leb- 
anon, Connecticut, and afterward to Bernards- 
ton, Massachusetts. Children : Thomas, born 
December 7, 1750; Solomon, November 8, 
1751 ; Calvin, mentioned below; Henry, June 
7. V57; Huldah, July 2, 1759. 

( \ I ) Calvin, son of Henry Bliss, was born 
at Coleraine, Massachusetts, May 14, 1754, 
died in October, 1849. He was a farmer at 



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Bernardston, and, about 1800, removed to 
Shoreham, Addison county, \'ermont. He was 
a soldier in the revolution, in Captain Ephraim 
Chapin's company, Colonel Ruggles Wood- 
bury's regiment, August 17, 1777, to Novem- 
ber 29, and is said to have held a commission 
in Washington's army. He married, June 26, 
1777, Ruth, born ^lay 11, 1756-57, daughter of 
Ebenezer and Sarah (Field) Janes, of North- 
field, Vermont. Children: Ruby, born 1778; 
Philomela, June 11, 1782; Huldah ; Solomon, 
mentioned below : Martha, September 15, 1788; 
Ruth, June 10, 1790; Mehitable, May 17, 1792; 
Calvin, May 14, 1794; Henry, March 27, 1796; 
Oliver Brewster, July 6, 1799. 

(VH) Solomon, son of Calvin Bliss, was 
born April 9, 1786, died at Willet, New York, 
June 6, 1 861. He settled at Preston, Chenango 
county, New York. He married, January i, 
1808, Anna Packer, born at Guilford, Ver- 
mont, June 30, 1786, died at Henderson, New 
York, January 14, 1866. Children : Eunice 
P., born July 28, 1809; Amanda P., July 5, 
1813, died young; Lydia J., January 11, 1815 ; 
Ruth, January 11, 1817, died young; Joshua 
P., at Preston, April 29, 1818; Ruth C, July 
17, 1820; Calvin J., mentioned below; Ira C, 
July 27, 1824. 

(Vni) Calvin J., son of Solomon Bliss, 
was born May 22, 1822, at Preston, New York, 
and settled in Willet, Cortland county, New 
York. He married, September 18, 1850, Bet- 
sey A. Landers, of Willet. Children : Charles 
Emery, mentioned below ; Cora L., born Sep- 
tember 9, 1870, at Binghamton, died August 
9, 1871. 

(IX) Charles Emery, son of Calvin J. Bliss, 
was born July 5, 1851, at Willet, and was edu- 
cated in the public schools of Binghamton 
and in the academy. He followed farming for 
a number of years, and then engaged in the 
dry goods business at Binghamton. He was 
deacon of the Baptist church and superin- 
tendent of the Sunday school for many years. 
He died July 30, 1900. He married, June 25, 
1874, Florence, daughter of Hon. George Sher- 
wood (see Sherwood VII). They had one 
son, George C. S., mentioned below. 

(X) George C. S., son of Charles Emery 
Bliss, was born April 18. 1877, at Towanda, 
Pennsylvania. Engaged in wholesale dry goods 
business in I'.inghamton. He married, June 
25, 1902, Katherine Shieder. Children : George 
Emery, born I'ebruary 24, 1904; Robert Leon, 



November 19, 1907; Barbara Ruth. February 
27, 1909. 

(The Sherwood Line). 

(II) Isaac Sherwood, youngest son of 
Thomas (q. v.) and Mary (Fitch) Sherwood, 
was born in 1655, died in 1739. He had land 
grants at Eastchester, New \ork. In 1678 he 
was of Rye, New York, and, in 1687, of West- 
port, Connecticut. He married Elizabeth Jack- 
.son. Children ; Daniel, Isaac, John, David, 
Abigail, Thomas (mentioned below), Eliza- 
beth. 

(III) Thomas, son of Isaac Sherwood, mar- 
ried Eleanor Churchill, of Green Farms, Con- 
necticut. He died at Albany, New York, Au- 
gust 5, 1756, in the French and Indian war, in 
which he was captain of Whitney's company. 
His wife died October i, 1754. 

( IV) John, son of Thomas Sherwood, mar- 
ried, March 24, 1761, Mary Gorliam. Chil- 
dren : Asa, mentioned below ; Levi, born June 
17, 1764; Ellen, 1^'ebruary 23, 1766; Abigail, 
November 18, 1770; John, September 10, 1773; 
Hezekiah, twin of John; Hannah, July 28, 
1776. 

(V) Asa, son of John Sherwood, was born 
July 4, 1762. He was a soldier in the revolu- 
tion, enlisting at Fairfield, Connecticut, Febru- 
ary I, 1777; also in the Second Connecticut 
Regiment, under Colonel Swift, and in the 
I'^ourth Connecticut, under Colonel Meigs. He 
married Molly Phillips, daughter of a New 
York City merchant, who had also a son in 
the continental army, captured by the British 
and confined in one of the prison ships, but 
finally released through the influence of the 
father. Children : Isaac ( mentioned below ) , 
William, .\sa. David, Gorham, John, Sally and 
Nabby. 

(VI) Isaac (2), son of Asa Sherwood, was 
born probably at Guilford, New York; mar- 
ried Amy Budlong, of Cassville, New York. 
Children : Johan, married Frank L'rsley and 
lived at Waverly; Ira, married Mary \\'allace. 
and lived at Genegan, Connecticut : Asa, died 
young; Mary, married William Thomas, and 
lived at Pontusac, Illinois ; Eliza, married 
David Leach, and lived at Webster, Illinois ; 
Stephen, married Clara Babcock, and lived at 
Greene: Sarah, married ^Albert Sprague, and 
lived at Binghamton ; George, mentioned below ; 
Amy. married Myron Stanton, and lived at 
Greene ; Lucy, married Joseph Bixby, and lived 




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at Waverly ; Sophronia, married Thomas Cow- 
an, and lived at Port Crane; Daniel, died in 
infancy; Mandana, married Edwin Adams, 
and lived at Binghamton ; David, married Ros- 
anna Warner, and lived at Greene. 

(\TI) Hon. George Sherwood, son of Isaac 
( 2 ) Sherwood, was born in AIcDonough, Chen- 
ango county, Xew York, January 21, 1821, 
died in liinghamton, New York, May 24, 1903. 
He was a farmer, owning land in Binghamton, 
and a prominent citizen. He represented his 
district in the state assembly, in 1874-75, and 
was active in the temperance movement, both 
as a legislator and a citizen. Before the war 
he was an earnest Abolitionist. He was for 
many years a leading member and local preach- 
er of the First Baptist Church. He was ba])- 
tized by the late Rev. R. A. Washburn into 
the fellowship of the Baptist church, at Gene- 
gantslet Corners ( now extinct or merged into 
other Baptist churches), and later was a mem- 
ber of the church at Upper Lisle. He removed to 
the town of Windsor, Broome county, in 1857, 
and while there was a member of the Baptist 
church in that place. He came to Binghamton 
and became a member of the First Baptist 
Church, where he served faithfully, and was 
an honored and valued member. In 1894, on 
the organization of the Park Avenue Church, 
he became a constituent member of that church. 
In all of his church life, of more than three 
score years, he was an earnest and faithful 
laborer in the Master's service, and was ever 
ready to do any work that he could to pro- 
mote the interest of the church and to advance 
the cause of Christ. To this end he contributed 
lilicrally of his money, time and talents, of 
which he was abundantly resourceful. In him 
his pastor always found a true, wise and help- 
ful counselor, and he was ever ready to render 
any assistance he could. He was a ready and 
an earnest speaker, and very often occu]Med 
the pulpit of the pastorless churches in a very 
acceptable manner. He was kind and good to 
the aged and infirm, and often conducted relig- 
ious services in the homes of those who were 
unable to attend church. He was a man of 
strong and deep convictions, ever battling for 
the right, and yet he always did it in his (|uiet, 
unassuming, yet firm and impressive way. He 
only wanted to know what was right and from 
that he never swerved in the path of duty. His 
Christian home life in the family was delight- 
ful and winning, and his children now look 



back upon it with sweet pleasure and the kind- 
liest remembrances. 

In public life he was most highly respected 
and admired, and his integrity was never ques- 
tioned in any way or manner, for he always 
lived above reproach, and was as consistent, 
firm and true in all his public duties and mat- 
ters entrusted to him as he was in his private 
and church life. He held the office of super- 
visor of his town when the present county 
poor house was erected, and was one of the 
committee in charge of and entrusted with 
that work. He represented the county in the 
state legislature for the years 1873-74-75. There 
was the crowning work of his life, for in that 
body, through his earnest, heroic and inde- 
fatigable efforts, he secured the passage of the 
bill, and the appropriation from the state, that 
gave to us and this section of the state the 
Susquehanna \'alley Home, of this city, for 
orphan and destitute children, one of the worth- 
iest institutions of its kind in the country. 
When otliers said to him he could never suc- 
ceed in accomplishing these measures, he only 
worked the harder and adopted other methods 
and was untiring in his efl:'orts to carry out his 
long cherished plans, and he left no stone un- 
turned, but from the governor and the leading 
politicians of both parties, down to the in- 
dividual members, he continued his persistent 
and unceasing efforts until they were crowned 
with abundant success. In this matter, as in 
all others he was interested in, he had the 
respect and confidence of the leading men of 
the legislature. They felt that he was right 
and they admired his perseverance, his cour- 
age, his energy and his integrity of character. 
He succeeded in his efforts and was one of the 
trustees of the home from that time until his 
death. He was a recognized leader in the tem- 
perance cause and was much sought for to ad- 
dress the people upon this subject far and 
wide. He was always very earnest, enter- 
taining and interesting in his addresses, and 
it was a pleasure to listen to him. 

He married, April 8, 1849. Mary Ann Jef- 
fords, born February 17, 1828, died November 
28, 1906, daughter of Allen Cleveland and 
Ann Eliza ( Robinson ) Jeffords. Allen C. Jef- 
fords was a son of Amasa Jeffords, who was 
born in 1748, at Woodstock, Connecticut, and 
married (first) Sally Cleveland, and (second) 
Sarah Clifford. John Jeffords, father of Amasa, 
was a soldier at the battle of Bunker Hill, in 



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1775, and his father was killed in the French 
and Indian war. George Sherwood died May 
24, 1903. His children : Florence, married, 
June 25, 1874. Charles Emery Bliss (see Bliss 
IX); Viola, died July i, 1903; Carl G., who 
resides in South Dakota, in the political affairs 
of which state he had taken an active part, 
having been a state senator and a member of 
the first constitutional convention, married, 
February 10, 1885, Nellie Fountain, children: 
George Fountain, Harry Allen (deceased), 
Mary Carlton and Dolly Viola: William J., 
married, October 31, 1902, lona May Bills, 
and had: Nellie, Mason William (deceased) 
and Harold : Grace Eliza, mentioneil below. 

(VIII) Grace Eliza, daughter of Hon. 
George Sherwood, was born in P>inghamton, 
married Charles F. Parker, born September 1 1 , 
1 87 1 (see Parker III). 

(The Parker Line). 

(I) Asa Parker, first of the family in New 
York state, came thither from the village of 
Green Alountain, \'ermont, antl settled at Port 
Crane, near Binghamton. He married Mary 
Wilson. Children : Polly, married Matthew 
Carroll : Caroline, married Joel Scott : Eliza, 
married Hervey Cronk ; Flenry, married (first) 
Olive Prentice, (second) Sarah Scoville ; Mor- 
gan; Obadiah, mentioned below; Emily, mar- 
ried Norman Bacon ; Daniel. 

(II) Obadiah, son of Asa Parker, was born 
June 23, 1824. died March 10, 1906. He mar- 
ried, June 18, 1859, Candace White. Children: 
Delpliinc, married, December 23, 1878, Ed- 
ward I lopkins, and had Elizalieth, Hattie, 
Freeman, Amelia, Edward and George; Ida 
May, born February 4, 1865, married, Febru- 
ary 15, t888, Emory Wells; Carrie J., April 
3, 1866, married, November 17, 1905, .\very 
Dart: George H., October 3, 1867, married, 
November 16, 1892. Emma Pond, and had 
Florence and Howard ; Edith May ; Frank, 
born February 20, 1869; Charles F., mention- 
ed below. 

(III) Charles F., son of (Jbadiah Parker, 
was born September i [, 1871 ; married, Sep- 
tember I, 1898, Grace Eliza, daughter of ( Jeorge 
and Mary Ann Sherwood (see Sherwood III). 
Children: Sherwood, born May 30, 1902; Car! 
Sherwood, November 14, 1905. 

(The Rowland Line). 

(I) John Ilowland, the "Mayflower" ances- 
tor, was born in England, in 1593. and came in 



the "Mayflower," with the first company of 
Pilgrims, in 1620. 

(II) Desire Howland, daughter of John 
Howland, was born at Plymouth, in 1623. She 
married Captain John (iorbam, of Briersfield, 
England, who won fame in King Philip's war, 
and the town of Gorham, Maine, named for 
him, has erected a monument in his memory. 

(III) Jabez Gorham, son of John and De- 
sire (Howland) Gorham, married Hannah 
(Sturges) Gray, a widow, and had a son Jo- 
seph, mentioned below. 

( I\' ) Joseph, son of Jabez (jorham, was 
born at Bristol, Rhode Island, August 22, 1692, 
died January 11, 1773. He married, January 
13, 1726, Deborah Barlow, born at Fairfield, 
Connecticut, May 3, 1705, and had a daugh- 
ter Mary who married, March 24, 1761, John 
Sherwood (see Sherwood I\'). 



The MacDonalds of Bing- 
AL\cDONALD hamton, New York, de- 
scend from the famous 
Scotch clan of that name, who, both numerous 
and powerful, have figured so ])rominently in 
the history of Scotland, known as the Flora 
MacDonald clan. The maternal line traces to the 
Alarquis de Boquet, of France, a Huguenot, 
who escaped from the King's palace on the 
night of the "Massacre of St. Bartholomew," 
and found asylum in England, where he mar- 
ried and had a daughter. She married a nephew 
of Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir William Arnold. The 
first generation of MacDonalds in America be- 
gins with Thomas AlacDonald, of Scotland, 
who came to .America with his family, settling 
in IIoboken,later at Guttenburg, Hudson coun- 
ty. New Jersey, where he purchased land, 
erected a home and cultivated the soil until his 
death. 

( II ) Thomas ( 2), son of Thomas ( I ) Mac- 
Donald, was born in Scotland, about the year 
I7-|0. He came to America with his parents, 
settled with them on the Guttenburg, New 
Jersey, farm which he afterward owned. He 
followed the occupation of a farmer, supple- 
menting this by that of a fisherman of the 
neighboring l)ays and rivers, then most bounti- 
fully stocked with the finest of food fish. The 
produce raised on the farm found ready sale 
in New York City, being transported across 
the Hudson in small boats or barges. He mar- 
ried and among his children was Thomas, see 
forward. 

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MacDonald, was born on the homestead farm 
in Guttenburg, Hudson county. New Jersey, 
about 1770. He followed the occupations of 
farmer and fisherman, and passed a life 
similar to that of his father, cultivating his 
fields and in the season drawing his nets, and 
finding a good market for all he could produce 

in the city across the river. He married 

. Children: i. Thomas (4), married 

Jennie English. 2. Jeremiah, of further men- 
tion. 3. James, married Elizabeth • — . 4. 

Sarah Maria, married James Demorcst Mc- 
Donald. 5. Rudolphus, married Sarah .\nn 
Gardner. 6. David, married Mary Sedore. 

(I\') Jeremiah, son of Thomas (3) Mac- 
Donald, was born in Guttenburg, Hudson coun- 
ty. New Jersey, December 19, 1807, died July 
26, 1880. He was educated in the town schools, 
and forsaking the farm and bays learned the 
trade of cabinet-maker with Henry Lee, of 
New York City, .\fter completing his years 
of a]5])renticeship. he began as a journeyman 
with Joseph Bradley, at 317 Pearl street. New 
York City. They sold out their business to 
Creore & Rogers, who were succeeded by James 
T. I'ratt & Company, they in turn selling out 
to Swaim & Company, with whom Jeremiah 
MacDonald was connected for many years, 
continuing until within a few years of his de- 
cease. During all the firm changes mentioned, 
he remained with each succeeding firm, work- 
ing for forty-seven years at his trade in the 
same building, at the same number, 317 Pearl 
street. His residence was in New York City, 
at 129 East Fiftieth street, between Third and 
Lexington avenues (now No. 151). He was a 
member of the P)a])tist church; a Democrat in 
politics, and a member of the Tammany Hall 
organization from its foundation. He mar- 
ried (first). February 16. 1832, Susan Whit- 
church, born .\pril i. 1812. died ]\Iay 7. 1848; 
married (second). May i, 1852, Rebecca Ann 
Howland, born July 7. 1817. died January 7, 
1904 (see Howland). Children by first wife: 
I. Thomas Whitchurch, born November 20, 
1832. died August 11. 1836. 2. Charles H., 
born June 2. 1835. died June 16. 1863, prob- 
ably at Paton Rouge. Louisiana, while serving 
as a soldier in the Union army, during the 
civil war. 3. Thomas Whitchurch (2), born 
October 15. 1839, died August 7, 1847. Child 
by second wife: 4. Jeremiah (2). of further 
mention. 

(Y) Dr. Jeremiah (2) MacDonald, son of 
Jeremiah (i) and Rebecca Ann (Howland) 



MacDonald, was born in New York City, 129 
East Fiftieth street, May 22, 1859. He was 
eihicated in the city schools, public and private, 
and as a child and youth became deeply inter- 
ested in the "Occult Science." When a lad of 
six years he says "I remember my grand- 
mother Howland telling hair-raising stories 
(she died at age of ninety-si.x years), and the 
next day I would tell them over again to the 
children at school ( a small private school kept 
bv Miss Rose Failing). IJieard so much about 
visions, apparitions and clairvoyance that at 
about fourteen years of age I also began to 
'see things' and foretell things that w'ould hap- 
pen, until I became the wonder of the neigh- 
borhood and began to apply myself diligently 
to the study of everything in that line, devot- 
ing especial attention to astronomy, geography, 
mathematics, clairvoyance, medicine, and every 
species of mystery." Notwithstanding this 
early predilection for the "my.sterious," he 
began life as a real estate agent in New York 
City, and continued for several years with 
offices at 171 Broadway. At last he decided 
to follow his natural inclinations and entered 
Chicago Medical College, where he was gradu- 
ated M. D. in 1893. He located in Detroit, 
Michigan, later removing to Middletown. New 
York, removing to Binghamton, New York, 
in 1803, where he continued the practice of 
medicine, later engaging in the manufacture 
and sale of a proprietary medicine, known as 
Atlas Compound, which he still continues 
(191 1 ). During these years he continued his 
investigation, giving especial attention to astro- 
logy and clairvoyance ; traveling as he says 
"Jvlany thousands of miles; accumulated thou- 
sands of rare books: cast more than one hun- 
drel thousand nativities : treated another one 
hundred thousand sick and ailing people ; cheer- 
ed the discouraged and foretold peril and dan- 
ger." He is the author of a work on astrology, 
published in 1904. He is a graduate of the 
Chicago School of Psychology ; and of the 
American Academy of Physics and Medical 
College : member of St. Luke's Hospital. Niles, 
Michigan ; Surgeon's .American College of 
Science. Philadelphia. Pennsylvania, and the 
New York Osteopathic Physicians' Society. 

He married. June 8. 1881. .\lida AlacDonald 
(a third cousin), born March i, 1839. daugh- 
ter of Abraham and Sarah Ellen MacDonald. 
Children: i. Reuben Howland. born March 
14, 1882: marrietl, October 27, 1910, Lillian, 
daughter of Nathaniel Livermore. 2. Arthur 



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Cleveland, burn August 28, 1884; married, 
September 12, 1906, Fanny M. Noyes, of Port 
Dickinson, New York. 3. Elsie Dinsmore. 
born May 6, 1887, died July 19, 1888. 4. Edgar 
Coe, born March i, 1889, died February, 1890. 

(The Howland Line). 

Rebecca Ann (Howland) MacDonald, mother 
of Dr. Jeremiah MacDonald, is a descendant 
of the Marquis de Boquet, born in France, in 
1542. He was apposed to the Duke of Guise, 
who ruled the kingdom under King Francis II., 
and to whom the Protestants attributed all 
their calamities. The Duke owed his ascend- 
ency in the kingdom through the marriage of 
his niece Mary, Queen of Scots, with the young 
King, Francis II., who was oidy fifteen years 
of age when married, and died one year after 
ascending the throne. The Huguenots were 
oath-bound Protestants, who were much dread- 
ed by the Duke of Guise on accoimt of their 
views on personal freedom. When F"rancis 11. 
died, the Queen Alother, Catherine de Medici, 
gave tolerance to free worship throughout 
France. The Duke rashly infringed this ordi- 
nance by disturbing a Huguenot congregation, 
which had assembled for worship. The Duke's 
suite attacked the ])lace, stones were thrown 
and swords drawn. The Duke was wounded 
and forty-nine of the Huguenots slain. This 
was in 1562. at Rouen, and then followed the 
frightful religious war, that arrayed family 
against family, noble against noble, town 
against town, until 1572, when Catherine open- 
ed her court to the Huguenots. On August 
23, 1572, the King, Charles IX., gave orders, 
"Kill all, let none be left to reproach me." At 
midnight, on the eve of St. Bartholomew's 
Day, August 24, 1572, while the palace was fill- 
ed with Iluguenot gentlemen, who were attend- 
ant on the King of Xavarre, the great bell of 
St. Germain rang out as a signal and the 
slaughter began in the ])alace. The King, mad- 
dened by horror, killed his nurse and surgeon 
and would have killed the Spanish King of 
Navarre, if his (Charles IX.) wife, Elizabeth 
of Austria, had not stepped between them. 
The Mar(|uis of riO(|uet escaped from the 
l)alace. fled from Paris, reached the coast in 
safety and continued his flight to England. 
There he married an English lady of title, who, 
in 15^4. hore liim a daughter, who. in 1616, 
married Sir William .\rnold. a nejihcw of Sir 
Walter Ralcigli. In \(^\<) .Sir William .Arnold 
sailed for .\merica. cm -i vessel that sailed a 



few weeks after the "Mayflower"; was wreck- 
ed on the Connecticut coast, and was rescued 
from the waves by a man named Abijah 
Brown. Sir William in his gratitude declared 
that if ever he had a child born it should be 
called Abijah. In 1624 a daughter was born 
whom he called Abijah; she was later of Am- 
sterdam, Holland, where, in 1659, she married 
Jacob Van Zanett. In 1661 they had a daugh- 
ter born to whom was also given the name 
Abijah.- In 1686 she married Jacob Arden. 
In 1702 their daughter, Boquet Arden, was 
born, who. in 1735, married Jacob Beekman. 
Their daughter Rebecca, born 1742, married 
Henry Wilt. Their daughter, Rebecca Wilt, 
was born March 22, 1784, married Henry How- 
land, a descendant of the English family 
through the Xew York City branch. Their 
daughter, Rebecca Ann, married Jeremiah 
MacDonald, and they are the parents of Dr. 
leremiah AlacDonald, of P.inghamton, New 
York. 



The Sessions family liad its 

SESSIONS origin in Wantage, Berkshire, 
England. There is at present 
but one family of the name to be found in 
England, in the county of Gloucester. The 
head of this family is, or was lately, Hon. J. 
Sessions, who was mayor of the town of 
(Gloucester, at the age of eighty years. His 
three sons were associated with him in a large 
manufacturing business in both Gloucester and 
Cardiff (Wales), under the firm name of J. 
Sessions & Sons. There is also a daughter 
who is actively engaged in benevolent and re- 
formatory work. The mother established and 
built a "Home for the Fallen," which is man- 
aged by members of the family. The entire 
family belongs to the "Society of Friends." 
and Frederick Sessions, besides being at the 
head of a large business, gives his entire time, 
without salary, to reformatory work, lecturing 
and organizing Sunday schools, temperance 
and other beneficient societies. 

The crest of the English Sessions family is 
a griffin's head. This mythological creature 
was sacred to the sun, and according to tradi-^ 
tiou. kept guard over hidden treasure. 

{ I ) Samuel Sessions, immigrant ancestor, 
came to this country in 1630. He had a son 
.Alexander, mentioned below. 

(II) .\le.\ander, son of Samuel Sessions, 
was born in ■'^45. and lived in Andover, Massa- 
chusetts, in i66(;, at the age of twenty-four 



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years, according to a deposition made by him, 
January 27, 1669. He married, April 24, 1672, 
Elizabeth, daughter of John Spofford, of Row- 
ley, Massachusetts. After his death, his wife 
inarried a Mr. Low. Both Alexander Sessions 
and his wife were members of the church in 
Andover, and continued so until their death. 
He was freeman there, in 1677, ^n<^' was also 
one of the proprietors of the town, as appears 
by a vote. He died there. February 26, 1689- 
90. His will was admitted to probate, March 
8, 1696-97, and inventoried at one hundred and 
nineteen pounds. His widow was named as 
administratrix. His name was originally s]iell- 
cd "Sessins," or "Sutchins." Children : John, 
born October 4, 1674 ; Alexander, October 4, 
1676; Timothy, .April 14, 1678; Samuel, March 
8, 1680, drowned at Bosford, 1750; Kathaniel, 
August 8. 1681, mentioned below; Josiali, May 
2, 1684; Josejih, March 28, 1686. 

(HI) Nathaniel, son of Alexander Sessions, 
was born August 8, 1681, and was one of the 
first settlers of Pomfret, Connecticut. He was 
also a large proprietor of Union. Coimecticut. 
and bought there, June 12, 1721, of William 
McCoy, one-thirteenth of the town, but never 
lived there. He sold it to his son Darius, in 

January. 1742. He married Joanna , 

and died at I'omfret, in 1771. Children: Eliz- 
abeth, born December 15, 1707: Nathaniel, 
October 22, 1709: John, August 18, 171 1; 
Alexander, October 4, I7i3,at Warren, Massa- 
chusetts ; .'\masa,i7i5 : Darius. August 11, 1717. 
graduated from Yale College, 1737, lieutenant- 
governor of colony of Rhode Island, 1745; 
Simeon, February 11, 1720; .Abner, March 4, 
1722, mentioned below ; Mary, August 4, 1724; 
.•\bijah, February i, 1726, mentioned below; 
Joanna, January 19, 1729. 

(IV) Abner, son of Nathaniel Sessions, was 
born Alarch 4, 1722. He settled in Union, 
Connecticut. He was town clerk from 1747 
until 1780; was captain of the militia and 
justice of the peace some thirty years: was 
active in the struggle for independence and was 
for many years deacon of the Congregational 
church. He died February, 1 781. He mar- 
ried Mary Wyman, widow of Ebenezer Wy- 
man. first Congregational minister of Union. 
C'hildren : Ebenezer, mentioned bekiw ; Silence, 
born 1749: Mary, 1751. 

(V) Ebenezer, son of Abner Sessions, was 
born at I'nion, March 6, 1748. He married. 
May 13, 1769, Huldah Hayward, of Ashford, 
Connecticut. Children : Anna, married Cap- 



tain Robert Paul, and their daughter Alarcia 
married Lyman Sessions (see Sessions VI); 
Abner ; Ebenezer. 

{I\') Abijah, son of Nathaniel Sessions, 
was born February i, 1726, in I'omfret. He 
was a farmer by occujiation, and, aljout 1752, 
removed to Union, Tolland county, Connecti- 
cut. He had a gift deed of two hundred and 
ninety acres of land there, March 4, 1750. 
from his father. He married, about 1752, Jo- 
anna, daughter of Isaac Dana, of Pomfret, 
who died March 20, 1797. He is said to have 
been a large, strongly-built man, and died x\pril 
12, 1753, in consequence of over-exertion and 
fatigue, caused by participation in a wolf hunt. 
His widow never married and was rendered 
partly insane by grief over his death. Child. 
Abijah, mentioned below. 

(V) Abijah (2), son of Abijah (i) Ses- 
sions, was born June 2. 1751. He passed his 
early life in Pomfret, but went back to Union 
when twenty-one years of age. He was a 
soldier in the revolution ; served first as a per- 
sonal attendant of General Israel Putnam and 
afterwards as ensign. He served through three 
campaigns ; was at Cambridge and at the battle 
of White Plains, where he was slightly wound- 
ed. After the war he settled in Union, and 
was known as Colonel Sessions, from holding 
that office in the state militia for a long time. 
He was a selectman for many years, justice 
of the peace thirty years, and fdso in the state 
legislature for many years. He died July 6, 
1834. He married Hannah May, of Holland, 
Massachusetts, February 8, 1778. She was 
horn February 17. 1754, died April 14, 1845, 
daughter of Nehemiah IMay, of Holland. Chil- 
dren : William Pitt, born February 6, 1779; 
Sarah W., September 5, 1780: Louisa, March 
10, 1782; Joanna. February 11, 1784; Hannah, 
December ii, 1789; Abijah, .'\pril 12, 1791 ; 
Lyman, .\pril 7, 1793, mentioned below ; Olive, 

November 11, 1794; Mary, married 

t)ana, same family as Richard H. and Charles 
.\. Dana ; they had two children, Jared and 
.Alexander. 

(\T) Lyman, son of .Abijah (2) Sessions, 
was born April 7. 1793. He was justice of 
the ]3eace, selectman and member of the legis- 
lature. He was a farmer, merchant and manu- 
facturer by occupation. He married, January 
16, 1823, Alarcia, daughter of Captain Robert 
and Anna (Sessions) Paul. Children: i. Jo- 
anna Dana, born December i. 1826, died June 
TO, 1875. 2. Marcia Paul, May 13, 1831, died 



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1890; married Closson AI. Stone; children: 
Fred ; Helen, deceased ; Grace ; May, and Fran- 
ces M. 3. Oilman Lyman, mentioned below. 

(VII) Oilman Lyman, son of Lyman Ses- 
sions, was born at \\'oodstock, Connecticut, 
February 14, 1833, died July 8, 1900. His early 
life was spent upon the farm of his father at 
W'oodstock, in the town of Union, Connecti- 
cut, and his early education was in the district 
schools. His studies preparatory for college 
were at Alonson Academy and W'illiston Semi- 
nary, Massachusetts. He entered Dartmouth 
College in the year 1849, and was graduated 
in 1853. After leaving college he taught school 
for several terms in New England, and was 
for a short time an instructor in Latin and 
Oreek at a boys" school in \N'ashington, D. C. 
In the year 1855 he located at Binghamton. 
Broome county, New York, and engaged in 
the study of law in the office of Hon. Daniel 
F. Dickinson, and was admitted to practice as 
an attorney and counselor in the state of New 
York, at a general term of the supreme court, 
held at the village of Delhi, Delaware county, 
in July, 1856, and soon thereafter he com- 
menced the practice of his profession at Bing- 
hamton. He was a law partner of George 
Bartlett, who died in 1870, and after that date 
became a partner of Daniel S. Richards, which 
partnership continued for a period of about 
seven years. 

During a period of several years, commenc- 
ing about 1862, Mr. Sessions' health became 
impaired and he spent several years in change 
and travel, visiting the princijjal cities and 
health resorts of Europe, and, in about the 
year 1869, he returned to Binghamton, re- 
sumed his practice and was busily engaged as 
a practicing attorney for a period of more 
than twenty-five years from that time. He 
attained honor and distinction in his profession 
and gave much attention to literary matters, 
writing many ])apers on public and historical 
(lucstions and doing considerable in poetry and 
verse. His private library of general works 
was one of the most complete in the city of 
Binghamton. 

In ])(ilitics he maintained his independence, 
although usually voting with the Republican 
party. He never sought public office, yet was 
keenly interested in public affairs. During 
the latter years of his practice, partly on ac- 
count of lack of perfect health and partly on 
count of |)referment, he gave up the practice 
of active litigation for the more pleasant branch 



of a lawyer's business, such as examination of 
titles, general consultation, probate court busi- 
ness and the management of large trusts and 
estates. For a period of many years he was 
a trustee and vice-president of the Bingham- 
ton Savings Bank and its general counsel ; also 
a director and officer of the Susijuehanna \'al- 
ley Bank, which offices he held up to the time 
of his death. 

On November 22, 1866, he married Eliza 
Bartlett, born July 20, 1835, died October 16, 
1904, daughter of Robert S. and Dorcas ]\I. 
Bartlett. Dorcas M. Bartlett was born April 
14, 1812, daughter of Colonel Loring Bart- 
lett and granddaughter of Sylvanus Bartlett. 
The children of Robert S. and Dorcas M. 
Bartlett were Eliza, mentioned above ; John 
Stephens Bartlett, born December 15, 1838; 
James Henry Bartlett, born February 15, 1841 ; 
George Loring Bartlett, born November 15, 
1852; Oeorgianna Bartlett, twin sister of 
George Loring, married Oliver W. Sears. 

(VIII) George Dana, son of Oilman Lyman 
Sessions, was born in Binghamton, New York. 
May 6, 1877. He attended the public schools 
there and graduated from the Binghamton high 
school in 1895. He entered Hamilton College 
in the fall of that year, and was graduated in 
the class of 1899. After completing his college 
course he studied law in his father's office and 
in the law office of Theodore R. Tutliill. at 
Binghamton, and also in the New York Law 
School. He was admitttd to the bar, Novem- 
ber 20, 1901, and immediately thereafter began 
the practice of his profession in Binghamton. 
In politics he is a Republican. He is a mem- 
ber of several clubs, an officer of the Bingham- 
ton Country Club, and of Otseningo Lodge, 
Free and Accepted Masons, at Binghamton. 

He married, June 27, 1903, Margaret Emma, 
daughter of Mrs. Margaret Clark, of Tomp- 
kinsville. Statcn Island, New York. They have 
two children, Oilman Lyman Sessions and 
Margaret Clark Sessions, both born on July 6, 
1904. Mr. Sessions still resides in the home 
built by his father, in 1876, on Court street, in 
Binghamton, and his children were born in the 
same, house in which he was. 



Among the representative fam- 
Cl'RTISS ilies of Central New York. 

whose members, by dint of per- 
severance and energy have risen to a com- 
manding place in the professional world, should 
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by the eminent United States district attorney, 
and compiler of the great work, "'Protection 
and Prosperity." George B. Curtis's, of Bing- 
hamton, Xew ^'ork, who was born at Mt. 
-Morris, Livingston connty, Xew York. Sep- 
tember 1 6, 1852. 

lie traces his Hne through George to Rozell 
Curtiss. who was the son of Samuel Curtiss, 
an English sea captain, and the founder of the 
family in this country. The early history of 
the different branches of this family is too 
well known to need repetition here : suffice to 
say that among them was William Curtiss. 
who came to Xew England in the ship "Lion," 
in 1632. and settled in Boston, later in Rox- 
bury, Massachusetts; Richard, William and 
John, who settled in Scituate. Massachusetts, 
in 1643. and a number of others who were 
among the pioneer families of the Xew World. 

(I) Rozell Curtiss, mentioned above as the 
son of Samuel, was born about 1785, in Royal- 
ton. \'ermont. He later removed to Livings- 
ton county, Xew York, to the town of Mt. 
]\rorris. and took a prominent part in the af- 
fairs of that section. He was a farmer, and. 
as were many of the early pioneers who clear- 
ed the new country, also engaged to quite an 
extent in lumbering. A man of a considerable 
intelligence, with a knowledge of surveying, 
which profession he followed to a certain ex- 
tent, he also took a prominent part in the mili- 
tary aft'airs of the state, rising through the 
various ranks to that of brigadier-general, 
which office he held for some years. He spent 
his life, after coming to New York state, in 
Mt. Morris, where he died and is buried. 

He married Rachel French, born in New 
Hampshire, in 1802, died at Marengo, Illinois, 
in 1892. When a child of twelve years she 
travelled from New Hampshire to Livingston 
county. New York, with her brother, making 
the journey on horseback in the middle of win- 
ter. Children: i. George, of further mention. 2. 
John, married Sophrona Marsh ; children : 
Olive. Frank, John. May, Samuel and Irene. 
3. Frank S., attended .\ntioch College. Yellow 
Springs, Ohio, and Oberlin College, graduating 
at the latter. He settled in Chicago, where 
he was admitted to the bar in 1860-61. He 
enlisted in the Union army, as first lieutenant 
of the Fifteenth Illinois Volunteer Regiment, 
and. after serving about a year, resigned and 
reenlisted in the One Hundred and Twenty- 
seventh Regiment, Illinois Volunteers, of which 



he became major and later colonel, and was 
in command when the war closed. After the 
war he settled in St. Louis, Missouri, where 
he was attorney for the Missouri Pacific Rail- 
road until his death, in 1898. He married 
Mattie Pope, of Ohio. Children: Leroy and 
Lillian. 4. Ira R.. attended college at .\ntioch, 
Ohio, and L'nion (Xew York) College, grad- 
uating from the latter in 1859 or i860. He 
located at Marengo, Illinois, where he became 
a well-known lawyer and banker, and still re- 
sides. He married Jose])hine Dayton, no issue. 
(Ill) George, son of Rozell and Rachel 
(French) Curtiss, was born about 1819; died 
at Vicksburg, Mississippi, July 2, 1863. He 
followed agricultural pursuits, removing to 
Illinois in 1856. settling in McHenry county, 
near Marengo, where he remained until 1861, 
when he enlisted in the L'nion army, serving 
in the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Regi- 
ment, Illinois \'olunteer Infantry. This regi- 
ment formed a part of the army under Gen- 
eral Grant, at Vicksburg. He died shortly be- 
fore the surrender of General Pemberton. and 
was buried at the foot of a great cottonwood 
tree, standing near the river bank. In 1867 
Colonel Frank S. Curtiss visited the spot to 
remove the remains to a northern burying- 
ground, but found the river had encroached 
and carried away the tree and immediate vicin- 
ity. George Curtiss married Huldah Hart 
Boughton. daughter of Harry and Elizabeth 
(Gordon) Boughton ('according to Boughton 
genealogy) (data says Huldah Hart Boughton. 
daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Hart) 
Boughton). Huldah Boughton was the daugh- 
ter of Harry, son of Hezekiah (2), son of 
Hezekiah ( i), son of Eleazer, son of John (2) 
and Sarah (Greggorie) Boughton. John (2) 
was the third child of John Boughton (i). son 
(as is supposed) of Count Xicholas Boughton. 
John (i) was a Huguenot, who fled from 
France to England, thence to .America, landing 
at Boston. Massachusetts, in December, 1635, 
from the barque ".\ssurance." He married 
(first) Joan Turney, lived in Boston and 
Watertown, Massachusetts; was an early set- 
tler at Hartford and Xorwalk, Connecticut; 
representative to the general court of Connecti- 
cut, and served in many responsible capacities 
at Xorwalk, where his wife died. He married 
(second), January i, 1656, Abigail Marvin: 
married (third). 1673, Mrs. Mary Stevenson. 
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Hiiklali ( Boughton) Curtiss died on the farm, 
at Marengo. Illinois, in 1873. having survived 
her husband ten years. 

Children: i. William Henry, born 1849, died 
at Marengo, Illinois. December, 1905 : he was 
a veterinary surgeon. 2. George Boughton, of 
further mention. 3. Rozell Morgan, born 1856, 
studied medicine, and is a practicing physician 
of Marengo, Illinois: married (first) Sarah 
Sears: died without issue: (second) Adela 
Stull : child, Hulda Elizabeth. 4. Ira Oliver, 
educated at Oberlin (Ohio) College; prepared 
for the practice of law, was admitted to the 
bar, and located at Aberdeen, South Dakota ; 
was elected state senator in 1908, reelected in 
1910 : married, no issue. 

( I\ ) George Boughton, son of George and 
Huldah (Boughton) Curtiss, was born at Mt. 
Morris, Livingston county. New York, Sep- 
tember 16, 1852. His early life was spent on 
the farm, near Marengo, where his parents 
removed when he was four years old. He was 
educated in the public schools and at Marengo 
Academy. In the spring of 1875 he entered 
the Northwestern Business College, Madison, 
Wisconsin, being graduated in the following 
September. During the following winter he 
taught a private school and a class in penman- 
ship. In A]:)ril. 1876. he came to Binghamton, 
Xew York, where for four years he was in- 
structor in penmanship and bookkeeping, at 
Lowell's P.usiness College. He had, as a young 
man, been ambitious to become a lawyer, and 
bent all his energy in this direction. During 
this period he read law, and with Professor 
Magoris, of the high school, also took a spe- 
cial scientific course. He pursued legal studies 
under Hotchkiss & Millard, of Binghamton. 
also with A. D. Wales. During the general 
term of the supreme court, held at Ithaca, in 
May, 1880. he ])assed the required examina- 
tions, and was admitted to the bar. In 1880 
he opened a law office in Binghamton. In a 
very short time he began to attract attention 
for his marked ability. Although a perfect 
stranger in the city of liinghamton, he rose 
rapidly to a prominent position at the bar. His 
first case Ijefore the superior court was the de- 
fense of Victoria Scott, a colored girl, charged 
with the crime of murder. The case was ably 
])rosecuted by David H. Carver, the then dis- 
trict attorney of Broome county, assisted by 
.Mcxander Cummings as counsel, yet so skill- 
ful was the defense by Mr. Curtiss that, after 
a remarkable trial lasting one week, his client 



was only convicted of manslaughter in the 
fourth degree, and sentenced to eighteen 
months in prison. This case attracted a vast 
amoimt of favorable comment from the press, 
and in the fall of that year. 1883, Mr. Curtiss 
was nominated for district attorney of Broome 
county, and, as a result of the favorable im- 
pression which he had made upon both the 
press and the public, was elected to this office. 
He served three years, and, in 1886, was again 
elected, serving till 1889 — two terms of three 
years each. During this entire time he never 
drew a defective indictment, and, in addition 
to all of the other business connected with 
this office, he conducted one hundred and 
twenty criminal prosecutions, and although all 
were ably defended by the best legal talent, he 
was successful in nearly every case; in fact. 
but twelve were decided against him. In i88ft 
he formed a partnership with Taylor L. Arms, 
the firm being known as Arms & Curtiss. This 
continued till 1889. when Mr. Arms was elect- 
ed county judge and surrogate, and the part- 
nership was dissolved. From 1892 to 1896 
he was associated with W. W. Newell as part- 
ner. In 1900 he was appointed by President 
McKinley, L^nited States district attorney, and 
has been reappointed successively by Presi- 
dents Roosevelt and Taft; his ])resent term 
will expire in 1913. January i, 1901, he again 
formed a partnership with Judge Taylor L. 
Arms and Thomas J. Keenan, under the firiu 
name of Curtiss, Arms & Keenan. The firm con- 
tinued a successful career until 1908, when it 
was dissolved by the death of Judge Arms. 
Theodore Tuthill was then admitted as the 
junior partner, and as Curtiss, Keenan & Tut- 
hill, the firm still continues. 

For more than a C|uarter of a century Mi'. 
Curtiss has appeared in the most important 
trials in Broome county, during which time he 
has been called upon to cope with the ablest 
lawyers in southern New York, and in all cases 
his adroitness, legal acumen, and thorough 
knowledge of the law have been readily recog- 
nized by his opponents. During all his public 
career, first as prosecutor for the county and 
later as United States district attorney, he has 
proved a valuable official, doing his duty fear- 
lessly. His actions have commanded the at- 
tention of the leading jurists in the L'nited 
States courts, and upon each appointment by 
the President, he has received many flattering 
letters from the judges and others. He stand> 
high in the legal fraternity, and holds the re- 



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spect of all. His practice is very large, and his 
career is one that he can review with satisfac- 
tion. 

But it is not only as a great lawyer that Mr. 
Curtiss has achieved distinction, but in a far 
wider scope as a speaker and writer on the 
subject of the taritif. For thirty years he has 
devoted all of his leisure time to a close study 
of this great subject, and, in 1896, he published 
his first work upon this subject, under the title, 
"Protection and Prosperity," an account of 
the taritif legislation and its effect in Europe 
and .America. Introduction written by W'ill- 
iani McKinley and Thomas B. Reed. Mr. 
.McKinley says in his introduction : 

The value of such an exhaustive work to students 
comes from the fact that the author shows in the 
logical order pursued the economic conditions which 
suggested and brought into existence protective prin- 
ciples and has given the historical origin of the 
essential principles. While writing from the pro- 
tective standpoint there is no indication of any hobby 
or new scheme of political economy. The apparent 
endeavor is to show what the experience of business 
men and the practices of nations have proven to be 
wise, just and beneficicnt ; that the principles of pro- 
tection had their origin with the institution of society 
and governments, and are a necessary part of that 
policy under which civilization has advanced. 

Speaker Reed says in his introduction : 

The book which Mr. Curtiss has written is unlike 
any other which has been presented on the subject 
in its method of treatment, and in the width of 
range. * * * The calm and careful history in this 
book of the protection system in England which pre- 
ceded the Cobden movement, and the history of the 
Cobden movement itself will go far to rectify the 
false ideas which have been so long prevalent, and 
if it contained nothing else will be worth all the book 
will cost and all the trouble of understanding the 
story therein narrated. * * * This book is also the 
story of how the nations discovered that the best 
way to be protected and prosperous was not to leave 
things alone but to use their brains and make things 
better. * * * This book gives the history of experi- 
ments tried all over the world of the two systems 
and the results which have followed. It teaches 
what the facts teach and nothing more. It does not 
teach that this law or that law, this rate or that rate, 
is essential to national success ; for rates change with 
circumstances and laws with conditions ; but it teaches 
that protection whether it be at one rate or another, 
whether it be by one law or another, so long as it is 
protection it is the sole essential. 

It contains eight hundred and sixty-four 
pages and embraces a history of the tariff 
question of all nations from the earliest time 
to 1895. O1 account of the importance of the 
silver question which was injected into the 



campaign of 1896, entirely supplanting the 
tariff (|uestion as a political issue, only about 
fifteen hundred copies of "Protection and Pros- 
perity" were sold, about four hundred of which 
were sold in England. Upon Lord Masham's 
(who was president of the Fair Trade League 
of England ) attention being called to the work, 
he voluntarily sent a circular to all of the lords 
and members of parliament, in which he said 
that "It was by far the most important and 
comprehensive work ever published." Pro- 
fessor Gunton, reviewing the work in Gunton's 
Magazine of American Economics and Political 
Science, said : 

The work itself has elements of breadth, perma- 
nence and endurance reaching not only far beyond 
any presidential campaign and beyond the limits of 
any single country, but beyond also the popularity 
or permanence of any particular form of govern- 
mental institutions or type of national civilization. 
For neither in Europe nor .\merica has there ever 
been furnished in a single purely historical work the 
materials for so exhaustive a study or for so suc- 
cessful a mastering of the Tariff Question in all its 
details. 

The part of the work devoted to the British tariff 
policy far exceeds in e.xhaustiveness and value the 
writings of any Englishman and even of Sir Archi- 
bald .'Clison, an achievement to which we had not 
thought any American would be equal. 

Of Mr. Curtiss we may say he has found enough 
to compel every statesman, publicist, economist and 
historian who desires to say anything bearing on the 
tariff question, to carefully study the question over 
again. It will not do not to know the new matter 
here brought to light. 

The above are selected from scores of a 
similar nature written by the most learned men 
not only of the United States but of England 
as well, each and all of whom admit that it is 
by far the most exhaustive work ever publish- 
ed upon this or any kindred subject, and is the 
only complete consecutive history of the tariff 
from a protective standpoint ever written up' 
to the date of its publication. 

On account of urgency of friends who de- 
sired that the work appear in the campaign of 
1896, which at that time it was thought would 
be fought on the tariff question, the work was 
[jublished before Mr. Curtiss' plan had been 
entirely worked out, and the history of the 
Ignited States prior to i860 was greatly abbre- 
viated. Since that time Mr. Curtiss has been 
carrying out his original decision, and will 
soon bring out a new edition contained in twO' 
volumes, the first to be devoted entirely to the 
tariff question in foreign countries, the second 
volutne to the United States. The latter volume 



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will contain a carefully written account of the 
industrial life and development of the Amer- 
ican colonists from the earliest time to the 
adoption of the Federal Constitution, and the 
most complete and exhaustive history of the 
tarii? legislation from 1789 to i860 that has 
been written. The data pertaining to the his- 
tory of all nations will also be brought down 
to the present time. 

Mr. Curtiss has always been an ardent sup- 
porter of the Republican party, and while 
political preferment has ever been within his 
reach, he has declined all such except his pro- 
fessional appointments. He has spent much 
time in the selection of a library of the choicest 
literature, comprising works upon a large num- 
ber of subjects, among which are over one 
thousand volumes and four hundred pamphlets 
upon the tariff ciuestion. this exceeding any 
private collection in the United States, in fact, 
any public collection, except that of the Con- 
gressional Library, at Washington. 

Mr. Curtiss ma'rried. May 7, 1888, Mary D., 
daughter of Calvin and Elizabeth Bliss, of 
Lisle, Broome county. New York. Of this 
marriage two children have been born : Eliza- 
beth Hulda, August i, i8ip; Isabella Bliss, 
June 22, 1894. 



Sergeant George Darrow, the 
DARR( )W first of the family in this coun- 
try, settled at New London, 
Connecticut, about 1675, and died there, in 
1704. He married, about 1678, Mary, widow 
of George Sharswood, and she died in 1698. 
He married (second), August 10, 1702, Eliza- 
beth Marshall, of Hartford. The children 
were: Christopher, baptized at New London, 
December i, 1678; George, October 17, 1680; 
N'icholas, Alay 20, 1683; Jane, April 17, 1692. 
( I ) Richard Darrow, probably nephew of 
George Darrow, was horn in May, 1682, and 
was, according to family tradition, of Welsh 
descent. He resided first in New London, and 
later located at East Haven, Connecticut, on 
an island that separates the town from Bran- 
ford and is still called Darrow's Island. After- 
ward he removed to the center of the town, 
where he died Alarch 19, 1775, aged ninety- 
two years, ten months. He married Sarah 
Shejiard. Children, born at East Haven : Rich- 
ard, May, 171 1 : John. Jime, 1713; John, Octo- 
ber 24. 1716; Ebenezer, mentioned below. 

(H) Ebenezer, son of Richard Darrow, the 
only child to grow to maturity, was born in 



1 7 19. at East Haven. He married Lydia Aus- 
tin. In 1760 they moved to Plymouth, Con- 
necticut. He was a shoemaker by trade and 
also a farmer. Children, born at East Haven: 
Ebenezer, March, 1743: Abigail, July 29, 

1745, married (first) Johnson, of West 

Haven, and (second) Bishop: Jemima, 

February or July 9, 1748, married Benjamin 
Barnes; Asa, mentioned below; Titus, July or 
September 15. 1753, soldier in the revolution, 
married, in 1778, Anna Hill: Eunice, married 
John Warren; Lydia, born 1759. 

(HI) Asa, son of Ebenezer Darrow. was 
born at East Haven, May 22, 1750. He learn- 
ed his father's trade as shoemaker, and follow- 
ed it. He died in Plymouth. Connecticut, No- 
vember 16, 1821. He married Lydia Bartholo- 
mew. Children, born at Plymouth : Martha, 
July 15, 1775, married David Roice : Lydia. 
December 13, 1778, married J. Horton : Lucy. 
March 12, 1781. married Ebenezer French: 
Asa, mentioned below : Andrew S., March 3, 
1785, married (first) Nancy Adkins, who died 
May 16, 1815, and (second) Phcebe Woodin ; 
Rosella, March 19, 1787, married John Brad- 
ley; Freelove, September 17, 1789; Jania. May 
12, 1792. 

(I\') Asa (2), son of Asa (i) Darrow, 
was born January 11, 1783. He was a farmer 
and shoemaker. He married Clarissa Birch- 
ard and settled at F'armington, Connecticut. 
Children : John ; Asa B., mentioned below : 
Clarissa, Maria, George and Charles. 

(V) Asa B., son of Asa (2) Darrow. mar- 
ried Sarah Garner. Among their children was 
Ralph Samuel, mentioned below. 

(\T) Ralph Samuel, son of Asa B. Dar- 
row, was born September 18. 1840, in Con- 
necticut, died at Binghamton, New York, De- 
cember 13, 1889. He came to Binghamton 
with his parents when he was six years old. 
and was educated there in the public schools, 
academy and business college. He was em- 
ployed for a time as clerk by the firm of Pres- 
ton & Sears, and afterwards in the bank of 
Judge Phel])s. In partnership with David 
Hogg, he engaged in the hay, grain and feed 
business in Binghamton. .\ftcr a few years 
the firm was dissolved and the business was 
continued by Mr. Darrow as long as he lived, 
with abundant and substantial success. He was 
a member of the board of education of Bing- 
hamton for several years. In politics he was 
a Republican. In religion he was a prominent 
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^upej"intendent of the Sunday school and also 
on the official board of the Methodist church 
up to his death. 

He married, September 30, 1864. Louise, 
daughter of John C. and Betsey (Seaverson) 
Moore (see ^loore II). They have one child. 
Ray -S., born Xovember 17. 1870. 

(The Moore Line). 

(I) Andrew Moore was, according to fam- 
ily tradition, a major in the .American army, 
and was killed in the revolutionary war. He 
married Louise Remington. Children : John 
C. : Emeline, married Solomon Orcutt : Elma, 
married Alonzo Kattell ; Polly, died young; 
Harriet, married Cornelius DeW itt : B. Frank- 
lin, married Fannie \ an Trump : George W'., 
married .Anna Ward. .Andrew Moore was an 
early settler in Binghamton and owned sev- 
eral farms within the limits of the present 
city, but then the town of Binghamton. 

(II) John C, son of Andrew Moore, was 
born in Binghamton, on his father's homestead, 
about 1806, died in 1864. He was educated 
there in the public schools and for a few years 
taught school. He studied medicine but never 
practiced. He was county clerk and held other 
offices of trust, and was prominent in the 
Methodist church, of which for many years 
he was superintendent of the Sunday school. 
He married Betsey, daughter of Peter and 
Maria Seaverson. Children, born at Bingham- 
ton : Louise, married Ralph Samuel Darrow 
( see Darrow \T ) ; John A., married Phebe 
Rhinevault, and had: Minnie, Ida, Carrie and 
Charles: George, born 1840, married Belle 
Towner, and had : Anna, Georgia, Bessie and 
Ethel; Charles, married Ida Mead, and had 
Ed son and Arthur. 



J. George Quirin, father of Emil 
OITRIX J. F. Quirin, was born in West- 
liofTen, Alsace, then France, now 
in Germany, and died at Olean, Xew York, 
April I, 1907. He came to the United States 
in 1852. and became an apprentice in the calf- 
skin shop of Mercer, in Cambridge, Massachu- 
setts. He then removed to Iowa, where he 
was engaged in the business of tanning until 
1867. He returned to the east with his brothers, 
Philip and Jacob, and, in June, 1869, together 
with them, purchased the tannery of the lato 
Colonel William Ransom, at Tioga Centre. 
Xew York, and converted it into an upper 
leather tannery, under the firm name of J. G. 



Quirin & Company. They gave employment 
to from one hundred to one hundred and fifty 
men in the tanning of wax calf, and were con- 
nected with William C. Quirin & Company, of 
Boston. William C. Quirin remained at the 
head of this firm until his death in lyoi. The 
latter firm had a currying shop on Longwood 
avenue. Roxbury, Massachusetts, where two 
hundred men were employed in finishing the 
product of the tannery. .At that time they 
were the largest manufacturers of wax calf- 
skins in the country, and produced skins of a 
superior quality to the French calfskins then 
in such demand. Philip Quirin died in 187 1, 
and Jacob in 1880, and. in 1887, J. Cieorge 
Quirin retired from active business life, and 
spent the remainder of his life on his farm in 
summer, and with his sons, at Olean, in winter. 
He was later for a time engaged in ojierating 
a stuffing mill for a Mr. Hoffman, in Somer- 
ville, Massachusetts. After his return from 
the west he wrote a number of articles on this 
subject, which appeared in The Shoe and 
Leather Reporter, in 1867-68-69, and which 
attracted considerable attention at that time, 
he having been one of the first men to operate 
machinery for this purpose. 

He married Madeleine Bernhardt. Chil- 
dren: \\'illiam C. A., married Libbie Deane ; 
Emil J. F., mentioned below; George L. A., 
married Celia F. Sewell, of Boston ; Frederick, 
died young; Edward X.. married Edna L. 
Earle ; Charles X., unmarried; Lydia E., mar- 
ried Edward Muller; Albert, deceased; Frank 
J., married Elma Bromdage, of California; 
Carrie L.. deceased; .Angelica F., unmarried. 

( II) Emil J. F., son of John George Quirin, 
was born in Buffalo, Xew York, February 21, 
1855, and was educated in the schools of 
()wego and at Boston Business College. He 
entered the employ of his father, and later 
became a partner in the firm. He is at present 
general manager of the Quirin Leather Press 
Company, of Olean. He married, September 
2, 1880, Cecilia Eleanor, daughter of Stephen 
Durkee and Mary Robbins (Jilagray) Archer 
I see Archer III), and they have one child. 
\'iolet Madeleine, born June 21. 1884. 

Mrs. Cecilia Eleanor Quirin had for her 
revolutionary ancestor Joseph Robbins, who 
left the following autobiography : 

I was born at Kingston, Plymouth county, in the 
State of Massachusetts, in the year of our Lord 1757. 
When I was between seventeen and eighteen years of 
age I enlisted the first day of May, 1775. in Middle- 



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burg, where 1 then resided, as a private soldier to 
the American Army in the Revohitionary war, for 
the first eight months' service in Captain Isaac Wood's 
company, under Colonel Cotton Jr.. General Thomas' 
brigade. I marched from Widdleburg to Roxbury, 
where I served my time out at the siege of Boston. 
Soon after this I enlisted in the same company, but 
under Colonel Bailey's command, in General Heath's 
brigade, for the time of one year, in 1776. and 
marched with the army to New York. While I was 
in New York I worked considerably at my trade as 
an artificer. ( )n the 25th of December, 1776, I took 
part in the capture of the Hessians at Trenton. My 
time of service expired Jan. ist, 1777. Then I volun- 
teered anew for six weeks longer, and followed 
General Washington into the field of battle at Prince- 
ton. I remained with the army until my six weeks 
was expired, and then was discharged and came 
home and remained until June, 1779, then I enlisted 
in the army and went one campaign with General 
Sullivan, up in the wilderness in the back country, 
to fight (he Indians. I think my captain's name was 
Churchill. 

Services : 8 months at Roxbury, Mass. ; 12 months 
at New York, and there about I'A month volunteers; 
6 months in General Sullivan's army; 27 months and 
twelve days, which I claim a pension for. 

The following will show that his claim for 
pension was successful : 

WAR DEPARTMENT. 

Revolutionary Claims. 

1 certify that in conformity with the law of the 

United States of the 7th June, 1832, Joseph Robbins, 

of Nova Scotia, who was a Private in the war of the 

Revolution, is entitled to receive eighty dollars and 

cents per annum, during his natural life, 

commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and 4th of 
September in every year. 

Given at the War Office of the United States, this 
<)th day of January, one thousand eight hundred and 
thirty-eight. [Seal] J. R. Pomtell. 

Secretary of War. 
Examined and Countersigned. 
J. L. Edwards, 
Commissioner of Pensions. 

(The Archer Line). 
For more than five hundred years the fam- 
ily of Archer has been of some note in Eng- 
land. Like the origin of most patronymics of 
the earlier Anglo-Saxon period, that of Archer 
aj)pears to be involved in some obscurity, and 
it is doubtful whether the armorial bearings of 
the family were derived from the name and 
that still earlier from the occupation or pro- 
fession of archery, or were assumed, either in 
fanciful reference to the name or in allusion to 
the tenure by which John Archer, champion 
to Thomas, earl of Warwick, held his estates 
of that noble, namely, annual payment of 
twelve broad arrows. The Archer family of 
Umberslacle has been the principal family of 



the name in England. The line of decent 
down to the time that the American ancestor 
of the Archer family left England is given 
below : 

Fulbert Archer came to England with Will- 
iam, the Conqueror, and his name is on the 
roll of Battle Abbey. 

Robertus, son of Fulbert Archer, was of 
Tamworth, Warwick cotmty, England, mar- 
ried Sflida, daughter and heir of Roger de 
Hulehall ; had children : Richard, John and 
William. 

William, son of Robert Archer, married 
Margeria, daughter and heir of John Saway 
de Oxton Saway, Leicestershire. Children : 
Thomas, John, \Villiam and Henry. 

John, son of W'illiam Archer, married Mar- 
gery, daughter of William Barneville, and had : 
William, Ela and John. 

John (2), son of John (i) Archer, was of 
Tamworth ; married Margery, daughter of 
William Tracy de Tuddington, and they had : 
Thomas and John. 

John (3), son of John (2) Archer, married 
Isabel], daughter of Radi de Erasat. and they 
had : William and Thomas. 

Thomas, son of John (3) Archer, was of 
L'mberg, of Tamworth or Tanworth ; married 
Margaretta, daughter and heir of Walter Cle- 
bury, of Clebury. He died in the forty-sixth 
year of Edward HL 

Thomas (2), son of Thomas (i) Archer, 
married Agnes, daughter of John Hanbury, of 
Hanbury, Stafifordshire, and they had : Henry 
and Richard. He died in the fourth year of 
Henry \'L, aged eighty-four years. 

Richard, son of Thomas (2) Archer, mar- 
ried Alice, daughter of William Hugford, 
widow of Thomas Lucy. He died in the elev- 
enth year of Edward IV., aged eighty-five. 

John (4), son of Richard Archer, married 
Christina, daughter and heir of Rodi Balklow, 
widow of Henry Sewell. 

John (5), son of John (4) Archer, was of 
Tanworth ; married Alice, daughter of Bald- 
win Mont fort. 

Johannes, son of John ( 5 ) Archer, was of 
Tanworth : married Mary, daughter of Humph- 
rey Stafi:'ord. 

Richard (2). son of Johannes Archer, mar- 
ried Matilda, daughter and heir of Edward 
Delamore. 

Humfrey Archer de Tanworth, son of Rich- 
ard (2) .\rcher, married Anna Townsend. 
daughter of Robert Townsend. 




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Andreas Archer, son of Humfrey Archer de 
Tanworth, was of Tanworth : he died there, 
April 6, 1629; married Mary, daughter of 
Simon Raleigh de Farnborow. She died Au- 
gust 10, 1614. Children: Simon, Thomas and 
Richard. 

Richard (3), son of Andreas Archer, mar- 
ried Maria Bull, daughter of Roland Bull. 
Richard died in 1646-47, at Nethope, in Ox- 
fordshire. 

Simon, son of Richard (3) Archer, married 
Anne, daughter of John Ferres de Tanworth. 

The connection with the American ancestor 
has not been definitely established, but he was 
doubtless from a branch of the family outlined 
above, founded by John Archer, rector of Car- 
hayes, instituted there about 1614. The rector 
had a son Nicholas who inherited from his 
uncle, Richard Archer, of St. Kew, all his 
property, but, dying without issue, bequeathed 
liis estate to the eldest son of his brother Ed- 
ward, who married, in 1683, Judith Swete. 
The son of Edward Archer married Sarah, 
co-heir of John Addis, of Whiteford. John, 
the American immigrant, came from Cornwall, 
and was perhaps a grandson of Edward Archer, 
mentioned above. 

( I ) John Archer, the American immigrant, 
was the progenitor of the Archer family of 
Nova Scotia, as well as of many in New Eng- 
land and other sections of the country. He 
came to America during the French and In- 
dian wars, 1757-62, having been impressed in 
the British navy. He left the navy, perhaps 
deserting, like many seamen who were forced 
to enter the navy against their wills, and he 
settled at Cherryfield, Maine. He was well 
educated and found employment in his new 
home as a teacher and land surveyor. He took 
up a lot, afterward occupied by his son John, 
situated on the Beddington road. He had a 
family of twenty-three children, most of whom 
were sons and nearly all of whom grew to 
maturity. The youngest of the family, David 
Cobb Archer, who lived near Cherryfield, was 
well known to travelers in his day, going from 
Columbia Falls to Jonesboro, Alaine. John 
Archer was a soldier in the revolution in the 
American army, a private in the artillery com- 
pany of Colonel John Allen's regiment in 1778- 
79, under Captain Thomas Robbins. He was 
also in Captain Jeremiah O'Brien's company 
of rangers, Colonel Allen's regiment, serving 
at Machias, ]\Iaine, late in the year 1779. John 
Archer married Elizabeth Gates Tupper, niece 



of General Gates, of the American army at 
Saratoga, etc., and granddaughter of Governor 
Mayhew. She was daughter of Peleg (born 
1731) and Deborah (Fish) Tupper, born at 
Sandwich, Massachusetts. Chililren : William 

Gates, married ^lullhall, of Liverpool, 

Nova Scotia, and had two children, Henry and 
Elizabeth ; Henry ; Robert ; John ; Thomas ; 
Joseph Tupper, mentioned below ; George ; 
Allan ; Mary ; Eliakim and David Cobb. 

(H) Joseph Tupper, son of John Archer, 
was born at Cherryfield, Maine, in 1782. He 
received his education in the public schools, 
and at home under his father's instruction. 
He learned the trade of mason and stone-cutter. 
He went to Yarmouth and Liverpool, Nova 
Scotia, when a young man, and soon engaged 
in contracting for mason work in that vicinity. 
He worked on many public buildings, and, in 
later life, did much cemetery work, at which 
he was especially skillful. In 1854 he removed 
to Sudbury, Massachusetts, where he bought 
a farm. He died there, October 11, 1863, at 
the advanced age of eighty-one years. In re- 
ligion he was an active and consistent Baptist. 
In politics a Republican. He married (first) 
Dorcas Nickerson,of Harrington, Nova Scotia. 
He married (second) Eleanor Durkee, daugh- 
ter of Stephen and Lydia (Lovette) Durkee, 
of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Children of Jo- 
seph Tupper and Dorcas (Nickerson) Archer: 
Freeman, born May 8, 1812, died 1885 ; Jo- 
sejih Allen, born May 17, 1814, died November 
2~, 1889. Children of Joseph Tupper and 
Eleanor (Durkee) Archer: Dorcas Eliza, mar- 
ried Benjamin Crosby ; Mary Eleanor, born 
1820, died August 12, 1890, married, October 
14, 1841, Charles W. Wyman, of Yarmouth, 
Nova Scotia ; George Edward, lost at sea in 
1837; Caroline, married, November 28, 1844, 
Joseph Churchill, of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia ; 
Stephen Durkee, see below ; Lydia, married 
Caston Harris, of Boston, Massachusetts. 

(Ill) Stephen Durkee, son of Joseph Tup- 
per .\rcher, was born at Yarmouth, Nova 
Scotia, September 22, 1826. He receivetl his 
education in the town of Yarmouth. Although 
his schooling was ended when he was sixteen, 
he was a lifelong student. He learned the 
mason's trade of his father and made it his 
life business. He built the Yarmouth Bank, 
also the Clements and Rierson buildings. Short- 
ly after his marriage, in 1850, he removed to 
New York City, where he worked at his trade 
for three years on the Bible House building. 



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He then came to Sudbury, Massachusetts, 
where he and his father bought a farm, which 
they carried on for four years. He continued 
also to work at his trade in the vicinity. He then 
removed to Danvers, Massachusetts, where he 
followed his trade for about si.x years, thence 
going to .A.mesbury, where he worked for three 
years. In 1864 he removed to Yarmouth, 
Xova Scotia, for the purpose of building the 
courthouse and jail there. After three years 
he located at Boston, where he was a con- 
tractor. He removed to Hyde Park and was 
employed by the Francis Estate, which was 
located on the present site of Boston College, 
and remained until 1891, when he bought an 
estate at Maiden and settled there, where he 
lived retired for the remainder of his days, 
and died December 8, 1902. He was a member 
of the South Baptist Church, of Boston, and 
was active and prominent in his denomination. 
He had previously belonged to the Baptist 
church, of Yarmouth. In politics he was a 
Republican. He was also a member of the 
Ancient Order of American Mechanics. His 
portrait, found in this work, has been placed 
here by his daughter, Mrs. Emil J. F. Ouirin, 
in loving remembrance of his many fine ([ual- 
ities of mind and heart. 

He married, January 15, 1850, Mary Robbins 
Magray, who was born at Yarmouth, May 21, 
1827. daughter of Captain John and Abigail 
(Robbins) Magray, and a lineal descendant 
of Elder Thomas Cushman, passenger in the 
"Fortune" in 1621, and of Mary Allerton, 
passenger in the "Mayflower" to Plymouth, in 
1620. Children: i. Eudora Frances, born 
May 21, 1851 : married, in September, 1870, 
Joseph E. Webster, of Berwick, Maine, and 
they had twelve children. 2. George Edward, 
born February 15. 1853, died December. 1903: 
chief architect of the New York and Lake Erie 
Railroad Company for seventeen years, and 
one of the leaders in his profession in this 
country; married, August 2, 1880, Catherine 
Henry, of New York City, and had two chil- 
dren, .Annie Louise, and \'iola Agnes, who 
married \\'ilbur Clements, of New York City. 
3. Cecilia Eleanor, born April 16, 1855: mar- 
ried, September 2, 1880, Emil J. F. Ouirin, of 
Tioga, New York (see CJuirin II). 4. Luella 
May, born .August 6, 1857 ; married. April 2, 
1878, Warren Montague, of Portland, Maine, 
and they have : George \\'arren, Harry Messen- 
ger an<l \\'alter Emil. 3. \'ioIa .Alberta, born 
July 2, 1860: married, July 15, 1884, George 



L. Haines, of Milton, Massachusetts, and they 
have one child, Luella Archer Haines, born 
July 27, 1891. 6. Calvert Bradford, born at 
Danvers, April 22, 1862; rubber manufacturer 
of Milford, Massachusetts; married (first), 
February 3, 1883, Myra A'iolet Linscott; (sec- 
ond), February 14, 1889, Mary Poole; chil- 
dren : Stephen Calvert, Lillian and Alicia \'io- 
let. 7. .Agnes Lillian, born January 25, 1865; 
married, July 16, 1884, Elmer E. Walter, of 
Hyde Park ; children : Warren Theodore, born 
January 26. 1887 ; Lucile .Agnes, June 23, 
1891 ; Clara Josephine. February 6, 1894. 8. 
Stella May, born November 18, 1867; married, 
in 1893, Captain A. S. Maloney, of St. An- 
drews, New Brunswick, deceased. 

Mary Robbins (Magray) Archer, mother of 
Mrs. Ouirin. was the daughter of Captain John 
and Abigail ( Robbins ) Magray, married at 
Yarmouth, 1803. Captain John Magray was 
born at Marblehead, 1774; died at Yarmouth, 
November 9, 1845. Abigail, born at Plymouth, 
Massachusetts, September 17, 1788; died at 
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, .April 2, 1870, was the 
daughter of Joseph Robbins, born at Plymouth, 
December 11, 1756: died at Yarmouth, July 
8, 1859; married. June 6, 1779, Elizabeth Ste- 
phens, born at Plymouth, March 15, 1760; 
died at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, October 27, 
1845. Ji'seph Robbins was the son of Benja- 
min Robbins, born at Plymouth, 1732, drown- 
ed at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, 1762; married 
-Abigail Cushman, born at Kingston, April 3, 
1737; died at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Abigail 
Cushman was the daughter of Robert Cush- 
man, born at Kingston, July 2, 1698; died 
there, 1751 ; married there, .April 17, 1725, 
Alercy \Vashburn, born at Kingston, 1702. 
Robert Cushman was the son of Robert Cush- 
man, born at Plymouth, October 4, i(366; died 
at Kingston. September 7, 1737 ; married, 1697. 

Persis , died at Kingston, January 14. 

1743. Robert Cushman was the son of Thomas 
Cushman, born at Plymouth, September 16, 
1637; died there, August 23, 1726; married 
there. November 17, 1664, Ruth Howland, 
born at Plymouth, and died there, between 
1672 and 1679, daughter of John Howland. 
who came over in the "Mayflower." and Eliza- 
beth Tilley. daughter of John Tilley, of the 
"Mayflower." Thomas Cushman was the son 
of Thomas and Mary (Lerton) Cushman. 
married i'')3''). She died 1699, daughter of 
Isaac Lerton, of the "Mavflower," who died 
in New Haven, 1659. Elizabeth Stei)hens, 



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wife of Joseph Robbins, was the daughter of 
Edward Stephens, who died at Carver, April 
9. 1788; married, 1747, Phebe Harlow, born at 
Plymouth, October 21, 1728. Phebe Harlow 
was the daughter of William Harlow, born at 
I'lyniouth, July 26, 1692: died there, April 11, 
1751 ; married Mercy Rider, born Plymouth, 
November 14, 1696; died there, January 2, 
1772. William Harlow was the son of Samuel 
Harlow, born at Plymouth, January 2-], 1652; 
married Hannah , who died at Plym- 
outh. Samuel Harlow was the son of William 
Harlow, who died at Plymouth, August 26, 
1691 ; married Rebecca Bartlett, at Plymouth. 
Rebecca Hartlett was the daughter of Robert 
and Mary (Warren) Bartlett. Mary Warren 
was the daughter of Richard Warren, of the 
"Mavflower." 



Of the twelve patentees of the 
DEYO town of New Paltz, New York, 

two bore the name Deyo and were 
father and son. They were among the last of 
the twelve to come to come to the new world, 
the others having been in America several 
years. New Paltz was one of the few Hugue- 
not settlements in this country and perhaps 
the only one in which the stock of the original 
settlers was not speedily overwhelmed by a 
flood of newcomers from other European 
nationalities. With the exception of Kingston, 
no other place in that part of the country was 
settled at so early a period. The New Paltz 
church was organized e.xactly forty years be- 
fore the first church at Poughkeepsie was 
erected. The old Deyo house in the village 
came down in the same family nearly two hun- 
dred years. In 1675 Pierre Deyo was still in 
the Palatinate, as shown by the following cer- 
tificate of good standing and church member- 
ship still preserved in the family : 

This is to certify that Peter Doio and .-Vgatha 

Nickel, both in honor Uving in C PfaUz. Mutter- 

stadt, circuit of New Stadt. have been united in mar- 
riage, the intent of such marriage, having been an- 
nounced three times from the pulpit, that they are 
members of the Refonned Church and as far as we 
know, the same are well behaved people. 

Jacob Amyot. 

Mutterstadt. Curr Pfaltz. Pastor. 

21 January 1675. 

Christian Deyo was quite an old inan at the 
time of settlement of New Paltz and lived only 
ten years afterward. His will is recorded in 
book A. county clerk's office in Kingston. He 
was called "Grandpere" or grandfather in the 



old documents, and, in fact, was the grand- 
father of most of the children in the new 
settlement. His son Pierre (Peter) was a 
patentee, as were his four sons-in-law, Abra- 
ham Hasbrouck, John Hasbrouck, Simon Le- 
Fevre and Abraham Du Bois. 

(II) Pierre, only son of Christian Deyo, 
was of Huguenot extraction : was married in 
the German Palatinate, to Agatha Nickel, and 
with his father came to America in 1675. He 
was one of the twelve patentees of the town 
of New Paltz, Ulster county, New York, and 
tradition says that he lost his life while on an 
expedition to find a route from New Paltz to 
the river, and that long afterwards a buckle of 
a truss that he wore was found. It is probable 
that this was Pierre, son of Pierre, the pat- 
entee, who grew to manhood, but left no chil- 
dren. Pierre, the patentee, left four sons: i. 
Abraham, born at Hurly, October 16, 1676; 
married Elsie Clearwater, and left Abraham 
(2), Marytje and Wyntje. 2.' Christian, of 
whoin further. 3. Pierre, baptized at New 
Paltz, 1683, probably the one lost in the forest. 
4. Hendricus. baptized at Kingston. October 
12. 1690: married Margaret \'on Bummel. and 
left a large family. 

( III ) Christian, son of Pierre, the patentee, 
and Agatha (Nickel) Deyo. was baptized at 
Eirooklyn. New York, 1681. He settled in the 
Springtown district, where descendants yet re- 
side. His name appears in a list of taxpayers 
in 1712; in a list of soldiers of Captain Hoff- 
man's company in 1716; in the list of those 
who built the first stone church in 1720: in a 
list of freeholders in 1728, and in a list of 
slave holders in 1755. His naine appears as 
deacon in the church at New Paltz, in 1733. 
and as elder in 1765. He married, at New 
Paltz. in 1702. Marytje De Graff. This mar- 
riage is recorded on both the church books of 
New Paltz and Kingston. He left children: 
I. Moses, born 1706: married, 1728. Clarissa 
Stokhard. and lived about a mile north of 
Springtown. His name appears in the list of 
New Paltz soldiers in 1738. He and his wife 
joined the New Paltz church in 1752. 2. 
Jacobus, of whom further. 3. Mary, married. 

in 1 73 1, J Acknioidi, a Scotchman, and 

ancestor of the Auchmoody family. 

( I\' ) Jacobus, son of Christian and Marytje 
( De Graff) Deyo. was born about 1708. He 
left the Springtown home and settled in Kings- 
ton, where he married in 1724. In 1738 he is 
found in a list of foot soldiers of Kingston, 



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which proves his residence there, although tlie 
marriage record names them both as of New 
Paltz. Afterward he or his widow removed 
to Dutchess county, and in the records of the 
Poughkeepsie church is found a record of his 
widow's second marriage, April 22, 1754. He 
married Janitje Freer. Children, several daugh- 
ters, and sons, Jacobus (2) and Peter. 

(V) Jacobus (2), son of Jacobus (i) and 
Janitje (Freer) Deyo, was born in 1732. He 
was twenty-two years old when his mother, in 
1754, married (second) Richard Gryn, and it 
is supposed that he then left home and settled 
at Nine Partners, Dutchess county, New York. 
He married and had issue. 

(Vlj \\'iniam, son of Jacobus (2) Deyo, 
was born about 1775, and settled in the town 
of Ghent, Columbia county. New York, where 
he married and reared a family. Among his 
sons were David, Jonathan, Israel T. and Rich- 
ard. 

(\'n) Richard, son of William Deyo, was 
born in the town of Ghent, Columbia county. 
New York, in 1819; died 1888. He removed 
to Broome county, where he engaged in farm- 
ing. He married .Caroline B., daughter of 
Jonas and Gertrude Eckert. Children : Mar- 
tin L. : Christina; Joseph H.; Israel Tripp, of 
whom further ; Gertrude ; R. Herbert. 

(VHI) Israel Tripp, son of Richard and 
Caroline B. (Eckert) Deyo, was born in the 
town of Union, Broome county, New York, 
January 28, 1854. His education was obtain- 
ed in district schools and at the high school in 
Binghamton, where he was graduated in 1875, 
valedictorian. He entered Amherst College, 
whence he was graduated A. B., class of 1879, 
and was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon 
and Phi Beta Kappa Greek letter fraternities. 
For several years, after leaving college, he was 
engaged in teacliing, being principal of the 
school at \\'hitney's Point, New York, and 
later an instructor at the State Normal, at 
Cortland, New York. Deciding to embrace 
the profession of law, he entered the law 
office of David H. Carver, under whose per- 
ceptorship he continued until 1883, when he 
was admitted to the bar. A partnership was at 
once formed with David H. Carver, and under 
the firm name of Carver & Deyo a successful 
legal business was transacted. In 1901 Charles 
H. Hitchcock was admitted, constituting the 
firm of Carver, Deyo & Hitchcock, as it re- 
mained until tiic death of Mr. Carver, in 1908. 
Mr. William 1!. Carver, a son of Mr. D. H. 



Carver, was then admitted to the firm, and the 
firm name was changed to Deyo, Hitchcock & 
Carver, as it still remains. This is one of the 
leading law firms of Binghamton, command- 
ing an extensive clientage and holding a high 
position at the New York bar. In 1890-91- 
92-93 Mr. Deyo was elected a member of the 
state assembly, where he rendered important 
service on house committees, and in shaping 
beneficial legislation. He was appointed by 
Governor Flower a member of the commission 
to investigate the management of the State 
Reformatory, at Elmira, the report of that 
commission forming the basis of some needed 
reforms in that institution. He is vice-presi- 
dent of the New York State Bar Association ; 
member of the local board of managers of the 
State Normal School, at Cortland; director of 
the Binghamton Gas Works ; director and sec- 
retary of the Deyo-Macey Engine Company, 
and interested in other business enterprises of 
his city. He is a member of the New York 
State and Broome County Bar associations, 
and prominent in the Masonic Order, holding 
all degrees of the York Rite, including that of 
Knight Templar and all of the Scottish Rite, 
up to and including the thirty-second. In 
religious connection he is a member of the 
Congregational church, which he serves as 
trustee. In political faith he is a Republican, 
and an ardent supporter and active worker. 

He married, in Binghamton, New York, 
June 26, 1889, Edith A., daughter of Eliakim 
and \'erena .\. \\'eld. Children : Austin W., 
born September 15, 1891 ; Dorothy, born March 
22, 1899; Martin W., born December 12, 1902. 



Eli Meeker was born in Duanes- 
MEEKER burg, of an old New England 

family, and removed to Quaker 
Lake, Pennsylvania, where he bought a tract 
of land, covered with the primeval forests, 
and he cleared a farm and brought it to a high 
state of cultivation. This farm has remained 
in the family to the present time and the fam- 
ily burying-ground there contains the last rest- 
ing places of many of the family. 

(II) Samuel, son of Eli Meeker, was born 
in Massachusetts, where his homestead still 
stands. He was educated in the public schools 
and worked on the homestead until the time of 
his marriage. Then he located at liingham- 
ton, New York, where he purchased wild land, 
cleared a farm and conducted it for many 
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York, and on the shore of Quaker Lake, Sus- 
c|uehanna county, Pennsylvania. His later 
years were spent in the village of Binghamton, 
with his son Eli, and he died there in February. 
1892. aged eighty-six years. He was a zealous 
Methodist in religion and often walked several 
miles to attend church. He married Sarah 
Finch, of Susquehanna county. Her last years 
were spent in the home of her son Eli, where 
she died, aged nearly ninety. Children: An- 
drew: Eli S.. mentioned below: Oliver, kill- 
ed in the civil war ; Samuel ; Elvira, married 
(first) William Bell, (second) George \^os- 
burg; Deborah, married Frank Rulison ; Ann 
Eliza: Van Rensselaer; Elijah: Alfred; Lor- 
enzo. 

(Ill) Eli S.. son of Samuel Sleeker, was 
born near Hawleyton, January 29, 1833. He 
had a common school education, and when 
twenty-two years of age engaged in the lumber 
business at Hawleyton. For many years he 
was a partner in the firm of \\'eed, ^Meeker & 
Mundy, wholesale dealers in lumber. In 1881 
he came to Binghamton, New York, and en- 
tered into partnership with Waring S. Weed, 
under the name of W. S. \\'eed & Company, 
and the firm did an extensive business in lum- 
ber in western F'ennsylvania. as well as a large 
retail business in blinds, sash, doors, etc., in 
Binghamton. While in Hawleyton he was a 
supervisor and school commissioner. In Bing- 
hamton he was for two terms alderman from 
the second ward, in 1888-89. In politics he 
was a staunch Republican. He was one of 
the commissioners of Ross Park, and was 
president of the Columbian Manufacturing 
Company. He married Samantha L. Morgan, 
who was born at Richfield Springs, New York. 
and lived in Madison county. He and his wife 
were members of the Tabernacle Methodist 
Episcopal Church. Children: i. Helen, mar- 
ried George F. Twining, and had one son, 
Laverne, who married \'iolet \\'oodley, and 
has one daughter. Adelaide Twining. 2. Rollin 
Weston, mentioned below. 

( I\') Rollin Weston, son of Eli S. Meeker, 
was born December 25. 1870. at Binghamton, 
and was educated in the public and high schools 
of his native town and by private tutors. In 
September, 188S. he began to study law in the 
office of Hon. Edmund O'Connor, and he was 
admitted to the bar at Binghamton. February 
5, 1892, just after he came of age. In the same 
office in which he read law, he began to prac- 
tice and was soon actively engaged in litigated 



cases and trials before juries, not only on his 
own account but was also associated with Mr. 
O'Connor in a number of notable cases. ]\Ir. 
Meeker has taken a prominent place among 
the attorneys of the county and enjoys a large 
practice. He is at present president of the 
Broome County Bar Association, and a mem- 
ber of several committees of the Xew^ York 
State Bar Association. In ]\Iasonic circles he 
is well known throughout this section, a mem- 
ber of Binghamton Lodge ; of Binghamton 
Chapter, Royal .-Krch Masons, of Binghamton; 
of Malta Commandery, Knights Templar ; of 
Otseningo Consistory, first lieutenant com- 
mander since 1895. nine wars in all. still serv- 
ing; master of Otseningo Lodge of Perfection, 
w-hich office he has held nine consecutive years ; 
past potentate of Katurah Temple, Mystic 
Shrine, two years, and he had conferred upon 
him at Boston, 1906, thirty-third degree in 
Masonry, a distinction attained by but few. 
He is treasurer of the Columbian Manufac- 
turing Company ; secretary of the Binghamton 
Woolen Company, and member of the Chem- 
ical Fire Company, and of the Binghamton 
Club. In politics he is a Republican, and he 
has been on the executive committee of the 
Republican League of the Second \\'ard. and 
secretary of the Second Ward Republican Club. 
In religion he is a Methodist, attending and 
supporting the Tabernacle Church. 

lie married. July i. 1893. Sarah Stoddard, 
daughter of John and Mary (Stoddard) Lewis. 
both deceased, a prominent family in Lisle, 
Xew York. They have no children. 



Jonathan Miller, the first of this 
MILLER family in Pennsylvania, was born 

December 10. 1789. probably in 
the old home of the family in Connecticut. He 
settled in Pleasant Mount. Wayne county. 
Pennsylvania. He acquired large tracts of land 
there and was a well-to-do farmer and black- 
smith. He held the office of justice of the 
peace for many years, and was a useful and 
influential citizen. He married. March 10, 
1814. Tryphena. daughter of James Bigelow 
(see Bigelow Y). Children, born at Pleasant 
Mount: i. Jonathan, mentioned below. 2. 
John G., born February 18. 1816, died May 
"15. 1816. 3. Mary T.. born June 24. 1820. 
died .August 20. 1848: married, September 3. 
1838. Dr. Rodney T. Harmes. 4. James, born 
March 31, 1826; married (first), June 11, 
1 85 1. Anna W. Smith, and (second) Mary 



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. 5. Joseph, twin of James, died Febru- 

ar\- 4, 1831. 6. Hervey D., born September 15, 
1830: an engineer, was killed in a railway acci- 
dent. September 27, 1861 ; married, August 17. 
1859, Sarah M. Day. 

(II) Major Jonathan (2) Miller, son of 
Jonathan ( i ) Miller, was born in Pleasant 
Alount, Wayne county, Pennsylvania, October 
29. 18 14, died there October 29, 1898. Like 
his father he became a blacksmith. He was one 
of the leading citizens of Pleasant Mount, 
where he held several town offices. He was 
the constable and town officer for many years, 
and known to everyone. For many years he 
was connected with, the state militia, and, in 
1842, he was elected major of the Seventh 
Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteer Militia, 
receiving his commission from the governor. 
.-August 7, 1842. He married, Xovember 5, 
1834, Polly A., daughter of Abner Stone. Chil- 
dren : I. Helen, born March 8. 1836; married, 
January i, 1857, John J. Indkerson, and had 
a child, Jennie, who married Judson Tiiifany. 
2. Evaline .\.. born May i, 1838; married 
(first), December 22, 1859, George W. War- 
ner, and had one daughter, Anna ]\I. : mar- 
ried (second), December 13, 1866, Robert 
Clark, and had children : Nellie and Mabel, 
twins. 3. Henry M., born November 18, 1843; 
married, December 26, 1867, Laura E. Bon- 
ham : children : Nelson, Robert, Estella and 
(jrace. 4. Sanford J., born May 20, 1849; 
married (first), April 8, 1880, Li'bbie Under- 
wood, and (second) . 5. Anna 

M., born November 15, 1854, died September 
20, 1857. 6. Frederick D., mentioned below. 

(HI) Frederick D.. son of Major Jonathan 
(2) Miller, was born at Pleasant Mount, Penn- 
sylvania, .\pril 2^. 1857. He was educated at 
tile .\cademy at Pleasant Mount, and at an 
early age began his business life as clerk in a 
general store, where he remained until he was 
twenty-one. He then opened a general store 
at Herrick Centre. Pennsylvania, and two 
years later removed to P.inghamton, New York, 
and became floor manager for the firm of Hills 
McLean & Haskins, where he remained until 
1890. He ne.xt held various positions with the 
Erie Railway Company for eight years, up to 
1898, when he engaged in the imdertaking 
business in liiughamton, which he has since 
conducted in a very successful manner. He 
is a member of Otseningo Lodge, No. 435, 
Free and .Accepted Ma.sons : Press Club ; New 
York .State I'ndertakers' .Association and Em- 



balmers' Association. He married, June 6, 
1878. Josephine C, daughter of Charles .A. 
and Sarah J. (Sherwood) Campbell. He has 
one daughter, Mabel Pearl, and has legally 
adopted two grandchildren, Dorothy Marie 
and Ruth Sherwood. 

(The Bigelow Line ). 

(II) Daniel Bigelow, son of John ( q. v.) 
and. Mary (Warren) Bigelow. was born in 
\\'atertown. New York, December i, 1650, 
died about 1715. He married .\bigail or Abial 
Pratt, daughter of Thomas Pratt, and settled 
in P'ramingham, in 1686. where he was a tailor 
by trade. He lived near the east end of what 
was known as Cdeason's Pon 1. His wife sur- 
vived him. Children, born in Franiingham : 
Abigail, October 28, 1689 ; Daniel, November 
24, 1691, mentioned below ; .Abiel, January 20, 
i()t;3: Susanna, March 4, ifxjO: Ephraim, May 
12, 1698: Lydia. January 2, 1702. 

(III) Daniel (2), son of Daniel (i) and 
.Abigail ( Pratt ) Bigelow, was born Xovember 
24, 1691, in Framingham, Massachusetts. He 
married (first), June 27, 1723, Rebecca, born 
July 25, 1697. died July 7, 1738, daughter of 
Nathaniel and .Anna Fames. He married ( sec- 
ond), July 17, 1746, Prudence Stone, widow 
of Ebenezer Stone. He is said to have died 
in 1752, and his brother Ephraim was adminis- 
trator of his estate. Children, born in Fram- 
ingham : Rebecca, May 15, 1726, died July 3. 
1729: Daniel, October 29, 1727, died March 
30, 1730: Joseph, October 28, 1729, died May 
t8, 1730: Daniel, July 16. 1732; Rebecca, May 
10. 1734, died July 20, 1734: Joseph, 1736, 
mentioned below : .Ann. June 29, 1738, died the 
same day. 

( I\') Josei)h. son of Daniel (2) and Re- 
becca ( Fames ) Bigelow, was born in Fram- 
ingham, in 1736. and when not yet of age went 
to Leicester to work. There he married, .April 
30, 1756, Sarah, daughter of Captain John 
Stebbins. Soon after marriage he returned to 
Franiingham, where he lived until he was 
twenty-one and came into possession of his 
father's estate from the hands of his Cncle 
Ephraim. He removed to Leicester soon after 
this, and, about 1766, moved to Spencer, wdiere 
he lived until his death, .April 19. 1774. His 
widow married (second) P'zekiel Howe, of 
Shrewsbury, and died in Shrewsbury, April 5. 
1806. Children: John, born August 24, 1757; 
Joseph, December 6, 1759: James, June 7, 
1762, mentioned below : Jabez, March 17, 1764 : 



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Daniel, February 14. 1766; William. July i, 
1768: Sarah, October 3, 1770: Elizabeth, Janu- 
ary 13. I773- 

( \ ) James, son of Joseph and Sarah ( Steb- 
bins ) Bigelow, was born in Leicester, Massa- 
chusetts, June 7, 1762. He married. Decem- 
ber 18, 1783, Mary, daughter of John Graham, 
and they moved to Mount Pleasant, Pennsyl- 
vania, where he died in 1841. Children : John ; 
Tryphena, married Jonathan Miller (see^Iiller 
1) : Sarah; Tryphosa, born 1801, married, 
1822, Clayton Rogers, of Towerville, Wiscon- 
sin, she died 1870. and he died 1869, children 
born at Mount Pleasant: John S., Martha 
Ann, Clayton E., Cushman S.. Eldad A., Earl 
M., Helen M. 



The surname Skinner is like a 
SKIXXI^R large class of English trade 
and business names adopted 
about the twelfth century as family names, 
like butcher, baker, chandler, merchant, brewer, 
etc. Skinner means simply a dealer in furs 
and hides. The Skinners Company, of Lon- 
don, received a charter of incorporation as 
early as the reign of Edward HL, and has a 
coat-of-arms of ancient date. The families of 
Skinner are found in all parts of England. 
The Skinners of Le Burtons and Ledbury, 
county Hereford, descended from Stephen 
Skinner ( 1557 I. elder son of Stephen Skinner, 
of county Hereford. Arms': Sable, a chevron 
or between three grififins' heads erased, argent, 
a mullet for difference. Crest : A griffin's head 
erased, argent, holding in the beak a hand, 
couped gules on the breast, a mullet for differ- 
ence. A common device in various Skinner 
arms is : Sable, three griffins' heads erased, 
argent. The families at Cowley. Devonshire, in 
London, in county Essex, the Isle of Wight, 
Dewlich, and various other localities, also bear 
arms. Thomas Skinner was lord mayor of 
London in 1596. 

( I ) Sergeant Thomas Skinner, immigrant 
of the Essex county families, was born in 
161 7. in England, and died March 2, 1703-04, 
in Maiden. Massachusetts. He came from 
Chichester, county Sussex, England, bringing 
with him his wife and two sons. He lived at 
one time at Subdeanery and Parish, Chichester. 
He was a victualler, and. May 31, 1652, was 
licensed to keep an inn at Maiden. His house 
there was situated at the southeast corner of 
Cross and Walnut streets. It was given to 
Skinner's son Abraham, March 15, 1694-95. 



He was admitted freeman May 18, 1663. He 

married (first), in England, Mary , 

who died April 9, 1671 ; (second) Lydia (Shep- 
ardson ) Call, widow of Thomas Call. She 
died December 17, 1723, aged eighty-seven. 
Children, born at Chichester, England : Thomas, 
mentioned below ; Abraham, baptized in Pal- 
lant I'arish Church, September 29, 1649. 

( II ) Thomas (2), son of Thomas ( i ) Skin- 
ner, was born in Subdeanery and Parish, Chi- 
chester, England, July 25, 1645. He married 
Mary, daughter of Richard and Mary Pratt, 
of Maiden, Essex county, England. Richard 
IVatt was baptized there, June 29, 1615, died 
1 69 1. Deacon Thomas Skinner removed, with 
his wife, sons Richard, Benjamin, Ebenezer, 
Xathaniel, and daughter .Abigail, to Colchester, 
Connecticut, where he was one of the original 
proprietors. His name and that of his son 
Ebenezer frequently occur in the early records. 
He held various town officers and served on 
important committees. He and his son Ben- 
jamin were granted lots, January 21, 1702, 
and, in May, 1702, he drew his house lot. The 
diary of his son Thomas has been preserved 
and gives many interesting details of family 
history. All his children were born in Maiden. 
His wife died March 26, 1704. Children: 
IMary, born Xovember 3, 16G6; Thomas, No- 
vember 3, 1668, removed to Norton, Massa- 
chusetts: Abiah, June 16, 167 1 ; John, April 
5, 1673, mentioned below: Richard, June 2, 
1675; Joseph, January 13, 1678; Hannah, died 
October 20, 1728: Benjamin, born January 30, 
1681 : Ebenezer, April 2;^. 1684; Nathaniel, 
January 27, 1686: Abigail, February 17, 1691. 

(Ill) John, son of Thomas (2) Skinner, 
was born April 5, 1673, in Maiden, Massachu- 
setts. He and his brother Thomas settled in 
Norton, Massachusetts, though for many years 
he was a member of the church at Wrentham, 
Massachusetts, in which his children were bap- 
tized, 1701-17. He may have lived in Wrent- 
ham, though probably not, for the births of 
the children are recorded at Norton. The 
births of his brother Thomas's children were 
recorded at Wrentham. The Norton history 
tells us that John's home was in the west part 
of the North Purchase of Taunton (Norton), 
and he was a member of the church at its 
organization. He died at Wrentham, April 8, 
1754, according to the town records. He mar- 
ried Sarah . Children, born at Norton 

and baptized at Wrentham: i. Sarah, born 
January 31, 1697, baptized September 11, 1701. 



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2. John, born December 17, 1700, baptized 
September 11, 1701. 3. Ezra, mentionetl below. 
4. Ebenezer, born January IQ, 1707, baptized 
Alarch 16, 1707; married Joanna Bacon. 5. 
Hepsibah. born June 2"/, 171 1, baptized August 

26, 171 1. 6. Abigail, born August 26, 1713, 
baptized October 18, 1713: married Seth Rich- 
ardson. 7. Jemima, born January 2, 1717, 
baptized April 7, 1717. 

(IV) Ezra, son of John Skinner, was' born 
at Norton, April 26, 1703, baptized at Wrent- 
ham, April 26, 1703. He married Elizabeth 
Swan, or Swaine, January 8, 1724, at Med ford. 
Children, born at Norton : Timothy, mention- 
ed below; Elijah and Elisha. twins, February 

27, 1725-26: Ezra. February 14. 1730. Per- 
haps others. 

(V) Timothy, son of Ezra Skinner, was 
born at Norton, September 10, 1724: married 
there, November 6. 1748, Hannah Tiffany. He 
settled in Mansfield, ^Massachusetts, originally 
a parish of Norton. Children, born at Norton : 
Elizabeth, October 3, 1749: John, November 
12, 1 75 1 ; Elisha, July 20, 1754 : Hannah, Octo- 
ber 10, 1756. Born at Mansfield: Timothy, 
mentioned below. 

(VI) Timothy (2), son of Timothy (i) 
Skinner, was born at !\[ansfield, February 10, 
1761. He was a soldier in the revolution from 
Mansfield, enlisting September 2, 1777. in Cap- 
tain Silas Cobb's company. Colonel Dan forth 
Keyes's regiment ; also a private for six months, 
June 28, 1778, to January i, 1779, in Colonel 
John Daggetts' regiment, and in Captain Jo- 
seph Cole's company. Colonel John Jacobs's 
regiment : also, in 1779, in Captain Enoch 
Robinson's company. Colonel Samuel Fisher's 
regiment (vol. xiv, Mass. Rev. Rolls, p. 282). 
He married, at Westmoreland, New Hamj)- 
shire, September, 1790, Ruth Warner, born at 
\^'estmoreland, November 6, 1770, died at 
Keene, New Hampshire, where two of her 
sons lived, July 2, 1849, aged seventy-eight 
years. Children : Alanson, settled in Chester- 
field, New Hampshire, about 181 5. Barton, 
born December 19, 1801, resided at Chester- 
field, 1853-56. and died at Keene, February 11, 
1865 : Warren ; Cynthia ; Avery, mentioned 
below: Hiram: .\(lol])hus; John: Albert. 

(VH) Hon. Avery Skinner, son of Timo- 
thy (2) Skinner, was born in Westmoreland. 
New Hampshire, June 9. 1796. He worked 
on his father's farm in his native town during 
his boyhood, attended the public schools there, 



and taught school in winter in order to com- 
plete his education in the Chesterfield Acad- 
emy. In 1816 he started for the Black River 
country on horseback, and ten days later reach- 
ed \\'atertown, Jefferson county. New York, 
where he remained six years and followed 
various occupations. In 1823 he came to what 
is now Union Square, Oswego county, the 
name of which he gave. He cleared a farm, 
conducted a tavern, and was appointed post- 
master by President John Quincy Adams, and 
held the office more than fifty years. He was 
one of the founders of the Mexico Academy, 
and trustee and secretary for many years. In 
1831 he was elected to the assembly of New 
York, and reelected in 1832. In 1826 he was 
elected county treasurer, and held that office 
by reelection from term to term for a period 
of twelve years. In 1828 he was appointed 
county judge and held the office until 1839, 
when he declined reelection. He represented 
the county in the state senate, 1838-42. He 
was nominated for congress in 1846, and was 
defeated by Hon. W'illiam Duer by a few votes. 
In politics he was a strong and influential 
Democrat. He filled the many offices which 
he held, with exceptional ability and efficiency, 
being fitted not only by natural qualifications 
and ability but by good training and sterling 
character, and for many years was one of the 
most prominent and useful citizens of the 
county. He married, June 9, 1822, Elizabeth 
Lathrop, daughter of Solomon and Ann 
(Jones) Huntington. Her father came from 
Norwich, Connecticut, to Mexico, New York, 
in 1804: was a near relative of Samuel Hunt- 
ington, signer of the Declaration of Independ- 
ence and president of the Continental Con- 
gress (see Huntington). Avery Skinner mar- 
ried (second), in 1834, Charlotte Stebbins, of 
Watertown, New York. Children: i. Lucretia, 
born September 13, 1824, died September 27, 
1824. 2. Timothy Warner, mentioned below. 
3. Solomon Avery, born July 23. 1829, died 
September 6, 1830. 4. Eliza Iluntington, born 
July 13, 1833: married Charles Richardson. 
Children of second wife: 5. Rev. James .\., 
born November 15, 1835: Protestant Epis- 
copal clergyman of New York City. 6. Char- 
lotte G., born January 22, 1837. 7. Infant, 
died December 14, 1841, unnamed. 8. .Albert 
T., born November 12, 1841. 9. Charles R., 
August 4, 1844: former assemblyman and con- 
gressman, now an officer of the custom house. 



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Xew York City. lo. Mary Grace, born Sep- 
tember 12. 1846; married Hon. Maurice L. 
Wright (see Wright). 

(\'III) Timothy Warner, son of Hon. 
-Avery Skinner, was born at Union Square, 
town of Mexico, Oswego county, Xew York, 
April 24, 1827. He attended the public schools 
of his native town, and worked on his father's 
farm there until he was twenty-five years old. 
T'or several years he taught the district school 
in winter, and had charge of the farm in sum- 
mer. In 1852 he was elected a justice of the 
peace of the town and served two terms. He 
moved to the village of Mexico in 1853, and 
lias resided there since that year. In 1857 Mr. 
Skinner was admitted to the bar, and, in 191 1. 
after practicing fift}^five years, he is the oldest 
practicing attorney in Oswego county. In No- 
vember, 1857, he entered into partnership with 
Judge Cyrus Whitney, in the law and banking 
firm of Whitney & Skinner. The firm con- 
tinued until 1870, when the senior partner re- 
moved to Oswego. Maurice L. Wright, brother- 
in-law of Mr. Skinner, then became his part- 
ner, and the firm name became Wright & 
.Skinner. Since 1880, when the firm was dis- 
solved, Mr. Skinner has practiced alone. In 
public life Mr. Skinner has had a long and 
distinguished career. He was elected surrogate 
of Oswego county in 1863, reelected in 1870, 
and again in 1876, serving in this ofiice longer 
than any other incumbent. He has taken an 
active part in village affairs, and was presi- 
dent of the incorporated village of Mexico for 
many years. For many years he was one of 
the trustees of the old Alexico Academy. In 
politics he was formerly a Democrat, after- 
ward a Republican. He is also prominent in 
the Masonic fraternity, a member of the lodge, 
and past high priest of Mexico Chapter, No. 
135, Royal Arch Masons, and now the oldest 
Free Alason in the town. In religion he is a 
Methodist. He married, January 17, 1856, 
Sarah Elizabeth Calkins, died in 1861, daugh- 
ter of Minor H. Calkins. He married (sec- 
ond), August 18, 1862, Sarah L. Rose, born 
January 4, 1833, died May 23, 1910, daughter 
of Joseph Rose. Child of first wife: i. Lizzie 
B., born June 18, 1857; married J. B. Stone, 
of .Auburn. New A'ork ; children: Avery J., 
-Alliene, Grace and Charlotte Stone. Children 
of second wife: 2. Grace, died December 24, 
1894. 3. .Avery Warner, born August 18, 
1870; graduate of Syracuse L'niversity ; princi- 
pal of Oneida high school, later principal of 



Andes Academy and of the Me.xicohigh school, 
and nowr state inspector of schools of New 
A^ork; married Nancy Brown Bates, of Titus- 
ville, Pennsylvania ; children : Margaret and 
Charlotte, 

(The Huntington Line). 

( I ) Simon Huntington, immigrant ancestor, 
was born in England, and sailed for New Eng- 
land, in 1633, with his wife and children, but 
was taken ill and died on the voyage, of small- 
pox. His widow. Margaret (Barrett) Hunt- 
ington, settled with her children first in Rox- 
bury, Massachusetts, where she married ( sec- 
ond), 1633-36, Thomas Stoughton, of Dor- 
chester. They removed to Windsor, Connecti- 
cut, and settled there. Margaret was probably 
born in Norwich. England. Practically noth- 
ing is known of Simon Huntingdon — even his 
name was a mystery to the early genealogists 
of the family. Children : William, settled in 
Salisbury, in 1640; Thomas, settled in Con- 
necticut ; Christopher, settled in Norwich, one 
of the founders : Simon, mentioned below : 
Ann, mentioned in a letter written by Peter 
Barrett to his sister, Margaret (Barrett) Hunt- 
ington. 

(II) Simon (2), son of Simon (i) Hunt- 
ington, was born in England, about 1630, and 
came to .America on the ill-fated voyage with 
his mother, in 1633. He settled in Norwich 
and was a member of Mr. Fitch's church there, 
and a deacon of the church until 1696, when 
his sons succeeded him. He was a member of 
the general assembly in 1674, had a grant of 
land in 1686. was townsman in 1690 and 1694. 
In 1694 he was on a committee to search out 
and report the deficiencies in the public records. 
He served on the committee to seat the meet- 
ing-house, 1697-1700, and was on a committee 
to give deeds and fix titles of lands in dispute 
or with defective title. He married, October, 
1653, Sarah, daughter of Josejjh Clark, of 
Windsor, Connecticut. She died 1 72 1, aged 
eighty-eight. He died at Norwich, June 28, 
1706. aged seventy-seven. Children: Sarah, 
born at Saybrook, .August, 1657. married Dr. 
.Solomon Tracy ; Mary, born at .Saybrook, .Au- 
gust, 1657, married Forbes, of Preston ; 

Simon Saybrook, February, 1659, succeeded 
his father as deacon : Joseph, mentioned below. 
Born at Norwich : Elizabeth. February, 1664, 
died young; Samuel, ]\Iarch i, 1665; Eliza- 
beth, October 6, 1666, married Joseph Backus : 
Nathaniel, July 10, 1672, died young; Daniel. 
March 13, 1675-76. 



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(Ill) Deacon Joseph Huntington, son of 
Simon Huntington, was born at Norwich, Sep- 
tember, i66i, and died at Windham, Decem- 
ber 20. 17 1 7. In 1687 he went to Windham, 
Connecticut, and built his house, materials 
from which were used in the construction of 
the house now on his old farm. He was elect- 
ed deacon in Windham church in 1729. He 
owned land in Williamantic aiid in Windham. 
He married, November 28, 1787, Rebecca, 
daughter of Deacon Thomas Adgate. Chil- 
dren : Deacon Joseph, born at Norwich, Au- 
gust 29, 1688, married July 6, 1719, Elizabeth 
Ripley ; Nathaniel, born at Norwich, Septem- 
ber I, 1691. Born at Windham: Jonathan, Oc- 
tober 7, 1695, married, November 7, 1734, 
Elizabeth Rockwell, (second), August 7, 1754. 
Sarah Norton ; David, December 6, 1697, mar- 
ried, June 30, 1725, ^lary Alason, born Au- 
gust 31, 1707 ; Solomon, mentioned below ; Re- 
becca, September 18, 1712 (doubtless 1702), 
married January 24, 1734, John Crane; Sarah, 
born May 25, 170(3, married March 28, 1728, 
Ebenezer Wright; Mary, August 4, 1707, mar- 
ried Theophilus Fitch, of Canterbury. 

( I\') Solomon, son of Deacon Joseph Hunt- 
ington, was bom in Windham, February 6, 
1700. and died April 30, 1752. He married, 
October 31, 1727, Mary, daughter of Thomas 
and Margaret (Griswold) Buckingham, grand- 
daughter of Rev. Thomas and Esther (Hos- 
mer) Buckingham, born June 5, 1705, died 
September 7, 1778. Children: Solomon, born 
November 24, 1728, died January 2, 1729; 
Margaret, born April 8, 1730; Jeremiah, F'eb- 
ruary 24, 1732-33, a soldier in the revolution ; 
Rebecca, June 7, 1735; Solomon, mentioned 
below; Temperance, October 6, 1739; Alary, 
October 8, 1741 ; Lydia, November 2, 1744. 

( \' ) Solomon (2), son of Solomon (i) 
Huntington, was born (X-tober 19, 1737, and 
died March 3, 1809. He married, March 28, 
1762, Anna Denison, born 1742, died Septem- 
ber 6, 1807. She joined the church, 1770. He 
was prominent in town affairs. Children, born 
at Windham: Minor, .'\])ril 22, 1763, removed 
to Nova Scotia, 1784; Alathea, November 29, 
1764; Elizabeth, January 15, 1767; Anna and 
Solomon (twins), .'\pril 7, 1770; Joseph Deni- 
son, October 28, 1778; Mary, February 25, 
1781. 

(\'\) Solomon (3), son of Solomon (2) 
Huntington, was born .April 7, 1770, and mar- 
ried, October 25, 1801. .Anna Jones, of New 
Haven. 1 le removed to Mexico, New York. 



Children, first born in Connecticut, the rest in 
Mexico: Elizabeth Lathrop, September 13, 
1802, married .Avery Skinner (see Skinner) ; 
William Jones, February 9, 1804; Herbert 
Nelson, April 9, 1807 ; Benjamin Lathrop, Feb- 
ruary 16, 1810; Samuel Peck, May 25, i8ii; 
John Lathrop, March 24, 1817. 



(HI) Lieutenant Sam- 
Hl'NTINCjTON uel Huntington, son of 
Simon Huntington (q. 
v.), was born in Norwich, March i, 1665, 
died at Lebanon, May 10, 1717. In 1700 
he removed to Lebanon, Connecticut, after 
selling his house and lot for a parsonage. 
IJefore his removal he had been in public life 
and held various offices. In 1692 he was elect- 
ed constable and he had been one of the towns- 
men. Ten years after settling in Lebanon, he 
was appointed by the citizens of Norwich on a 
committee to locate the new meeting-house, 
abotit which a serious dispute had arisen. He 
owned much land both in Norwich and Leb- 
anon. His name was on the list of members 
of the Lebanon church in 1707, and his wife's 
name in 1701. He married, in Norwich, Octo- 
ber 29, 1686, Alary, daughter of \\'illiam Clark, 
of Wethersfield; she died October 5, 1743. 
Children, born in Norwich: Elizabeth, April 
24, if)88-89; Samuel, August 28, i(x)i ; Caleb, 
mentioned below; Alary, October i, 1696; Re- 
becca, February, 1(398-99. Born in Lebanon: 
Sarah, October 22, 1701 ; John, Alay 17, 1706; 
Simon, .August 15, 1708. 

( IV ) Caleb, son of Lieutenant Samuel-Hunt- 
ington, was born at Norwich, Connecticut, 
February 8, 1693-94; married there, January 
28, 1720, Lydia Griswold, born May 28, 1696. 
Children, bom at Lebanon, Connecticut : Caleb, 
December 9, 1721 : Lydia, June 3. 1722 ; Elisha 
and Elijah, twins, .April 25, 1724; .Abner. 
Alarch 6, 1726; James, .April 25, 1728; Sus- 
anna, June 23, 1730; Ezekiel, .\ugust 2, 1732, 
mentioned below. 

(V) Ezekiel. son of Caleb Huntington, was 
born at Lebanon, Connecticut, .August 2, 1732. 
He lived at Lebanon, and perha])s for a time 
at Sharon, Connecticut, locating after the revo- 
lution at Stephentown, Albany county, New 
A'ork, where he was living in 1790, according 
to the first federal census, with two males over 
sixteen, two males under sixteen, and three 
females in his family. He married twice. 
Children, born at Lebanon : Joseph, Alay 25. 
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1790: Betsey, September 3, 1760, lived at 
Cornwallis. \ova Scotia ; Esther, July 5, 1763 ; 
Ezekiel, November. 1764, settled at Stephen- 
town, and was head of family there in 1790; 
Daniel. September 6, 1766: Caleb, mentioned 
below. 

( \ I ) Caleb (2), son of Ezekiel Hunting- 
ton, was born at Sharon, Connecticut, October 
4, 1770. He was a millwright by trade, and 
settled when a young man in Otsego county. 
He came to the town of Me.xico, New York, 
January 15, 1824, and was contractor and 
builder of many of the mills erected in Cen- 
tral Xew York. He and his .son Edwin own- 
ed and operated the Huntington Mills, at Mex- 
ico. He married ( first I, in 1795, Sarah Joyce, 
who died September 13, 1823: married (sec- 
ond) Demaris Wight. Caleb died in Mexico, 
October i, 1839. Children; Allen, born June 
12, 1797; Eli, December 22, 1799; Harry, De- 
cember 25, 1801 ; Edwin, of whom further; 
Willis P., May 9, 1808; Lester B. ; Sarah M., 
Xovember ifi. 1812: Olive A.. December 12. 
1820. 

( \'H) Edwin Huntington, son of Caleb (2) 
Huntington, was born in Burlington, Otsego 
county, Xew York, June i, 1805, and died at 
Mexico, Oswego county, Xew York, May 20, 
1870. He attended the common and high 
schools of the town of Mexico, and for sev- 
eral years was a school teacher. He learned 
the trade of millwright of his father, with 
whom he was afterward in partnership, own- 
ing and operating the Huntington Mills, at 
Mexico. Upon the death of his father he suc- 
ceeded to the ownership of the mills and con- 
ducted them until some ten years before he 
died. In connection with the mills he had a 
general store in Me.xico, and for many years 
was postmaster there. In early life he was an 
old-line Whig in politics, afterwards a Re- 
publican. He was a prominent member of the 
Methodist Episcopal church, and a member of 
the order of Sons of Temperance. He died May 
20, 1870. He married, January 20. 1831, Mary 
Charity Gregory, who died July 6, 1834. He 
married (second), in 1835, Lucy Ann Gregory, 
a sister of his first wife, who died January I, 
185 1. He married ( third), June 5, 1853, ^lary 
E.'(Borden) Hewett, who died in 1881. Chil- 
dren of first wife: Marion, born March 20, 
1832. died in infancy; Mary H., born May 10, 
1834. Children of second wife; Lester B. ; 
Edwin L., mentioned below ; Sarah H. ; Lewis 
J., born 1846, enlisted during the civil war in 



Battery L, Ninth Regiment Artillery, New 
York, died in Washington, D. C, July 9, 1864, 
of fever contracted in the Wilderness cam- 
paign. 

(\I1I) Captain Etlwin L. Huntington, son 
of Edwin Huntington, was born in Mexico, 
Xew York, July 8, 1839, and was educated in 
the public .schools there and in the ^Me.xico 
Academy. From 1856 to 1858 he was in Wis- 
consin and Michigan. In 1861, when Presi- 
dent Lincoln called for volunteers, after the 
attack of Fort Sumter, he was one of the first 
to enlist, and from first to last during the civil 
war was active in service. He went to the 
front in the first regiment that left the county, 
being nuistered in as a private and winning 
promotion from grade to grade until he was 
captain of his company. He enlisted in Com- 
pany B, Twenty-fourth Xew York \'olunteer 
Infantry, First Brigade (the famous Iron Bri- 
gade), First Division, First Army Corps. Mr. 
Huntington took part in the following engage- 
ments during the years 1861-63; Bailey's Cross 
Roads, July 25, 1861 ; F"alls Church, October 
8, 1861 ; Falmouth, April 17, 1862; Massa- 
ponax, August 6, 1862 ; Rappahannock River, 
August 22, 1862 ; Gainesville, .\ugust 28, 1862 ; 
Sulphur Springs, August 29, 1862; Groveton, 
August 29, 1862; Bull Run, .\ugust 30, 1862; 
Little River Turnpike, September i, 1862: 
South Mountain, September 14, 1862; Antie- 
tam, September 17, 1862; Fredericksburg, De- 
cember 14-15, 1862; Pollock's Mill Creek, 
.April 29, 1863; Chancellorsville, May 2-3, 1863. 
At Chancellorsville Mr. Huntington was the 
only private in Company B to escape injury, 
all the others being wounded or killed. He 
was slightly wounded at Fredericksburg. He- 
was honorably discharged and mustered out 
May 29, 1863. He reelisted in 1863, and was 
commissioned second lieutenant in Captain 
Frank Sinclair's Battery L, Xinth Xew York 
Artillery, and was commissioned captain July 
6, 1863. His regiment was in the Second Bri- 
gade, Third Division, Sixth .Army Corps, and 
took part in the following engagements in 
1864-65; Cold Harbor, May 31 to June 12, 
1864; Petersburg, June 15-19, 1864; Weldon 
Railroad, June 21-23, 1864: Washington, July 
12-13, 1864; Charlestown, .August 21, 1864; 
Summit Point, .August 29, 1864; Winchester, 
September 19, 1864; near Cedar Creek, Octo- 
ber 26, 1864: assault on Petersburg Works, 
March 25, 1864; fall of Petersburg, April 2. 
1865 ; Sailors' Creek, April 6, 1865, and Appo- 



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matox Court House, April 9, 1865. He was 
slightly wounded at Cedar Creek. He was 
honorably discharged and mustered out Sep- 
tember 6, 1865. 

Upon his return from the front Captain 
Huntington engaged in business as a druggist, 
in the town of Me.xico, and enjoyed a large 
and flourishing business for a number of years. 
Since the war he has been prominent in the 
state militia and in the public service. In June, 
1878, he organized a company which was at- 
tached to the Forty-eighth Regiment, New- 
York National Guard, commonly known as 
the Huntington Guards, and for a period of 
twelve years was captain. It was composed 
largely of veterans and won the reputation of 
being one of the finest companies in the regi- 
ment. It was called into service several times, 
the most important being at the time of the 
railroad riots at Hornellsville and other parts 
of New York state. In 1880 Captain Hunting- 
ton was unanimously nominated for the office 
of sheriff of Oswego county, on the first ballot 
in the Republican county convention, being the 
first nominee in the county to receive the nomi- 
nation for this office without a contest. 1 le 
was elected bv an unusually large plurality. 
In 1894 he was elected supervisor of the town 
of Mexico and reelected from year to year 
until he had served fourteen years, and he be- 
came one of the most prominent members in 
the board of supervisors of the county. He 
has always been a Republican. His first vote 
was cast for Lincoln. He was commaniler of 
Melzar Richards Post, No. 367, Grand Army 
of the Republic, for twenty-one years, and the 
camp of Sons of Veterans in Mexico was 
named for him. He has always taken a keen 
interest in village im|)rovement, and largely 
througli his energy and support the electric 
lighting system was secured. In the move- 
ment to raise funds for the soldiers' monu- 
ment he was an earnest worker. The monu- 
ment was erected in the Mexico cemetery. 
He is a member of Mexico Lodge, No. 136, 
Free Masons, and has been honored with all 
the offices in succession ; member of Mexico 
Qiapter, No. 135, Royal Arch Masons; of 
Lake Ontario Commandery, Knights Templar. 
In religion he is a Methodist. 

He married (first), .September i, 1868, Flor- 
ence .\. Allen, born in Mexico, died April 20, 
1888, daughter of Alonzo Allen. He married 
(second), in 1891, Mary A. Tourdot, born in 
Mexico, 1862, daughter of Joseph and Mary 



Tourdot. Children: i. Edith L., born July 30, 
1871 : married. March 5. 1891, Clinton E. 
.\very ; child. Florence Avery. 2. Lulu Adelle, 
born March 22, 1875; married, June 18, 1902, 
Dr. L. D. Pulsifer, of Mexico; children, Allen 
Huntington and Helen D. Pulsifer. 



John Everts, or Evarts, immi- 
EX'ERTS grant ancestor, was born in 
England, and settled early in 
Concord, Massachusetts, of which he was made 
a freeman by the general court in March, 1637- 
38. He resided there several years, and at 
least two of his children were born there. He 
removed to Guilford, Connecticut, and took the 
freeman's oath in Connecticut, February 5, 
1651-52. In 1655 he was defendant in two 
civil suits, being then a resident of Guilford. 
He purchased John Mepham's allotment at 
Guilford, for twenty-one pounds, July 29. 
165 1. In 1667 he was appointed tithingman. 
He is said to have lived also at New Haven 
for a time. He died at Guilford, May 9, 1669. 
He married (first) Elizabeth ,and (sec- 
ond), May 27, 1663, Elizabeth, widow of John 
Parmelee, who died in November, 1688. Chil- 
dren of first wife: John, born February 29, 
1639-40, mentioned below; Judah, October 2~, 
1642, at Concord; Daniel, 1645; James, 1648; 
Elizabeth, married Peter Abbott, and was mur- 
dered by her husband at Fairfield, for which 
offence he was tried, convicted and executed, 
October 16, 1667. 

(II) John Everts, son of John Everts, or 
Evarts, was born at Concord, February 29, 
1639-40, died at Guilford, December 28, 1692. 
He married (first), September 14, 1665, Mary, 
daughter of Thomas French. She died in 1668, 
and he married (second) Mary, daughter of 
Alexander Bow, of MidtUetown, Connecticut. 
She died April 25, 1700. Children of first 
wife, born at Guilford: Mary, born .August 12, 
1666; John, September 16, 1668. Children of 
second wife, born at Guilford: Hannah, No- 
vember 12, 1670; Sarah. June 4. 1673; Eliza- 
beth, 1674; Nathaniel, mentioned below; Me- 
hitable, February 25, 1678-79 ; Ebenezer, Sep- 
tember 15, 1681 ; Silence, January 26, 1683-84: 
Patience, May 14, 1689. 

(HI) Nathaniel, son of John Everts, was 
born at Guilford. July 24, 1675, died in May. 
1739. He lived at East Guilford, where he 
was assessed, in 1716, for sixty-six ])ounds 
seven shillings six pence. He married. May 7, 
1707. Margaret, daughter of Dr. Thomas Hast- 



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ings, of Hatfield, Massachusetts. Children, 
born at ( juilford : John, September 21, 1708, 
lived at Salisbury and Xew Haven, \'ermont ; 
Margaret, August 22, 1710: Elijah, mentioned 
below; Nathaniel, May 9, 1719; Sylvanus, 
March 31, 1721. 

(I\') Elijah, son of Nathaniel Everts, was 
born at Guilford, April 4, 1712. He probably 
married Gillette. 

(V) Samuel Gillett Everts, son or nephew 
of Elijah Everts, was born at Guilford, Janu- 
ary 29, 1746. ]\Iany of his near relatives set- 
tled in \'erniont and New York. In 1790 
Luther, Ambrose, Timothy, Solomon, Jesse, 
Jesse Jr., James, Gilbert H., Edward, Eber, 
Charles and Abner were heads of families in 
New Haven, Salisbury, Middlebury, Sunder- 
land and other towns in \'ermont. Many of 
the \'ermont families afterward moved to New 
York and westward. Amos, Jonathan and 
Solomon were heads of families in Massachu- 
setts, in 1790, according to the first federal 
census. Luther Everts, of Lanesborough, and 
Judah Everts, of Stockbridge, were soldiers 
from Massachusetts in the revolution. Eben- 
ezer Everts, a brother of Samuel Everts, set- 
tled in the town of Mexico, Oswego county, 
New York, in 1804, clearing a fami in the 
southwest part of the town, and had sons Fred- 
erick and Philo Everts. Samuel Everts came 
to Mexico about 1804 and settled on the farm 
which his descendants still own and occupy. 
Samuel married, September 10, 1771, Sarah 
Fuller. Their sons Elijah, Walter, Samuel 
and I^uther Everts took up farms in Mexico. 
Children of Samuel Gillette and Sarah Everts : 
Elijah. Samuel (mentioned below), Walter, 
r^Uher, Electa, Sarah, .\senath, Olive and 
Julia. 

(VI) Samuel, son of Samuel Gillett Everts, 
was born in Connecticut, September 20, 1780, 
and came with his father and uncle's family to 
Mexico. He drew land and cleared a farm in 
Mexico and besides following farming was a 
land surveyor. He gave the land for a church 
in his neighborhood, now called North Mexico 
church. He married Lucinda Roberts. He 
died at the age of seventy years ; his wife at 
the age of eighty. Children : Myron, mention- 
ed below ; Alma, Matilda, Milton, Sarah and 
-Avery, the last dying in young manhood, the 
others living to an advanced age. 

(\'II) Myron, son of Samuel Everts, was 
born in Mexico, in 1816, died there, in 1908, at 
the age of ninety-two. He attended the com- 



mon schools of his native town, and worked 
during boyhood on his father's farm. On ac- 
count of his father's illness, he had to take 
charge of the farm at an early age, and he fol- 
lowed farriiing throughout his life. He was 
a competent and successful business man. In 
politics he was a Republican. He married, Oc- 
tober 20, 1846, Lucretia Alatthews, born April 
3, 1820, died in 1892, daughter of Edmund 
Matthews. Her father was born in Massachu- 
setts, January 3, 1775, died September 2, 1848, 
one of the first settlers of Mexico, Oswego 
county. New York; married (first), Lucy 
Bruce, born March 11, 1780, died October u, 
1803. Edmund Matthews married (second) 
December 24, 1806, Lucy McLellan, born Jan- 
uary 10, 1779, died February 2, 1862. Child 
of Edmund and Lucy (Bruce) Matthews: 
Charles B. Matthews, born March 27, 1803. 
Children of Edmund and Lucy (AIcLellan) 
Matthews : Henry Matthews, born January 
25, 1808, died June 24, 1874; Lucy Mat- 
thews, born December 11, 1810, died October 
8, 1861 ; Paschal P., born August 5, 1812, died 
in Chicago, Illinois, in 1906, one of the great 
financiers of the country, wdio achieved his 
wealth by his own eiTorts, who married, May 
I, 1840, Louisa Vinton, born November 11, 
1809, and had one child, Lucy Alice Matthews, 
born December 2, 1842, died August 4, 1882; 
Emery Matthews, born September 12, 18 13, 
died in i860; Lucretia ^latthews, married 
Myron Everts, as stated above. Children of 
Myron and Lucretia Everts : Edmund AL, men- 
tioned below ; Charles H., mentioned belo\\-. 

(VIII) Edmund M., son of Myron Everts, 
was born June 11, 1850, in Mexico, on the old 
Matthews homestead. He attended the luiblic 
schools of his native town and tlie Mexico 
Academy. For nearly fifty years he lived cm 
the farm where he was born and followed 
farming from his early youth. In 1901 he re- 
tired from active labor and since ther he lias 
resided in the village of Mexico. In politics 
he is a Republican ; in religion a Presbyterian. 
He married, September 25, 1879, Margaret 
Cadby, born November 6, 1853, in Jeft'ersori 
county, New York, daughter of George and 
Marg?,ret (Dean) Cadby. Her father was 
born in England and settled in Jefferson county. 
New York, when a young man. Children of 
]\Ir. and Airs. Everts: i. Paschal P., born July 
I, 1880, educated in the public scl.oi \^ and a 
graduate of Mexico Academy and Coliunbia 
College, a pharmacist in New York City ; mar- 



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ried, June 28, 1905, Mrs. Ella (Sherman) 
JMabey. 2. Ethel Lucretia, February 9, 1888, 
a graduate from the Mexico high school and 
academy, also a graduate of the State Normal 
School, at Oswego, now a kindergarten teacher. 
(\'III) Charles H., second son of Myron 
Everts, was born in Mexico, Ajiril 20. 1854, 
and was brought up on the old Matthews home- 
stead on which he was born. Me attended the 
public schools, Mexico Academy and the State 
Normal School, at Oswego. After completing 
his education he engaged in farming and 
other occupations. He is a member of the 
?\Iexico Lodge, No. 136, Free and Accepted 
Masons; of Mexico Chapter, No. 135, Royal 
Arch Masons ; of Ontario Lake Command- 
ery, Knights Templar, of Oswego; of Media 
Temple, Mystic Shrine, of Watertown ; of the 
Citizens Club, of Syracuse. In politics he is a 
Republican. He married, December 29, 1883, 
Emma E. Aird, born in Richland, Oswego 
county. New York, March 15, 1854, daughter 
of Robert and Philinda (Tyler) Aird. Her 
father was born in New York state, son of 
Matthew .\ird, who was born in Scotland, and 
came to New York soon after 1800. Matthew 
Aird married Sarah Howard (see Howard \'). 
Robert Aird was a soldier in the civil war, 
serving three years in the One Hundred and 
Tenth New York Regiment, \'olunteer Infan- 
try, and is a member of the Grand Army, the 
I'rce Masons, of the Methodist Episcopal 
church, and a Republican in politics ; married 
Philinda Tyler, born in Pulaski, Oswego coun- 
ty. New York, daughter of W'illiam and Ruha- 
mah ( Morton) Tyler, of New liaven, Oswego 
county. ]ireviously of Connecticut. William 
Tyler was a farmer at New Haven, and a 
soldier in the war of 1812. Child of Mr. and 
Mrs. Charles H. Everts: Myron Aird, born 
1887, died aged two months. 

(The Howard Line). 

(I) Henry Howard, immigrant ancestor, 
was doubtless born in England, and he settled 
«arly at Wethersfield, Connecticut. He also 
lived at Hartford. He was a malster by trade. 
He was born probably in 1623. His will was 
proved .April 4, 1709. His inventory amounted 
to five hundred and thirty-one pounds fourteen 
shillings six pence. He married, at Hartford, 
September 28, 1648, Sarah Stone. Children : 
Mary, born 1651 : Sarah, 1653 ; Elizabeth, 1656 ; 
John and Lydia (twins) ; Mary; Samuel, men- 
tioned below. 



(H) Samuel, son of Henry Howard, was 
born in Hartford or Wethersfield, about 1660, 
died in 1716. His inventory dated May 30, 
1716, amounted to two thousand two hundred 
and five pounds seventeen shillings and seven 
pence. His will was dated February 23. 1716, 
proved August 17 following. He was a pros- 
perous shop keeper or merchant at Hartford. 
He married Susanna . Children, men- 
tioned in the will, the daughters being minors ; 
Samuel, mentioned below ; Susanna, .Abigail 
and Ruth. 

( HI ) Samuel (2), son of Samuel ( i ) How- 
ard, was born in Hartford, about 1690. He 
and his mother were executors of his father's 
will in 1 7 16, and he inherited house, land and 
business at Hartford. He was in business in 
Hartford. He died there in 1749. His inven- 
tory shows an estate valued at four thousand 
four hundred pounds, January 12, 1749-50. 
His widow Alice sold real estate in 1751 and 
the estate was distributed in that year. She 
was appointed adtninistratrix, March 22, 1749- 
50. He had only one son, Samuel, and several 
daughters, whose names are not known. 

( I\ ) Samuel (3), son of Sanuiel (2) How- 
ard, was born about 1720. He received a 
double share from his father's estate in 1751. 
Sons : Samuel, mentioned below ; James ; Ben- 
jamin ; Daniel. 

(V) Samuel I4). son of Samuel (3) How- 
ard, was born at Hartford, and removed to 
Benson, Rutland county. \'ermont, according 
to the history of that town, with several 
brothers. In 1790 Samuel Howard, of Ben- 
son, had one son under sixteen and three 
females in his family, according to the first 
federal census; his brother James had two 
sons under sixteen and two females, and his 
brother Benjamin two males over sixteen, 
three under that age and two females. His 
brother James was deacon of the Benson Con- 
gregational Church in 1797, and died in 1831. 
aged sixty-eight. All of the brothers lived on 
Howard ilill, Samuel, James, Daniel and prob- 
ably Benjamin. Samuel Howard was a soldier 
in the revolution in Captain James Davis's 
com]iany in 1781, in Connecticut, and went to 
\'ermont about 1785. He was selectman of 
Benson from 1791 to 1795; in 1800, from 1806 
to 1816; and represented the town in the state 
legislature in 181 5 and 1823. He died there 
in April. 1831, aged seventy years. His son. 
Major Edward S. Howard, was an active and 
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the legislature in 1842, died June 7, 1863, aged 
seventy-two years. Sarah Howard, daughter 
of Samuel Howard, married Matthe^ Aird and 
settled in New York state ; her son, Rohert 
Aird, married Philinda Tyler and their daugh- 
ter, Emma E. Aird, married, in 1883, Charles 
H. Evarts (see Evarts Mil). 



Christopher Goodwin, the im- 

(jOODW'IX migrant ancestor, was born 
in England and settled in 
Charlestown, Massachusetts, where his wife 
Mary was admitted to the church, August 9, 
1656. He was a mason by trade. He died 
there, according to his gravestone, January 22, 
1682. aged sixty-five years. Children: En- 
sign Nathaniel, deputy to general court from 
Charlestown, removed to Reading, where his 
son, John was a prominent citizen ; Christo- 
pher, mentioned below ; John, had son John, 
not one mentioned below ; Mary, married, 1672, 
^\'illiam Brown; Elizabeth, born March 13, 
1659: Timothy, baptized June 8, 1662. 

(H) Christopher (2), son of Christopher 
(i) Goodwin, was born in 1647, according to 
his deposition, 1682, giving his age as thirty- 
five. He was like his father, a mason by trade. 
He and his wife were admitted to the Charles- 
town church, March 18, 1676-77. He married 
(first), May 11, 1672, Mercy Crouch, who died 
July, 1678, aged twenty-five ; (second ), Decem- 
ber 10, 1678, Joanna Johnson. Children of 
first wife: Mary, born December 15, 1672; 
Hannah, baptize 1 April 30, 1676; Mercy, bap- 
tized June 6, 1680. Children of second wife: 
Deborah, baptized June 6, 1680; Christopher, 
baptized October 8, 1681 ; John, mentioned 
below. 

(HI) John, son of Christopher (2) Good- 
win, was born about 1683-85, in Charlestown. 
He resided in Boston, Cambridge, Maiden and 
Charlestown. He was a housewright by trade, 
and left a large estate for his day. He mar- 
ried (first) ; (second) Lydia 

Sprague, November 25, 1714; (third), Sep- 
tember 3, 1 75 1, Margaret Gibbs, who died in 
1759, probably a Prentiss of Cambridge. He 
was taxed in Charlestown 1727-48: was of 
Cambridge in 1724. His son Edward was ap- 
pointed administrator February 19. 1753. He 
owned land to the eastward with the Plymouth 
Land Company. His widow Margaret was tax- 
ed in 1756. Children: Edward; John, men- 
tioned below ; Samuel, born March 16, 1716-17. 

(I\') John (2), son of John (i) Goodwin, 



was born about 1710, and was baptized, an 
adult, November 2, 1736. at Charlestown. He 
was also a housewright. He was a soldier in 
the revolution, a private in Captain Sanford's 
company, enlisting January 11, 1777, Colonel 
Philip B. Bradley's regiment, from Connecti- 
cut ; also in Captain Jonathan Rudd's com- 
pany. Colonel Chapman's regiment, August 
2, to September 12, 1778: also in an inde- 
pendent company from Lebanon, Connecticut, 
in Twelfth Regiment, under Captain John 
\'aughan. He married (first). April 8. 1736, 
Ann Davison, who died June 14, 1752, agetl 
according to her gravestone, thirty-seven years. 
He married ( second ) ( intentions dated March 
I. 1753). Anna Cox, of Boston. He was tax- 
ed in Charlestown, 1727-29. In 1770 he deed- 
ed land on Bow street, formerly owned by his 
father. His widow had a claim for loss on 
account of the battle of Bunker Hill. Chil- 
dren, born and baptized at Charlestown; John, 
born November 23, 1726. Baptismal dates: 
Ann, April 23, 1738; Samuel, December 30, 
1739; Sarah, February 21. 1742; David, Octo- 
ber 19, 1744; Jonathan, mentioned below: 
Hannah, May 2/. 1750; William, October 12, 
1755; Elizabeth, November 2y. 1757; Rebecca, 
February 24, 1760; Mary, August 9, 1761 ; 
Abigail, January i, 1763. 

(\') Jonathan, son of John (2) Goodwin, 
was born at Charlestown, in May, 1747, and 
baptized there, July 26. 1747. He married, in 
1768, Anna Clark. He ancl his brother Will- 
iam located at Lebanon. Connecticut. In 1790 
the first federal census shows that Jonathan 
had two males over sixteen, one under that 
age, and two females ; William had a son under 
sixteen and four females, while .Samuel, a son 
of Jonathan or William, had one son under 
si> teen and two females. 

( \'I ) Rev. Jonathan (2) (ioodwin, son of 
Jonathan (i) Goodwin, was born about 1770, 
in Lebanon, Connecticut, or came there with 
his parents. He became a minister of the 
Baptist church. In June, 1810, a committee 
was appointed by the church at Mansfield, 
Connecticut, to arrange for the calling of Mr. 
(Goodwin, and he preached there for eighteen 
years. After he was dismissed from Mans- 
field he removed to Middletown, Connecticut, 
to the Westfield Society. He preached for 
forty years, and was well known and highly 
respected. In 1830 he founded the Baptist 
church at Mexico, New York, and preached 
there as its pastor for five years, after which 



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he returned to Connecticut. He married Mary 
Cheever, who died in 1825. He married (sec- 
ond), in 1826, Sarah Wilcox, who died in 
1829; (third) Abigail Wilcox, in 1835. He 
died at Mexico, aged eighty years. Children : 
Mary; Milo; Calvin, mentioned below; Philo : 
Lucinda ; Jonathan, born at Mansfield, July i, 
1812. 

(\'n) Calvin, son of Rev. Jonathan (2) 
Goodwin, was born in Lebanon, Connecticut. 
December, 1800. He was educated in the 
public schools in Connecticut. In 1828 he came 
to Mexico, New York, and settled on a farm, 
which is now the site of the village of Mexico. 
He continued to follow farming until 1855, 
when he retired. He held various offices of 
trust and responsibility. For many years he 
was a trustee of the Baptist church. He died 
in Mexico, in 1869. He married (first), at 
Mansfield, Connecticut, December 16, 1824, 
Emily Hinckley, born there, in 1802, died at 
Mexico, 1845. He married (second) Rhoda 
Druce, died in 1887. Children of first wife: 
Josiah Austin, born at Mansfield, September 
15, 1825; Joseoh Clark; Henry; George H., 
mentioned below ; Lucia ; Louisa. The two 
youngest died in infancy, and George H. was 
the only survivor in 191 1, in which year he died. 

(\TII) George H., son of Calvin Goodwin, 
was born in Mexico, New York, December 15, 
1833. He attended the public schools and the 
Mexico Academy. He studied law in the 
offices of Judge Cyrus Whitney, of Orville 
Robinson and James No.xon, and was gradu- 
ated from the Albany Law School, in the class 
of 1856. He practiced his profession in Os- 
wego county and in the state of California 
for several years, but was afterwards diverted 
in some degree from the law by ill health and 
the cares devolving upon him in the settle- 
ment of various estates, and in recent years 
gave more time to business and literature than 
to his profession. He formerly took a keen 
interest in politics and held many offices of 
trust and honor. He was chairman of the 
Democratic county committee many years, and 
was frequently chosen delegate to state and 
other nominating conventions of his party. In 
1879 he was president of the incorporated 
village of Mexico, and, in 1883, supervisor of 
the town, being the only Democrat, with one 
exception, that had been elected supervisor of 
the town for fifty years or more. Mr. Good- 
win traveled extensively both in this country 
and abroad. In 1882 he visited Ireland, England, 



France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium 
and Holland. In 1889 he made a more ex- 
tended tour in the east, ascending the Nile 
river, visiting Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Greece, 
and many islands in the Mediterranean Sea. 
He has traveled in almost every part of North 
.\nierica. While he was abroad he wrote a 
series of letters that were published in the 
local newspapers and widely copied in the 
newspapers of the state. In recent years he 
spent the winters in California. His courtesy 
and kindliness of manner, his social qualities 
and broad culture explain in some degree his 
popularity. Few men in the county, if any, 
were as well known and highly esteemed. He 
married, June, 1883, Adelaide E. Alfred, died 
April II, 1884, daughter of Charles L. Webb, 
of Mexico. Their only child, Mabel A., died 
September 28, 1884. 



John Richardson, immi- 
RICHARDSON grant ancestor, came from 
England about 1636 and 
settled in \\'atertown, where he had a grant 
of land in the Beaver Brook Plowlands, within 
the present city of Waltham. His name is not 
found in Watertown after 1643, ^^ he doubt- 
less emigrated from there with many others. 
There was a John Richardson in Exeter, New- 
Hampshire, in 1642, but he did not continue 
there. It seems probable that he was impli- 
cated in the Antimomian controversy in 1637, 
which would account for his leaving Water- 
town in 1637, and if he, being an ardent, im- 
pulsive, indiscreet young man, was a favorer 
of the Rev. Air. Wheelwright, it is quite likely 
that he followed the latter to Exeter, and later 
to Wells, Maine, where Mr. Wheelwright had 
purchased about five hundred acres of land, in 
April, 1643. Here a church was formed with 
Wheelwright as its pastor, and Richardson 
doubtless was one of its members. John Rich- 
ardson, of Exeter, had a wife there, Hannah 
Tryer, or Truair. It is safe to conclude that 
this John Richardson who came to Watertown 
and was afterwards in Exeter and later Wells. 
Maine, was the father of John, who appears 
in the latter place in 1673, and, in 1679, mar- 
ried Rebecca Clark, of Medfield, Massachu- 
setts. There is no mention of the Medfield 
Richardsons until 1679. 

(II) John (2), son of John (i) Richard- 
son, was born about 1650, in Wells, Maine, 
and married, May I, 1678-79, Rebecca, daugh- 
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August 16, 1660, ill Medfield, died February 
17, 1738-39, in Sherborn, Massacliusetts. She 
married (second) John Hill, of the latter place. 
John Richardson first appears in Medfield, in 
1676, when he was credited with a month's 
service in the Aledfield garrison. In 1678 he 
had a grant of land from the town on the west 
side of the river. February 21, 1675, Aledfield 
was attacked by five hundred Indians and fifty 
buildings and two mills were destroyed and 
twenty people killed. During this time John 
Richardson was doubtless in Maine, but after 
the death of King Philip, in August, 1676, the 
war ceased in Massachusetts, but continued to 
rage in ]\Iaine. and he then moved to Medfield. 
His home there was very near the present village 
of East Medway, which was up to 1713 a part 
of Medfield. He was a cordwainer by trade 
and cultivated a small farm of less than fifty 
acres. He was a member of the Medfield 
church before 1697, as was also his wife. He 
died there May 29, 1697, about fifty years of 
age. No will is found on record, and he pos- 
sessed but little property. The inventory of 
his estate, February 22, 1699, included a home- 
stead of twenty-six acres, with orchard and 
buildings, valued at thirty pounds, eight acres 
of meadow near Boggastow Brook, and ten 
acres of upland and swamp near Bear Hill. 
Powers of administration were granted his 
widow, July 18, 1700. Children: John, men- 
tioned below ; Elizabeth, born September 24, 
1681 ; Daniel, August 31, 1685; Joseph, 1687; 
Mehitable, June 16, 1689; Benjamin, 1693; 
Rebecca, February 28, 1696-97. 

(Ill) John (3), son of John (2) Richard- 
son, was born in Medfield, now Medway, April 
25. 1679. He was a cordwainer, but later be- 
came a husbandman, and was also a carpenter. 
He refused the real estate left him by his 
father, which was accepted by his brother Dan- 
iel. He owned considerable land, as shown 
in various deeds. He and his wife sold to 
Nathaniel Fairbank, of W'rentham, two parcels 
of land in W'renthani. For two hundred 
pounds he sold to his son Moses of Medway 
forty acres of land in Medway. He died in 
Medfield, now East Medway, May 19, 1759, 
and his son John was appointed, February 13, 
1761, his administrator. He married, about 
1699. Esther, daughter of John Breck, of Med- 
field, born there, 1679: died of cancer, August 
17, 1774. Children: Sarah, born April 25, 
1700; John, October 22, 1701 ; David, June 
10, 1703, died March 23, 1723-24; Jonathan, 



February i, 1704-05; Esther, January 2, 1706- 
07; Mary, September 9, 1709; Joseph, April 
3, 171 1 ; Samuel, January 3, 1713-14; Solomon, 
mentioned below; Moses, February 8, 1717; 
Asa, October 16, 1720; David, December 6, 
1724. 

(IV) Solomon, son of John (3) Richard- 
son, was born April 21, 17 16, and died Novem- 
ber, 1771. He married, at Medway, Rebecca 
Mann. Children, born at Medway: Amasa, 
March 8, 1744; Sarah, October 24, 1746; Asa, 
September 25, 1752; Oliver, mentioned below. 

(\') Oliver, son of Solomon Richardson, 
was born in Medway, August 12, 1754. He 
appears to be the Oliver Richardson who set- 
tled .1 Oneida county probably after 1790, and 
removed later to Oswego county. New York. 
Children: Oliver; Reuben; John M., mention- 
ed below ; Alvin ; Edward. Alvin was an 
assemblyman of New York state from Oswego 
county. 

(\'I) John M., son of Oliver Richardson, 
was born about 1775. He settled in Mexico, 
New York, and, in 1838, represented his dis- 
trict in the state assembly. He cleared a farm 
in the wilderness at what is now Mexico. 

(\TIj Alvin, son of John M. Richardson, 
was born about 1800, in Massachusetts, and 
came with the family when a child to Oswego 
county. He was apprenticed to a blacksmith, 
and followed this trade many years. He be- 
came one of the leading men of the town, for 
many years was justice of the peace and a 
faithful town officer and magistrate; in 1868 
he represented the town in the state assem- 
bly. He married Nancy Douglass. He died 
in 1883, at the age of eighty-three years; his 
wife died in the 70's. He had a large family, 
who all died young excepting Charles H., men- 
tioned below. 

(\TII) Charles H., son of Alvin Richard- 
son, was born in Me.xico, New York, in 1823. 
In his youth he attended the public schools and 
worked on a farm. He also attended the 
Mexico Academy. His occupation through 
life was farming, and he lived in his native 
town. He was a member of the local lodge of 
Odd Fellows, a Baptist in religion, and a Re- 
publican in politics. He married Eliza H. 
Skinner, born in 1833, died in 1880, daugh- 
ter of Hon. Averv Skinner (see Skinner). 

( IX) Webster' M., only child of Charles H. 
Richardson, was born in Mexico, New York, 
August 25, 1853. He attended the public 
schools of his native town and Me.xico .-\cad- 



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emy. During his boyhood he worked at farm- 
ing, and continued to make farming his occu- 
pation when a young man. He was active in 
politics and town affairs, and, in 1880, was ap- 
pointed notary public. He came to the village 
of Mexico in' 1884, and has lived there since. 
For twelve years he was justice of the peace, 
and largely occupied with his duties as mag- 
istrate and member of the town board. For 
eleven years he was clerk of the incorporated 
village of Mexico. Since August i, 1899. 
he has been postmaster of Mexico, having 
been appointed by President McKinley and 
reappointed by President Roosevelt. In poli- 
tics he is a Republican. He is a member of 
Mexico Lodge, No. 136, Free Masons; of 
Mexico Chapter, No. 135, Royal Arch Masons ; 
of the Order of the Eastern Star. He attends 
the Presbyterian church. He married, April 
II, 1875, Ida .\. Bettinger, born February 27, 
1858, daughter of Hiram and Ruth (Rose) 
Bettinger, of Oswego county. Children: i. 
Matie E., died aged one year. 2. Alvin W., 
born Mav 24. 1878, assistant postmaster; mar- 
ried Sadie Eason ; children : Robert and \'elma. 
3. Charles H.. born May 19. 1884; now in the 
employ of the .American Express Company at 
Mexico. 

Phineas Osborn was probably a 
OSBORN native of X'ermont, who settled 
in Herkimer county. New York, 
and removed thence to Clayton, Jefferson coun- 
ty, New York, in 181 7. His farm in Clayton 
was about three miles northwest of the fulls. 
three miles north of Depauville. on what was 
known as" F.lm Mats." He married .\nn ['"rame. 
and they had children : Caroline, Clarissa. Eliza, 
Mary, Eleanor, Duane, Daniel Webster. Will- 
iam. Phineas Alden and Orlando. .Another 
source of information gives Thomas Schuyler. 
The home of the family in \'ermont has not 
been located, but it may be said that the first 
federal census of X'ermont, taken in 1790, 
gives the names of these heads of family, John. 
Joseph, Lemuel; 15enjamin, of Tinmouth ; 
Isaac, of Pittsford. 

(11) Orlando, son of Phineas Osborn. was 
born in Clayton. Jefferson county. New York. 
May II, 1835. lie attended the district school 
in his native town, and at an early age began 
to learn the trade of miller in the old mill at 
De]Kuiville. For several years he followed his 
trade in Jefferson county and then in Kansas 
and .\rizona. remaining in the west for sixteen 



years. In 1898 he returned to New York state, 
and in partnership with his son, W. H. Os- 
born, purchased the mills at Woodville and the 
\'alley Mills in Madison county, New York, 
and he continued in business to the end of his 
life. He died January 6, 1905. In politics he 
was a Republican, in religion a L'niversalist. 
He married, December 2^, 1858, Elizabeth 
Faire, who was born in Clayton, September 3, 
1836, daughter of Thomas and Margaret 
( Bearon ) Faire. Her father was born in 
Dublin, Ireland, of English parentage, and was 
a large landowner in Dublin. He came to 
Canada in the British army and when his term 
of service expired, he settled at Clayton and 
followed farming, and for many years worked 
in the .Ashery. Alargaret Bearon was a native 
of France and came with her father's family 
to settle in Montreal, Canada. The children 
of Thomas and Margaret (Bearon) Faire 
were: William; Mary; Elizabeth; Juliann ; 
Marcella, who died young ; Junia ; Alice Mar- 
cella ; Joseph, who died young ; Ella and Lu- 
cinda. Mr. Faire died .April 13, 1890, and 
his widow died in the following year. 

Children of Orlando and Elizabeth (Faire) 
Osborn : Clara ; Lorantine ; DeWitt Clinton ; 
William H., mentioned below ; Frederick; Eva, 
and Charles, the latter died in infancy. 

(Ill) William H., son of Orlando Osborn, 
was born in Cape A'incent. Jeft'erson county. 
New York, .August 16, 1864. He worked in 
the mill with his father during his boyhood. 
His schooling was very limited even for those 
days. When he was fifteen he went to work 
in a mill owned by his uncle, Phineas .Alden 
Osborn, at Dexter, New A'ork, and afterward 
worked for two years for .A. H. Herrick & 
-Son, at Watertown, New York. .After an- 
other year in the employ of his uncle at De.xter 
and four years in the employ of Far well & 
Rhines, of Watertown, he entered upon a busi- 
ness career on his own account. He had ac- 
(|uired a broad and detailed knowledge of the 
business and a wide and diversified experience, 
entirely through his own efforts and perse- 
verance. In 1891 he bought the old Bryant 
mill at the village of Evans Mills. New York, 
and conducted it until he sold it in 1895. Two 
months later, in May, 1895. he bought the old 
S. H. Pitcher mill, at .Adams, New York, and 
conducted it three years. In i8g6, in partner- 
ship with his father, he bought the Woodville 
Mill. In March, 1898, he bought the .Almerion 
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conducted it until May i8, 1910. In the mean- 
time he also bought a half interest in the Pots- 
dam Mills and held this interest for three years, 
and in addition to his various sawmill prop- 
erties, he had organized the Wright & (Jsborn 
Lumber Company and had an extensive busi- 
ness in lumber and in building and contracting. 
Before he sold his mill, Mr. Osborn had bought 
a half interest in the Wilson Canning Com- 
pany, with factories at ]\Iexico, in Oswego 
county ; Taberg, Oneida county, and at Rush, 
Monroe county. The company also has a 
leased factory at Taberg. The business of the 
concern is extensive and among the largest in 
this line in northern New York, having a total 
capacity of two million five hundred thousand 
cans of fruits and vegetables per annum, and 
the plant is run to its full capacity. He is 
also the treasurer of the Wilson Canning Com- 
pany ; vice-president of the Citizens National 
Bank, of Adams, and formerly vice-president 
of the Majestic Furniture Company. In all 
his various investments and enterprises he has 
been highly successful, possessing the execu- 
tive ability and business sagacity to bring pros- 
perity to every undertaking, and is noted for 
his fair and square business methods. Though 
an exceedingly busy man, he has never neglect- 
ed the recreations and diversions necessary for 
a healthy mind and body. He is fond of driv- 
ing and has raised and owned some fine horses, 
among which may be mentioned : "Colonel Os- 
born," with a record of 2:o8-;4: "Mohonk,*" 
2:25: "Prodigal Queen," 2:24'<: "Miss Bar- 
ney," 2:i3'4: "John Engart," three-year-old, 
2:21 '4. and many others. In politics he is a 
Republican. 

He married (first), April 5, 1888, Mary C. 
Casler, of Dexter. Jefferson county, daughter 
of Melza and Lydia Casler. She died October 
31, 1895, and he married (second), June 27, 
1900, Lillian M. IngersoU, who was born at 
Palermo, Oswego county, Xew York, April I, 
1871. daughter of .-\lonson and Lydia (Jen- 
nings) IngersoU. Children by first wife: Leon 
C, born November 25. 1890, now manager of 
the Rush Canning Factory; Gaylord F.. born 
September 11, 1894: Kent M., October i, 1895, 
died November 13, 1897. 



The Lockvvoods of Amer- 
LOCKWOOD ica, descendants of Robert 

and Edmund Lockwood, 
who came in Governor Winthrop's fleet, are of 
English lineage. The Lockwood arms, as de- 



rived from Rev. Richard Lockwood, rector of 
Dingley Church, Northampton county, in 1530. 
are : "Argent, a fesse between three martlets 
sable." Crest : "On the stump of an oak tree 
erased proper a martlet sable." Motto : "Tutus 
in L'ndis" (secure against the waves). 

The line herein recorded begins with Rob- 
ert Lockwood, who came from England about 
1630; settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, 
where six of his ten children were born. He 
was made a freeman, March 9, 1637. About 
1641 he removed to Fairfield. Connecticut, where 
he died in 1658. He was made a freeman of 
Connecticut, May 20. 1652: appointed sergeant 
at Fairfield, in ^lay, 1657. He married Sus- 
annah , who after his death was ap- 
pointed administratrix. (Jf the ten children of 
Robert and Susannah Lockwood, Ephraini, 
mentioned in the next paragraph was the fifth. 

(II) Ephraim, son of Robert and .Susannah 
Lockwood, was born in Watertown, Massachu- 
setts. December i. 1641. He removed to Con- 
necticut with his father when a youth ; was 
made a freeman, October, \H->~ \ married, June 
8, 1665, Mercy, daughter of Matthias Sention 
(i), of Norwalk, Connecticut. Of their ten 
children. Deacon Eliphalet. mentioned in next 
paragraph, was the fifth. 

(III) Deacon Eliphalet Lockwood, son of 
Ephraim "and Mercy (Sention) Lockwood, 
was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, February 
2~, 1676. died there, October 14, 1753. He 
was representative to the general assembly 
from Norwalk. 1724; deacon of the church; 
married, October 11, 1699, May, born 1673, 
died March 6, 1761. daughter of John Gold, 
of Stanford. Of their nine children. Deacon 
Peter, of further mention, was the eighth. 

( I\') Deacon Peter Lockwood, son of Dea- 
con Eliphalet and May ( Gold ) Lockwood, 
was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, March 16, 
171 1, died in Danbury, Connecticut, in 1775. 
He served as representative from Norwalk 
six terms, between 1755 and 1764; was deacon 
of the church before removing to Danbury, 
where he died. He married ( first ), September 
8, 1737, Abigail, daughter of Rev. Thomas 
Hawley, of Ridgefield, Connecticut; she died 
June 6. 1747: married (second), January i. 
1751, Elizabeth, born January 17, 1728, daugh- 
ter of David and Laurana (Bill ) Lambert, and 
granddaughter of John Bill, of Lebanon. Con- 
necticut ; married (third) Hannah Fitch. Of 
his nine children, Lambert, of further mention, 
was the eighth. 



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(V) Lambert, son of Deacon Peter and his 
second wife, Elizabeth (Lambert) Lockvvood. 
was born in Xorwalk, Connecticut, July i~, 
1757, died February 11, 1825. He was a mer- 
chant of Bridgeport, Connecticut, and lived on 
State street. He was of full stature, fine pres- 
ence and affable manner. In 1792 he built a 
store and wharf at Bridgeport and had a dry 
goods and general store ; also ran a packet 
sloop, the "Julia," to New York. In 1806 he 
was a subscriber and organizer of the Bridge- 
port Bank, and, in 1807, a director. In 181 1 
was chosen first clerk of the Bridgeport and 
Stratford Burying-Ground Association. He 
was a public-spirited man, a devoted member 
of the Congregational church, and his home 
was always open to visiting clergymen. Dur- 
ing the revolution he did active service ; was 
taken prisoner by Colonel Tryon on his Con- 
necticut raid, but soon released, as the Amer- 
icans were closely pursuing. He served as as- 
sistant deputy quartermaster-general, his widow 
Elizabeth drawing a pension of six hundred 
dollars annually, on account of his services. 
He married, December 5, 1793, Elizabeth, born 
March i, 1771, died February 3, 1846. daugh- 
ter of Rev. .\zel Roe, D. D., of Woodbridge, 
New Jersey. Of his five children, Peter, of 
further mention, was the third. 

(VI) Rev. Peter Lockwood, son of Lam- 
bert and Elizabeth (Roe) Lockwood, was born 
at Bridgeport, Connecticut, February 9, 1798, 
died at Binghamton, New York, November 16. 
1882. He was graduated at Yale College, in 
1817; Andover Theological Seminary, in 1821 ; 
ordained a minister of the gospel, 1823, and 
for a time preached in Virginia ; was settled 
as pastor at Peekskill, New York, 1824. Tlie 
Presbyterian church was established in Bing- 
hamton, New York, in 1817: Rev. Niles was 
the first pastor, serving until 1823, and was 
succeeded by Rev. Peter Lockvvood, who con- 
tinued as pastor until 1833. He filled the pul- 
pit and was pastor in charge at Cortland and at 
Berkshire, Tioga county. New York : then re- 
turning to his former charge in Binghamton, 
where he died, aged eighty-four years nine 
months and seven days. He was a faithful 
Christian ; a devoted minister and served well 
his Master's cause. A successor. Rev. J. P. 
Culliver, D. D., writes of him, "I had always 
regarded Air. Lockwood since I knew him, as 
a very remarkable man. His force of char- 
acter seemed to press up into view on all occa- 
sions and in all directions, as from an inex- 



haustible fountain. His simplicity and art- 
lessness were even more remarkable, as it 
seemed to me. Happy shall we be if we can 
bear such a record." He married, October 22, 
1822, Matilda, born April 17, 1798, died July 
4, 1886, daughter of Hon. .\braham and Mary 
Sylvester ( Wells) Davenport, and granddaugh- 
ter of Hon. Abraham and Elizabeth (Hunt- 
ington) Davenport, and granddaughter of Rev. 
Noah Wells, D. D., and his wife, Abigail 
(Woolsey) N\'ells. Rev. Peter Lockwood and 
wife celebrated their golden wedding and spent 
an entire married life of sixty years, he being 
the first to die. Children: i. John Davenport, 
born October 9, 1825, died December 20, 1844, 
at Yale College, where a monument was erect- 
ed to his memory by his classmates. 2. Theo- 
dore, born June 30, 1827, died May 8, 1831. 
3. Radcliffe Boorman, born May 6, 1829, died 
February 5, 191 1 ; married, June 3, 1896, Mary 
Brewster ,\ngier, born June 23, 1868, daugh- 
ter of the Rev. Marshall Bullard Angier and 
Emma (Brewster) Angier, who was in the 
ninth generation from Elder William Brewster, 
of the "Mayflower." Rev. Marshall B. Angier 
preached for many years in Windsor, Broome 
county. New York. 4. James Boorman, born 
May 31, 1 83 1, died June 3, 183 1. 5. Mary 
Elizabeth, born February 28, 1835. 6. Annie 
Matilda, born October i, 1837, died March 30, 
1909; married. May 18, 1865, Josiah Salisbury 
Leverett, born Windsor, Vermont, January 24, 
1810, son of John and Elizabeth (Salisbun,-) 
Leverett. John Leverett was born in P>oston, 
Massachusetts, 1758, died 1821, in Windsor, 
Vermont. Elizabeth Salisbury, his wife, was 
born in Boston, 1773; married, 1803; died 
1848 daughter of Deacon Samuel Salisbury 
and his wife, Elizabeth Sewell. Children of 
Annie Matilda: i. John, born March 4, 1866; 
ii. Theodore Lockwood, born October 8, 1867; 
iii. William Josiah, born January 11, 1870; iv. 
.\nnie Matilda, born October 12, 1871, died 
March 5, 1903 ; v. Mary Elizabeth, born No- 
vember 26, 1873; vi. Samuel Salisbury, bom 
June 4, 1875, died March 3, 1877. 7. Theo- 
dosia Davenport, born July 28, 1839, died 
December 19, 1907; married, July 23, 1884, 
Henry Harris Jessup, D. D., born April 19, 
1832, died April 28, 1910. He was for fifty- 
three years a missionary in Beirut, Syria, and 
a work of two volumes of nearly fifteen hun- 
dred pages has been published, showing the 
facts of his wonderful life there. 





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(The Davenport Line). 

Matilda (Davenport) Lockwood, wife of 
Rev. Peter Lockwood, was a lineal descendant 
of Rev. John Davenport, who was of the 
seventeenth generation from Ormers de Daven- 
port, born 1086, and assumed the local name 
of Daven])ort, a township in the county of 
Chester, England. 

( I I Rev. John Davenport, son of John and 
grandson of Henry Davenport, was born in 
the ancient city of Coventry, Warwickshire, 
England, in 1597. His father was a merchant 
of Coventry, a city of which his grandfather 
was at one time mayor. He pursued his aca- 
demical studies at the grammar school in Cov- 
entry, and, in 1613, was admitted to Alerton 
College, Oxford University, .\fter two years 
at Merton, he removed to Magdalena Hall, in 
the same University, v\-here he received the 
degree of .-X. B. He was chaplain at Hilton 
Castle, then assistant in London, and soon 
after vicar of St. Stephens, in that city. This 
was at the time of the dreadful plague which 
carried off thousands, but the young pastor 
remained at his post. He next returned to 
Oxford, where he received the degree of Mas- 
ter of -Arts and also that of Bachelor of Divin- 
ity. For the next few years he lived a stormy life, 
as the storm of intolerance and persecution 
was now ready to break against all ministers, 
showing the faintest signs of freedom of 
thought, or action contrary to the authorities 
in control of the Established Church. His 
friendship for Rev. John Cotton soon result- 
ed in his becoming a non-conformist, a result 
that caused him to resign his pulpit and forced 
him to take refuge in Holland. His next re- 
solve was to collect a band of colonists and 
seek asylum in .America. They sailed on the 
ship "Hector," arriving in Boston, June 26, 
1637. In the fall of that year, with Air. Eaton, 
he journeyed to Connecticut, where they select- 
ed a spot for his colony to settle, Ouinnipiack, 
the Indian name, at the head of a harbor four 
miles from Long Island sound, .\pril 14, 1638, 
Mr. Davenport, with his band of pilgrims, ar- 
rived at the future New Haven. He was then 
forty-one years of age. The next day was the 
Sabbath ; service was held under the spreading 
branches of an oak tree, and the new settle- 
ment consecrated to God. In 1639 a civil gov- 
ernment was formed and a church organized, 
Mr. Davenport being chosen pastor. Two 
months later the general court, consisting of 
the "seven pillars" of the church, elected ofifi- 



cers of the new colony of New Haven. The- 
ophilus Eaton was chosen governor and solemn- 
ly charged by Rev. Davenport. He was annual- 
ly chosen governor for twenty succeeding years, 
until his death, January, 1658. In 1654 Rev. 
Davenport brought forward a plan for estab- 
lishing a college at New Haven, the town mak- 
ing a donation of land. Governor Hopkins 
donated five hundred pounds sterling. The 
general court erected the college school into a 
college for teaching the three learned lan- 
guages, Latin. Greek and Hebrew. Rev. Dav- 
enport took care of the colony school, which 
after his removal to Boston terminated in a 
grammar school, which continued to hold the 
Hopkin's fund. This was not the origin of 
Yale College: that occurred in 1700. In 1667 
he accepted a call from the Second Church, of 
Boston, where he was installed pastor, Decem- 
ber 9, after fifty years in the ministry, twenty 
in England and thirty years in New Haven. 
He did not long live to minister to his Boston 
congregation, but died of apoplexy, March 15, 
1670. His tomb is in the burying-ground of 
the Stone Chapel Church, on Tremont street, 
Boston. .\ broad slate stone monument marks 
the spot on which are the following inscrip- 
tions : "Here Lye Intombed the Bodyes of the 
Famous Reverend and Learned Pastors of the 
First Church of Christ in Boston, viz : Mr. John 
Cotton aged 67 years, deceased December 23, 
1652, Mr. John Davenport aged 72 years, de- 
ceased May 15, 1670, Mr. John Oxenbudge 
aged 66 years, deceased December 28, 1674." 
He was a great man. He married, in England, 

Elizabeth , died September i, 1672, aged 

seventy-three years. Her monument was dis- 
covered in 1851, in King's Chapel Burial- 
Grounds, near the tomb of Governor Winthrop, 
and not far from the grave of her husband. 

(II) John (2), only child of Rev. John (i) 
and Elizabeth Davenport, was born in Lon- 
don, and did not accompany his parents to 
America. He came over in charge of Mr. 
Fenwick, in 1639, in one of the only two ships 
that ever came from England to New Haven. 
He was one of the judges of New Haven 
courts in 1661. After removing to Boston 
with his father he was register of probate, but 
at the time of his death, March 21, 1677, is call- 
ed a merchant. He married, November 27, 
1663, .Abigail, daughter of Rev. Abraham Pier- 
son, of Branford, Connecticut, sister of Rev. 
.Abraham (2) Pierson, the first rector of Yale 
College. 



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(III) Rev. John (3) Davenport, son of 
John (2) and Abigail (Pierson) Davenport, 
was born in Boston, February 22, 1668, and 
was baptized bv his grandfather six days later. 
He was graduated at Harvard College, 1687, 
and began preaching in i6go. In i6gi he be- 
came assistant to Rev. ]\Ir. James, of East 
Hampton, Long Island. In 1692 was called 
to the Stamford church, Fairfield county, Con- 
necticut : taught the Hopkin's grammar school 
in New Haven before going to Stamford, and 
was a member of the corporation of Yale Col- 
lege from 1707 until his death in 1731. He 
married (first), April 18, 1695, Martha, widow 
of John Selleck, formerly a Aliss Gould, who 
bore him seven children ; she died December 
I, 1712, and is buried at New Haven. He 
married (second) Mrs. Elizabeth Maltby, 
daughter of John Morris, by whom he had two 
children. Children by first wife: i. Abigai', 
married Rev. Stephen Williams, D. D., by 
whom she had eight children, three of whom 
became ministers. 2. John, married Sarah 
Bishop, and was one of the twenty-four orig- 
inal members of the Congregational church, of 
New Canaan, Connecticut. 3. Martha, married 
Rev. Thomas Goodsell. 4. Sarah, married Cap- 
tain William Maltby, and had a son. Rev. John 
Maltby, graduate of Yale and for several years 
pastor of a church in Bermuda, West Indies. 
5. Theodora, died young. 6. Deacon Deodate. 
married Lydia, daughter of Rev. John Wood- 
ward. 7. Elizabeth, married Rev. William 
Gaylord. 8. Abraham, of further mention. 9. 
Rev. James, graduate of Yale, and a most won 
derful preacher and revivalist. 

(IV) Abraham, son of Rev. John (3) and 
his first wife, Martha ( Gould-Selleck ) Daven- 
port, was born 171 5, and was graduated at 
Yale College, 1732, and became one of the 
mo.st prominent and best known men in the 
state. He represented Stamford in the state 
legislature for twenty-five sessions, and at sev 
eral times was clerk of the house. He was 
state senator from 1766 to 1784, judge of pro- 
bate several years, and judge of the county 
court, and was equally active in the Congrega- 
tional church, holding the office of deaco-.i, 
1759-89- In 1776 he, his son John and Thal- 
deus Burr were sent to the army under Wash- 
ington, to assist in "arranging it into companies 
and regiments," and to commission the officers 
appointed by the assembly for the battalions 
raised by the state. He was also empowered 
to arrest and bring to trial persons suspected 



of irresolution or disloyalty. "In 1777 he wa^i 
one of the Committee of Safety for the state 
and was always consulted by Governor Trum 
bull and Genera! Washington, as one of tht 
wisest counselors in our most trying davs." 
An instance in his career was pleasingly ren 
dered into verse by John G. Whittier and 
alludes to the "Dark Day" in Connecticut. The 
legislature was in session at Hartford and it 
was the general opinion that the day of ju-ig- 
ment was at hand. The house being unable 
to see to transact business adjourned. A pro- 
posal to adjourn the council was under con- 
sideration, when the opinion of Colonel Dav- 
enport was asked, he said, "I am against an 
adjournment. The day of judgment is either 
approaching, or it is not. If it is not here, 
there is no cause for adjournment. If it is I 
choose to be foun<l doing my duty. I wish 
therefore that candles be brought." He held 
his last court at Danbury, where he heard a 
considerable part of a trial : gave the charge 
to the jury, then retired from the bench and 
was soon after found dead in his bed, Novem- 
ber 20, 1789. aged seventy-four years. He 
held the title of A. B. from Yale ; deacon from 
the church ; colonel from the state and honor- 
able from his long public service. He was best 
known as Colonel Davenport and greatly be- 
loved, especially by the young. He married 
(first), at Windham, Connecticut, November 
16, 1750, Elizabeth Huntington, whose mother 
was a daughter of Rev. Timothy Edwards and 
the sister of President Jonathan Edwards ; she 
died December 17, 1773; he married (second), 
.August 8, 1776, a widow, Mrs. Martha Fitch, 
Child by first wife: John, of further mention. 
(\') John (4), son of Colonel Abraham and 
Elizabeth (Huntington) Davenport, was born 
in Stamford, Connecticut, January 16, 1752; 
graduate of Yale College, 1770, where he was 
appointed tutor in 1773. He was major of 
militia during the revolution. In 1799 he was 
elected to congress, to fill the vacancy caused 
by the death of his brother, Hon. James Dav- 
enport. Here he was continued for eighteen 
years. He served on important committees, 
but was more known as a worker than as a de- 
bater. He declined reelection in 1817, and 
spent the remainder of his life at his country 
home in Stamford, where he had the honor to 
welcome and entertain General Lafayette. He 
was a lawyer by profession; deacon of the 
Congregational church ; a benevolent, active 
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1830; he married. May 7, 1780, Mary Syl- 
vester, daughter of Rev. Noah Wells, D. D. 
Children: i. Elizabeth Huntington, born March 
4, 1781 ; married Judge Peter W. Radcliffe, of 
Brooklyn. 2. John Alfred, graduate of Yale 
College, and for fifty years was a well-known 
prosperous merchant of New York City ; mar- 
ried, in 1806, Eliza Maria, daughter of Dr. 
William Wheeler, of Red Hook, New York. 

3. Mary Wells, born September 12, 1785; 
married James Boorman, of New York, No- 
vember 10, 1810. He was a member of the 
firm of Boorman, Johnson & Company, a lead- 
ing firm of New York City; president of the 
Hudson River Railroad Company; founder of 
the Banl^of Commerce, and one of the orig- 
inal members of the Chamber of Commerce. 

4. Theodosia, died aged twenty-one years. 5. 
Deacon Theodore, born January 26, 1792, re- 
sided for sixty years in the mansion erected 
bv his father, in 1807, on Main street, Stam- 
ford; active member of the Congregational 
church and deacon ; married. May 9, 1833, 
Harriet Grant Chesebrough, of New York. 6. 
Rebecca Ann, died aged twenty-two years. 7. 
Matilda, born in Stamford, April 17, 1798; 
married Rev. Peter Lockwood ( see Lockwood 
VI). 



This is a very old family 
H.\SBROL'CK in southern New York and 

was founded by Abraham 
and Jean Hasbrouck. brothers, who were among 
the original ])atentees of New Paltz, I'lster 
county, and were active in both civil and 
ecclesiastical afl:'airs of that section. Both left 
a large progeny and their descendants have to 
some extent intermarried. From Ulster the 
family spread to Orange, Dutchess and other 
counties in the vicinity, and is now very numer- 
ously represented throughout the region. The 
family was conspicuous in the settlement and 
development of St. Lawrence county, and of 
various sections of Central New York. Abra- 
ham and Jean Hasbrouck were born in Calais, 
France, of which town their father was also 
a native. The latter with his two sons, above 
named, and a daughter, who was the wife of 
Pierre Hayaar, w'as driven out of France by 
the persecutions of the Huguenots, and re- 
moved to Mannheim. Germany, in the lower 
palatinate, and there thev resided several years, 
being highly respected and affiliating with the 
local churches. Numerous other families were 
similarly situated and a considerable group 



migrated to the new world in the latter part 
of the seventeenth century, settling in Ulster 
county. New York. Jean, witii his wife, Anna 
Duyon (Deyo) Hasbrouck, removed in 1673 
from Germany and settled at Esopus, New 
York. 

( I ) Abraham Hasbrouck removed from 
Mannheim to Holland, whence he sailed in 
April, 1675, landing at Boston, Massachusetts, 
thence he proceeded direct to New York, and, 
in July, arrived at Esopus, where he found his 
brother and many old former t2uropeon friends. 
In 1677 a group of these including the Has- 
brouck brothers obtained a patent from Gov- 
ernor Andros to a large tract south of Kings- 
ton, where they settled and named the place 
New Paltz. Here they formed what was 
known as the Walloon Protestant Church after 
the name and discipline of the churcJi at 
Geneva, a Calvinistic organization. For about 
half a century until after the death of the Has- 
brouck brothers the services of this cliurch 
were conducted in the French language, after 
which it was changed to the Dutcli language. 
Abraham Hasbrouck was a member of the 
provincial assembly, and was major of the 
Ulster county regiment of militia. He died at 
New Paltz, ^larch 17, 17 17. He married, No- 
vember 17, 1675, at Hurley, Marie, daughter 
of Christian Deyo, whom he had known in 
Europe, and who came to this country on the 
same vessel with him. She was probably a 
sister of his brother's wife. Children: Rachel, 
baptized May 12, 1680, in New York; Anna, 
baptized October 9, 1682, in Kingston, died 
young ; Joseph, baptized October 23, 1684, in 
New Paltz; Solomon, October 17, 1686; Jonas, 
October 14, 1691 ; Benjamin, mentioned below. 
Some others died in infancy. 

(II) lienjamin. youngest surviving child of 
.Abraham and Marie (Deyo) Hasbrouck, was 
bajitized May 31, 1696, in New Paltz, and was 
one of the original grantees of the Rumbout 
Patent, in what is now Dutchess county. About 
1720 he settled near Hopewell, in the present 
town of Fishkill, where he married, February 
13, 1737, Jannetje De Long (sometimes writ- 
ten De Lange). Children: Daniel; Benjamin; 
John ; Jacob ; Mary, married John Halstead ; 
Heiltje, married Dr. Nathaniel House; Francis. 

(III) Daniel, eldest child of Benjamin and 
Jannetje ( De Long) Hasbrouck, was born 
about 1738, in Fishkill, and there resided on 
the paternal homestead. He married Diana 
\'an X'lecken and their family included : Tunis, 



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John, Emelinc, Diirand, Catherine, Eliza and 
Charles Whiting. The second daughter be- 
came the wife of John F. Benjamin, later a 
representative in congress from Shelbina, ]\Iis- 
souri. The youngest son was a manufacturer 
of Syracuse. 

(IV) John, second son of Daniel and Diana 
(Van Vlecken) Hasbrouck, was born Septem- 
ber 15, 1777, and became a hatter by trade. 
He located in Onondaga county, New York, 
where he passed his life, and died December 
23, 1865. He married, July 4. 1810, Mary 
Backus, of Athens, New York. 

(V) Daniel Backus, son of John and Mary 
(Backus) Hasbrouck, was born January 30, 
1819, at West Hill, Onondaga county. When 
about fourteen years old Daniel B. Hasbrouck 
w'orked his passage from his home in Onon- 
daga county over the Erie canal to New York 
by driving on the tow path six hours and alter- 
nately resting for a like period. This was in 
1832, the cholera year, and since that time he 
has obtained a very conspicuous position 
among the business men of Greater New York. 
On account of the cholera quarantine in New 
York, he did not reach the city until October 
5, 1832, though he left Albany in the spring. 
In the meantime he was employed as a boat- 
man. On arriving here he took up his resi- 
dence with a cousin, Charles E. Hasbrouck, 
and first served two years in a wholesale gro- 
cery house, which was located at No. 52 Front 
street. In 1835 he engaged with Wilson & 
Cobb, with whom he continued until 1840. He 
was a witness of the great fire in 1835, which 
destroyed every business building in the lower 
part of the city, except John Benson's copper 
|)late works on Water street. Returning to 
Onondaga county, in 1840, Mr. Hasbrouck 
engaged in the manufacture of salt and other 
lines of commercial business. In 1851 he re- 
turned to New York, and both before and 
after the civil war was a potential factor in 
the business development of Brooklyn. He 
was a volunteer in the Old City Fire Depart- 
ment for a term of seven years, and during the 
civil war was officially connected with the 
office of police commissioner of Brooklyn, ren- 
dering much service to the Union cause. Dur- 
ing this time, by his personal efl^orts.he secured 
the enlistment of many persons who were 
I)rought before the courts, and he was largely 
instrumental in the recruiting of five com- 
panies of infantry and two of cavalry. From 
1870 to 1876 Mr. Hasbrouck had charge of 



the bureau of election, serving two terms of 
three years each on a salary of five thousand 
dollars a year. During the war he was con- 
temptuously called a black Republican, but his 
services at that time and subsequently have 
been more fully appreciated since, and this 
epithet is now changed in character to be a 
title of honor. \'ery early in his career Mr. 
Hasbrouck became interested in street rail- 
roads, antl his interest in that connection has 
been e.xtended until he is identified with nearly 
every street transportation system in Greater 
New York. He is vice-])resident of the New 
York City Railway Company : president and 
director of the Broadway and Seventh Avenue 
Railroad Company, Kingsbridge Raili^ay Com- 
pany, and Metropolitan Street Railway Com- 
pany. He is vice-president and director of the 
Bleecker Street and Fulton Ferry Railway 
Company ; Central Park, North and East River 
Railroad Compan\- : Dry Dock, East Broadway 
and Battery Railroad : Forty-second Street and 
Grand Street Ferry Railroad Company : Ful- 
ton Street Railroad Company : Third Avenue 
Railroad Company : Thirty-fourth Street Cross- 
town Railway : Twenty-eighth Street and 
Twenty-ninth Street Crosstown Railroad Com- 
pany : Twenty-third Street Railway Com])any. 
He is a director of the Bronx Traction Com- 
pany : Hudson River and Long Island Sound 
Railroad Company : Union Railway Company 
of New York, and West Eighty-sixth Street 
Railway Company. For some years Mr. Has- 
brouck has been retired from active business, 
but his keen preception and broad business ex- 
perience are still valuable in the management 
of these various transportation systems. His 
genial and affable manners have brought to 
him and retained many strong friends, and he 
is widely esteeiued in the financial world, both 
as a citizen and a business luan. 

He married, in 185 1, Sarah, daughter of 
Jacob Bergen, whose farmhouse stood where 
Iloyt and Sackett streets now meet in Brook- 
lyn. In the year following his marriage Mr. 
Hasbrouck erected his present residence on that 
corner. It is a commodious and elegant struc- 
ture, one of the largest in that section of the 
city. The original farm of Jacob Bergen in- 
cluded one hundred acres of land reaching 
from the canal to the homestead of Mr. Strana- 
han and north from P'ourth street to Baltic 
street. The section was rapidly built up and 
this farm was eventually divided into one 
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of the heirs. Mr. Hasbrouck's children were 
as follows: i. Louise, born 1852, became the 
wife of Frederick Hall Lane, and is now de- 
ceased, leaving a son, Frederick Hall Lane. 
2. Julia, born 1856, married Frank B. Jackson, 
and her son Herbert now resides with Mr. 
Hasbrouck, on the old homestead. 3. Alary, 
died in childhood. The mother died in 1899. 



The American ancestor of the 
CHENEY Cheneys of Cortland was Will- 
iam Cheney, of Roxbury, Mas- 
sachusetts, born in England, date, place and 
ancestry unknown. John Cheney, of Roxbury, 
same date, is not known to have been a rela- 
tive, although the inference would be they 
were brothers, both being Englishmen. Will- 
iam Cheney was an early settler of Roxbury, 
Massachusetts, where he was a landholder be- 
fore 1640. His name is found in the earliest 
records of the town that have been preserved. 
An entry in the book says it was bought in 
1639, but the earliest entries are not dated. 
The page on which William is first entered is 
preceded by one dated 1640 and followed by 
one dated 1642. "William Cheiney" is credit- 
ed there with owning twenty-four and one- 
half acres. He was one of the subscribers, in 
1645, toward the fund for the support of the 
Roxbury P'ree .School, and one of the few men 
who specially guaranteed the payments of their 
)-early subscriptions. In 1648 he was elected 
assessor ; in 1655 he was appointed constable ; 
1637, elected selectman: in 1666 he was made 
a freeman of the colony, having a short time 
previously joined the church. His wife had, 
liowever, joined in 1644, which gave the chil- 
dren the right of baptism in the church. He 
died, according to the entry made by the town 
clerk, "William Cheney aged 63 years : died 
June the 30th day, 1667." His wife Margaret 
survived him and married (second) a Mr. 
Burge, whom she also survived. Children: i. 
Ellen, born in England, about 1626, died Sep- 
tember 28, 1678 ; married, at Roxbury. Humph- 
rey Johnson, son of John Johnson, and a 
soldier in King Philip's war. 2. Margaret, 
married Deacon Thomas Hastings, one of the 
leading men of Watertown. 3. Thomas, of 
further mention. 4. William (2), of Medfield 
and Dorchester, 5. John, born September 29, 
1639 : student at Harvard College ; died unmar- 
ried, "Found dead in our river." 6. Mehitabel. 
born June i, 1643: married Thomas Wight. 
7. Joseph, born June 6, 1644, settled in Med- 



field, married and had issue. These children, 
except Ellen, were all born in Roxbury. Massa- 
chusetts. 

(H) Thomas, son of William and Margaret 
Cheney, died 1695. He lived in Roxbury for 
a few years after his marriage, then removed 
to Cambridge, now Brighton, and within the 
limits of the city of Boston. Here his after 
life was spent with the exception of a few 
years in Roxbury with his widowed invalid 
mother. He served on various committees in 
Roxbury and Cambridge, united with the Cam- 
bridge church, was made a freeman, and, in 
1675, served in Captain Johnson's Roxbury 
company of soldiers, who marched from Bos- 
ton, July 6, 1675. for Mt. Hope, King Philip's 
stronghold, and rendered gallant service in 
the December fight, where Captain Johnson 
was killed. His will is dated November 6, 
1693, ^'""^l- March 4, 1695, an inventory of his 
estate was filed. He married, in Roxbury, 
January 11, 1655, Jane Atkinson, who died 
in the latter part of July. 1724. Children: i. 
Margaret, born November 26, 1656: married 
Nicholas Fessenden, and had fourteen chil- 
dren, the youngest, Benjamin, being a graduate 
of Harvard and an eminent minister. 2. Thomas, 
born December 25, 1658 ; married Hannah 
Woodie. He was a merchant of Roxbury and 
had ten children. 3. Mehitabel, born February 
20, 1660. 4. John, born 1662, died at age of 
twenty-six years, the result of a quarrel with a 
negro, who in self-defense struck him a blow 
with a stake that caused his death three days 
later. 5. William, born June 30, 1663, died 
March 25. 1695; married Rebecca Newell; 
three children. 6. Mary, born April 17, 1665; 
married John Holbrook. 7. Jane, born Janu- 
ary 5, 1667 : married Thomas Belknap. 8. Jo- 
seph, born February 16. 1670: married Re- 
becca Robbins. 9. Hannah, born July 6, 1673. 
10. Benjamin, of further mention. 11. Eben- 
ezer, died aged eleven years. 

(HI) Benjamin, son of Thomas and Jane 
(Atkinson) Cheney, was born January 29, 
1675, died July 13, 1718. He resided in Cam- 
bridge, his homestead of fifty acres lying on 
the Newtown road. He married (first) his 
cousin Alary, daughter of Joseph Cheney, of 
Aledfield, born June 23, 1683, died October 31. 
1705. He married (second), November 14. 
I7a5, Alary Herbert, who survived him and 
married (second) Alichael Felshaw.of Killing- 
ly, Connecticut. She died in Ashford, Con- 
necticut, Alay 15. 1760. Children: i. Alary, 



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died in infancy. 2. Pienjamin. born Septem- 
ber 7, 1703; married (first) Elizabeth Parker, 
(second) Margaret Stedman, four children. 3. 
Mary, born October 23, 1705; married her 
cousin Henry, son of Thomas Cheney, seven 
children. 4. Hannah, twin of Mary, married 
Captain Zachariah Goodale, eight children. 5. 
Colonel Thomas, born about 1708, served in 
the French and Indian war, in the Eighth 
Massachusetts Regiment : commissioned captain 
at Louisburg, June 20, 1745, by Governor Shir- 
ley ; colonel of militia: representative to the 
provincial congress, 1774 and 1773 ; large land 
owner and wealthy business man. He marrierl 
his second cousin Sarah, daughter of John and 
Sarah (Squires) Fessenden. 6. Joseph, born 
November 2, 1709; married Elizabeth Tucker: 
four children. 7. Ebenezer, died at age of 
twenty years. 8. Ruth, born about 171 3: mar- 
ried Elias Mason : three children. 9. John, 
born about 1716: married Martha Fessenden. 
10. William, of further mention. 11. A daugh- 
ter, died young. 

(IV) William (2). son of Denjamin and his 
second wife. Mary (Herbert) Cheney, was 
born in Cambridge. Massachusetts, about 1718. 
He joined the .\shford church. May 16. 1742: 
bought land there in 1746. a part of whicli he 
later sold to his brother. Colonel Thomas 
Cheney. He was a farmer and figures in sev- 
eral land transactions. Six of his children 
were living at the death of the colonel and 
inherited shares in his estate. He enlisted in 
I'ifth Company. Third Regiment, Colonel Isaac 
Putnam. May i, 1775, and was killed June 17. 
1775, at the battle of Bunker Hill. His name 
is on the bronze tablet in the park at Charles- 
town. Massachusetts. He married (first), in 
Ash ford, Connecticut. March 14. 1739, Ruth, 
born April 23, 1722, died October 16, 1756, 
daughter of Philip Eastman. He married ( sec- 
ond), February i, 1757, Mehitabel Chubb. 
Children: i. Ebenezer, born May 23, 1740: 
married Priscilla, daughter of Seth and .Abi- 
gail Lyon, eight children. 2. Thomas, born 
July I, 174^. 3. Benjamin, of further men- 
tion. 4. William, born April 17, 1747. 5. 
John, died young. 6. Joseph, died young. 7. 
Elizabeth, born September 6. 1752: married 
John Babyno. 8. John, died young. 9. Jo- 
seph, baptized February 23. 1759. 10. .\ daugh- 
ter, twin of Josejjh. 11. John, son by adoption, 
baptized October 12. 1760. 

(V) Benjamin (2). son of William (2) 
and his first wife. Ruth (Eastman) Chcnev. 



was born June 10, baptized June 27. 1744, in 
.A.shford. Massachusetts, where he continued 
to reside. He married. May 30. 1765. Abigail., 
born May 5, 1745. died September 21, 1790, 
daughter of John Parry. Children: i. Mehit- 
abel. born September 26. 1766. 2. Huldah, 
September 9. 1767. 3. Thomas, June 24, 1769. 
4. Daniel, of further mention. 5. Abiel, born 
.August 10. 1773, removed to Littleton. \'er- 
mont : married Irene Munson. 6. Elizabeth, 
August 27. 1775. 7. Benjamin. September 12, 
1777. 8. Xabbey. born Alay 17. 1779. 9. John. 
August 17. 1781. 10. Hannah. November 19. 
1783. II. William. Februarv 17. 1785. 12. 
Ruth. July 31. 1788. 

( \'I ) Daniel, son of Benjamin ( 2 ) and Abi- 
gail (Parry) Cheney, was born in .Ashford. 
Connecticut. June 9, 1771, died in the town 
of Olean, New York. January 23. 1837. .\t 
an early day he removed from Connecticut to 
Esse.x county. New York, where he remained 
but a short time, later settling in the town of 
Olean, Cattaraugus county, where he was high- 
ly respected for his honest and kind heart. He 
married Irene Ashford. who died November 
4. 1842. aged sixty-eight years and five months. 
Children: I. Sally, married a Mr. White. 2. 
Eunice, married a Mr. Randall. 3. Rachel. 
4. \Velles. born April 6, i8o5, a farmer of 
Delevan, New York ; married Deborah R. 
Hawkins, and had Munson, Nancy L. and 
Mehitabel. 5. Mehitabel. 6. John, of further 
mention. 7. Lyman. 8. Eletheer. 9. Walter. 

( \ II ) John, son of Daniel and Irene ( Ash- 
ford) Cheney, was born in Olean. Cattaraugus 
county. New York, June 6. 1813, died in York- 
shire, same county, August 20, 188 1. He spent 
his whole life in Cattaraugus county, except a 
few years passed in the present town of Gar- 
field, Pennsylvania, where he was engaged in 
operating a sawmill. He was a successful 
farmer and by energy and thrift secured a 
competence. He was a man of upright. Chris- 
tian life and character, honored and respected 
wherever known. He was active in the Meth- 
odist Episcopal church, and held several im- 
portant town offices. In political preference 
he was a Republican. He married, in Penn- 
sylvania. September 20. 1840, Sarah A., daugh- 
ter of Leonard and Mary Hodges, of Warren. 
Pennsylvania. Children: i. Clark .\bial, born 
.April 30. 1842. in A'orkshire. New York, own- 
ed and operated the Truman Coal Farm, in 
Yorkshire: married. .August. 1863. Jeannette, 
daughter of William and Laura ( Davis) Lang- 



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made, of Yorkshire : children : Sarah Belle, 
born August 24, 1867; Georgia Anna, August 
26. 1873: Fred Mason, born February 6. 1876; 
-Myrna, born October 11, 1885. 2. Walter 
W'ilmot, born in Warren county, Pennsylvania, 
July 6. 1844. was extensively engaged in oil 
production in the oil fields of Pennsylvania 
and Western Xevv York, with residence at 
Delevan. Xew York; married, March 10. 1875, 
Louise, daughter of Henry Strong, of Sar- 
dinia. Xew York; child, Mabel Strong, born 
January 8. 1879. 3. Eunice Irene, born March 
24, 1846; married, December 31, 1866, Henry 
L. Crooker, of Arcade ; children ; Charles Fran- 
cis, born April 16, 1872; John Cheney, born 
December 26. 1874; Walter Elgene. born De- 
cember 16, 1878. 4. Francis John, of further 
mention. 5, George Hamline, born March 7, 
1850; educated in the public schools. Arcade 
.\cademy and Grifiith Institute, Springfield, 
Xew York, and Ten Broeck Free .\cademy, at 
Franklinville. Pie taught in the public schools 
several years ; was principal of the Union 
School, at Hinsdale, Xew York, and was pro- 
fessor of mathematics in Xorthern Xew York 
Conference Seminary, at Antwerp. New York. 
He pre]iared for the ministry, and, in 1873-75, 
was pastor of the Ellicottville (Xew York) 
circuit. In the fall of 1875 ^^ entered Boston 
University School of Theology, being grad- 
uated therefrom in 1879. He joined the New 
England Conference of the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church, in 1878, on probation, being ad- 
mitted to full coimection in 1880; was ordain- 
ed deacon by Bishop Foster, at Lynn, Massa- 
chusetts. April 8, 1877; ordained elder by 
Bishop Peck, in Worcester. Massachusetts, 
April 10, 1881. He has filled important pul- 
pits in Massachusetts, and is an elo(|uent, suc- 
cessful minister of the gospel. He married Elea- 
nor Robinson, of Somerville, Massachusetts ; 
children: Emily M.,born May 14,1882; David 
McGregor, December 12. 1884; Sarah R., June 
30. 1887 ; Eleanor R., June 11, 1893. 6. Charles 
Summer, died aged five years. 7. Lyman 
Josiah. born October 1 1. t86o, was successively 
druggist and dry goods merchant in Delevan, 
Xew York. In 1892 he was appointed clerk 
in the United States railway postal service ; 
prominent in local politics and a supporter of 
the Republican party. He married, in .-\rcade. 
^\'yoming county. New York. March 8, 1882. 
I'lorence X.. daughter of Charles and Ravilla 
Cagwin ; children : Lloyd Lyman, born .\pril 
23. 1884; Clifford Carleton, June 17. 1887. 



(\'III) Francis John, son of John and 
Sarah .\. ( Hodges) Cheney, was born in War- 
ren, Pennsylvania. Jvme 5. 1848. His parents 
removed to Cattaraugus county. New York, 
when he was six years of age, and his early 
education was obtained in the district schools 
during the winter months, his summers being 
spent in assisting his father in farming opera- 
tions. He remained on the farm until he was 
twenty years of age, working and studying. 
In this way and b)' a few terms at Arcade 
.\cademy he prepared for college. In 1868 he 
entered Genesee College, and was graduated 
A. B., class of 1872, at head of his class, the 
first class graduated after the college was 
merged with Syracuse University. Immedi- 
ately after graduation he entered upon the pro- 
fession of teaching, a line of activity he has 
ever since continued with honor and success. 
His fame as an educator is more than state- 
wide, but the institutions he has served are the 
best witnesses to his ability. In the spring of 
1872 (even before graduation) he was elected 
to the chair of mathematics in the Northern 
New York Conference Seminary, at Antwerp 
(Ives Seminary), where he remained two 
years, resigning to accept a call to the principal- 
ship of Dryden (New York) L^nion School. 
Here he remained seven years, finishing a 
course of legal study, and, in 1880, was ad- 
mitted to the bar. He had decided to settle 
in the west and devote his after life to the 
practice of law, all necessary arrangements 
having been made. While still at the head of 
Dryden L'nion School he received such a flat- 
tering offer from the Kingston ( New York ) 
board of education, to become principal of 
Kingston Free Academy, that his western plans 
were abandoned and the offer accepted. He 
remained at Kingston ten years at the head of 
the Academy, raising the standard of the school 
and wonderfully increasing its efficiency. These 
years had thoroughly established his standing 
as an educator, and his services were frequent- 
ly sought by other cities and institutions. Syra- 
cuse L^iiversity offered him the chair of Eng- 
lish and Belles Lettres ; Olean. New York, 
elected him city superintendent of schools, 
which he did not accept because the Kingston 
board of education did not want to release him. 
In 1890 he was a candidate for the principal- 
ship of the State Normal School, at Greeley, 
Colorado. Having been appointed inspector 
of high schools and academies of New York, 
by the board of regents, he withdrew his ap- 



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plication, however, although it was so favor- 
able considered that, it is said, he would prob- 
ably have been appointed, had he not with- 
drawn it. This necessitated severing his con- 
nection with Kingston Free Academy, although 
the board of education offered a substantial 
increase in salary and such an increase in 
teaching force as to leave him little actual 
teaching, but his decision was made in favor 
of the inspectorship. The "School Bulletin" 
said regarding his appointment ; "The Board 
of Regents are to be congratulated for the 
good sense shown in the selection of such a 
man for the place." The Kingston pajjers 
spoke of his departure with regret, one saying : 
"He is one of the men who is vastly broader 
than his profession. He is fully abreast of the 
times not only as an educator but as a man of 
aft"airs." He only held the inspectorship one 
year, resigning to accept the appointment of 
the State Normal and Training School, at Cort- 
land, New York. He began his duties there 
with the opening of the fall term, 1891, and 
now, twenty years later (1911), he is still the 
honored head of the institution. These have 
been years of improvement and progress for 
the school, years also broadening and strength- 
ening the man. The school has doubled in 
size, buildings, apparatus, and teaching staff 
keeping pace. Mr. Cheney out of his wide ex- 
perience is a most able instructor of instructors 
and much in demand for lectures and addresses 
before educational associations and other soci- 
eties. In 1890-QI he was president of the 
Associated Academic Principals, of the state 
of New York, and holds membership in the 
state and national educational associations. In 
1885 he made a tour of Great Britain and 
Europe, visiting the principal countries and 
cities, gathering information of special value 
to him in his profession. In 1888, after an 
e.vamination at the School of American His- 
tory, Syracuse University conferred on him the 
degrees of A. M. and Ph. D. In i8()6 he was lay 
delegate to the general conference of the IMeth- 
odist Episcopal church, being sent from Cen- 
tral New York. He is a member of the Ma- 
sonic Order, belonging to Cortlandville Lodge. 
Dr. Cheney married (first), July 30, 1873, 
Lydia Henrietta, died March 21, 1896, daugh- 
ter of Buel G. and Lucy (Thornton) Smith, 
of Delevan, New York. Child, Genevieve 
(adopted), born May q, 1885. He married 
(second), July 20, 1898, Clara Jane, daugh- 
ter of John J. and Margaret (Livingston) Rob- 



inson, of Fort Edward. Child, Clara Frances, 
born January 20, 1900. 



The Keators of Cortland, New 

KEATOR York, trace from Holland an- 
cestry. The name is an uncom- 
mon one in early days and the present form 
is evidently an anglicized form of a Dutch 
name. It is impossible to trace definitely be- 
yond John Keator, of Ulster county, New 
York, who was ambushed and slain by Indians 
with another of his family. In 1676 John 
Keator made a purchase of land in the town 
of ]\Iarbletown, LMster county. New York. 
This was no doubt the emigrant from Holland, 
and founder of the Ulster county family of 
Keator. The name is met with in the Lllster 
records and the family seem to have borne 
well their part in the development of the coun- 
try. Among the founders and subscribers to 
the fund for erecting the first house of worship 
for the Reformed Protestant Dutch church, at 
Marbletown (where the Keators seemed to 
have centered), is found the names of Au- 
gustinus, Johannes, Melgert and Jacob Keator. 
This church was organized in 173", and a 
church built in 1743. Among the signers in 
the Troop of Horse in LUster, at Kingston. 
June 9, 1775, from the town of jMarbletown, 
the name of Johannes Keator is second. 

(Ill) John Keator, of Marbletown. was 
born about 1700, and was probably a grand- 
son of the emigrant, John Keator, of wdiom 
nothing seems to be known after his land 
purchase in 1676. John (2) Keator was killed 
by Indians and there is no record of his family 
further than that his son John met his death 
at the same time. He was the signer to the 
enlistment rolls in 1735. his father being among 
the first members of the Dutch Church, at 
Marbletown, who signed the subscription list 
in 1743. when the first building was erected. 
He is enrolled as a soldier of the Third Regi- 
ment L'lster County Militia (Land Bounty 
Rights). He was undoubtedly of the third 
generation in America. 

( I\') John, son of John Keator, was of the 
town of Marbletown, Ulster county. New 
York, where he was born about the year 1730. 
Nothing further can be told of him than that 
he was married and had at least a son Cor- 
nelius, and met his death at the hands of the 
Indians. 

( \' ) Cornelius, son of John Keator, of 
Marbletown, was born in New York, in 1763, 



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(lied in Roxbury, Delaware county, about 
1856. He married Elizabeth Krom from near 
High Falls, Ulster county. After his marriage 
several years Cornelius removed to the town 
of Roxbury, Delaware county, New York, 
where descendants are yet seated. This was 
when that town was yet virgin forest, except- 
ing the first settler, Isaac Inman, 1788; a party 
of twenty families from Fairfield, Connecticut, 
1789, and the Scotch settlement of John Moore, 
on the headwaters of the Delaware river, now 
known as Grandgorge, then called "Moore's 
Settlement." 

(\'I) Joseph, son of Cornelius and Eliza- 
beth (Krom) Keator, was born in Marble- 
town, Ulster county, New York, about 1784. 
He was living at Kingston Creek, that county, 
in 1797, and from there went to Roxbury, Del- 
aware county, probably at the same time his 
father settled in that town. He was a farmer 
and general trader, owning considerable prop- 
erty of various kinds. After an active life in 
Delaware county, he died about 1820. He 
married Polly VVight, who survived him until 
1852. Children : Thomas ; Harvey ; Chauncey ; 
Mary, married Noah Dimmick ; Hettie, mar- 
ried Levi Mead ; Rachel, married John T. 
Mead ; Betsey, married Jeremiah G. Baughton ; 
Debby, married Jonas M. Sweet. 

(VH) Thomas, son of Joseph and Polly 
(Wight) Keator, was born in Roxbury, Dela- 
ware county, i\ew York, November 25, 1803, 
died in Cortland, New York, June 19, 1879. 
He was educated in the public schools and for 
a time followed the occupation of a farmer, 
exclusively. Later he established a small mer- 
cantile business at what is now Vega, not far 
from Roxbury. He continued farming and in 
merchandise until 1854, when he removed to 
Cortland, New York, where he became promi- 
nent. He purchased what is now known as 
the \\'ickwire farm and for a time was engaged 
in its operation. He later established himself 
in the mercantile business in the village of 
Cortland, continuing for two or three years. 
He was a man of great energy and unusual 
business capacity. In 1863 he effected the 
organization of the First National Bank, of 
Cortland, and was elected its first president, 
holding that important office until his death. 
He was president of the village corporation of 
Cortland and in many ways aided in the devel- 
opment of the village. In Delaware county he 
was a member of the Dutch Reformed church, 
but after coming to Cortland attended the 



Presbyterian church. He was broad-minded 
and liberal in all things, giving to every man 
his justice, and leaving behind him a reputa- 
tion for upright, generous dealing. His political 
creed was Whig, later Republican. He mar- 
ried (first) Sarah, born 1806, died May 8, 
1834, daughter of Samuel Slaughson. He mar- 
ried (second) Betsey Alore, born 1812, died 
1891, daughter of Edwin and Charity (Mc- 
Ginnis) More, granddaughter of John and 
Betty (Taylor) More, the latter coming to 
the United States from Edinburg, Scotland, 
their native land. Children by first marriage: 
I. Samuel, of further mention. 2. Polly, mar- 
ried R. B. Smith. Children by second mar- 
riage : 3. Edward, died aged seven years. 4. 
Sarah, deceased. 5. Esther, married Oliver 
Porter, whom she survives, a resident of 
Homer Village, New York (1911). 6. Jane^ 
married (first) William S. Newkirk; (second) 
Henry C. Rogers, and resides in Cortland. 7. 
Elizabeth, married Brainard Norris, who sur- 
vives her. 8. Joseph, died aged thirteen 
years. 9. Edward, now president of the First 
National Bank, of Cortland ; married Hattie 
L. Jones, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania ; chil- 
dren : Thomas, born November 12, 1890 ; Oliver 
Porter, November 9, 1892; Martin Derby, July 
14, 1899. 10. Mary, married William F. Chad- 
bourne. 

(\ II) Samuel, eldest son and child of 
Thomas and his first wife Sarah (Sally) 
(Slaughson) Keator, was born in Roxbury, 
Delaware county. New York, August 26, 1826. 
He was educated in the public schools ; work- 
ed with his father in the Roxbury store and on 
reaching the age of twenty-one years was ad- 
mitted to a partnership. He remained in busi- 
ness at Roxbury two years after his father's 
removal to Cortland, tlien disposed of his en- 
tire interests and removed to Broome county. 
New York, where he took charge of a tannery, 
forming a partnership with his father. He 
continued there nine years, until 1865, when he 
removed to Cortland, New York, which has 
since been his continuous residence. He had 
large farming interests and dealt extensively 
in live stock for many years. Upon the death 
of Thomas Keator, in 1879, he succeeded to 
the presidency of the First National Bank, of 
Cortland, holding that position for nine years, 
and is still a member of the board of directors. 
In 1903 Mr. Keator came into possession of 
the Cortland Foundry and Machine Shops, 
which he still owns and operates. He has led 



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an exceedingly busy, active life and the success 
that has attended his efforts has been fairly 
earned. He has worthily and capably filled 
every station in life to which he has been 
called, shirked no duty and faithfully executed 
every trust. He is a Republican in politics, 
and while in Delaware county was town col- 
lector. In religious faith he is a Presbyterian. 
He married, June 29, 1858, Annie S. Stewart, 
born in Scotland, died in Cortland in 1903. 
Children: i. Sarah, married Charles F. Brown, 
a leading merchant of Cortland, many times a 
member of the state legislature, where he is an 
important and useful legislator ; children : 
Florence and Thomas Keator. 2. .\nnie, mar- 
ried Frank J. Peck, of Cortland : child, Susan. 
3. Clara, married Thomas F. Ward, whom she 
survives : children : Thomas and Madeline. 



"Burke's Commoners," vol- 
WICKWIRE ume 4, states: "The family 
of Ware claims a descent 
from Roger de Ware, Lord of Isefield, and a 
Baron of Parliament in the reign of Edward 
1." The founder was Jordan De la War, of 
Wick, Gloucestershire, England, whose de- 
scendants enjoyed extensive grants of land in 
the southern, middle and western counties of 
England, for bravery in various wars, partic- 
ularly on the fields of Cressy and Poictiers. 
In early records the name is spelled : War, 
Ware, Warr, Warre and Weare. Arms : "Gules, 
a lion rampart between eight crosslets, argent." 
Crest : "Out of a ducal coronet or, a griffith's 
head azure." During the century following the 
grant of the Manor of Wick to John La Warre 
( 1207) the Alanor gradually acquired the name 
of \\'yke- Warre. In 1290 the parish of Wick- 
war was established. The advowson of the 
church belonged to the Warre family, passing 
from them after the death of Thomas, Lord 
de la Warre, governor of Virginia, when the 
Manor of Wickwar was sold to Sir Robert 
Ducie, and descended to his heirs. The town 
of Wickware or Wickwaire lies in the parish 
of the same name about twenty-six miles south 
from (jloucester on the best road from there 
to Bath. The town has the privilege of a 
weekly market and a yearly fair, granted b_\- 
Edward I. Wickware as a surname was not in 
use until 1500 and probably first came from 
a branch of the family residing at or near the 
Manor of Wick, or Wickwarre, and assumed 
that name to distinguish themselves from the 
main l)rancli, which after a few generations had 



their principal seat in Sussex county. In the 
earliest entries, the name is spelled Wyckwarre, 
Wyckwarr, Wyckware, Wickwarre, Wickwarr, 
and Wickware. There are many entries of the 
name prior to the year 1700 in various parishes 
but none are found that give a John Wickwarr, 
whose age corresponds with the supposed age 
of John of New London except one. John 
Wickware baptized May 18, 1656, son of John 
Wickwarr, of Wotton-L'nder-Edge, in Glou- 
cestershire. His father died when he was less 
than a year old and this lack of a paternal care 
may have been a factor in his determination 
to seek his fortune in the new world. The fam- 
ily is said to be almost extinct in England and 
the name is not a common one in the United 
States. 

( I ) John Wickware ( W'ickwire), the ances- 
tor of the American family of Wickware and 
Wickwire, settled at Xew London, Connecti- 
cut, in 1675. He is supposed to have been the 
son of John and Mary VVickware, of Wotton- 
Under-Edge, England, baptized May 18, 1656, 
died in March or April, 1712. He was a soldier 
in King Philip's war and was engaged in the 
Great Swamp fight, December 19, 1675, when 
the power of the Xarragansetts was broken. 
For his service in this war, he afterwards re- 
ceived from the general court a grant of one 
hundred and forty acres of land in \'oluntown. 
His name appears on the list of residents in 
Xew London, in 1676; he settled in the north 
parish of Xew London, now known as Mont- 
ville. He was one of the seventy-seven paten- 
tees of Xew London named in the patent grant- 
ed by Governor Winthrop, October 14, 1704. 
By deed, dated June 30. 1798, he and Mary, 
his wife, granted to Rene Grigon, the tract of 
land in \'oluntown, received for his service in 
the Indian war. At the time of his death he 
owned several tracts of land besides his home- 
stead and was considered a man of wealth for 
those times. The use of the word "Mr." be- 
fore his name in the clerk's certificate indicates 
the social position as it was only applied to 
men of social rank. He married, Xovcmber (i, 
1676, Mary, daughter of George and Margery 
Tonge. George Tonge was an early settler in 
Xew London, and, in 1656, the general town 
meeting chose him to keep an inn for five 
years. In those times only trustworthy citi- 
zens were accorded this privilege. In the same 
year he purchased a house and lot on the 
Thames river, "and here he ojiened the house 
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and which being continued by his family, was 
the most noted inn of the town for sixty 
years." Children of John and Mary (Tonge) 
Wick ware : i. George, born October 4, 1677. 
2. Christopher, of further mention. 3. John, 
born December 2, 1685. 4. Elizabeth, born 
March 23, 1688-89: married, at New London, 
September 9, 1708, Jonas Hamilton, born about 
1678, son of David Hamilton, a Scotchman of 
Berwick, Maine, who was killed by the In- 
dians, September 28, 1691. He and his wife 
were baptized at New London, June 25, 1710. 
He joined the church at New London, October 
8, 1738. In 1748 Jonas Hamilton was describeil 
in a petition to the general court as a member 
of the church in the parish of New Salem. 
Children : Jonathan. Solomon, Mary, Eliza- 
beth, James, Lucretia, Daniel, Ann. 5. Jona- 
than, born February 19, 1690-91. 6. Peter, 
born March 12, 1694. 7. Ann, born Septem- 
ber 25, 1697; married, October 14, 1714, James 
Brown, of Colchester, wdio was probably son 
of James and Remembrance (Brooks) Brown, 
of Colchester. She was baptized with her 
daughter Ann, by Rev. James Hillhouse, Octo- 
ber 28, 1722. Children: James, Ann, Jonathan. 
( II ) Christopher W'ickwire, second son of 
John and ]\Iary (Tonge) Wickware, was born 
January 8, 1679-80, in the North Parish of 
New London, now Montville. On January 16, 
1 7 16- 1 7, he conveyed to Lieutenant-Colonel 
John Livingston a tract of land at New Lon- 
don, the deed was acknowledged at Norwich. 
One of the points described in the deed is "a 
cellar that John Wickwire built." In 1734 he 
removed to Lyme. On June 5, 1739, Christo- 
pher W'ickwire, "of New London, now a resi- 
dent in Lyme." conveyed to Peter W'ickwire, 
his farm in the North Parish, near Stony 
Brook. He married, in New London. Eliza- 
beth . Children: 1. Ichabod, of further 

mention. 2. Solomon, born about 171 5. "The 
Colonial Records of Connecticut," volume 9, 
page 371, show that in May, 1748, a memorial 
was presented to the legislature of Connecti- 
cut by Solomon W'ickwire and twenty-two 
others, members of the church and inhabitants 
I of the society or parish of New Salem, "lying 
i partly in Colchester in the county of Hartford 
I and partly in Lyme in the county of New ■ 
Haven." praying they might be authorized to 
call a minister and levy a tax for the support 
of the church. He was a soldier in the French 
and Indian war, serving in Captain Edmund 
Well's Hebron com])any, in 1756. 3. Nathan. 



4. Elizabeth, married Joshua Parker, of New 
London. 5. Ann, married a Mr. Chapman, 
who died before 1747. 6. Mary, married Na- 
thaniel Avery, of Lyme, born January 30, 
1702. son of Samuel and Susannah (Palmes) 
Avery, and grandson of Captain James Avery. 
One child, Mary, baptized May 24, 1729. 7. 
James, born 1725, died October 23, 1726. 8. 
Zebediah, baptized March 22, 1729-30. 9. 
Bridget. 

( III ) Ichabod, son of Christopher and Eliz- 
abeth W'ickwire, was born about 1713, died 
alxiut 1763-64. On October 16, 1764, his son 
".Samuel W'ickwire was allowed to be guardian 
to Oliver W'ickwire, bonds given, etc." Oliver 
was then about nineteen years of age, and it is 
probable that the appointment was necessary 
in order that the father's estate might be set- 
lied. About 1770 the widow and children re- 
moved to Cornwall. Ichabod is said to have 
served in the French and Indian war and to 
have participated under General Wolfe in the 
campaign against Quebec. He married, at 
New London, March 19, 1736, Deborah, daugh- 
ter of Jonathan Fairbanks, the ancestor of the 
American family, who came from Yorkshire, 
England, to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1633. He 
had a son Jonathan who was a soldier in King 
Philip's war, serving in the Mount Hope and 
several other campaigns. Chiklren of Ichabod 
and Deborah (Fairbanks) Wickwire: i. Sam- 
uel, born 1738; married Jane Brown. 2. Elisal, 
born 1740: married John Gilbert. He was a 
soldier ( with James Wickwire and John Grant ) 
in Captain Stephen Hosmer's New Salem com- 
pany, in the French and Indian war in 1755. 
3. Oliver, of further mention. 4, Ichabod, born 
1746: married (first) Widow Huntley, mar- 
ried (second) Submit F"ord, February 27, 1794. 

( I\' ) Oliver, son of Ichabod and Deborah 
( Fairbanks) Wickwire, was born in 1745, died 
August 17, 1829. Gold's "History of Corn- 
wall" says : "Oliver Wickwire came from New 
London county before the time of the Revolu- 
tion. He settled in the old road long since dis- 
continued, running northeast from near Ches- 
ter Wickwire's. His nearest neighbor in the 
south was James Douglas." The house of 
Oi'ver Wickwire was situate 1 on Cream Hill, 
in the northern part of Cornwall. His son, 
Newton C, stated, in 1901, that Oliver served 
in the war of 1812. He married (first) Lois 
Beckwith, born 1752. died January 28, 181 3. 
.She and her husband were both buried at 
Lime Rock. He married (second) Widow 



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Mary Gibbs Havvley. Children by first mar- 
riage: I. Estiier, born 1773, at Lyme; married 
Luman Howe ; children : Alvah and Lucretia. 
2. Joseph, born 1775, at Cornwall; died Janu- 
ary 18, 1813. 3. Joshua, born 1781. 4. Daniel, 
of further mention. 5. Richard. 6. Ransom. 
7. Lois, married James Robb. of Salisbury, 
Connecticut; they had several children. 8. 
Lucretia, born June 4, 1789; married Calvin 
Butler, and had ten children. 9. Julia D., mar- 
ried James E. Kellogg. 10. Alary, married 
Paul Price, born 1782, son of Sergeant Paul 
and Sarah (Berry) (Viall) Price, of Goshen, 
and had four children. Children by second 
marriage: 11. Clarissa, married Lucius Foote, 
born June 22, 181 5, son of Colonel Samuel 
and Lucy (Lord) Foote. 12. Newton C, born 
August 20, 1818. 13. Jeannette, born 1825: 
married Charles Page, of Aurora, Illinois. 

(V) Daniel, son of Oliver and Lois (Beck- 
with) Wickwire, was born in 1782, died in 
1870. In April. 1825, he was appointed a 
member of a committee to build a meeting- 
house for the society of North Cornwall. He 
was the owner of a large farm of over a thou- 
sand acres in Cream Hill. He married, at 
Cornwall, December 30, 1803, Mary Scoville. 
Children: i. Irene, born January 12, 1806; 
married Lewis Dean, and died March 3, 1824, 
at birth of twins, who died when two years 
old. 2. Chester, born May 29, 1810. 3. Ray- 
mond, of further mention. 4. Mary, born De- 
cember 28, 1817, died July 30, 1830; married 
Joseph Kinney, of Cortland, New York; chil- 
dren: .-\melia, married Daniel Smith, after her 
death he married Sarah Jane Wickwire ; Helen, 
died unmarried ; Edgar, deceased. 

(\'I) Raymond, son of Daniel and Mary 
(Scoville) Wickwire, was born January 28, 
1816, died at Cortland, New York. September 
4, 1866. He married, at McGrawville, New 
York, February 27, 1840, Elmira, daughter of 
Homer B. Greenman, born at Stephentown, 
New York, son of Benjamin Greenman, born 
at Block Island, Rhode Island. Homer B. 
Greenman married Rachel, daughter of David 
Watcrbury, born at Nassau. New York. Ray- 
mond Wickwire resided at Cortland, New York. 
Children: i. Mary Celestia, born February 13. 
1841 ; married. September 18, 1861, Edward 
Stilson, born July i, 1839, died October 23, 
1868, son of Ansyl Ford and Susan (Dewey) 
Stilson ; children i. Arthur Ford, born Decem- 
ber 9, 1864, married. January 22, 1890, Carrie 
Louise, daughter of Henry F. and Carrie (Put- 



nam ) Benton. Mrs. Stilson is an active member 
of the Daughters of the American Revolution ; 
children : a. Raymond Putnam, born October 11, 
1892. died December 11, 1893: b. Chester Ben- 
ton, born January 16, i8c)6; ii. Edward, born 
March 9, 1867, married, March 4, 1891, Mar- 
tha, daughter of Frank W. Collins; children: 
a. Georgia Jennette, born July 22, 1892; b. 
Mary Wickwire, born July 15, 1894; c. Laura 
Ford, born November 15, 1895; d. Edward, 
born November 18, 1899. 2. Chester Franklin, 
of further mention. 3. Chauncey John, born 
May 22, 1845, died October 14, 1872, unmar- 
ried. 4. Ella Adelia, born January 13, 1849; 
married, .August 19, 1868, Charles W. Sanders. 
M. D., of New York City, son of Charles W. 
Sanders, the author of "Sander's Series of 
School Books." He graduated from Columbia 
College, and from the College of Physicians 
and Surgeons in 1878; children: i. Grace Eliz- 
abeth, born August 18, 1870, graduated at 
\'assar in 1890; married John Hicks Macy (2), 
November 7, 1894; he died in 1903: children: 

a. John Hicks (3), born September 22, 1895; 

b. Grace Elinor, born .'\ugust 31, 1897; ii. 
Mary Noxon, born November 6, 1876, gradu- 
ated at \'assar in 1896, class president; mar- 
ried William Henry Hays, October 19, 1898; 
he graduated at Columbia in 1896; he is a 
member of the L'niversity Club ; children : a. 
Ethel Sanders, born June 12, 1901 ; b. \\^ill- 
iam Henry (2), born May 3, 1903; c. Grace, 
born March i, 1907; iii. Ethel Blanche, born 
February 28, 1879, graduated at Miss Brown's 
school in 1897; married NVilliam Stocking 
Gould, April 20, 1898; children: a. Helen 
Sanders, born June 18, 1900: b. \\'illiam Stock- 
ing (2). born September 12, 1903; c. Marian 
Ethel, born January 18, 1906. 5. Theodore 
H., of further mention. 

(VII) Chester Franklin Wickwire, son of 
Raymond Wickwire, was born on the home- 
stead on the hill south of McGrawville, May 
31, 1843, ^"c' he attended the public schools 
of Cortlandville. In 1865 he came to Cort- 
land village and started a grocery store in 
the north part of the Riley building on the 
west side of Main street, at what is now 16 
Main street. For forty-five years he continued 
in active and successful business there. He 
died September 14, 1910, and he was active 
until a few days before his death. .A.fter about 
a year, however, he sold his grocery stock and 
continued in the hardware business in the same 
store, under the firm name of C. F. Wickwire 




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& Company, his father being in partnership. 
When his father died about a year later, his 
younger brother, Chauncey J., succeeded to his 
interests. Chauncey J. died October 14, 1872, 
and was succeeded in the firm by the youngest 
brother. Theodore H. Wickwire, the name 
being changed then to Wickwire Brothers, and 
thus it has continued since. The firm bought 
the Rose building on the opposite side of Main 
street. It was destroyed by fire in February, 
1884, after which the present four-story brick 
Wickwire building was erected. The store 
has been located in this building since its erec- 
tion. In 1873 an old loom came into the pos- 
session of the firm in the way of trade, and 
Chester F. Wickwire, who was gifted with 
inventive genius and mechanical skill, began to 
experiment with the loom in wire weaving and 
succeeded in making it operate perfectly. In 
1873, accordingly, the firm began with the old 
loom to manufacture wire screen and other 
wire goods in a small building at the rear of 
the store. More looms were added and the 
I business grew rapidly. The factory was en- 
i larged until it occujiied all the available space 
' within the square. In 1876 the hardware store 
was sold, and in, 1881, the firm began to draw 
fine wire for use in the business, erecting a 
large brick factory for the purpose on South 
Main street. In 1884 the wire weaving and 
wire goods departments were moved to this 
location. The business was incorporated in 
1892, under the same name, Wickwire Brothers, 
of which Chester F. Wickwire was president, 
and Theodore H. Wickwire, treasurer. Other 
additions were made from time to time. A rod 
mill, an open-hearth steel plant and other de- 
partments were added. This industry became 
the most important in Cortland. The present 
plant occupies thirty-six acres of land, nearly 
covered with buildings. It is also known as 
the largest and best equipped factory for the 
manufacture of wire goods in this country. 
The machinery used in weaving, spooling, 
painting and finishing wire cloth was largely 
invented by Mr. Wickwire, and nearly all built 
for the concern. He could operate all the 
machines and knew every detail of the manu- 
facture, and he used to spend much time in 
watching the machinery and making improve- 
ments in operations, to increase the efficiency 
or production. He was always respected and 
liked by his employees. He avoided labor 
troubles through his fairness and considerate- 
ness. 



He was a director of the First National 
Bank for many years and previously had been 
director of other banks. He was interested 
keenly in public affairs and gave his time free- 
Iv to public duties. He was appointed, June 
6, 1892, one of the five sewer commissioners in 
charge of constructing a sewer systan for Cort- 
land, and, in 1900, the same sewer board be- 
came under the city charter the board of 
public works. The same men continued in 
ofifice afterward and Mr. Wickwire's death 
brought the first change in a remarkably able 
and efficient commission. Mr. W'ickwire was 
determined to have public work performed 
right, and he had peculiar opportunities to 
carry out his wishes and determination. The 
slag with which the streets are paved was 
given by Wickwire Brothers to the city, and 
even the cost of crushing and preparing this 
material for the roads was borne by Wickwire 
Brothers. For many years Mr. Wickwire was 
a trustee of the Presbyterian church. For all 
public charities and many private needs he has 
given freely. His greatest single gift was the 
handsome new hospital, which was nearly com- 
pleted at the time of his death, and which he 
gave to the city and county. For many years 
he was on the board of trustees of the hospital 
and always gave liberally of his time as well 
as his money for this institution. He took the 
greatest personal interest in superintending the 
erection of the building. He made various 
changes from time to time to improve the 
hospital, bearing cheerfully the added cost, and 
it is believed that the total value of the gift 
was fully a hundred thousand dollars. The 
forenoon before he suffered the fatal stroke of 
paralysis he had spent at the hospital. The 
building will be one of the finest memorials 
to the first citizen of Cortland. Mr. Wickwire 
was also director of the \\'ickwire Steel Com- 
pany, incorporated in 1907, having a large, 
modern plant on the Niagara river, just north 
of Buffalo. T. H. Wickwire Jr. is treasurer. 

The following editorial from the Cortland 
Daily Standard shows the appreciation of Mr. 
\Mckwire's character and service to the com- 
munity : 

It is only the simple truth to say that the death of 
no other citizen of Cortland could cause the wide- 
spread and deeply-felt loss which follows upon the 
death of Chester F. Wickwire. Xo otlicr citizen 
has done so much for the place in so many ways, or 
has shown such interest and pride in its progress 
and welfare. More than any one else he has con- 
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laying the foundations of the great business of which 
he was head and lending his remarkable mechanical 
genius and sound judgment to building it up to its 
present proportions, but by years of faithful, intelli- 
gent and self-sacrificing service on its board of pub- 
lic works, and last of all by the splendid gift which 
he recently made the city in the hospital building 
which is not yet completed. He was quiet and mod- 
est, simple and sincere, kindly and genuine. His 
word was never given to be broken, and his sym- 
pathies and acts were always on the side of that 
which was straight and square and right. Careful 
in reaching his conclusions, he stood like a rock when 
his mind was made up. .And there was throughout 
his whole career an unwavering faithfulness and 
perseverence and loyalty in whatever his hands found 
to do which won admiration and commanded success. 
The story of the great mills which grew up from 
the seed of an old hand-wire loom under the touch 
of the genius of the man reads like a fairy tale of 
American business. Opportunity knocked at his door 
and did not knock in vain. But not one man in a 
million would have made of the opportunity what he 
did, and even he had no vision of what it would 
bring in its train. He simply saw a piece of machin- 
ery to be put in order and then improved, and he 
did the work and did it well. .\nd so it was with 
every demand which increasing business and enlarg- 
ing outlook put upon him. He did the day's duties to 
the best of his ability, without self-consciousness or 
greed, and he grew and things about him grew with 
him. 

Those who worked with him and under him liked 
him and respected him. He had done work and the 
hardest kind of work himself, he knew what a fair 
day's work was, and he was never unreasonable or 
exacting, but always appreciative of intelligent and 
efficient effort. Few employers have commanded to 
a greater degree the sincere affection and confidence 
of their employees. 

As he was in business, so he was in his social and 
domestic life. He was a true friend, a kind and gen- 
erous husband and father, a public-spirited and right- 
minded citizen. Friends who were closest to him 
believe that what he had already done for his city 
in the gift of a hospital building by no means repre- 
sented all that he had in mind. While few men as 
busy as he was give the public more and better serv- 
ice than he gave to Cortland by his years of member- 
ship on its board of public works, his modesty led 
him to think that he had done little where he might 
have done much, and had his life been spared it 
would undoubtedly have been still richer in labors 
and benefits for his fellow townsmen. 

His death means a loss to Cortland which no one 
can estimate. He was its most honored and valiied 
citizen. He leaves a vacancy in the community which 
cannot be filled. And there is a universal and heart- 
felt sympathy with those to whom he stood in the 
closest relations and upon whom his death falls with 
a weight all the harder to bear because he was 
stricken down in apparent health and with the pros- 
pect of years of usefulness before him. 

He married, October 2, 1866, Ardell L., 
daughter of Simeon and Sabrina (Rowley) 
Rouse, of Cortland. Children: i. Raymond 
Chester, born .\ugu,st 2, 1872, died January 



15, 1878. 2. Charles Chester, born June 23, 
1879, mentioned below. 3. Frederic Ross, born 
January 16, 1883, graduated from Andover, 
iyo2: graduated from Yale, 1905: a director 
and secretary of W'ickwire Brothers ; also di- 
rector in W'ickwire Steel Company, and suc- 
ceeded his father on the hospital board. 

( \'III ) Charles Chester, second son of Ches- 
ter Franklin and Ardell L. ( Rouse ) W'ick- 
wire, was born in Cortland, New York, June 
2;^. 1879. He was educated at Cortland Xormal 
School and Phillips .Academy, at .Andover. Mas- 
sachusetts, being graduated from the latter 
class of 1898. Immediately upon the comple- 
tion of his studies, he entered upon an active 
business life, becoming associated with his 
father in the manufacturing plant of "W'ick- 
wire Brothers," in Cortland. He rapidly de- 
velopel fine e.xecutive qualities, and, in 1907, 
was elected vice-president of tl>e corporation, 
an office he now fills (1911). He holds other 
positions of trust and is interested in other 
enterprises, including membership on the board 
of directors of the Xational Bank, of Cortland ; 
director of W ickwire Steel Company, near 
Buffalo. He is a member of the Presbyterian 
church. In 1904 he was presidential elector, 
and succeeded his father on the board of public 
works. Politically he is a Republican. He 
married, October 9. 1902, Mabel Louise, daugh- 
ter of Hon. Lawrence Fitzgerald, ex-state 
treasurer of Xew York. She was educated in 
the Cortland schools, and at Smith College, 
where she was graduated in class of 1901. 
Children: Helen .Ardell, born September 18. 
1904: Giarlotte Rouse, March 20, 1909. 

( \'II ) Theodore H., youngest child of Ray- 
mond and Elmira (Greenman) W'ickwire, was 
born in Cortland, Xew York, March 29, 1851. 
In 1873, in association with his brother, Ches- 
ter Franklin W'ickwire (now deceased), he 
engaged in the manufacture of wire cloth and 
wire goods, under the firm name "W'ickwire 
Brothers." The business steadily increased in 
volume, and, in 1892, was incorporated under 
the same name, with Chester F. W'ickwire, 
president, and Theodore H. W'ickwire, treas- 
urer. The plant is very large and is well 
equip]ied with special machinery invented by 
members of the company. Mr. W'ickwire has 
numerous other business activities. He is presi- 
tlent of the W'ickwire Steel Company, with jl) 
jilant on the Xiagara river, just north of Buf-jjil 
falo : vice-president of First Xational P.ank. 
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Bank, of Cortland ; cliairinan of the board of 
trustees of the First Presbyterian Church, of 
Cortland ; secretary of the local board of the 
Cortland State Normal School ; director of the 
Albany Theological Seminary, and other minor 
interests. In 1896 he was presidential elector 
for the state of New York, on the ticket of the 
Republican party. He married, June 12, 1878, 
Emma \'. W'oodmansee. Children: i. Theo- 
dore Harry, born at Cortland, New York, April 
6, 1879; prepared for college at Phillips An- 
dover Academy, whence he was graduated 
1898 ; entered Yale University, being gradu- 
ated in 1903, with the degree of A. B. ; mar- 
ried, at Brooklyn, New York, October, 1903, 
Sophie Bremmer, daughter of Charles Gor- 
ham Hedge, and has sons, Theodore Harry 
(2), born September 27, 1906. and Hedge \\'., 
born February, 1910. 2. Jere Raymond, born 
July 3, 1883; graduated at Phillips Andover 
Academy, 1902; Yale University, 1906, degree 
of A. P..; married, April 21, 1908, Constant 
Lounsberry, daughter of Isaac Bradley John- 
son, of New York City : one child, Jere R. Jr., 
born March 31, 191 1. 3. Ward Allington, born 
March 31, 1885; entered Yale University, class 
of I90y. 4. Harriet Allington. 



The Kinney family of Cortland, 
KINNEY New York, trace their ancestry 
in unbroken male line to the 
emigrant who landed in New England more 
than two and one-half centuries ago. He was 
of English birth, son of a titled Englishman, 
and was doubtless reared in aft^ience. Like 
many of his day he demanded for himself en- 
tire freedom in matters of religion, and being 
denied in his native land, he joined the tide of 
emigration flowing to Holland, the one bright 
spot in Europe where religion was conceded 
to be a matter of personal adjustment and not 
to be governed by dictate of prince or church 
potentate. 

(II) Henry Kinney, born in England, in 
1642. was the son of Sir Thomas Kinney, of 
N'orfolk. England, who had been knighted for 
1 valuable service rendered his king. Henry 
Kinney came to America from Holland, in 
1653. ^'id settled on a farm at Salem. Massa- 
rhusetts, where he died in 1712. He served in 
rCing Philip's war ; was a prosperous farmer, 
ind a most religious man, often officiating at 
public service endeavoring by precept and ex- 
nnple to advance the cause of his Master, 
le held public office in Salem, where his name 



is found as Keyney, Kenney, Kenny, Kinney 
and Kinne. He married Anna . Chil- 
dren : John, born 1651 ; Thomas, of further 
mention; Hannah, born 1658; Mary, 1659; 
Sarah, 1661 ; Elizabeth, 1662; Lydia, 1666; 
Henry, 1669. 

(Ill) Thomas, second son of Henry Kin- 
ney, was born in Salem, Massachusetts, 1656, 
died in that town, 1687. His name appears in 
the "First Booke of record of ye proi)rietors 
of ye common lands in Salem and of their first 
meeting which was ye 29 day of June, 1713, in 
a list of ye proprietors." as Thomas Kenney 
He was also a farmer and a religious man. He 
married. 1677. Elizabeth Knight, who bore him 
four sons. 

(I\') Thomas (2), eldest son of Thomas 
( I ) and Elizabeth ( Knight ) Kinney, was born 
at Salem, Massachusetts, 1678, died at Preston, 
Connecticut, October i, 1756. In 17 15 he sold 
his Salem property and removed to Preston 
(now Griswold). Connecticut. When he made 
deeds for his Salem property he signed his 
name Kinne and carried that spelling to Con- 
necticut with him. His gravestone on the 
banks of the Tackany bore the same form 
which is still adhered to by some branches of 
his descendants. He was one of the founders 
and a deacon of the "Second Church of Christ" 
in Preston, now the First Congregational 
Church, of Griswold. He married Martha 
Cox, who bore him, between 1702 and 1727, 
ten sons and six daughters. His eldest son. 
Jeremiah, died in Voluntown, Connecticut; 
married Mary Strackweather and had thir- 
teen children ; another son. David, married 
Eunice Cogswell, who bore him twelve chil- 
dren, of whom the eighth, Elizabeth, was the 
mother of eleven children. Amos, fifth child, 
married Sarah Palmer, and had eight children. 
His son served in the revolution, as did twenty- 
two others of the name Kinne from Connecti- 
cut. 

( \ ) Moses, sixth son of Thomas (2) and 
Martha (Cox) Kinney, was born in Salem, 
Massachusetts, May 8, 1710, died in Volun- 
town, Connecticut, 1798. He married Abigail 
Read. .Among their children was Ira. 

(\ I) Ira. son of Moses and Abigail (Read) 
Kinney, was born in \'oluntown. Connecticut, 

August 7, 1740. He married Miriam , 

and had a son Moses. 

I \"H ) Closes (2). son of Ira and Miriam 
Kinney, was born June 7, 1768, died at Cort- 
land, New York, 1853. In the year 1800 he 



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was living in Preston. Connecticut, from 
whence he departed on this long overland jour- 
ney to Cortland county, New York, where he 
had selected a farm in the town of Homer, one 
and one-half miles east of the village of Cort- 
land. His journey took him through an un- 
hroken wilderness filled with the wild things of 
the forest, ever ready to do him harm. The 
journey, however, was safely made. He im- 
proved his farm to such an extent that it was 
considered one of the very best in Cortland 

\ county. In the spring of 1836 he sold this 
farm to his son Gilmore, realizing $6,000 for 
it. He then settled in the village of Cortland, 
where he resided until his death. In early life 
he united with the Presbyterian church and 
lived according to the strict tenets of that faith. 
His punctuality and regularity at church serv- 
ices were proverbial and the story is told of 
his horses running or walking away, going to 
the church where they stopped long enough 
for the family to alight (had they been there), 
then proceeding to the church sheds and stand- 
ing orderly until Moses came after them. He 
was very positive in his opinions and exceed- 
ingly loath to admit himself in the wrong, but 
so sturdy and inflexible in his integrity that he 
held the respect of all. He was appointed 
lieutenant of militia. Ajjril 8. and ensign, April 
29, 1805, his commission bearing the signature 
of Governor Morgan Lewis, of New York. 

He married (first) .^dah , who died in 

Homer. Xew York, February 23, 1810, only 
surviving the burdens of a pioneer's wife ten 

• years. In 181 1 he married (second) Polly 
Forbes, who died in Cortland, Kew York, 
April 13, 1838. Children by first wife: i. Bet- 
sey, born September 10, 1789, died at Delevan, 
Wisconsin ; ten children. 2. Moses, born March 
II, 1792, died June i, 1849, without issue. 3. 
Lorin. born September i8, 1794. died July 29, 
1815, without issue. 4. Gilmore, of further 
mention. 5. Clarissa, born August 27. 1799, 
died July 11, 1815. 6. Azor, born October 13. 
1803. 7. Olinda, born January 28, 1806. 
8. Giles, born February 9, 1808. Children by 
second marriage : 9. Xorman, born January 25, 
1812, died May 22, 1875. 10. .■\dah, born No- 
vember 22, 1813, died January 28. 1819. 11. 
Anna, born February 23, 1816. 12. Frances 
A., born July 10, 1818. 13. Esther A., born 
February 14. 1822. 14. Romelia F., born June 
29, 1829. 

(\Iir) Gilmore. fourth child of Moses (2) 
and his first wife, .Adah Kinnev, was born lulv 



22, 1796, at Pre.ston. Connecticut, died at Mc- 
Grawville, Cortland county. New York, De- 
cember 16, 1856. He came to Cortland county 
with his parents in 1800. He assisted in wrest- 
ing the farm from its wild uncultivated state, 
obtaining his education at a school three miles 
distant, taking turns with his two other brothers, 
during the three winter months of school. He 
remained with his father until his marriage, 
then rented a farm on the share plan, meeting 
with indifferent success. About 1828 he was 
elected constable and was reelected seven suc- 
cessive years. During his last three years of 
office he was also under-sherii¥ and lived in 
the Cortland county jail, then located at the 
west end of Court street, in Cortland Milage. 
In 1836 he jnirchased the homestead farm of 
his father, moved there, where he continued 
his residence until the spring of 1840. when 
he sold the entire property of one hundred and 
seventy-five acres and removed to Cortland 
\'illage. remaining until the following Decem- 
ber. For the next seven years he was owner 
and proprietor of the McGrawville Hotel ; dis- 
posing of that property he purchased a home 
just west of the hotel, where he lived until his 
death. He was a successful man of business 
and left his family a competence. He joined 
the Presbyterian church when young. Init in 
later life adopted more liberal views and firm- 
ly believed in future happiness for all. He 
was a Whig in politics. He married, February 

23, 1819, Lois Noble. Children: i. Lorin A., 
born January 20. 1820, died May 17, 1836. 2. 
Orson Alonzo, of further mention. 3. Minerva 
A., born January 9. 1823, died June 7, 1843. 
4. Selina, born February i, 1824: married, 
February I. 1866, Alanson Pike. 5. Clarissa 
M., born April 28, 1827; married, June 13, 
1850. Lucius Babcock. 6. Edwin R., born 
January 13. 183 1 ; married. January 14. 1852, 
Eleanor Decker ; children : Arthur, Emma, 
Mary, Edwin, who died June 4, 1857. 

(IX) Orson Alonzo, second son of Gilmore 
and Lois (Noble) Kinney, was born in Cort- 
land, New York, October 31. 1821, died at Mc- 
Grawville. New York. June 17. 1896. He 
attended the common schools, and early began 
working on his father's farm, first settled by 
his grandfather, Moses Kinney. There was a 
great deal of stock raised on the farm and 
Orson .\. made trips across coimtry to Phila- 
delphia, driving the cattle, which were dis- 
posed of on arrival at the city mentioned. In 
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Grawville, on a farm, remaining there until 
1857, when he removed to Blodgett's Mills. 
In 1870 he returned to the village of AIcGraw- 
ville, where he lived until his death. He dealt 
extensively in real estate, built many residences 
and did much to improve McGrawville ; was 
town trustee many years and aided greatly in 
every movement for the advancement of the 
town. He was prominent in the Independent 
Order of Odd Fellows; was for twenty years 
a member of the old lodge and became a char- 
ter member of the new lodge instituted in 
1880: held the rank of past noble grand at the 
time of his death. He was a Democrat in 
politics. He married (first) February 25, 
1846, Julia E. Greenman, of Solon, New York, 
born February 29, 1824, died July 24, 1876. 
He married (second) Nancy E. Lamont, of 
McGrawville. Children, all by first marriage : 

I. Clarissa, born January 7, 1847, died Octo- 
ber 28, 1 861. 2. Clara Augusta, born April 

II, 1848, died October 20, 1861. 3. Roger, 
born April 10, 1850, died December 20, 1863. 
4. Gilmore, born January 2, 1852, resident of 
W'eehawken, New Jersey ; married Celia Os- 
born ; children: Benjamin, born Alay 6, 1875; 
Montrose, September 22, 1876; Julia, P'ebru- 
ary 8, 1880; Clarine, March 25, 1883 ; Gilmore, 
June 9, 1886; Charles, February 7, 1889. 5. 
Julia Etta, born May 29, 1854: married Colo- 
nel Daniel S. Lamont ; children : Elizabeth, 
born December i, 1881 ; Julia, September 22, 
1883, died August 26, 1902; Frances Cleve- 
land, November 18, 1888; Catherine, October 
II, 1896. 6. Orson A. (2), of further men- 
tion. 7. Jessie, born December 21, 1868, died 
February 19, 1871. 

(X) Orson Alonzo (2), son of Orson Alonzo 
(i) and Julia E. (Greenman) Kinney, was 
born in Rlodgetts Mills, Cortland county. New 
York, February 8, 1866. He was educated at 
McGrawville I'ree Academy, and on leaving 
school at the age of seventeen years associated 
with his brother for several years, engaged in 
ranching in Kansas. From 1888 until 1892 he 
was casliier of the First National Rank, of 
Dighton, Kansas. In 1892 he returned to 
Cortland and until 1899 was employed in the 
offices of the "Wickwire Brothers" manufac- 
turing plant. In 1899 he was elected secretary 
of the II. F. Benton Lumber Company ( estab- 
lished in 1866. incorporated in 1899), and upon 
the death of Mr. Benton, in 1910, was elected 
president of the corporation, which jxisition he 
now holds (1911). He is an elder of the 



Presbyterian church, of Cortland ; member of 
the McGrawville Lodge, Independent Order 
of Odd Fellows, and of the Cortlandville 
Lodge, Free and .Accepted Masons. Politically 
he is a Democrat. He married (first), Octo- 
ber 26, 1887, Sadie G. Taylor, born December 
29. 1865, died August 29, 1893, daughter of 
\Vilson Taylor, of East Palestine, Ohio. He 
married (second), November 19, 1896, Mar- 
garet Townsend, of Moravia, New York, born 
February 8, 1872, daughter of James J. and 
Amy (Arnold) Townsend. Children: i. Mar- 
garet Reade, born September 16, 1901. 2. 
Orson Alonzo (3), born April 21, 1903, died 
March 10, 1904. 3. Daniel Lamont, born July 
22, 1905. 



Lieutenant William Clark, immi- 
CLARK grant ancestor, was born in Dor- 
setshire, England, in 1609. Ac- 
cording to family tradition, he came to New 
England in the ship "Mary and John," which 
left Plymouth, England, March 30, 1630. The 
name of William Clark also appears in the list 
of passengers who took "C)athes of Supremacy 
and Allegiance to pass for New England in 
the 'Mary and John' of London, Robert Sayres, 
Master, 24th Mar. 1633." He settled at Dor- 
chester, IMassachusetts, before 1635. There 
were three other Clarks among the first set- 
tlers at Dorchester, who were buried beneath 
one gravestone, which bears the following in- 
scription : 

Here lie three Clarkes. tlieir accounts are even. 
Entered nn eartli, carried up ti) Heaven. 

The name is by many families spelled with a 
final "e." 

William Clark was a prominent citizen of 
Dorchester, and was a selectman, 1646-50. In 
1653 he was one of the petitioners to the gen- 
eral court of Massachusetts for permission to 
settle in the "New Country," now Northamp- 
ton, Alassachusetts, and removed to that town 
in 1659. .\ history of Northampton says "Lieu- 
tenant William Clarke moved his family to 
Northampton in 1659. His wife rode on horse- 
back, with two baskets called 'panniers' slung 
across the horse, carrying one boy in each 
basket and one on her lap, her husband, fifty 
\'ears old, preceding on foot." From the 
town records of Northampton, it appears that 
William Clark received twelve acres of land 
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bordering on Mill river. Here he erected a 
log house, which he occupied from 1659 to 
1681, when it was burned. An historian says 
of this occurrence: "Here behold a sad picture 
of the times ! Jack, a negro servant of Sam- 
uel Wolcott, of Wethersfield, set fire to the 
house of Lieutenant William Clarke by taking 
a brand of fire from the hearth and swinging 
it up and down, for to find victuals, and was 
sentenced to be taken froni the bar to the place 
whence he came, and then to be hanged by the 
neck till he was dead, and then to be taken 
down and burnt to ashes in the fire. He con- 
fessed that he did it and did it in carelessness 
and the law had its course." The new house, 
erected in 1681, remained standing in North- 
ampton until 1826. Lieutenant William Clark 
organized, in 1661, in Xorthami:)ton, a train 
band of sixty men, for defence against the In- 
dians, and he commanded the company in King 
Philip's war and other Indian wars. He was 
one of the seven incorporators of the first 
church in Northampton; he was also a judge 
of the county court. He married (first) Sarah 

, who died September 6, 1675. He 

married (second) Sarah Cooper, November 15, 
1676, who died May 6, 1688. He died at 
Northampton, July 19, 1690. A montnnent has 
been erected to his memory in the Northamp- 
ton cemetery. Children: Sarah, born 1638; 
Jonathan, 1639; Nathaniel, 1642; Experience, 
1643; Increase, 1646; Rebecca, 1648; John, 
1651 ; Samuel, 1653; William, 1656, mentioned 
below ; Sarah, 1659. 

(II) Captain William (2) Clark, son of 
Lieutenant William ( i ) Clark, was born at 
Dorchester. His birth is recorded as follows : 
"Wm. Clarke ye sonne of Wm. Clarke borne 
3 :5 :56." When he was three years old, his 
father removed to Northampton, and he was 
carried there in a "pannier" on horseback. He 
was an early settler, large landowner, and 
prominent citizen of Lebanon. Connecticut. 
He was one of the purchasers of the tract of 
land in the north part of the town, known as 
"The Clarke and Dewey Purchase," from 
Owanecho. sachem of the Mohegan Indians, 
who claimed rights under Uncas, and was also 
one of the "fifty-one original land proprietors." 
He was the first representative of Lebanon in 
1705, in the general assembly, and continued 
in that office for thirteen years. He was also 
a selectman sixteen years and town clerk, 1700- 
25. He was captain of militia, and served in 
several wars with the Indians. He married 



(first) Hannah Strong, at Northampton, July 

15, 1680. She died January 31, 1693, and he 
married ( second ), 1694, Mary Smith, who died 
April 23, 1748. He died at Lebanon, May 9, 
1725. Children of first wife: Hannah, born 
1682: Abigail, 1683; \Villiam. 1685; Jonathan, 
16S8, mentioned below ; Thomas, 1690 ; Joseph, 
1691 ; Benoni, 1693. Children of second wife: 
Timothy. 1695; Gershom, 1697. 

( III ) Jonathan, son of Captain William ( 2) 
Clark, was born at Northampton, May 13, 
1688. He was a farmer by occupation, and 
died at Lebanon. January 12. 1743. He mar- 
ried Hannah Smalley. January 6, 1713. Child. 
Jonathan, mentioned below. 

(I\') Jonathan (2), son of Jonathan (i) 
Clark, was born at Lebanon, November 1, 
1715. He was a farmer by occupation and in- 
herited large landed property. This property 
he sold, and lost his fortune by the continental 
money of the revolution. In 1757 he was 
selectman of Lebanon. He married. January 

16. 1734. Alercy Dewey. Children: Hannah, 
born 1735; Jonathan, 1737; Dan. 1741 ; Mercy, 
1745; David, 1748; Zerviah. 1751 ; Lemuel, 
1753: Gershom. 1755. 

(V) Lemuel, son of Jonathan (2) Clark, 
was born at Lebanon, .August 8, 1753, died at 
Candor, New York, 1831. He was a farmer 
by occupation, and lived successively at Leb- 
anon, Connecticut ; Columbia county, Nev 
York ; West Stockbridge. Lenox, and Loudon, 
now Otis, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, 
and Canaan. Bridgewater and Candor. N 
York. He served in the revolution for a short 
time, and his name is on the roll of Captair 
David Tildcn's company, raised in Lebanon 
April, 1775, and also in the official "List oi 
the Men who marched from the Connecticut 
Towns for the Relief of Boston in the Lexing- 
ton Alarm, April, 1775." He married 

. Children: Sarah, born 1773: Lem- 
uel, 1775: William, 1777, mentioned below; 
Erastus,' 1779; Ruth, 1781 ; Daniel, 1783; 
Gershom, 1785; Benjamin, 1787; Ira, 1789; 
Gustavus, 1791 ; John Flavin, 1793; .\mos. 
1794; Alvin, 1797. 

(VI) William (3), son of Lemuel Clark, 
was born in Lebanon, September 22, 1777. He 
became a well educated and successful Pres- 
byterian clergyman, licensed by the Berkshire, 
Presbyterian .Association, 1803. From 1803 
to 1808 he was a missionary in western New 
York. He preached successively at Romulus, 
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Ira, New York. He was a fluent and im- 
pressive speaker, an ardent friend of law and 
order, education, all social and moral reforms, 
and was a pioneer in the crusades against in- 
tem])erance and slavery. He was distinguished 
for his fine physique and commanding pres- 
ence, strong and logical mind, ready wit and 
remarkable memory. He married, July 16. 
1807, at Genoa, New York, Sophronia Tillot- 
son. Chiklren : Elizabeth, born 1808 ; \Mlliam, 
1810, mentioned below: Samuel, 181 1 ; Darius, 
1814; Sophronia, 1816; Corintha, 1818: Em- 
mons, 1827; Tillotson, 1828. 

(VII) William (4), son of NMUiam (3) 
Clark, was born at Ovid, Seneca county. New 
York, l-Y'bruary 9, 1810. His ancestors on his 
mother's as well as his father's side served with 
credit in the revolution. Two of his younger 
brothers were John T. Clark, late judge of the 
state of Wisconsin, and General Emmons 
Clark, of New York City, for twenty-five years 
colonel of the Seventh Regiment, and since 
1866 secretary of the New York health de- 
partment. He came with his father at the age 
of six years to Huron, Wayne county, and re- 
mained there, except for about two years, until 
he was twenty, when he went to Lyons to study 
law. Here he entered the office of Graham H. 
Chapin and afterwards that of John M. Holley. 
He was admitted to practice as an attorney 
at law in the supreme court, January, 1838, 
and practiced at Lyons for two years. He then 
entered into jjartnership with Hon. John I\L 
Holley, which continued until the latter's death. 
While a member of congress, January, 1841, he 
was admitted under the system then in force in 
New York, as a counselor of law in the su- 
preme court, as a solicitor in chancery, January, 
1838, and as a counselor in chancery, January, 
1843. In March, 1842, he was also admitted 
to practice in the district and circuit courts of 
the United States, in and for the northern dis- 
trict of New York. From the time of Mr. 
Holley's death, Mr. Clark practiced alone to 
the time of his leaving Lyons for Denver, Colo- 
rado, except for a few years when Colonel An- 
son S. Wood, late of \Volcott, New York, was 
associated with him under the firm name of 
Clark & Wood, and from 1870 to 1876, when 
his son, William H. Clark, was associated with 
him under the firm name of W. & W. H. Clark. 
Mr. Clark was a strong and convincing advo- 
cate, and was particularly well known as a 
thoroughly informed and safe legal advisor, a 
reputation which gained for him the term of 



"Counselor" Clark. He took a deep interest 
in politics, first as a Whig and afterwards as a 
Republican, and was state senator in 1854-55, 
and chairman of the judiciary committee. In 
December, 1878, Mr. Clark removed to Denver 
for the benefit of his health, which had been 
much impaired from asthma. While on his 
return to that city from a visit to Lyons he fell 
from a train near Clyde, Ohio, July 9, 1890, 
and was instantly killed. He was a member of 
the Central Presbyterian Church, of Denver. 
He married, October 13, 1847, Amelia R. Heer- 
mans, formerly of Nassau, New York, who 
died October 16, 1880. They had six children, 
of whom two died when very young. Surviv- 
ing children : \\'illiam H., mentioned below ; 
John H., for many years principal of the Lyons 
LInion School, afterwards superintendent of 
schools at Flushing, New York, now principal 
of the Flushing high school, a part of the 
Greater New York system ; Mrs, James W. 
Putnam, of Lyons, New York, and IMrs. James 
H. Brown, of Denver, Colorado. 

(VIII) William Heermans, son of Lion. 
William (4) Clark, was born at Lyons, New 
York, August 12, 1848. He was educated at 
Hamilton College, which he attended in 1865- 
66, and at L^nion College, 1866-68, from which 
he obtained the degree of A. B. He took the 
degree of A. M., in 1871, and delivered the 
Alaster's oration at commencement that year. 
While in college, he took the Ingham and War- 
ner prizes and other prizes in speaking and 
writing. He was a member of the Phi Beta 
Kappa Society. In 1869 he was admitted to 
the bar and practiced law until April I, 1876, 
in which year he bought the Cortland Stand- 
ard, a weekly newspaper, now a daily and semi- 
weeklv. Since 1903 he has also been presi- 
dent of the Norwich (New York) Publish- 
ing Company, publishing the Norzeich Daily 
Su)i and Chenango Semi-Weekly Telegraph. 
He is also president of the Cortland Standard 
Printing Company. In 1875 he was a member 
of assembly from Wayne county, and was a 
member of the Republican state committee, 
under the chairmanship of Chester A. .\rthur. 
He is now president of the local board of 
managers of the State Normal and Train- 
ing School at Cortland, postmaster of the 
city of Cortland, and was one of the first 
L'nion l-'ree School commissioners of Cort- 
land. He married, December 31, 1879, Helen, 
daughter of Rev. Thomas Street, D. D. Qiil- 
dren : .Antoinette, born 1880; Thomas Street, 



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May 4. 1884. died .May 12, 1909, graduated 
from Cortland High and Normal schools, and 
from Princeton L'niversity, 1908. and was a 
stiulent at Harvard Law School at the time of 
his death: Etlward Heermans, 1886: Helen, 
1890. 



The Saunders family is one 
SAUNDERS of the oldest in Rhofle Isl- 
and, Tobias Saunders hav- 
ing made settlement in Taunton as early as 
• 1643. He was the associate of Robert Burdick 
when they were arrested and brought before 
Governor John Endicott for "forcible entry 
into the Pequot lands." He was later deputy 
and an important man. The Cortland, Ne%v 
York, branch, however, claim descent from 
Jonathan Saunders, believed to have been an 
emigrant from England. He was a resident of 
Stonington. Rhode Island, a member of the 
Seventh Day Baptist Church and a preacher. 
He married a MissSisson. Children: Benja- 
min, Cyrus, Jonathan (2). Henry Ziba, P.ina. 
and Elisha. 

(II) Cyrus, son of Jonathan and — • 

fSisson) Saunders, was born near Stonington, 
Rhode Island. May 19, 1772. He married in 
his native state and with his young wife came 
to Central New York, settling in the town of 
Freetown, Cortland county, in 1795, where he 
passed fifteen years of toil, privation and lone- 
liness, being the first settler in the town. He 
labored hard to clear, cultivate and pay for his 
farm. When the last payment was made and 
he deemed himself in a home secure from debt 
he found to his dismay that his title was imper- 
fect and worthless. He lost his farm, then re- 
moved with his family to Factory Hill, in 
Homer Milage, where he remained until the 
factory burned in 1815. From Homer the 
family removed to the town of Solon, settling 
on fifty acres of land for which he paid three 
hundred dollars. This tract was covered with 
forest and here Mr. Saunders had practically 
to begin life over again. The first step was to 
build a log cabin, then clear enough land to raise 
a crop. For nineteen years he labored on his 
farm, then with his .son. Perry H., went to 
McGrawville, New York, and bought the card- 
ing and cloth dressing mill, which had been 
conducted by Eber Wilco.x and John Peat. This 
business Saunders & Son conducted for ten 
years, then removed to Cuyler, in what was 
known as the Kinney settlement. Later he 
removed to Chautau(iua county. New York, 



where he died in 1856. He married, in Rhode 
Island. 1794, Nancy (Nabbie) Hiscock, born 
near Stonington, Rhode Island, January 15, 
1772, died in Cortland county. New York, July 
18, 1852. In 1796 she took her infant daugh- 
ter Nabbie (later a resident of \\estfield, Chau- 
tauqua county), and made the journey from 
Freetown to her former home in Rhode Island, 
making the journey on horseback in company 
with a neighbor woman. A year's sojourn in 
the wilderness where she seldom saw a white 
woman had caused such a longing for home 
and kindred that she was willing to brave the 
dangers of such a trip to see again her loved 
ones. The journey was made in safety as was 
the return, both ways on horseback. Children : 
I. Nabbie, born (October 23, 1796, married 
Gabriel House, and at age of eighty-nine years 
was in good health. 2. Catherine, born May 
14, 1799 ; married Alvin Hodges. 3. Richard. 
4. George. 5. Lavinia, born February 8, 1802. 
6. .Almeda, born December 23. 1803: married 
Henry G. Randall 7. Maria, born October 22, 
1805: married Billings Browning. 8. Cyrus 
( M. D. ), born June 4, 1807, died February 29, 
1858, his death was caused by drowning in his 
attempt to ford a river while on his way to 
minister to a sick patient : married (first) Sally 
Ann Dunning, ( second ) Cynthia Gallup. 9. 
Nancy B., born August 20, 1809 : married Pres- 
ervoid Bromley. 10. Perry Howlett, of fur- 
ther mention. 11. Elisha, born November 22, 
1813: married Cordelia C. Cheney. 12. Cyn- 
thia. 

(HI) Perr}' Howlett. son of Cyrus and 
Nancy (Nabbie) (Hiscock) Saunders, was 
born in the town of Cincinnatus, Cortland 
county. New York, May 11. 181 1, died Janu- 
ary 12, 1890. He was educated in the public 
schools : was his father's assistant on the farm 
and for ten years engaged in business with 
him at the cloth dressing mill in McGrawville. 
For many years thereafter he was engaged in 
farming. He was a man of great energy and 
high character, commanding the respect of 
all. For over half a century he was a devoted 
member and active worker in the Methodist 
Episcopal church. He married. April 23, 1835, 
Sarah Emerson, born in Groton, Massachu- 
setts, January 2, 1816, died July 30, 1889, 
daughter of Dearborn and Sally ( Brooks) Em- 
erson. Children: i. Edwin, born May 10, 1837, 
luarried Marv Woodruff. 2. Samuel, born De- 
cember 17. 1838, died July 6, 1905: enlisted in 
iSfn in Company G, Seventy-si.xth Regiment. 



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New York \'olunteers ; was severely wounded 
at Gettysburg, which later caused his honor- 
able discharge from the army ; he rose to the 
rank of lieutenant of Company G : married 
Mary Wheelock. 3. George E.. born May 15, 
1840. died November 22, 1876: married Ber- 
tha E. Kibbe. died April 4. 191 1. 4. Sarah, 
born January 29, 1842, died November 23, 
1866; married Walter Thompson. 5. Juliette, 
born September 3, 1843, '''cd January 23, 
1866: married Homer D. Call. 6. Mary E.. 
born September 17, 1S45, married Almond M. 
Kibbe. 7. Charles W., born August 24, 1847, 
married Mary Brown. 8. Franklin P., of fur- 
ther mention, g. \\'illiam F.. born July 20, 
1853, married Ellen Skinner, of Syracuse. 10. 
Lucia R., born May 28, 1855, married Samuel 
H. McCullough and lives in Idaho. 11.. Fred- 
erick J., born September 18, i860, married 
•Alice Bunnell. 

('I\') Franklin P., son of P'erry Hewlett 
and Sarah ( Emerson ) Saunders, was born in 
the town of Eabius. Onondaga county, New 
York, February 2-j, 1849. He was educated in 
the public schools of the town of Truxton 
(where his parents had removed), and at the 
Seventh Day Baptist Seminary at De Ruyter, 
finishing liis education at Cazenovia Seminary. 
.After completing his studies he engaged in the 
nursery business for several years, represent- 
ing well known firms of Rochester and Syra- 
cuse. He later engaged in the same business 
on his own account, employing many agents 
and doing a successful business in New Eng- 
land and in New York state. In 1879 he mar- 
ried and settled on a farm in Truxton, which 
he operated until March, 1883, when he re- 
moved to Truxton \'illage, and, in 1892, re- 
moved to Cortland, New York. During his years 
of residence in Truxton Mr. .Saunders gave 
special attention to live stock, buying, breeding 
and selling, shipping mostly to the New York 
and Philadelphia markets. He was a most 
successful farmer and stock dealer and is well 
known all over the county. He is a director 
of the Second National Bank, of Cortland, 
and interested in other business enterprises in 
Cortland. He has devoted much of his time 
to the public service and although a Republican 
in politics, he obtained strong endorsement 
frdui his Democratic friends of Democratic 
Truxton. In 1887 he was elected supervisor 
by a large majority, reelected in 1888-89. re- 
fusing another nomination, being the only Re- 
publican so honored during a period of twenty- 



four years. In 1895 he was the candidate of 
his party for the state assembly, and was elect- 
ed, receiving two thousand more votes than his 
nearest opponent. During the session of 1896 
lie served on legislative committees, taxation 
and retrenchment, villages and internal affairs. 
During the session he introduced bills: "Pro- 
viding for the issuing of railway mileage- 
books; to punish the pollution of streams: to 
punish violations of the Agricultural Law : re- 
garding the collection of taxes : providing that 
notices of political primaries shall be given : 
relative to affidavits under foreclosure ; re- 
garding the foreclosure of mortgages." In 
1896 he was reelected to the assembly by a 
large majority, serving in the session of 1897 
on Committees: judiciary: banks and public 
education, and was chairman of committee on 
printed and engrossed bills. Mr. Saunders' 
life has been a successful one from whatever 
point viewed. He has an abundance of world- 
ly goods, the confidence and respect of his 
comnnniity. has been honored publicly and has 
a nature that enjoys and appreciates. He is 
a member and trustee of the Methodist Epis- 
copal church, of Cortland, and interested in 
church and benevolent work. 

He married, October 22, 1879. Harriet L. 
Peck, born in Solon, New York, .August 20. 
185s. daughter of Piatt and Mary .Ann (Kin- 
ney) Peck, of Solon, granddaughter of Cap- 
tain Stephen N. Peck, and the ninth in line 
from William . Peck, the progenitor, who was 
one of the founders of the New Haven colony. 
Children: I. Carrie, born .August 8, 1880, died 
January 17. 1881. 2. .Arthur Franklin, born 
.August I, 1882, engaged with his father in the 
cattle and live stock business ; married Ger- 
trude Huber, of \"an Etten, New York: child, 
Franklin .Arthur, born October 7, 1910. 3. 
.Anna Harriet, born November 18. 1883, died 
February 24, iQio: married Harry A. Jenni- 
son ; child, Harriet, died in infancy. 4. Fannie 
Sarah, born September 4, 1891. 5. Helen 
Peck, born April 8, 1897. 



This name is not as numerous- 
TLSD.ALE ly represented in .America as 

many others, but it is among 
the earliest, and has contributed many useful 
citizens. Its connection with the settlement 
and development of Central New A'ork has 
been an honorable one. and it is still associated 
with the annals of the region. It appears in 
the early New England records with various 



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spellings, such as Tisdall, Tisdel, Tisdell and 
numerous other forms. The English arms of 
the family represent an arm passing through 
a crown holding a javelin. Among the earlier 
generations were Elkanah Tisdale, a noted 
lawyer, and Nathan Tisdale, an eminent class- 
ical scholar and teacher of Lebanon, Connecti- 
cut. The family has its part in the various 
wars, incident to the building and preservation 
of the Union, and in civil aiifairs has taken no 
mean part. 

( I ) John Tisdale, ancestor of nearly all now 
bearing the name in this country, was born in 
England, 1615-20, and settled in Duxbury, 
Massachusetts, 1636. He was styled "yeo- 
man," and his name appears on the list of 
planters and proprietors. He brought suit in 
court, June 7, 1636. against Stephen Hopkins 
for an assault and battery by which Tisdale 
was dangerously wounded, and Hopkins was 
fined five pounds and costs. He was admitted 
an inhabitant of Duxbury, 1638; was among 
those able to bear arms according to the list 
of 1643; constable, 1645 : removed to Taunton, 
where he was living December 26, 1651, when 
he bought lands of William Brett, at Dux- 
bury. In Taunton, he was constable in 1659; 
was among purchasers of Taunton North 
Purchase, 1668: selectman, 1674: deputy to 
Plymouth general court, same year. He was 
murdered by Indians in King Philip's war, 
June 27, 1675. His wife, Sarah, died Decem- 
ber, 1676. His will, proved November 2, 1676, 
be(|ueathed to sons, John, James, Joshua and 
Joseph : to daughters, Elizabeth, Sarah, Mary 
and .Abigail. The court made note in its record 
that the two younger sons had endangered 
their hves in protecting the property. The 
estate was divided by agreement between these 
sons and the three sons-in-law, John Smith, 
James Dean and Nathaniel P'"rench. His in- 
ventory amounted to one hundred and fifty 
pounds. He owned land at Taunton and near 
Assonet. He married Sarah Walker, born 
1618, died December, 1678, daughter of Widow 
Walker, of Rehoboth. Children: i. John, born 
in Du.xbury, died about the last of December, 
1677; married, November 23, 1664, -Ann, 
daughter of John Ruggles, of Duxbury. 2. 
James, born 1644, died January 15, 1715 ; mar- 
ried, November 5, 1666, Mary Avery, who died 
September 9, 171 3, aged sixty-six; resided at 
Berkeley, admitted a freeman, May, 1670. 3. 
Joshua, born at Du.xbury, 1646, died aged 
seventy-two, in Freetown ; married, [ulv S. 



1688, Abigail, daughter of Henry Andrews; 
she died 1741 ; resided at Taunton, or Assonet 
River. 4. Joseph, mentioned below. 5. Eliza- 
beth, married John Smith. 6. Sarah, married 
James Dean. 7. Mary, born at Taunton, died 
there. May 18, 1731. 8. Abigail, born at Taun- 
ton ; married, February i, 1683, Edward Bob- 
bett, born July 15, 1653, son of Edward Bob- 
bett : child, Edward, born February i, 1684. 
Each of the four sons named his oldest son 
for himself. 

( II ) Joseph, fourth son of John and Sarah 
(Walker) Tisdale, was born 1656, in Duxbury, 
died 1721-22, in his sixty-fifth year. He set- 
tled in Taunton, of which Norton was former- 
ly a part, and inherited a large estate of his 
father. He married, August, 1681, Mary 
Leonard, born August 2, 1663, daughter of 
Major Thomas Leonard. Their children were: 
I. Joseph, of whom later. 2. Elkanah, born' 
1684. 3. Mary, 1686, married Joseph Winslow, 
of Swansea. 4. Hannah, 1688 ; married, Feb- | 
ruary 8, 1710-11, A\'illiam Hodges, of Norton, 
died ]\Iarch 7, 1715. 5. Sarah, 1690; married 
Thomas Reed, of Dighton. 6. Abigail (twin),^ 
1692; married Ephraim Hayward, of Bridge- 
water. 7. Elizabeth (twin), 1692; married] 
Elkanah Leonard, of Middleburg. 

(HI) Captain Joseph (2) Tisdale, eldest 
child of Joseph ( i ) and Mary (Leonard) Tis- 
dale, was born in 1682, at Taunton, died in 

1739. He married there, March 13, 1707, Ruth, 
daughter of John and Bethiah (Frye) Reed. 
She died August, 1748, in her sixty-third year. 
Their children, mentioned in his will of ^lay, 
1735, were: Job, Joseph, Loved, Seth, Eben- 
ezer, Simeon (father of James, ancestor of J 
Samuel R. Tisdale, merchant, late of New] 
York City). Bethsheba, Mary and Hannah. 

(I\') Job, son of Captain Joseph (2) and] 
Ruth ( Reed I Tisdale, was born 1 708, in Taun- 
ton, where he resided and died May 19, 1755,1 
at the age of forty-seven years. 

(Y) James, son of Job Tisdale, was born I 

1740, died 181 1. He resided in West Taunton, 
was a Presbyterian clergyman, and wrote his 
own funeral discourse in preparation for his 
expected death. He married .Abigail Free- 
man, of Norton, Massachusetts, December 22. 1 
1774, and among their sons were Leonard and 
Rev. James. The latter was graduated from 
Brown L'niversity, 1821, studied theology with| 
Rev. A. Cobb, of \\'est Taunton, and was or- 
dained September 29, 1830, over the churches! 
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was dismissed May 4, 1836. He preached four 
years in Dublin. New Hampshire, seven years 
in Gilsum, same state, and after October, 1831, 
in Shutesbury, Massachusetts. 

( \'I ) Leonard, son of James and Abigail 
I I'reeman ) Tisdale, was born .August 23. 1776, 
in West Taunton, died February 18, 1850, in 
Cortland, New York, where he settled in 1803- 
04. He married, February 8, 1805, Sallie 
Hicks, born February 18, 1774, died February 
8. 1862. Children: i. .-Monzo, mentioned below. 
2. Minerva, born August 21, 1807; married, 
June 3, 1832, Noah .Ashley. 3. Almira, Janu- 
ary 24. 1809: married, January i, 1829, .Alan- 
son \'an \'alkenberg. 4. Loring, May 2. 1812; 
married, February 18, 1836, Sophia Butter- 
field. 5. Evaline, .April 21, i8ifi; married, Feb- 
ruary 24. 1842, Ephraim Spencer, and died 
November 11, 1897. 6. Orlando, November 16, 
1818; married (first), February 16, 1843, Emily 
Eggleston, who died March 16, 1844: mar- 
ried (second), November 7, 1849, Ann Wes- 
cott, born July 2~, 1818. 7. Orsamus, Novem- 
ber 28, 1820: married, February 12, 1845, Julia 
Sholes, and died March 24, 1898. 8. Lovinia, 
October 7, 1823: married (first), October 12, 
1843, Lee Rose, who died November 5, 1853; 
married (second), January 20, 1859, Edwin 
Cook. 

(\TI) Alonzo, eldest child of Leonard and 
Sallie ( Hicks ) Tisdale, was born December 
12, 1805, in Cortland, where he died July 7, 
1865. He received a common school educa- 
tion, learned the trade of carpenter, and con- 
ducted an extensive milling business at Blod- 
getts Mills, also had a saw and gristmill there. 
He was captain of state militia. He married, 
January 17, 1832, Dorliska, born 181 1, died 
1899, daughter of Loren and Nancy (Salis- 
bury) Blodgett. Children: I. Theresa, born 
March 17, 1833, died February 21, 1908: mar- 
ried Lucian Hale : children : Wayland, Clara, 
Frank. Elvena, Mabel. 2. .Aldoretta, born 
1835. died March 3, 1908; married Rev. W. R. 
Stone ; child, Anna. 3. Wayland D., see for- 
ward. 4. Elvena, born 1843; married Charles 
Hinman ; three children : ^^'illiam, Carrie and 
Frank. 

(XTH) Wayland D., son of Alonzo and 
Dorliska (Blodgett) Tisdale, was born in Cort- 
land. New York, December 10, 1837. He was 
educated in the town schools and Cortland 
.Academy. He taught school several years, 
then engaged in lumber business in Cortland 
for a time, later engaged in coal business, under 



firm name of W. D. Tisdale & Company, and 
continued in coal business up to 1874, when he 
went with the Cortland Wagon Company, and 
was treasurer of that company from 1874 to 
1888. He was president of the Erie and Cen- 
tral New York railroad, and treasurer for five 
years, or until they sold out to the Delaware, 
Lackawanna & Western railroad ; at the pres- 
ent time is secretary of the Cortland & .Auburn 
railroad. He was president of the village in 
1873 ^"'1 1894, and was trustee; was elected 
member of assembly in 1887-88, and served on 
committees on banks and public education, and 
was chairman of committee on villages. Mem- 
ber of Cortlandville Lodge, No. 470, Free and 
-Accepted Masons. He married, June 2, 1863, 
Rosetta Burlingham, of Salon, New A'ork, 
daughter of Philip and Hulda (Peet) Burling- 
ham. Children: i. Glenn A., born July 27, 
1864; educated in town schools and Cortland 
Normal ; was ticket agent at Cortland when 
sixteen years of age ; was telegraph operator 
and manager for Western L'nion several years 
in Cortland : was in brokerage business in 
Providence. Rhode Island, for ten vears : is 
now with the Franklin .Automobile Company, 
of Syracuse. He married Kate Pratt, of 
Gloversville, New York, and has four children : 
Glenn W., born August 2. 1890; Doris, Sep- 
tember 30, 1896; Katherine, May 4, 1899; 
Hulda, June 7, 1902. 2. Maud, born July 23, 
1871, died July 27, 1880. 



The surname Rowley is of an- 
ROWLEY cient English origin, derived 
from some place name at the 
time of the adoption of surnames in England. 
Many of the family in England, as well as in 
America, have been distinguished in various 
walks of life. There are several coats-of-arms 
borne by Rowley families in the old country. 
Most of the .American colonial families of thi*^ 
name descended from Henry Rowley, men- 
tioned below. 

( I ) Henry Rowdey. immigrant ancestor, was 
born in England and died in Barnstable or 
Falmouth, Massachusetts, in 1675. He was 
one of the early planters of Plymouth and was 
a taxpayer as early as 1632. According to 
some accounts he came with Pilgrims from 
Leyden in 1630. He was admitted a freeman 
in 1634. after removing to Scituate. where he 
and his wife .Anne joined the church. January 
8. 1634. In 1638 he removed with Rev. John 
Lothrop to the new settlement at Barnstable,. 



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■on Cape Cod. He was a deputy to tlie general 
court at Plymouth. In 1650 he removed to 
West Barnstable and later to Falmouth. He 
married (first ) Sarah, daughter of William 
Palmer. He married (second), October 17, 
1633. Anne, daughter of Deacon Thomas Blos- 
som, who started for New England in the 
"Speedwell" from Holland, in 1620, but had 
to return ; came to Plymouth in 1629. Chil- 
dren : Moses, mentioned below : Joseph, said 
to have gone to the Barbadoes ; Sarah, mar- 
ried, April II, 1646, Jonathan Hatch, of Barn- 
stable and Falmouth.,' 

(H) Moses, son of Henry Rowley, was 
born about 1630, died in 1705, at East Had- 
dam. Connectiait. He married, April 11. 1652, 
at Barnstable, Elizabeth, daughter of Captain 
Matthew Fuller, soldier and surgeon-general 
of the colony. She died at East Haddam or 
Colchester, Connecticut, after 171 4. Moses 
is mentioned in the will of \Mlliam Palmer, as 
legatee "Moses whom I love." The grand- 
father Palmer gives evidence of some Part- 
ridge, that "he might be brought up in the 
feare of God & to that end if his father suffer 
it, I give Mr. Partridge five pounds." Ap- 
parently Moses lived with his grandfather, 
and, March 7. 1653-54, the court allowed him 
a cow from Palmer's estate. He was ad- 
mitted a freeman in 1677: was constable at 
Falmouth in 1681 ; deputy to the general court 
in 1693. He bought sixty acres of land of 
Jonathan Gilbert, at Haddam. Connecticut, 
originally laid out to John Henderson. May 3. 
1692, by deed of October 4, ibgT,. He prob- 
ably removed to Haddam in 1691. but his 
wife did not approve of the removal, for she 
refused to sign the deeds, and in a deed of her 
dower rights, she declares that her husband 
left her without support and dependent on 
the bounty of her sons, John and Moses. His 
will is dated .August 16, 1704. at Haddam. He 
left his homestead to sons, Moses and Mat- 
thew. Children: Mary, born March 20, 1653, 
married. January 7, 1675, John Weeks, of 
Falmouth: Moses. November 10, 1654: Child, 
died .\ugust 16. 1656: Shubael (twin), born 
January 11. 1659, married Catherine Crippen : 
Mchitable (twin), married John Fuller: Sarah, 
September 16, 1662 : Xathan. mentioned below ; 
.\aron, May 16, 1666, married Mary Weeks: 
John, October 22, 1667 : Matthew, married 
Joanna . 

(Til) Xathan. son of Moses Rowley, was 
born at Falmouth, on Cape Cod, in 1664. He 



married Mercy Hatch, born April 2/. 1667, 
at Falmouth, in Barnstable, daughter of Jon- 
athan and Sarah (Rowley) Hatch. Children, 
born at Barnstable : Mercy, .\ugust, 1691 ; 
Sarah, October, 1693: Elizabeth. 1695; Mary, 
September, 1699: Xathan, April, 1700: Moses, 
February, 1704-05 ; John, May 25, 1706 ; Hatch, 
March, 1706-07; Mehitable, May, 1709: Mat- 
thew, November 10, 1720, mentioned below; 
Anna, June 8, 1724. 

( I\' ) Matthew, son of Nathan Rowley, was 
born at Falmouth, in Barnstable, November 
10, 1720, died there. May 31, 1801. He was 
a carpenter by trade and resided at Woods 
Hole, Barnstable, on Great Neck. He was a 
grand juror in 1767; highway surveyor in 
1758-61-72. He married, February 24, 1744-45. 
Christina Weeks, of Falmouth. She died 
March 15, 1808, aged ninety-two years. Chil- 
dren, born at Falmouth : Mary ; Nathaniel 
Chamberlain, mentioned below, and probably 
others. 

( \" ) Nathaniel Chamberlain, .son of Mat- 
thew Rowley, was born at Falmouth, in 1756, 
died in 1830. He came to New York state be- 
fore the year 1800. and settled at South Cort- 
land in 182 1, and bought a farm of five hun- 
dred acres. He was a soldier in the revolu- 
tion. He married (first) ; (sec- 
ond) Lucy Lamont, born in 1778, died Sep- 
tember 28, 1851. Children: Philemon C. Lu- 
cina, Moses, Sabrina, Nathan Weeks. Caroline. 
Silva. \\'ashington and Daniel. 

(\'I) Philemon Chamberlain, son of Na- 
thaniel Chamberlain Rowley, was born in 
Greene county. New York, July 7, 1800. died 
in South Cortland, New York. May 26, 1874. 
He came with his father to South Cortland in 
1821, and engaged in business in a general 
store there for several years. He brought his 
stock from Albany in carts and carried pro- 
duce to market. For a number of years he 
conducted a four-horse stage line between 
Cortland and Owego. In 1835 he sold his 
property in Cortland and went west, driving 
in his own carriage. He bought land in Illi- 
nois, and lived there for a time, and afterward 
in Kalamazoo county, Michigan. He spent 
his last years in Cortland, however, and died 
there. He was captain in the state militia in 
his younger days. He was an energetic, cap- 
able and upright man. He married, September 
17, 1823. ^Iary Sweet Curtis, born November 
12, 1803, died November 24, 1882, daughter 
of Gideon and Fanny ( Rice) Curtis. Chil- 



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dren : Curtis, born December 29, 1825. died in 
1908, in Santa Barbara, California; Addison 
Porter, mentioned below ; ^[ary L., March 12, 
1832, married John Gere; Charlotte, July 12, 
1835. married Frederick Downs; Charles Mil- 
ton. July 10, 1838. 

( \'II ) Addison Porter, son of Philemon 
Chamberlain Rowley, was born at Cortland- 
ville. Xew York, June 2, 1830. He attended 
the public schools of his native town and 
Homer Academy. He taught school for a time 
in Russellville Academy, Camden, South Caro- 
lina. In 1851-52 he had a general store at 
Congaree, South Carolina. Upon his return 
to Xew York he settled at South Cortland 
and for a period of fifty-two years followed 
farming. He won two prizes on corn raised 
on his farm, exhibited at the World's Fair, 
Chicago. He dealt also in live stock and was 
general agent for the McCormick farm ma- 
chinery. From 1862 to 1894 he was post- 
master at South Cortland and during this long 
period gave the utmost satisfaction to both 
government and patrons of the office. He has 
always been active in politics. He is a Repub- 
lican and for fifteen years was a member of 
the board of registration. He contributed to 
the Presbyterian church fund for the church 
at Cortland. Since 1904, when he retired from 
active business, he has lived at Cortland City. 
His daughters are members of the Daughters of 
the American Revolution. 

He married, in 1854, Mary E. Smith, of 
Pitcher. Xew York, daughter of Moses Smith 
and Aurelia I Pierie ) Smith. She died in 
1898. Children: Cora May, married Lewis E. 
Waters, attorney of Syracuse, Xew York ; 
children : Lewis Addison and Lillian Louise 
Waters ; Lizzie, died in childhood ; Louise, 
married George Harkness, of Cortland. 



Peter Wright, immigrant ances- 
WRIGHT tor, was one of three brothers, 

said to be grandsons of Sir 
Thomas Wright, of Kilverston, England, who 
immigrated to .America in 1636-37, and set- 
tled first at Lynn, ^Massachusetts, and shortly 
after at Sandwich, Massachusetts. In 1653 
they removed to Long Island with Rev. Will- 
iam Leveridge, and purchased land at Oyster 
Ray for the sum of four pounds sterling, a 
quantity of beads and other trinkets. The 
other brothers were Xicholas and Anthony. 
Peter Wright married Alice — — — . He died 
in 1669, leaving a widow and eight children. 



Alice married (second) Richard Crale. Chil- 
dren, among them Adam, mentioned below. 

(II) Adam, son of Peter Wright, was born 

March 20, 1663, and married . 

Children : Peter, Rachel, Deborah, Thomas. 
James, Solomon, Abigail, Reuben, mentioned 
below. 

(III) Reuben, son of Adam Wright, was 
born February 11, 1726. He was a member 
of the Society of Friends and therefore did 
not engage in the military operations during 
the revolution. He was a miller by trade, and 
during the war his mill provided flour for the 
American army, and at one time, when a Brit- 
ish attack was feared, a brigade was sent under 
General Israel Putnam to guard it. Like many 
others, who had faith in the government, he 
lost heavily by the depreciation and final repu- 
diation of the continental currency. He de- 
clined to put his money in real estate when it 
still had some value and his grandchildren and 
their children used thousands of dollars of it 
for bookmarks and play money. He lived in 
the town of Somers. Westchester county, Xew 
York, and had at least nine children. Accord- 
ing to the census of 1790, p. 206, he had at that 
time four males over sixteen, three under six- 
teen and six females in his family. He mar- 
ried (first) Sarah Smith, 1754; (second) 
Phoebe Quimby, 1770. Children : Thomas, 
James, Elizabeth, Sarah ; Reuben, mentioned 
below ; Phoebe, Mary, Ephraim, Hannah. 

( I\' ) Reuben (2), son of Reuben (i) 
Wright, was born March 26, 1778. He mar- 
ried. March 3, 1808, Margaret, daughter of 
Thomas Strang (see Strang 1\'). He had 
thirteen children : Caroline A. ; Thomas Strang, 
mentioned below; George W.. Joseph Sackett. 
Ann E., Mary E., Phoebe Quimby, Susan, Eliz- 
abeth, Ephraim R., Charles. Abby Jane, Theron 
Oscar. 

(V) Thomas Strang, son of Reuben (2) 
Wright, was bom in Somers, Westchester 
county, February 5, 1813, died a resident of 
Lisle, Xew York, in September, 1876. He was 
educated in the common schools and became a 
prominent contractor and builder. He was 
ambitious, enterprising and capable, and was 
especially noted for his skill in building rail- 
road and other bridges and erecting churches 
and other large edifices. He removed to Car- 
mel, Putnam county, Xew York, soon after 
his marriage, and lived there for seven or eight 
years. He then removed to the town of 
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the "Wright Homestead." After remaining 
there for one year, he removed to Brooklyn. 
New York, and at the end of a year moved 
back to the homestead, where he lived for three 
years. He finally removed to a farm in the 
town of Richford, Tioga county. New York, 
in the spring of 1850. During this time his 
■occupation was farming. He was also a car- 
penter and joiner, master workman. In i860 
he removed to Lisle, Broome county, New 
York, and he died a resident of that place in 
September, 1876. In politics he was a ^\ hig 
until the Republican party was formed, when 
he became a member of the latter party and 
continued so for the remainder of his life. He 
married, January 24, 1837, Mary Elizabeth, 
daughter of Nathaniel and Martha Ann (Town- 
send ) Crane, born July 29, 18 18 (see Crane 
VI). She died January 28, 1897, at the resi- 
dence of her son, Benjamin T., who was named 
for her maternal grandfather, Benjamin Town- 
send, who was of Quaker ancestry, but himself 
an active and zealous Methodist. Children : 
Benjamin Townsend, mentioned below ; Sackett 
LeGrand : Reuben .\ugustus, lives at Ithaca, 
New York ; Mary Augusta, married ( first ) 
Frank Stone, (second) William J. Walker, and 
live at Elizabeth, Colorado ; Morton Crane ; 
Amelia Phebe, married Nelson Ripley, and 
lives in Syracuse, New York; Frederick K. : 
Sophia Elizabeth, married William N. Haynes. 
(\ I) Benjamin Townsend, son of Thomas 
Strang Wright, was born in Carmel, Putnam 
county. New York, February 28, 1838. He 
was educated in the district schools and the 
Cortland .\cademy, at Homer, and took up 
the study of law in the office of McDowell & 
Edwards, of Lisle, New York. He turned 
away from the law, however, on account of 
the civil war, and, in 1862, enlisted in Company 
F, of the Twenty-seventh Regiment, New 
York \'olunteer Infantry, for two years, but 
was transferred to Company H, One Hundred 
and Si.xty-eighth New York Regiment, anil 
served in the .\rmy of the Potomac. In 1863 
his regiment was transferred from the Army 
of the Potomac to (jeorgia, with the troops 
sent as reinforcements after the battle of Chick- 
amauga, and when Sherman marched to the 
sea his regiment was detailed to watch and 
guard the bridge across the Tennessee, at 
Bridge])ort, .Alabama. While in the service he 
was on a gunboat during three naval engage- 
ments, in one of which he was an active par- 
ticipant. In 1863 he took part in a hazardous 



infantry raid to within a few miles of the city 
of Richmond for the purpose of destroying 
certain military and medical stores belonging 
to the Confederates. The raid was success- 
ful, but the command narrowly avoided cap- 
ture. It was composed of volunteers from 
several regiments, and included one hundred 
and forty men of his regiment, who were sta- 
tioned finally at an advantageous position at a 
cross roads, a few miles from the objective 
point of the expedition, with orders to hold 
the position at all hazards and keep open com- 
munication. His detachment was attacked by 
a superior force of rebels and an engagement 
lasting several hours ensued, but the position 
was held and the conmianding officer especially 
commended the men who saved the day and 
made the success of the raid possible. 

He was mustered out of service with the 
rank of corporal, October 31, 1863, and im- 
mediately resumed the study of law. He was 
for several months a clerk in the office of the 
United States provost marshal, at Owego, New 
York. May 12, 1864, he was admitted to the 
bar and began to practice at Whitney's Point, 
New York. After two years there he removed 
to Marathon, Cortland county. New York, 
where he practiced for the ne.xt eight years. 
Since 1874, however, he has been located at 
Cortland, New York. At Marathon he built 
up an extensive practice and took an active 
and prominent part in public affairs. He was 
attorney and counsel for the incorporated 
village of Marathon and rendered valuable 
service in that capacity in drafting the by-laws 
of the village. He was one of the founders 
in Marathon of a council of the Loyal League 
and was for several years its president. In the 
fall of 1873 he was elected district attorney 
of Cortland county and. in February following, 
moved his office to the county seat and took up 
his residence there in .April. As a district 
attorney he made an exceptionally good repu- 
tation for ability and zeal in the trial of cases. 
Many of the criminal cases in which he secured 
convictions were important, and the fines and 
penalties paid into tlie county treasury during 
his term of office were substantial evidence of 
his efficiency as a public prosecutor. He held 
the office until 1877 and since then has devoted 
himself to his private practice, which has been 
very large. In politics he is a staunch Re- 
publican, though he has on occasion given an 
example of political independence. On ac- 
count of his good fighting qualities, his ad- 




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versaries in politics came to calling him Ben- 
jamin "Tecumseh" Wright, and the nickname 
has for many years been used by his friends 
generally. As a public speaker at banquets, in 
the court room, on the political platform, and 
at other gatherings he has won a reputation 
second to none in the county. 

He is a member of Grover Post, Xo. g8. 
Grand Army of the Republic, and for two 
consecutive terms was its commander. In 
1880 he was inspector general of the Depart- 
ment of New York, on the staiif of Hon. L. 
Coe Young, department commander, and his 
report received the hearty commendation of 
the annual encampment as the most complete 
and useful one ever submitted. He was also 
a member of the staiif of General Russell A. 
Alger, national commander, and is now a mem- 
ber of the Russell A. Alger National Staff 
Association. He is a member of the Cortland 
County \'eterans Association and other organ- 
izations of veterans of the civil war, 

Mr. Wright is a lover of nature and in his 
younger days was an enthusiastic sportsman. 
He continues to enjoy his annual seasons of 
recreation in field and forest, on the lake, or 
beside the stream with rod and gun. In relig- 
ion he is a Congregationalist and a member of 
the First Congregational Church and Society 
of Cortland, has been a member of its board 
of trustees and for several years chairman of 
the board, an active worker in the Sunday 
.school, of which he was the first librarian. He 
was raised a Mason in Upper Lisle Lodge, No. 
388, and afterward became a charter member 
of Western Light Lodge of Free ]\Iasons at 
Lisle, New York, and its first junior warden 
and a warden thereof, and then affiliated with 
Marathon Lodge, at Marathon, New York, 
and has been for many years a member of 
Cortlandville Lodge, No. 470; also a member 
of Cortland Chapter. No. 194, Royal Arch 
Masons, by affiliation from Ringhamton Chap- 
ter, No. 139, and is now a member of Cortland 
Commandery, No. 30. Knights Templar. 

He married. May 9, 1866, Mary .Ann How- 
lam', born December 23, 1840, daughter of .-\r- 
temas and Lucinda L. ( Baker) Howland. Chil- 
dren : ]\Iary Lida. Elizabeth Linnell, Margaret 
Sfjuires. 

(The Strang Line). 

I I ) Daniel L'Estrange, or Strang, the im- 
migrant ancestor, was born in Paris, France, 
in 1656. He married Charlotte, daughter of 
Francis Hubert. They were Huguenots, and 



as such were obliged, upon the Revocation of 
the Edict of Nantes, October 22, 1685, to be- 
come refugees and to flee to England. There 
they settled in London, where he obtained a 
lieutenancy in the Guards of James, Duke of 
York, then King of Great Britain. In 1688 he 
immigrated with his wife to America, together 
with other French Protestants, and settled in 
New Rochelle, New York. In 1697 he re- 
moved to the town of Rye, W^estchester county. 
New York, where he kept a hotel for a time. 
Moth he and his wife died there, the former in 
1706, the latter in 1722, and were buried in the 
Episcopal churchyard. They had seven chil- 
dren, of whom Daniel, mentioned below, was 
one. 

( II ) Daniel (2). son of Daniel ( i ) Strang, 
was born in England, and married I'hcebe 
Purdy. They had eight children, of whom 
Henry, mentioned below, was one. 

(III) Henry, son of Daniel (2) Strang, 
married, 1761, Margaret, daughter of Thomas 
Hazard, of the Island of Nassau. He was a 
lieutenant or captain in the revolution and 
had a brother Joseph who was a major in the 
same service. Both served at or near Harlem, 
New York. He died July 22, 1832, aged 
ninety-three years. He had twelve children, 
Thomas, mentioned below, being one. 

(I\') Thomas, son of Henry Strang, was 
born in 1763, and lived near Crum Pond, in 
Westchester comity. He married (first) Eliz- 
abeth Sammis, and ( second ) Abigail Brown. 
.\mong their children was Margaret, who mar- 
rie 1 Reuben Wright (see Wright I\'). 

( The Crane Line). 

( 1 ) lienjamin Crane, immigrant ancestor, 
was born about 1630, and was in W'ethersfield, 
Connecticut, as early as 1O55. EUery B. Crane, 
in his "Crane Genealogy" says : "It is not posi- 
tively known when he came to Wethersfield, 
but Hinman, in his "History of Connecticut 
Settlers,' seems to think that he came from 
Massachusetts, which statement all investiga- 
tions thus far seem to warrant." On February 
24. 1656. he was granted a home lot of two and 
a half acres in the centre of the town. He was 
admitted a freeman. May 12, 1658, and his 
name appears on the court records in 1653-56. 
He bought of John Dixon or Dickenson, Sep- 
tember 14, 1664, land in the West Field, and 
there built his dwelling-house and tanneries, on 
Mud Lane. The house was one of the six 
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had a grant of land on Beaver, now Tando's 
brook, in 1660. He served on the jury in 1664, 
drew land in the alk)tment of 1670, and pur- 
chased land of Daniel Rose in 1673, and other 
tracts at various times. In May, 1682, he was 
one of those who petitioned the general court 
for liberty to "erect a plantation in the Wabay- 
nassit country" (Windham county). He car- 
ried on his tanning business about a mile below 
the village on the Aliddletown road, and the 
spot for years has been known as "Old Crane's 
Tannery Place." At his death, May 31, i6gi, 
his son John succeeded to the business. He 
married. April 23, 1655, J^Iary Backus, who 
tlied July 8, 1717, daughter of William and 
Sarah (Charles) Backus. Children: Benjamin, 
born March i, 1656; drowned June 20, 1693; 
Jonathan, December i, 1658, mentioned below ; 
Joseph, April i, 1661; John, April 30, 1663; 
Elijah, 1665; Abraham, 1668; Jacob, 1670; 
Israel, November i, 167 1 : Mary, 1673. 

(II) Lieutenant Jonathan Crane, son of 
Benjamin Crane, was born December i, 1658, 
died in Lebanon, Connecticut, March 12, 1735. 
He was one of the settlers of Windham, Con- 
necticut, and at the first ]niblic meeting, May 
18, 1691, was chosen, with three others. t(.) run 
the town lines. During that summer he built 
and set in operation his gristmill, which was 
on the site of what is now known as Brig- 
ham's Mills. October 6, 1691, he, with ten 
others, petitioned the general court to grant 
them a town charter, the town to be called 
Windham. The jjetition was granted May 12, 
1692. At the first public meeting, June 12, 
1692, he was chosen one of the "Townsmen," 
and at the same time was on a committee to 
secure a minister. He held also various minor 
offices. In May, 1695, he was elected ensign 
of a military company and commissioned by 
the general court in October of that year. Janu- 
ary, 1695, he exchanged property with Ser- 
geant William Backus, and received for his 
gristmill, a new dwelling-house in Windham, 
together with several acres of land, known as 
the "Hither Place." This property he sold 
again in April of the same year. January 30, 
1700, he, with Rev. Samuel Whiting, pur- 
chased a lot of land in Windham, which they 
gave to the town for a "meeting-house plat or 
common." It was afterwards callcfl "Wind- 
ham Green," and u])on it the first meeting- 
house was erected. In 1608 he and Thomas 
Huntington had purchased, in behalf of the 
■■oi)rietors of Windham, a tract of land con- 



taining about ten thousand acres, lying between 
Windham and Norwich, and, in 1700, this tract 
was made over to him and Rev. Samuel Whit- 
ing to lay out and sell to settlers. That same 
year he received permission from the court at 
Hartford "to keep a public victualing house 
for the entertainment of travelers and strang- 
ers, and the retailing of strong drink," and, in 
1703, the town agreed to have but "one ordi- 
nary. Lieutenant Crane to keep it." He was 
also in that year commissioned lieutenant by 
the general court. The following year, when 
the Indian war broke out afresh, the military 
company of Windham was reorganized and 
he was chosen lieutenant. He was exceedingly 
active in all church aft'airs, and, in 1726, was 
chosen, with two others, to act with the dea- 
cons as councillors of the church. June 26, 
1726, at the first court of common pleas, he 
was one of the first set of jurymen empanelled 
in the county of Windham. He was also 
deputy to the general court from Windham 
for nine years, 170 1-03-05-07- 14- 17- 18-2 1-22. 
July 3, 1734, he is called of Lebanon. He 
married Deborah, born May, 1661. died 1704, 
daughter of Francis Griswold, who was first 
in Saybrook, in Windsor, in 1649, and in Nor- 
wich, 1660. He died June 6, 1735. Children 
of Jonathan Crane : Sarah, born November 16, 
1680; Jonathan, February 2, 1684; John, Octo- 
ber I, 1687; Mary, October 20, 1689; Hannah, 
March 7, 1692; Isaac, .•Xpril 6, 1694; Joseph, 
May 17, 1696, mentioned below; Elizabeth 
(twin). February, 1698, died same year; Deb- 
orah (twin), February, 1698, died same year; 
.\bigail, February 15, 1700. 

(Ill) Joseph, son of Lieutenant Jonathan 
Crane, was born May 17, 1696, in \\'indham, 
died .August 20, 1781. In 1713. when a new 
meeting-house was built in Wintlham, he and 
several other young men built a pew for their 
own use. Some time before 1719 he removed 
to Fairfield, and that year married and re- 
ceived property there from his father-in-law. 
deed dated September 8, 1725. Later it ap- 
pears that he removed to Norwalk, and thence 
to South East, Putnam county. New York. 
He located in the latter town, about 1730, and 
on the east branch of the Croton river, built 
"Crane's Mill." In 1747 he was chosen high- 
way master. He married, 17 19, Mary, daugh- 
ter of Samuel , of Fairfield, born De- 
cember 15, 1695. died January 9, 1766. Chil- 
dren: Zebulon. born January 25, 1721, men- 
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May 30, 1726; Thaddeiis, March 27, 1728; 
Abigail, April 3, 1730; Anna, April 12, 1732; 
Stephen, May 19, 1734; Adah, October 25, 
1736. 

(I\ ) Zebulon, son of Joseph Crane, was 
born January 25, 1721. He married Sarah, 
daughter of William Belden, of Wilton, Con- 
necticut, who was resident of Deerfield, Mas- 
sachusetts, in the fall of 1696, at the time of 
the French and Indian raid on that town. In 
1769 Mr. Crane removed from Bedford, West- 
cliester county. New York, to Judeah, now 
Washington, Litchfield county, Connecticut. 
Soon after his wife and five children died, 
within two months of one another. In 1758 
he was captain of a military company in West- 
chester county, from which men were taken 
for service in the French war, for the pur- 
pose of "ranging and scouring the frontier." 
Children: John, born November 24, 1742, men- 
tioned below ; William, October, 1744; Zebulon, 
August 7, 1746; Elijah, April i, 1748; Sarah, 
July 12, 1750; Mary, October 8, 1752, died 
young; Belden, November 30, 1754. died 
young; Samuel, April 11, 1757; Abigail, May 
26, 1759; Stephen, April 11, 1761, died young; 
Anna, August 3, 1763, died young; Seth, March 
I, 1766, died young. 

(V) John, son of Zebulon Crane, was born 
November 24, 1742, died at Carmel, New York, 
June 9, 1827. He married, March i, 1764, 
Taniar, daughter of John and Hannah Car- 
penter, of New Castle, Westchester county, 
New York (see Carpenter XIII). A farm 
deeded to Joseph Carpenter, an ancestor of 
the above, in 1736, is still in possession of the 
Crane family. In 1769, with his wife and two 
small children, he removed from New Castle 
to a farm of two hundred and fifty acres, situ- 
ated near Lake Mahopac, and there, in 1772, 
he built the first frame house in that part of 
the country. It was a public inn, where town 
business was transacted and town meetings 
held. He held the office of justice of the 
peace, and was associate judge of the court of 
common pleas, in Dutchess county, before the 
county was divided, and also of Putnam coun- 
ty, after it was established. He served in the 
revolution : Private, Third Company, New 
York Line, March 2 to July 15, 1777; captain. 
Fourth Company, Seventh Regiment (Lud- 
dington's regiment), elected March 12, 1776. 
His commission, which he received from Gov- 
ernor Clinton, is now in the possession of his 
youngest grandson, Benjamin T. Crane. Dur- 



ing the war General Charles Scott, with his 
staff, made his headquarters for a time at John 
Crane's inn, and the continental troops, in 
going from the headquarters, at Salem, West- 
chester, to West Point, often stopped there. 
An interesting story is told of one of his ex- 
ploits during the war. Receiving information 
that some fifty or sixty Tories, enlisted in the 
British army, were to be mustered into the 
service on a certain night by British officers, 
sent from New York for the purpose, he re- 
solved to prevent the muster, and, if possible, 
capture the whole party. He summoned to 
his aid two resolute men from the highlands, 
who, armed with muskets and bayonets, ac- 
companied him after dark to the rendezvous 
of the Tories, a secluded log house, having 
only one door and one window. On arriving 
at the place, he became assured that the Tories 
and officers had assembled and then quietly 
stationed his two men, one at the door and one 
at the window, and riding furiously about the 
house in a loud voice delivered orders station- 
ing imaginary troops about the building. The 
men in the house were deceived. When one 
attempted to look out he was met with a 
bayonet thrust from the guard at the door. 
Crane demanded the surrender of the party 
and declined to parley. The Tories gave in 
and the two guards were sent into bind the 
prisoners. The rage and humiliation of the 
helpless prisoners may be imagined when they 
discovered how they had been tricked. At 
the first town meeting of Carmel, .^pril 7, 
1795, he was chosen town clerk, and also com- 
missioner of highways. He was active in 
church work, and with his family went on 
horseback from their home near Mahopac to 
attend service in the old log church near "Tilly 
Foster Mines,'' and later aided in the erection 
and support of the Gilead Presbyterian Church, 
at Carmel. 

He was an unflinching patriot, and a notable 
man on account of his integrity and superior 
business capacity in the management of public 
matters. In his private life he was a man of 
great kindness of heart, a firm friend and an 
indulgent parent. In person he was of medium 
size, of good proportion, with mild blue eyes 
and a great dignity of manner. His children 
and grandchildren were endowed with unusual 
attainments and of high personal character. His 
wife Tamar was born December i, 1747, died 
at Carmel, January i, 1823. Children : Joseph, 
born June 3, 1766; Adah, June 6, 1768; Ste- 



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phen, November I, 1770; John, June 6, 1773; 
Zillah, October 3, 1775; Nathaniel, February 
28, 1778, mentioned below; Sarah, June 27, 
1780; Arabella, December 25, 1784: Clorinda, 
October 2, 1787. 

(VI) Nathaniel, son of Captain John Crane, 
was born February 28. 1778, died September 
27, 1855. He married, October 3, 1799, Mar- 
tha Ann Townsend, born November 12, 1783, 
died May i, 1825, daughter of Benjamin Town- 
send, of Mahopac. Their home was in Put- 
nam county, New York. He served in the war 
of 1812. Children: John Arthur, born July 
4, 1800, died September 9, 1804: Tamar Ann, 
January 4, 1802, died December 17, 1825; 
James Townsend, May 3, 1804, died December 
14, 1826; Caroline Eliza, June 20, 1806; Fred- 
erick Augustus, October 17, 1808, died Decem- 
ber II, 1826: Charlotte Louisa, December 27, 
1810; Joseph Hatfield, September 11, 1813, 
married Ann Eliza Rrown, November, 1839, 
died February 17, 1864; Nathaniel Morton, 
February 23, 1816, married Amelia P. Tabor, 
May 4, 1844, died December 25, 1891 ; Mary 
Elizabeth, July 29, 1818, married Thomas 
Strang \\''right, January 24, 1837 (see Wright 
V) ; Augusta So])hia, September 12, 1821 ; 
Benjamin Townsend, January 24, 1824. 

(Tile Carpenter Line). 

(IX) Richard Carpenter, son of \^'illianl 
Carpenter (q. v.), was of Amesbury, England. 
and was buried there, September 21, 1625. He 
had a son William, mentioned below. 

(X) William, son of Richard Carpenter, 
was the immigrant ancestor of this branch of 
the family. He was the first person of the 
name who made permanent settlement in 
America. He sailed from Dartmouth, E-ng- 
land, May i, 1635, and arrived in New Eng- 
land, June 24, 1635, going first to Hingham 
and then to Providence, Rhode Island, where 
he arrived April 20, 1635. He was one of the 
original proprietors of Providence and one 
of the founders of the First Baptist Church in 
America, in 1638-39. He soon removed to 
Pautuxet, about four miles south of Provi- 
dence, later known as Cranston. He served 
many years in the general court as deputy and 
was a very i)rominent man. He suffered in the 
Indian outbreak, and, on January 27, 1676, lost 
two hundred sheep, fifty head of cattle and fif- 
teen horses. His house was set on fire and 
attacked by about three hundred Indians, but 
the flames were extinguished. Two of his 



household were killed. He died September 7, 
1685. His will was dated I<"ebruary 10, 1680, 
with codicil Alarch 15, 1684, and proved Octo- 
ber I, 1685. He married, in England, Eliza- 
beth, daughter of William and Christiana 
( Peak) .Arnold, born in Cheselbourne, Dorset- 
shire, England, November 23, 161 1. William 
Arnold, her father, was born June 24, 1587, 
died at Providence, Rhode Island, about 1676. 
Her mother, Christiana (Peak) Arnold, was 
the daughter of Thomas Peak. Children: Jo- 
seph, born about 1635. mentioned below ; Lydia, 
born in Providence, about 1638. Born in Pau- 
tuxet : Ephraim, about 1640; Timothy, about 
1643: William, about 1645; Priscilla, about 
1648; Silas, 1650; Benjamin, about 1653. 

(XI) Joseph, son of William Carpenter, 
was born in England, at Amesbury, in Wilt- 
shire, about 1635. He came to New England 
with his father and settled first at Providence. 
He married, April 21, 1659, Hannah Carpenter, 
born at W'eymouth, Massachusetts, February 
3, 1640, daughter of William Carpenter, of 
Rehoboth, Massachusetts. Joseph Carpenter 
settled at Warwick, where he had a corn mill. 
His house was on the south side of the Pau- 
tuxet river, at the wading place near the falls. 
As early as 1663 he was at Long Island, to 
make negotiations with the Indians for the 
purchase of land at Oyster Bay, but did not 
settle there until 1667, as he had considerable 
trouble in getting possession of the land, wliere 
he proposed to erect a sawmill and a fulling 
mill. He built a house about 1668, at what is 
now Glen Cove, which continued to be used as 
a dwelling-house until 1835. It was the first 
house there and the site may still be seen. His 
wife died about 1673, and he married (sec- 
ond) Ann. daughter of Francis and Elizabeth 
(Luther) Weeks. She was baptized, with her 
brothers, Samuel, John and Joseph, in the 
Dutch church at New York, in 1647. Her 
father, Francis Weeks, was one of the five 
persons who was with Roger \\'illiams in the 
canoe when he first landed at Providence. 
Roger Williams said of him that "he was a 
poor young lad who came with them at the ' 
request of John Smith (miller)." As he was 
not of age, a portion of land was set off for 
him and held by the proprietors until he reach- 
ed legal age. He was an early settler at Hcmp- 
steatl. Long Island, and, March 17, 1657, was 
made townsman there. In 1658 he and his 
wife were heavily fined for entertaining Quak- 
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where he died, 1687-88. Letters of adminis- 
tration were granted on the estate of Joseph 
Carpenter, July 9, 1684. Children: Joseph, 
born 1660; Daughter, 1662, married William 
Thornicraft; Tamsen, 1664; William, 1666; 
Nathaniel, 1668, mentioned below; Hannah, 
1672-73. Children of second wife: Ann, 1676; 
lienjamin, 1680: John, 1683. 

(XII) Nathaniel, son of Joseph Carpenter, 
was born in 1668, the first white child born at 
Mosquito Cove, Long Island. He sold land 
there April 16, 1719, and removed to North 
Castle, near Rye, Westchester county. He 
bought land in North Castle of Job Wright, 
May 15, 1729. He died after 1730. Children: 
Hannah, born about 169 1 ; Joseph; Robert; 
Benjamin ; John, mentioned below : Anne ; Abi- 
gail ; Nathaniel, and perhaps Sanuiel and 
others. 

(XIII) John, son of Nathaniel Carpenter, 
was born at Mosquito Cove, about 1698. He 
married Hannah . He settled at Fred- 
ericksburg, Dutchess county, where he died. 
His will was dated October 31, 1777, and 
proved December 21, 1781, bequeathing to wife 
Hannah ; grandson Caleb, son of his son 
Gabriel ; grandson Joseph, son of Tamar and 
John Crane ; grandson Joseph, son of Sarah 
and Henry Lewis; grandson Benjamin, son 
of daughter Anne. Children : Gabriel, born 
1735; Anne or Ame, November 25, 1738; Jo- 
seph ; Tamar, married John Crane ( see Crane 
V) ; Sarah. 

Conrad Davis was born in Wash- 
DAVIS ington. New Jersey, a descendant 

of one of the early settlers of New 
Jersey. According to tradition three brothers 
came from Wales anrl settled in the vicinity of 
what is now Washington. Conrad Davis was 
a prominent and well-to-do citizen. He con- 
ducted a general store, distillery and hotel. 
During the revolution he furnished sujiplies 
for Washington's troops as suttler at X'alley 
Forge and at other times, and he was compen- 
sated by the government afterward by a grant 
of six thousand six hundred acres of land. 
He is supposed to have built the first bridge 
over the Delaware river and the first road into 
Valley Forge, over which he carried supplies 
to Washington's army, and through him the 
army was saved from starvation. He married 
Weller. They had a son Conrad, men- 
tioned below. 



(II) Conrad (2), son of Conrad (i) Davis, 
was also born in Washington, New Jeisey, and 
he lived and died in that town. He succeeded 
to his father's business and estate, and was a 
man of considerable wealth and standing in 

the community. He married Weller. 

Children : John P., Jacob W. ; Job J., men- 
tioned below ; Edward, Rachel, Mary and Lena. 

( III ) Job }.. son of Conrad (2) Davis, was 
born in Washington, New Jersey, in 1826, 
died in 1895. He received a common school 
e(kication, learned the trade of carpenter, 
and engaged in business as a contractor and 
builder. He married Susanna P. Watts, of 
Paterson, New Jersey. Her father was a 
native of England. Children: i. Jacob W., 
treasurer of the J. E. Davis Manufacturing 
Company ; married Katherine Fox ; children : 
Charles, Mary and Blanche. 2. Rosa, lives at 
Washington, New Jersey. 3. Louise, married 
John Christian, of New Brunswick. 4. Sarah, 
married David Bibinger, a native of Germany. 
5. John E., mentioned below. 6. George B., 
for a time vice-president of the J. E. Davis 
Manufacturing Company. 

(I\') John Edward, son of Job J. Davis, 
was born in Washington, New Jersey, May i, 
1863. and was educated in the public schools 
of his native town. When he left school he 
began to work in the organ factory of D. F. 
Beatty, at Washington, New Jersey, and con- 
tinued there for three years. He was after- 
ward einployed by various piano manufac- 
turers in New York City : Norwich, New 
York, and Hazelton, Pennsylvania. He re- 
turned to Washington, and, in 1893. engaged 
in the coal business, in partnership with R. L. 
Cline, under the firm name of R. L. Cline & 
Company. He was also in partnership with 
his brother in the poultry business, under the 
firm name of Davis Brothers. In 1898 he 
began to manufacture piano backs in Washing- 
ton, under the corporate name of Washington 
Manufacturing Company, and continued suc- 
cessfully until 1903. when he came to Cort- 
land, New York, and bought the factory of 
the Whitney Carriage Company, in which he 
began to manufacture cases and piano backs. 
The business was incorporated as the J. E. 
Davis Manufacturing Company. The plant 
is located on East Court and Pendleton streets, 
with offices at 57 East Court street. Piano 
cases, backs, trusses, pilasters, bridges and 
other parts are manufactured for piano manu- 



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facturers. The business of the concern has 
grown enormously and its customers are found 
in all parts of the country. The plant is one 
of the largest of its kind, having floor space 
of one hundred and ten thousand feet, and it 
is equipped with one of the most modern and 
efficient wood-working plants to be found any- 
where. The company employs about three 
hundred hands regularly. The officers of the 
company are : President, John Edward Davis ; 
secretary, B. M. Ashby ; treasurer, J. W. Davis. 
The facilities of the company for economical 
and superior work have been planned largely 
by the president. The unseasoned lumber 
comes to the factory in train loads, and is un- 
loaded from a private siding at the factory 
and stored in the immense kilns, which have a 
capacity of six hundred thousand feet of lum- 
ber, furnished with some twelve miles of steam 
pipes. Sixty carloads of lumber can be dried 
at one time. In the busy season the company 
saws more than twenty-five thousand feet of 
lumber and produces more than two hundred 
piano backs and one hundred piano cases daily. 
In politics Mr. Davis is an independent, in 
religion a Presbyterian. He is a member of 
Knights of Pythias, and Piano Club of New 
York. 

He married, in 1891, Althea D. Hulsizer, of 
Asbury, New Jersey, daughter of Thomas Hul- 
sizer. They have one daughter, Althea C, 
born November 17, 1898, at Washington, New 
Jersey. 

Joshua Jennings, immigrant 
JENNINGS ancestor, was born as early 

as 1620, in England. The 
first record of him in this country is that of his 
marriage, at Hartford, December 22, 1647, to 
Mary Williams, of that town. In 1650 he set- 
tled in Fairfield with other Hartford men. The 
tradition of the family says that he landed 
first at what is now Bridgeport, and went to 
Barlow's Plain. "He was an intelligent and 
industrious man, worthy citizen and maintain- 
ed an excellent reputation. He died in 1675, 
leaving a good estate to his wife and children." 
From him have descended many prominent 
citizens. Green Farms, which was formerly 
part of Fairfield, is composed largely of Jen- 
nings descendants. "Their name is associated 
with thrift and prosperity; honest, industrious 
and orderly lives ; domestic in their habits, or 
fond of home life; retiring, not seeking pub- 



licity." They were also patriotic, as the records 
show, ready to risk property and life in defence 
of their country. Children : Joshua, married 
Mary Lyon; Joseph, married (first) Abigail 
Gurney, and (second) Sarah Bulkeley ; Mich- 
ael; John, married Sarah ; Samuel, 

mentioned below ; Matthew, married Haimah 

Wheeler ; Isaac, married Beers ; Mary, 

married Curtis; Elizabeth, married 

Smith. 



(II) Samuel, son of Joshua Jennings, mar- 
ried Sarah, daughter of Michael Grumman. 
He died in 1734, and his will was dated 1728. 
Children: Michael, baptized September 9, 1694; 
Elizabeth, March 9, 1696; Patience, September 
25, 1698; Sarah, February 11, 1699; Samuel, 
March 22, 1702; Eunice, January 21, 1705; 
Dorothy, November 13, 1709; Nathan, May 
18, 1711, mentioned below; Benjamin, Septem- 
ber 20, 171 3. 

(III) Nathan, son of Samuel Jennings, was 
baptized May 18, 171 1, died in 1757. He mar- 
ried , and had children, born in 

Fairfield: David, Jabcz, Michael, James, Na- 
thaniel, Eliphalet, Nathan ; Anne, married 
Alexander Hamilton ; Sarah, married a Mr. 
Jackson. 

( I\') The sons of Nathan Jennings settled at 
Wellington and Ellington. Connecticut. Accord- 
ing to the first federal census of 1790, an "Em" 
Jennings, doubtless meant for one of the sons, 
"had two males over sixteen, two under that 
age and three females in his family, living in 
Ellington. At Willington, an adjacent town 
of Tolland county, there were Nathaniel, with 
three sons under sixteen and two females ; 
Davis, with two sons over sixteen and two 
females : Nathan, with two sons over sixteen, 
one under that age and three females ; Nathan- 
iel 2d, with two sons under sixteen and two 
females and Widow Jennings with one son 
under sixteen and two females. Some of these 
were grandsons of Nathan. 

(\') Oliver Jennings, grandson of Nathan 
Jennings, was born at Fairfield or Ellington, 
Connecticut. He was a soldier in the revolu- 
tion, in Colonel Huntington's regiment, a cor- 
poral, reported missing after the battle of Long 
Island, .Vugust 2~. 1776. He was taken pris- 
oner and died on a British prison ship. Chil- 
dren : Lucinda, Cordial and Oliver. 

(\T) Cordial, son of Oliver Jennings, was 
born before 1776. He removed to Cornwall, 
^'ermont, in later life. He married Lucy 



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Foote Gunn, of an old Connecticut family. 
Children : Sherben, mentioned below ; Betsey ; 
David ; Chauncey, born in Cornwall, \'ermont, 
April 3, 181 1 : Bradford. 

(\'II) Sherben, son of Cordial Jennings, 
was born in Ellington, Connecticut, about 1800. 
He married Sabrina Smith. Children, bom in 
\'ermont or New York state: Cordial, men- 
tioned below ; Clarinda, Ebenezer, Alary, 
Henry, Lucinda, William, David and Adelaide. 

(\'ni) Cordial (2), son of Sherben Jen- 
nings, was born in Vermont, about 1820. He 
went to Xew York state with his parents and 
located in the town of X'enice, removing after- 
ward to Moravia, Xew York. He had a com- 
mon school education. He was a farmer, hotel 
keeper, and dealer in lumber and produce, an 
earnest, capable and well-to-do citizen. He 
retired from active business some five years 
before he died. He was a Congregationalist in 
religion. He was a Free Alason and a member 
of tlie Royal Arch Chapter. He married Irene 
Mellen, of Homer, New York, daughter of 
Jeremiah and Fannie (Mills) Mellen. Chil- 
dren of Mr. and Mrs. Jennings: i. Clarence 
Mills, born July 27, 1856, in Venice, New 
York, a coal and ice dealer in Cortland ; mar- 
ried Elizabeth J. Story and has a son, Frank 
S., bom May 17, 1889. 2. Frank Smith, men- 
I tioned below. 

(IX) Dr. Frank Smith Jennings, son of 
Cordial (2) Jennings, was born February 16, 
1859, at Moravia, Xew York. He attended 
the public schools and graduated from the 
Moravia high school. He received his medical 
education at Syracuse University and the Uni- 
versity of the City of Xew York, from which 
he was graduated with the degree of M. D., in 
the class of 1880. He began to practice medi- 
cine in Moravia, and after two years located 
at Dryden, Xew York, where he continued for 
a period of seventeen years. He came to Cort- 
land in 1900, and since then has been in gen- 
eral practice in that town. He is a member of 
the town, county and state medical societies 
and of the American Medical Association. He 
was postmaster of Dryden during the Harrison 
administration. He is a member of Cortland- 
ville Lodge, Xo. 470, Free and Accepted 
Masons. He is one of the vestrymen of the 
Protestant Episcopal church. 

He married, in 1880, Mary Givens, of Dry- 
den, daughter of William R. and Nancy (La- 
mont) Givens (see Givens). They had one 



child, Laura, born June 6, 1884, died July 27, 
1905; married R. F. Smith, of Cortland; child, 
Laura Jennings Smith, born July 27, 1905. 

(The Givens Line). 

(I) Samuel Givens, immigrant ancestor, was 
born in Ireland, and brought up in England. 
He came to America with his father, when a 
)-oung boy. His father's name is thought to 
have been Samuel. He fought in the war of 
the revolution in 1776, when only sixteen years 
of age, and his father was in the same war. 
He lived in Orange county. New York, where 
he married Jane King. He removed to Dry- 
den, Tompkins county, Xew York, in 1804. 
He had a large grant of land there from the 
state, and this was very likely given for serv- 
ices rendered in the revolutionary war. Chil- 
dren : Amos ; Charles, mentioned below ; Will- 
iam, Margaret, Letty, Sarah, Katie and Jane. 

(II) Colonel Charles (iivens, son of Sam- 
uel Givens, was born in Orange county, Xew 
York, and came to Dryden, Xew York, with 
his parents, when he was six years of age. He 
was colonel in the Xew York state militia, 
and was very prominent in the affairs of the 
town of Dryden, being supervisor, and holding 
other offices all his life, until he was obliged 
to decline the nominations offered him. He 
married Laura Kingsley. Children : Thomas ; 
William R., mentioned below: Edward, Lor- 
etta, Harrison. Charles and Laura. 

(III) William R., son of Colonel Charles 
Givens, was born in Dryden, Xew York, April 
15, 1821. He was educated in the common 
schools and at the old Ithaca Academy. After 
leaving here he taught school for twelve years 
and worked on the farm summers. In 1862 
he bought the Fortner place of one hundred 
and fifty acres, and. in 1865, he bought the 
William Trapp property of fifty-eight acres, 
and a part of the Scofield property and the 
.\llen property, all adjoining each other. In 
politics he was a Republican, and held many 
ofiices in town, being a prominent and re- 
spected citizen. He was generous in support- 
ing school and church affairs, and was a con- 
scientious and well-to-do citizen. When twen- 
ty-seven years of age he married Xancy, daugh- 
ter of Archibald Lament, of the Isle of Bute, 
Scotland. She was born in 1824, died May 18. 
1901. He died October 22, 1892. Children: 
.Archibald, Ella, Laura ; Mary, married Dr. 
Frank .Smith Jennings (see Jennings IX). 



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Jacob Crutts (formerly spelled 
CRUTTS Krutz) was one of the pioneers 

in Dryden, New York, in 1800, 
from Oxford, New Jersey. He had a son 
Jacob. 

(II) Jacob (2), son of Jacob (i) Crutts, 
was born in Dryden, 1819, and died there. He 
was a miller by trade. He married Mary .Ann 
Banfield, who died in 1892, aged eighty-one 
years. Children: i. Edwin, born January 31. 
1836, died in 191 1 ; had a common school edu- 
cation, and attended high school at Ithaca, 
under Professor S. D. Carr; married Ellen, 
daughter of Solomon Whipple, of Barton, 
Tioga county. New Y'ork ; in 1891 he inherited 
one hundred and seventy-five acres of his 
father's estate; in 1889 he bought the Henry 
Sayle's property in \'arna, which is a part of 
Dryden, and also owns, together with his 
brother, three other farms and village property, 
and the Varna gristmills ; one of the largest 
farmers in the town ; children : Mrs. .\lice L. 
Mix : Emma L., married George Frisbie, and 
Ella P., married Myron English. 2. William 
B., mentioned below. 3. Merenus. 4. Burt, 
deceased. 5. Emma, married Charles Whipple. 

(III) \\'illiam B., son of Jacob (2) Crutts, 
was born in Dryden, August 2"], 1838. He had 
a common school education, and also attended 
the high school at Ithaca, under Professor S. 
D. Carr. He owned the Crutts homestead of 
one hundred and forty acres, which has been 
in the family since 1800. He owned other 
property, and was a farmer and miller by 
trade, running the \'arna gristmills, in com- 
pany with his brother. He died May 20, 1891, 
mourned by a large number of friends, who 
well appreciated his high character and great 
ability. He married Olive Bryant, of Ithaca, 
born in 1849, daughter of Solomon and .\bigail 
(Freeman) Bryant. Children: i. Minnie, mar- 
ried Edwin S. Burr, of Dryden, and they have 
one child, Abigail. 2. Cora. 3. Fred, married Ella 
Wescott, and have Pauline ; lives on homestead 
in Dryden. 4. Lewis Solomon, mentioned below. 
5. Carrie, married Burt Miller, of Dryden, has 
one son, De\\'!tt. 6. Jacob, a miller in \'arna, 
married Mary Emhart. 

(IV) Lewis Solomon, son of William B. 
Crutts, was born in Dryden, May 13, 1870. 
He was educated in the public schools of his 
native town, and during his boyhood worked 
on his father's farm there, and in the mill. He 
and his brother succeeded to the ownership of 
the mill of their father and they continued in 



the milling business until 1897. From that 
time to 1905 Mr. Crutts conducted a mill at 
\'arna. New York. During the next two years 
he was engaged in farming. He came to Cort- 
land in 1907, and since then has been in the 
milling business there, and a dealer in flour, 
feed, grain and hay, farm implements, etc. He 
occupies a leading position among the mer- 
chants of this section. He is a member of the 
Methodist Episcopal church. 

He married. November 7. 1895, Carrie M., 
daughter of Ernest and Ida (Nixon) Snyder 
(see Snyder \'). Mr. and Mrs. Crutts have 
no children. They reside in an attractive home 
at Cortland. 

(Tlie Snyder Liiiel. 

( I ) Christopher Snyder, immigrant ances- 
tor, came to .\merica in 1746-47, and settled 
in O.xford, New Jersey. In tlie spring of 1801, 
he came from New Jersey, with his son Peter, 
to the town of Dryden, and purchased lot 43 
of William Goodwin. In the fall of 1802 he 
moved his family there, coming in a ]iarty of 
thirty-two persons, on a journey which was 
full of happenings and lasted eighteen days. 
The eastern half of the lot fell to him, and 
the western to Peter. He had a son Peter, 
and a daughter who married George Dart. 

(II) Peter, son of Christopher Snyder, was 
born in O.xford, New Jersey, December 26, 
1752, died July 23, 1832. He was a soldier in 
the revolutionary army, enlisting in- New Jer- 
sey, and his flintlock musket was brought home 
and remained in the family until recently, 
when it was sold at a vendue. In 1801 he 
came from New Jersey with his father, and 
purchased the lot of \\'illiam Goodwin. In 
choosing he had the western half of this lot, 
and, in the fall of 1802, he moved with his 
family and household goods in two wagons to 
their new home. His sons, W'illiam, John and 
.-Vbraham, drove twenty-five cows the whole 
distance. Before the moving he, with the other 
men, had chopped the timber on six acres, and 
in the fall had cleared the land and sowed it 
with wheat, before they returned to New Jer- 
sey. He later puichased the whole of lot 42, 
six hundred and forty acres, and of this he gave 
one hundred and six acres to each of his sons 
and fifty-three to each of his daughters, .'\mong 
the party of thirty-two to move to Dryden 
were Jacob Crutts and wife, Henry Naile, wife 
and child, and Christopher Snyder with his 
family. Peter .Snyder married Mary Shane, 
in 1776. The children mentioned are: Henry, 



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mentioned below ; William, John, and Abra- 
ham. 

(III) Henry, son of Peter Snyder, was born 
May 2, 1781, died in Dryden, August 29, 1870. 
He came with his father in 1801, and helped 
to clear the land before the family moved to 
Dryden. He received one hundred and six 
acres of land from his father, when it was 
given to the children. He married Mary Teeter, 
who died aged ninety-two years. He had a 
son Peter T., mentioned below. 

(IV) Peter T., son of Henry Snyder, was 
born May 6, 1808, in Dryden, died May i, 
1874. He was a farmer. He married Ann 
Maria Lason, born July 5, 1810, died April 
19, 1891. He had a son Ernest, mentioned 
below. 

(\') Ernest, son of Peter T. Snyder, was 
born in Dryden, March 2, 1844. He had a 
common school education, and is a self-edu- 
cated and self-made man. His first business 
enterprise was started in Cortland, Xew York, 
and was a meat business, which he conduct- 
ed until his father's death. In 1878 he bought 
the homestead and his father's estate, which 
consisted of eighty-six acres, and has been in 
the family since 1801. He is a man of influ- 
ence in the town and takes an active interest 
in school matters. He is a man highly re- 
spected for his fine character. At the age of 
twenty-four, he married (first) Ida, born De- 
cember 14, 1849, died .\pril 21, 1885, daughter 
of William and Priscilla (Chadwick) Xixon. 
In 1890 he married (second) Olive, daughter 
of Jacob Seaman. Children by first wife: i. 
Carrie M., married Lewis Solomon Crutts (see 
Crutts IV). 2. Eva M., married Leroy Sny- 
der, of Cortland, Xew York. 3. Ina B., mar- 
ried Archibald Davenport, of Ithaca, Xew 
York, and has three children: Cwendolyn, 
Doris, Kermit E. 



The name of Benson, or as it was 
BEXSOX originally spelled, Bensingh, is 
supposed to have been Swed- 
ish. The first family of the name in .America 
was largely identified with the history and 
landed interests of the town of Harlem, now 
a part of Xew York City. 

Dirck Benson, the immigrant ancestor, came 
from Groningen. Holland, and had lived also at 
.•\nisterdam, where he married Catalina, daugh- 
ter of Samson Berck and Tryntie van Rech- 
teren. He came to this country about 1648, 
and settled first in New Amsterdam. Here he 



bought a house and lot near the fort, August 
2^. 1649, and the following year, one on Broad- 
way. On June 29, 1654, at his desire, the 
director and council allowed him "to leave this 
place to promote his own affairs." He went 
to Fort Orange, where he built, upon a lot 
which had been granted him, October 25, 1653. 
He was a carpenter by trade and proved him- 
self a worthy and industrious citizen. He 
worked on the new church built in 1656, and, 
in 1658, loaned the deacons one hundred 
guilders. He died February 12, 1659, three 
years later, his widow marrying Harman 
Tomasz Hun. Children: Dirck, born 1650; 
Samson, mentioned below ; Johannes, 1655 ; 
Catrina, 1657; Maria, 1659. 

(II) Samson, son of Dirck Benson, was 
born in 1652, and married (first) Tryntie van 
Deusen, sister to the wife of John van Deu- 
sen, who was the mother of all his children 
but one. He married (second) Grietie, daugh- 
ter of Abraham Kermer, and widow of Cap- 
tain Jacob van Tilburg. Benson was her third 
husband and survived her. He was a potter 
by trade and was known as the "pottebacker.'' 
His pottery has not been located, but he owned 
a house and lot on Smith, now William street, 
below ;\laiden Lane. He died June 2. 1730. 
Children: Catalina, born 1675, died 1706: 
Derick, 1677 ; Teuwes or Matthew, mentioned 
below: Harman, 1681 ; Samson, 1684; Robert, 
1686: William, 1687; Elizabeth, 1689; Johan- 
nes, 1692: Helena, 1694; Maria, 1(396; Hen- 
ricus, i(j98. Child of second wife: Catalina, 

I/O/- 

( HI) Matthew, son of Samson (i) Benson, 
was born in 1679, and died in 1721. He mar- 
ried, 1706, Catrina, daughter of Jonathan Pro- 
vost. He was a mason by trade. Children : 
.Samson, mentioned below : Catharine, born 
1716; Catalina, 1719. 

( I\') Samson (2), son of IMatthew Ben- 
son, was born 1713. and married, 1735, Jan- 
netie .\rnient. Children: ^latthew, bom 1741 ; 
Jonathan, mentioned below : Lucas, 1746; Cor- 
nelius, 1748. 

(\') Jonathan, son of Samson (2) Benson, 
was born in 1744, and appears to have been 
the Jonathan who settled in Montgomery coun- 
ty. .According to the census of 1790 he had 
two sons under si.xteen and seven females in 
his family. 

(VI) Zacheus, son of Jonathan Benson, it 
is believed, settled in Oneida county, New 
York. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. 



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His wife Polly died in 1817. They had sons: 
Francis, mentioned below, and Gideon, and 
perhaps other children. 

(Vil) Francis, son of Zacheus Benson, was 
born in Oneida county. Kew York, in 1806, 
and died in 1887, at the age of eighty-one 
years. He followed farming all his active life, 
mostly in Broome county, New York. He 
married Sally M. Lovejoy and they had one 
son, James Herbert, mentioned below. 

(VHI) Dr. James Herbert Benson, son of 
Francis Benson, was born in Broome county. 
New York. ^Nlay 16, 1848. In his youth he 
worked on his father's farm and attended the 
district school. He received his medical edu- 
cation in the eclectic colleges of New York 
and Chicago, and began to practice in Otsego 
county, New York. After fifteen years there 
he came to Delaware county, where he prac- 
ticed two years, and then went to Illinois, 
where he practiced for the next seven years. 
Returning to his native state in 1901, he locat- 
ed at Cortland, New York, where he has since 
practiced. Dr. Benson is a member of Orient 
Lodge of Free Masons, of Delaware coimty. 

He married, in 1870, Delia .\. Heath, of 
Windsor, Broome county, New York, daugh- 
ter of Sylvester Heath. Children: i. Lila J., 
married Edward J. Dickson, of Delaware 
county, New York, private secretary of Dr. 
Cameron in the agricultural department, Wash- 
ington, D. C. 2. Orton, born January 15. 1872, 
a tobacco dealer at Springfield, Massachusetts ; 
married Lena Irish, of Otsego county. New 
York, and had Clarence and Woodruff. 3. 
Bessie E., married John Tyler Betts, a marble 
and granite dealer, at Cortland, New York. 



The origin of this name is 
EGGLESTON remote and some clue to 
its beginning may be found 
in the spelling Eaglestone, as sometimes found 
in early records. It also appears as Eglestone, 
Egleston, and in various other forms. Previ- 
ous to the revolution in the New England rec- 
ords it appears Egleston, and after the revolu- 
tion the second "g" is added. It has been 
long conspicuous in the professions in New 
England and New York, as well as many 
other states, and has contributed many worthy 
citizens in all sections of the country. 

The immigrant ancestor of those bearing the 
name in this country was born about 1590, in 
England, and came to Dorchester. Massachu- 
setts, in the ship "Mary and John." in 1630. 



His name appears with a great variety of spell- 
ings, such as Begat, Bagget, Beget and Bigod. 
The form usually accepted is the first above 
given. He was made a freeman at Dorchester 
in 163 1, and was one of the original members 
of Mr. Warham's church, which removed from 
Dorchester to Windsor, Connecticut, in 1635. 
He died there September i, 1674, "ner 100 yer 
ould." It is evident that the recorder of his 
death had no definite means of ascertaining 
the age. In court at Hartford, in 1645, Begat 
Egleston testified that he was fifty-five years 
of age. His first wife, Mary, died December 
8, 1657, and he married (second) Mary Tal- 
cott, of Hartford, w4io survived him. She . 
contributed four shillings in cloth for the re- 
lief of the poor in other colonies in 1676. Chil- 
dren, all born of the first wife: James and 
Samuel (twins), born in England; Thomas, 
Mary, Sarah, Rebecca, Abigail, Joseph and 
Benjamin. 

(II) James, son of Begat and Mary Egles- 
ton, was born in England, about 1620, was a 
freeman at \\'in(lsor, in 1637, and died Decem- 
ber I, 167Q, in that town. He was a soldier 
and participated in the Pequot fight for which 
he received a grant of fifty acres of land in 
1671. About 1648 he acquired by purchase his 
first piece of land in Windsor, formerly the 
property of Samuel Allen, being the first south 
of Broad street, and the road running east of 
it. In 1676 he contributed one shilling one 
pence for the relief of the poor in other 
colonies. 

His death occurred at the early age of fifty- 
nine years, after a very short illness, and he 
made no will. His children at that time were all 
minors. He left considerable land which was 
divided among his sons by mutual agreement, 
August 28, 1 701. He married Esther, or Hes- 
ter, sister of Roger Williams, of Windsor, who 
was early at Dorchester and returned to that 
town in 1647. or earlier. She was said to 
have been the first white female child born in 
Hartford. She died July 10, 1720. Children: 
James, John ; Thomas, mentioned below ; Hes- 
ter, Nathaniel, Isaac, Abigail, Deborah and 
Hannah. 

(III) Thomas, third son of James and Hes- 
ter (Williams) Egleston, was born July 27, 
1 661, in Windsor, where he died April 6, 1732. 
He was a farmer in that town, probably on the 
lot north of St. Gabriel's Church, and his estate! 
was valued at three hundred and eighty-seven! 
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Grace Hoskins, born July 28, 1666, in Wind- 
sor, died March 27, 1739, daughter of Anthony 
and Isabel (Brown) Hoskins, of Windsor, 
granddaughter of John Hoskins, who came to 
Dorchester from England in 1630. Children: 
Thomas, Grace, Mary, Hannah ; Jedediah, 
mentioned below ; Isabel ; Deborah, Mary, 
Mindvvell. Joseph, Ephraim and Hester. 

(I\') Jedediah, second son of Thomas and 
Grace (Hoskins) Egleston, was born June 11, 
1696, in \\'indsor, where he was a farmer, and 
died July 15, 1766. The inventory of his estate 
was made January 6, 1767, and it was admin- 
istered by his son Thomas. He married Sarah 
Moore, born September 12, 1704, daughter of 
John (3) and Abigail (Strong) Aloore, grand- 
daughter of John {2), who was a son of Dea- 
con John ( I ) Moore, the last named a son of 
Thomas Moore, of Dorchester, Massachusetts. 
Children: Sarah, Lydia, Grace (died young). 
Isabel, Jedediah, Thomas (died young), Lois, 
Grace, Thomas and Elijah. 

( \' ) Thomas (2) Egleston, third son of 
Jedediah and Sarah (Moore) Egleston, was 
born September 26, 1746, in Windsor, and was 
a noted fisherman. With his sons he owned 
the best fishing place on the Connecticut river, 
mirth of Middletown. This was situated on 
the Deerficld lot, four miles north of the state 
house, and is still known as "Thomas Egles- 
ton's Fishing Place." In 1859 this was owned 
by the heirs of Timothy Mills. Opposite, on 
the west side of the street, stands a brick build- 
ing, erected in 1760, the bricks said to have 
been made by Thomas Egleston. He was a 
revolutionary soldier, enlisting June 24, 1776, 
in Captain Job Couch's company, Colonel Philip 
Piurr Pradley's regiment. This body was sta- 
tioned during the summer and early fall, of 
that year, at Bergen Heights and Paulus Hook, 
now Jersey City. In November it was trans- 
ferred across the river to the defence of Fort 
Washington, where, with hundreds of others, 
Thomas Egleston was captured by the British 
forces, November 16, of that year. He mar- 
ried ( first), February 13, 1766, Rebecca, daugh- 
ter of Samuel and Rebecca Drake, born Janu- 
ary 24, baptized February 2. 1745, and died 
1775. He married (second), February 26, 
1778, Ann Clark. Children, born of the first 
wife, and baptized at Windsor : Sarah, Rebecca. 
Jedediah, Elijah, Francis, Elihu, Joseph (men- 
tioned below), Henry, George and Ann. 

( VI ) Joseph Eggleston, fifth son of Thomas 
(2) and Rebeeca (Drake) Egleston, was bap- 



tized August II, 1782. at the Windsor church. 
and removed to Sherburne, Chenango county, 
New York, about 1808. Some fourteen 
years later, he settled in the town of Cort- 
landville, Cortland county, New York, where 
he was a farmer, and died. He married, 
October 14, 1802, Harriet Goodrich, of Cole- 
brook, Connecticut, who died in Cortland- 
ville, 1850. Children: i. Joseph Francis, bap- 
tized at Windsor, July 3, 1803. 2. Ann, died 
voung. 3. Fanny, baptized July 5, 1807, in 
Windsor; died in 1862, in Cortland. 4. Hiram, 
resided in Alden, New York, where he died 
childless. 5. Asahel G., mentioned below. 6. 
George. 7. Julia, married Cortland Corwin, 
of Cortland, and had two daughters. 8. Emily, 
died young. 9. Delia, married George Ban- 
croft, resided in Whitewater, Wisconsin, and 
had three children. 

(VII) Asahel G, third son of Joseph and 
Harriet (Goodrich) Eggleston, was born in 
1810, in Sherburne; died June 23, 1897. He 
was about twelve years of age when his par- 
ents removed to Cortlandville. He always fol- 
lowed farming in Cortland county, New York ; 
he had a large farm, and was active up to the 
time of his death. He held various town and 
village offices. He was a Presbyterian. He 
married, July 7, 1842, Louise Kenney, born in 
Hartford, Connecticut, in 1814, died July i, 
1897, daughter of Jabez Kenney. Children: 
Antoinette, deceased ; Joseph Emmett, men- 
tioned below. 

(\ III) Joseph Emmett, only son of Asahel 
G and Louise (Kenney) Eggleston, was born 
in Cortland, New York, November i, 1847. 
He received his education in the academy and 
State Normal School, of Cortland, New York : 
studied law in the office of Waters & Waters, 
in Cortland : admitted to New York state bar 
in 1875, and to L'nited States courts in 1881. 
He practiced law for a time in company with 
Mr. Waters, under firm name of Waters & 
Eggleston, and later was alone in practice. In 
1889 he was elected county judge and surro- 
gate of Cortland county. New York, which 
office he has held ever since. He is a director 
in the Second National Bank, of Cortland, and 
trustee of the State Firemen's Home Associa- 
tion. He is a member of Cortlandville Lodge. 
Free and Accepted Masons. 

He married, September 2, 1874, Alta B.. 
daughter of Rensselaer R. and (Dlive Moore, 
of Cincinnatus, New York. They have one 
daughter. Aria, a graduate of the State Normal 



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School, at Cortland, also of the National Park 
Seminary, Washington, D. C, and she took a 
course at the Currie Oratory School, of Bos- 
ton, Massachusetts, and is now a teacher. 



Dr. Johannes Mounies de 

MONTANYE la Montanye was born in 
OR Saintonge, France, 1 59=5. He 

MANTANYE married Rachel De Forest, 
sister of Jesse De Forest, 
at Leyden, December 12, 1626. He came to 
Harlem in 1637, took up Montanye Plats, was 
secretary of the Harlem Colony, and later was 
in command at Fort Orange (now Albany), 
as vice-director, until 1664, when possession 
was taken by the British. He died in Holland, 
in 1670, having gone there with Governor Stuy- 
vesant, after the British occupation of New 
York. 

(H) Jan (or John), son of Dr. Johannes 
Mounies de la Montanye, came to Harlem soon 
after his father, and entered business with Vin- 
cent Pikes. He returned to Holland and mar- 
ried Peternella Pikes there, about 1654. Re- 
turned to New York in 1655, and soon after 
settled in Harlem and took up Montanye Point ; 
was secretary and teacher at Harlem until his 
death, in 1672. His first wife died and he 
married (second) Maria V'erniilye, Tune 10, 
1663. 

(HI) \'incent, son of Jan or John Mon- 
tanye, was born in Harlem, New York, 1657. 
He married, ]VIarch 5, 1684, Adriana, daughter 
of Jan Thomas Aken. He was living in 1713, 
but died soon after. 

(IV') Thomas, son of Vincent Montanye, 
born 1691, was sho])keeper in New York ; lived 
and (lied in Prince street, New York ; his death 
occurring October 12, 1761. He married, No- 
vember 25, 1718, Rebecca Bruyn ; she survived 
him; they had fifteen children. 

(V) John T., son of Thomas Montanye, 
was born 1743: lived in New York on the 
breaking out of the war of the revolution. He 
married Mary Blain. 

(VI) Peter, son of John T. Montanye, later 
called also Mintonye, born in New York, in 
1775. with brothers, Isaac and Jacob, came to 
Western New York. Peter settled in Dryden, 
but later in Sempronius, New York, and died 
there, in 1856. He married . 

(VII) William, youngest son of Peter Mon- 
tanye, was born in Dryden, New York, May 
24, 1808; died in Florida, in 1880. His edu- 
cation was received in common schools ; he 



learned the carriage maker's trade in Dryden, 
New York, and carried on wagon making, and 
later was a merchant in Freetown, New York, 
up to 1865, when he removed to Cortland, New 
York. He was supervisor at Freetown during 
the war, and for some years previous was a 
member of county board of supervisors. Dur- 
ing the war he was active in enlisting men for 
the service and keeping up supplies for them. 
He married Betsey Fuller, daughter of Eleazer 
Fuller, of Freetown, a descendant of the Fullers 
who came to Plymouth in the "Mayflower." 
Here the name began to be "i\Iantanye." Chil- 
dren : I. Cornelia, married J. H. Delavan, she 
died August, 1907. 2. William Jameson, see 
forward. 3. Austin F., living at present time. 
(\TII) \\'illiam Jameson, son of William 
Mantanye, was born at Freetown, Cortland 
county, New York, October 17, 1843. He 
remained at Freetown until the civil war. He 
attended the district school, and after he was 
twelve years old worked on a farm every 
summer. As a student he was quick to learn, 
and he was a great rearler. In the fall of 1859, 
and again in i860, he attended the Homer 
.\cademy, then one of the most famous schools 
in the state. In the winter of 1860-61 he 
taught school in the lumbering district, on the 
north fork of the Cowanes(|ue, near ^^'estfield, 
Tioga county. Pennsylvania, where a brother 
of his father resided, returning to farm work 
in the spring, intending to resume study at 
Homer the following autumn. But the civil 
war broke out that spring, and, after the dis- 
aster at Bull Run and on the first call for three 
years troops, he enlisted in Company D, Sev- 
enty-sixth New York Infantry, at the age of 
seventeen, and served through the war at the 
front in the Army of the Potomac. He was 
wounded at second Bull Run, August 29, 1862, 
but not seriously, and returned to his regiment 
next day. At Gettysburg he was taken pris- 
oner, July I, 1863, and paroled on the field July 
4, but as the government held the parole to be 
illegal he soon after returned to his company 
without exchange. In the fall of 1863 he was 
called to Washington to take a commission in 
the First Regiment of the T.'nited States Color- 
ed Troops, then being organized, but conclud- 
ing he was not suited for the position, being 
then only nineteen years of age, he declined it 
and returned to his company. In January, 1864, 
he reenlistcd as a veteran volunteer in his old 
C(impany, and, in October, 1S64, on the expira- 
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ferred to the One Hundred and Forty-seventh 
New York, thence to the Ninety-first New 
York, from which he was discharged, July 3, 
1865, by reason of the close of the war. Thus 
he served nearly four years, first in the First 
Army Corps, under Reynolds and Doubleday, 
until that corps was destroyed at Gettysburg, 
where the Seventy-sixth New York, leading 
the Corps, opened the battle with the First 
Infantry fire. After that he served in the Fifth 
Corps, of which the remnant of the old First 
Corps formed the Third Division, and he was 
])resent at the surrender of Lee, April 9, 1865. 
During his army service, and particularly while 
in winter cjuarters, Mr. Mantanye continued 
his stutly and reading, and he also kept a diary 
wliich has since been used by writers on army 
life. On his return from the army, in 1865, 
Mr. Alantanye came to Cortland, his father 
having that year removed to Cortland. He 
entered on the study of law with Hon. Arthur 
Holmes, then one of the leading lawyers of 
the county. In May, 1867, he was admitted to 
the bar at Binghamton, and soon after com- 
menced the practice of law, which he has ever 
since continued. Before his admission he had 
committed the code of procedure to memory, 
and he has always been an authority on prac- 
tice, frequently consulted by other lawyers. In 
May, 1869, he removed to Marathon and open- 
ed an office, continuing practice there until 
1888, when he removed to Cortland, which has 
since been his residence. 

Mr. Mantanye has been a prominent Repub- 
lican all his life, casting his first vote for Lin- 
coln, in 1864, at the age of twenty-one, send- 
ing it from the front. He supported Horace 
Greeley, in 1872, as a Republican and one of 
the founders of the party, still holding to that 
party, and refusing to pass over to the opposite 
side, as so many did. His father was of the 
"Free Soil" party that supported Birney, in 
1848, and John P. Hale, in 1852, and which, by 
the accession of Whigs in 1854-55, became the 
Republican party. In the first Republican cam- 
paign, in 1856, though only thirteen years of 
age, he was a leader in a band of boys at Free- 
town, organized into a "Fremont and Dayton" 
marching club, having a liberty pole and flag 
of its own in front of his father's wagon works. 
The flag is still retained as an interesting relic. 
After the war he was active in the party, fre- 
quently a delegate to state conventions, and a 
member of the Republican county committee. 



and a popular leader. In 1882-83 he was a 
member of the Republican state committee 
from the Onondaga, Cortland district, and of 
the executive committee of the state organiza- 
tion. He was never a seeker for office for 
himself, and never was a candidate until 1893, 
when, without any previous canvass, he was 
nominated as a delegate to the constitutional 
convention of 1894, from the twenty-fifth sen- 
ate district, then composed of Cortland, Broome, 
Tioga, Chenango and Delaware counties, and 
was elected. In that convention he was promi- 
nent as a speaker and -worker, and was a mem- 
ber of the important committee on powers and 
duties of the legislature, and on county and 
town officers. He introduced some amend- 
ments which were adopted and two that were 
not finally adopted, but eventually will be a 
part of the organic law. One of these was to 
make the term of office of governor and lieu- 
tenant-governor four years, and make them 
ineligible to election for the next succeeding 
term. This was at first agreed to in committee, 
but later on was defeated. The other was a 
provision for biennial sessions of the legis- 
lature — No. 83 on the file. It was at first 
adopted by the committee, as appears by con- 
vention document No. 22, but later a rally of 
the politicians caused its defeat. In 1897 it 
was, on the suggestion of Governor Black, in- 
troduced in the legislature and passed, but 
failed in the legislature of 1898. He also advo- 
cated the amendment as to employment of 
convicts in penal institutions, forbidding their 
labor being sold out to contractors, and it was 
adopted. In June, 1895, Mr. Mantanye was 
appointed, by Governor Morton, as a member 
of the state commission of prisons, created by 
the constitution of 1894, with jurisdiction over 
all penal institutions, and having the duty of 
reporting a system for the employment of con- 
victs under the revised constitution. Mr. Man- 
tanye was at once elected vice-president of the 
commission, and reelected in 1896. As he was 
the only member who had given the subject 
previous study he was made chairman of the 
committee on annual report to formulate the 
new system. This he did in such a careful and 
reasonable way that the report was adopted by 
the commission anrl handed to the legislature 
of 1896. He was then put upon the committee 
on legislation, and had charge of the drafting" 
and introduction of the proposed laws in ac- 
cordance with the report. These laws chang- 



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ing the prison labor system, with some amend- 
ments to the county law and penal code, were 
explained to the legislature by Mr. Mantanye 
and were enacted. By these laws the taking of 
convicts from without the state by peniten- 
tiaries to board was ended and the different 
institutions were relegated to their original pur- 
poses by requiring felons to be sent to the 
reformatory and state prisons, and misdemean- 
ants to the jails, penitentiaries and houses of 
refuge. The labor of convicts is also to be 
utilized in producing supplies for the public 
institutions, so that the state has the full value 
of the labor in reduction of taxation, instead 
of selling it out to syndicates for small prices 
.and thus enabling them to carry on a ruinous 
•competition with industries of free labor. The 
system has proved successful, and is being 
-adopted in other states. Great improvement 
was made in jails, penitentiaries and other 
prisons. The prisoners were classified and 
graded as required by the law of 1889, with a 
view of introducing the reformatory system in 
the state prisons, which makes good citizens of 
law breakers, instead of putting them into a 
permanent criminal class, as under the old sys- 
tem. Mr. Mantanye continued as chairman of 
the committee on annual report of the com- 
mission, and drew the report for 1898, pre- 
sented to the legislature of 1899. It was an 
interesting document, giving a retrospect of 
the conditions existing when the commission 
was appointed and of the many improvements 
and economies since inaugurated and carried 
on at the instance of the commission. To Mr. 
Mantanye, more than to any other one person, is 
owing the great reforms put in successful oper- 
ation in the prison system of the state, and 
which are being copied in other states and 
countries. Yet he is modest and unassuming, 
claiming no special credit or honor for himself, 
but giving it all to the commission. 

Since 1901, when he retired from the com- 
mission of prisons, he has devoted his time to 
his law practice, which is large, particularly in 
caring for and settling estates. While often 
consulted in party matters and having large 
influence he has retired from more active polit- 
ical work, feeling that forty years of activity 
has earned for him a rest. Mr. Mantanye is a 
member of the Tioughnioga Club ; secretary of 
the Association of the Seventy-sixth Regiment, 
New York \'olunteers, and was the first colonel 
of the Cortland Encampment of the I^nion 
\'eteran Legion, of which he is still a member. 



and a member of the Grand Army of the Re- 
public, Grover Post, Xo. 98, Cortland, New 
York. 



Thomas Sherwood, immi- 
SHERWOOD grant ancestor, was born 

in Ipswich, Suffolk county, 
England, in 1593; died in October, 1655, at 
Fairfield, Connecticut. He came to Boston in 
the ship "Frances," in 1634, giving his age as 
forty-eight, and accompanied by his wife Alice, 
aged forty-seven, and children : Ann, aged four- 
teen ; Rose, aged eleven : Thomas, ten ; Re- 
becca, nine. They resided for several years in 
Massachusetts, but settled in Fairfield as early 
as 1645, and owned land there before 1650. 
In his will, dated July 21, 1655, he mentions 
all his children. He married (first) Alice Sea- 
brook, ( second ) Mary Fitch. Children : Ann, 
born 1620; Rose, 1623; Thomas, 1624; Re- 
becca, 1625 ; Stephen ; Matthew, 1633 : Tam- 
sen : Margery ; Ruth ; Abigail ; Mary ; Isaac. 

(II) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (i) Sher- 
wood, was born in England, in 1623-24, and 
came with his parents in 1634. He went from 
Boston to Wethersfield, and thence to Fair- 
field, where he settled. He was admitted a 
freeman, at Hartford, October 13, 1664. He 
was the first miller on Mill Run, Fairfield. He 
married (first) Sarah Wheeler, who died be- 
fore August 21, 1669, daughter of Thomas 
and .\nn Wheeler. He married (second) Ann, 
daughter of Benjamin and ]\Iary Turney. He 
married (third) Elizabeth, widow of John 
Cable Jr. He married (fourth) Sarah Coley, 
widow of Peter Coley. and daughter of Humph- 
rey Hyde. Children of first wife: Thomas, 
born 1654, of Eastchester, New York ; Sarah, 
married John \\'hitlock. Children of second 
wife: Mary, married David Whitlock: Benja- 
min ; Samuel : Ruth ; Hannah ; Abigail. Chil- 
dren of third wife: Isaac, mentioned below; 
Phebe, married Samuel Bradley. 

(III) Isaac, son of Thomas (2) Sherwood, 
was born in Fairfield, died in 1748. He settled 
in Norwalk, Connecticut, as early as 1690. He 
married Mary . Children : Isaac, men- 
tioned below ; Rebecca, Elizabeth and John. 

(I\') Isaac (2), son of Isaac (i ) Sherwood, 
was born about 1720, or earlier, in Norwalk. 
He married Mary Hayes. His three sons, Jon- 
athan, Isaac and Samuel, settled in Williams- 
town, Massachusetts. Some of the sons of 
Samuel and Isaac were soldiers in the revolu- 
tion, [onathan Jr.. evidentlv called thus to 



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distinguish him from his uncle Jonathan, men- 
tioned below, died at W'iUiamstown, August 7, 
1825, in his sixty-ninth year, and his wife 
Martha died there, September 24, 1824, in her 
sixty-second year ; their gravestones are stand- 
ing; also the gravestone of their daughter 
Anne, who died October 19, 1813. in her twen- 
ty-seventh year. Stephen, Timothy and Sam- 
uel were soldiers in the revolution from 
Williamstown, grandsons of Isaac and Mary 
(Hayes) Sherwood. Another grandson, James, 
married, June i, 1789, at Williamstown, Hul- 
dah Stratton, and the marriages of four grand- 
daughters are recorded : Mary 3d, married, at 
Williamstown, February 25, 1785, John Mc- 
Nichols ; Polly, married, March 22, 1789, Iz- 
bund Gregory ; Betty Sherwood, married, De- 
cember 14, 1786, Thomas Fowler ; Rhoda Sher- 
wood, married, November 22, 1787. at Pownal, 
\'ermont, Stephen Pratt. In 1790, according 
to the first federal census, the following sons 
and grandsons were of Williamstown : James 
Sherwood, with two males over sixteen, one 
male under sixteen and three females ; Jona- 
than, two males over sixteen, two under, two 
females : Jonathan Jr., one over sixteen, one 
under and three females ; Stephen, two males 
over sixteen and seven females ; Samuel, one 
over sixteen, one under and two females. Tim- 
othy, of the adjoining town of West Stock- 
bridge, and Benjamin, of New Ashford, also 
having families at the time of the census, were 
doubtless of this family. Children : Isaac, born 
1742, died at W^illiamstown. August 19, 1814, 
wife Mary died October 2, 1808, aged seventy- 
one : Jonathan, mentioned below : Samuel, died 
at Williamstown, April 12, 1801, aged sixty- 
two. Probably others. 

(\') Jonathan, son of Isaac (2) Sherwood, 
was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, in June, 
1746. He settled before the revolution at 
Williamstown, Massachusetts. Jonathan was 
a soldier in the revolution, a private in Cap- 
tain Samuel Clark's company. Colonel Benja- 
min Simond's regiment, of Berkshire county, 
and tooK part in the battle near Bennington, 
\'ermont, Aupust 16, 1777, and was engaged in 
conveying prisoners to Pittsfield, Massachu- 
setts. He was corporal of the same company 
and regiment, September 7 to 30, marching to 
Pawlet, \'ermont, by order of Major-General 
Lincoln. He removed from Williamstown, in 
1798, to Fairfield, Herkimer county. New 
York. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob 
and Sally (Bradley) Leach. Her father was 



descended from Lawrence Leach, born 1589, 
surgeon to Edward III., of England. Jona- 
than Sherwood died January 17, 1799. 

(\T) Henry, son of Jonathan Sherwood, 
was born in Williamstown, May 16, 1777; died 
July 8, 1831. He was a farmer in Fairfield, 
New York. He married Abigail Evans. Chil- 
dren, born at Fairfield, New York : Henry J., 
mentioned below ; Gaylord N. and Elizabeth. 

(\TI) Henry J., son of Henry Sherwood, 
was born in Fairfield, New York, November 
II, 1817; died February 9, 1866, in Memphis, 
New York. He was a general merchant at 
Memphis and Elbridge, New York. He mar- 
ried, August 10, 1 84 1, Ann Benham, born in 
Cohocton, Steuben county, New York, July 6, 
1820, died August 14, 1883. Children: Gay- 
lord ; Isabel ; James D., lives in Cortland, mar- 
ried Anna Rice, and has a daughter, Sarah 
Emily ; Silas William, mentioned below. 

( \ HI ) Silas William, son of Henry J. Sher- 
wood, was born in Memphis, New York, Sep- 
tember 27, 1859. He received a common school 
education, and was for a time in the wholesale 
boot and shoe business in Syracuse, New York. 
Pie came to Cortland, New York, in 1878, and 
engaged in the retail grocery business, in part- 
nership with his brother James D., under the 
firm name of Sherwood Brothers. They car- 
ried on this business for ten years, when he 
retired from the firm and accepted a position 
in the business office of H. F. Benton, who 
conducted a lumber business. When the H. F. 
Benton Lumber Company was incorporated, 
in 1899, he was elected treasurer of the com- 
pany, and has held that office since. He is 
active in public afifairs in Cortland, and is presi- 
dent of the board of trade. He is a member of 
the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. 
He married, August 22, 1883, Jeannette Cleve- 
land, daughter of Henry F. and Caroline Lu- 
cretia (Putnam) Benton (see Benton \'III). 
Mr. and Mrs. Sherwood have no children. 

(The Benton Line). 

(I) John Benton was of the parish of Epp- 
ing, county Essex, England, and was married 
there, May 25. 1618, to ]Mary Southernwood. 
He was probably the son of Andrew and Maria 
Benton. Children : Andrew, baptized October 
15, 1620, mentioned below; Thomas, baptized 
August 25, 1622 ; Marie, baptized June 29, 
1625; Elizabeth, baptized August 31, 1628; 
John, baptized March 10, 1639. 

(II) Andrew Benton, immigrant ancestor,. 



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was the son of John Benton, of Epping, coun- 
ty Essex, England, and was baptized at Epping, 
October 15, 1620. In the apportionment of 
land at Milford, Connecticut, in Xovember, 
1639, he was allotted parcel Xo. 64. It con- 
tained three acres, and was situated on the 
west side of Half Mile Brook. To this there 
was afterwards added several other parcels of 
land. He married (first), about 1649, Han- 
nah, daughter of George Stocking, of Hart- 
ford, a first settler there, in 1636. They united 
with the church in Alilford, he on March 5, 
1648, and she on October 13, 1650, and were 
dismissed to Hartford, March, 1666. They 
had removed to the latter town as early as 
1662. She died about 1672, and he married 
(second), probably in 1673. Anne, daughter of 
John Cole, "a godly man of some public trust." 
She was the "bewitched maid" on whose ac- 
count, chiefly, Nathaniel Greensmith and his 
wife were hanged for witchcraft, on January 
25. 1663. Gofife, the regicide, who was then 
in hiding at ]\Iilford, writes in his diary, Feb- 
ruary 24, that after the hanging "the maid 
was well," and Cotton Mather's "Magnalia," 
in 1684, says of her, that "she is restored to 
health, united with the church, and living in 
good repute." She died April 19, 1685. 

Andrew Benton held various public offices 
in Hartford; fence viewer in 1663-64, juror 
in 1664-67, freeman in May, 1665, and sup- 
pressor of "disorders during public worship" 
and collector of minister's rates in 1667. In 
February. 1670, he separated to the Second 
Church, with his wife, daughter Hannah, and 
his fathers-in-law. Stocking and Cole. He died 
July 31, 1683, and was buried in Center Church 
cemetery, where his gravestone may still be 
seen. Children, all except the youngest born 
in Milford: John, April 9, 1650, died May 24. 
1650; Hannah, baptized November 23, 1651 ; 
Andrew, baptized August 12, 1653; J^'lary, 
April 14, 1655: John, October 7. 1656; Sam- 
uel, August 15, 1658; Joseph, 1660; Dorothy, 
probably 1662. Children of second wife, born 
in Hartford: Ebenezcr. baptized January 4, 
1674; Lydia. baptized February 13, 1676: Han- 
nah, baptized January 26, 1679; John, baptized 
May 30, 1680, died young. 

(Ill) Samuel, son of Andrew Benton, was 
born August 15, 1658, in Milford, and lived in 
Milford and Hartford, and for a time in Tol- 
land, Connecticut, where he and his son were 
first proj^rietors in 1716. He married, prob- 
ably in 1679, Sarah, daughter of William and 



Sarah Chatterton, of New Haven, born there, 
July 19, 1661. He died testate, in Hartford, 
April 10, 1746. Children, born in Hartford: 
Samuel, .\ugust 8, 1680; Sarah. September 28, 
1685; Hannah, March 14, 1688; Abigail, De- 
cember 9, 1691 ; Caleb, March i, 1694; Daniel, 
June 25, 1696, mentioned below ; Jacob, Sep- 
tember 21, 1698 ; Aloses, April 26, 1702 ; Lydia, 
April 26, 1705. His son Daniel's name appears 
in a petition respecting lands in Coventry, in 
1718. Samuel Benton, then living in Hart- 
ford, gave a deed of Tolland lands, in 17 19, to 
Daniel Benton, of Hartford, "his living son." 

(IV) Daniel, son of Samuel Benton, was 
born June 25, 161.X), lived in Hartford and Tol- 
land, died in Tolland. He united with the 
Second Church, September 21, 17 18. He mar- 
ried, January 3, 1722, Mary, daughter of John 
Skinner, of Hartford. Children, born in Tol- 
land : Mary, October 17, 1722, died March 16, 
1723; Daniel, January 6, 1724, mentioned 
below; W'illiam, November 12, 1725; Mary. 
April 9, 1727, died October 4, 1745 ; Elijah, 
June 30, 1728; Sarah, May 8, 1730, died young ; 
Hannah, July 12, 1731, died young; John, June 
17, 1732, died young; Siloam, December 11, 
1733, died young; Lydia, May 2, 1735; Abi- 
gail. November 25, 1736. 

(V) Daniel (2), son of Daniel (i) Benton, 
was born in Tolland, January 6, 1724, and 
spent his life there. He married, November 
,3, 1747, Mary Wheeler. Children; Elisha, 
born August 9, 1748, a revolutionary soldier; 
Mary, August 31. 1750; Daniel, .\pril 29, 1752; 
Azariah, March 39, 1754, a revolutionary sol- 
dier; Hannah. May 3, 1756. died October 18, 
1757; Hannah, February 18, 1758; Jacob, April 

22, 1760. mentioned below; Nathan. May 3, 
1764: Silas, June 6, 1766. 

(\T) Jacob, son of Daniel (2) Benton, was 
born April 22, 1760, and lived in Tolland. He 
was a revolutionary soldier at the age of seven- 
teen and saw four years' service. He was a 
dragoon at the battle of Saratoga, and was 
present at the surrender of Burgoyne. October, 
1777. He was pensioned in 1818, and the wit- 
nesses in his pension say: "A man of veracity, 
a fine, honorable, honest man." He married 
(first), March 14, 1782, Sarah Weston, of 
Willington, Connecticut. She died September 

23, 1787. He married (second), July i, 1789, 
Sarah Ladd. of Tolland, who survived him. 
He died July 9. 1843. Children of first wife: 
Ann. born February i. 1783; William, August 
29, 1785. Children of second wife: Azariah, 




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NEW ^'OKK. 



June 8, 1790; Rutli, December 8, 1791 ; Daniel, 
i\Iay 3. 1794; Susanna, February 19, 1796; 
Chester, February 5, 1798, mentioned below; 
Jacob, June i, 1802. 

(VII) Chester, son of Jacob Benton, was 
born at Tolland, Connecticut, February 5, 1798, 
<lied at Cortland, Xew York, November 23, 
1875. He moved to Cortland and was a pros- 
perous farmer. He married, February 9, 1826, 
Tirzah Porter Loomis, born ^larch 27, 1804, 
died July 18, 1887. Children, born at Cort- 
land; George C, born February 7, 1827; Al- 
phonzo L., November 9, 1831 ; Henry Francis, 
mentioned below; ]\Ielvin P., March 5, 1841. 

(\'III) Henry Francis, son of Chester Ben- 
ton, was born at Cortland, New York, Febru- 
ary 3, 1837, died there, April 20, 1910. He 
spent his youth on the homestead on South 
Hill, in Cortland, and he attended the public 
schools of his native town. When he came of 
age he followed his brother George C, who 
had gone west and was a lumber merchant in 
Chicago, and located at Bloomington, Illinois, 
where he engaged in business, but after a year 
or two he was induced to return home by his 
parents, who had been left alone on the farm. 
He then engaged in the hardware business in 
Cortland, in the firm of Chamberlain & Ben- 
ton, in partnership with Norman Chamber- 
lain. In 1866 he sold his interest in that firm 
and bought the lumber yard of John Barnes 
and during the remainder of his active life 
continued in the lumber trade. His business 
grew to large proportions. In January, 1899, 
the business was incorporated as the H. F. 
Benton Lumber Company. The other stock- 
holders and directors were his son-in-law, Silas 
W. Sherwood, who had been associated in 
business with him for many years, and Orson 
A. Kinney. Mr. Benton became president of 
the corporation and retained that office as long 
as he lived, though he withdrew from the 
active management of the business to a large 
extent. 

When the Second National Bank was estab- 
lished, in 1882, I\Ir. Benton became one of the 
first board of directors and continued a di- 
rector as long as he lived. He was elected vice- 
president in January, 1901, and held the office 
at the time of his death. From time to time 
he was interested financially in various busi- 
ness enterprises in Cortland. He was presi- 
dent of the incorporated village of Cortland 
one year. He took an active part in all the 
movements designed to better conditions and 



improve the town. He held the esteem and 
confidence of all his townsmen and took rank 
among the most substantial and reliable men 
of the community. Through almost his whole 
life he was a member of the Cortland Presby- 
terian Church, and he was influential and be- 
loved in that society. For many years he was 
superintendent of the Sunday school, which 
he had attended from boyhood. For nearly 
forty-two years he had been a member of the 
church session, the longest service of any man 
in the church, and during all those years he 
was the faithful clerk of the body. He was 
elected clerk for the first time, October 31. 
1868. "He has been the deeply consecrated 
member, the wise, discreet and conservative 
counselor, and the active and energetic worker 
in all that pertained to the welfare of the 
church. Throughout his whole life he has been 
liberal in beneficence. Wherever there was a 
person in need he was sure to find a hearty 
sympathizer and a ready helper in Mr. Benton, 
though it was all so quietly done that few ever 
heard of it. In every way Mr. Benton will be 
sadly missed in this commimity." 

He married. June 11. 186 1, Caroline Put- 
nam, of Cortland, who died June 19, 1899. She 
was born November 27, 1839, daughter of 
Hamilton and Jeannette (Cleveland) Putnam. 
Children; i. Jeannette Cleveland, married Silas 
^\'. Sherwood (see Sherwood \'III). 2. Mary 
Putnam, married Charles ^^'ickham Parker, of 
Chicago ; children ; Henry Benton Parker, born 
June 15, 1890; Charles Grosvenor Parker, 
March 14, 1896; Caroline Putnam Parker, De- 
cember 24, i8q8. 3. Carrie Louise, married 
Arthur Ford Stilson ; children; Chester Ben- 
ton, born January 16, 1896, in Cortland, and 
one child wdio died aged fourteen months, Ray- 
mond Putnam. 



The Perkins family is an an- 
PERKINS cient one in England. The first 

of the name of whom there is 
record, and from whom the family is descend- 
ed, is "Peter Morley, alias Perkins," who lived 
in the time of Ricliard II., and was an officer 
in the household, or steward of the court of 
Sir Hugh De^penser, about 1300. The name 
is spelled variously Peterkins, Parkins, Perk- 
ings and Perkins. Several of the name lived 
in the neighborhood of Newent, county Glou- 
cester, England, and the immigrant John is 
sai ' to have come from that part of England. 
( I ) John Perkins, the immigrant ancestor. 



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was born in 1590, probably in Xewent, county 
Gloucester, England. He sailed from Bristol, 
December i, 1630, in the ship "Lion," William 
Pierce, master, with his wife and five children. 
He was in the company with Rev. Roger Will- 
iams, and after a stormy voyage of sixty-seven 
days, they landed at Boston, February 6, 163 1. 
He settled first in Boston, and was admitted a 
freeman, Alay 18, 1631. He was one of a 
committee of four to settle the bounds between 
Roxbury and Dorchester, November 7, 1632. 
He removed, in 1633, to Ipswich, and had sev- 
eral grants of land. His house was near the 
river, at the entrance to Jeffries Neck, on what 
is now East street. He was deputy to the gen- 
eral court in 1636, and on the grand jury in 
1648 and 1652. His will was dated March 28, 

1654. He married Judith . Children: 

John, mentioned below ; Thomas, born in 1616; 
Elizabeth, 1618; Mary, 1620; Jacob, 1624; 
Lydia, 1632, baptized at First Church, Boston, 
June 3. 1632. 

(H) John (2), son of John (i) Perkins, 
was born in England, in 1614, and came to 
New England with his parents. He had a 
grant of land in Ipswich, in 1634, and other 
grants, and owned an island called Hog Island. 

He married, about 1635, Elizabeth . 

The following is from a paper by Rev. Thomas 
Cobbet: "About 5 or 6 years after (an intend- 
ed attack upon "Nahumkeick" by the Indians) 
in the first planting of Ipswich (as a creditable 
man informs me, namely Quartermaster Per- 
kins) the Tarratines or Easterly Indians had a 
design to cut them off at the first, when they 
had but 20 or 30 men, old and young belonging 
to the place (and that instant most of the men 
had gone into the bay about their occasions, 
not hearing there of) it was thus one Robin, a 
friendly Indian, came to this John Perkins, 
then a young man then living in a little hut 
upon his father's island on this side of Jeffries 
Neck, and told him that on such a Thursday 
morning, early they would come four Indians 
to draw him to goe down the Hill to the water 
side, to truck with theiu, which if he did, he 
and all neare him would be cut off ; for there 
were 40 burchencanoues, would lie out of sight, 
in the brow of the Hill, full of Armed Indians 
for that purjiose ; of this he forthwith ac(|uaints 
Mr. John \Vinthrop, who then lived there, in 
a howse near the water, who advised him if 
such Indians came, to carry it ruggedly toward 
them, and threated to shoot them if they would 
not be gone, and when their backs were turned 



to strike up the drum he had with him besides 
his two muskets, and then discharge them ; that 
those 6 or 8 young men, who were in the 
marshes hard by a mowing, haveing theyr guns 
each of them ready charged, by them, might 
take the Alarme and the Indians would per- 
ceive theyr plot was discovered and haste away 
to sea againe ; which was accordingly so acted 
and tooke like eft'ect ; for he told me that pres- 
ently after he discovered 40 such canoues 
sheare oft" from under the Hill and make as 
fast as they could to sea. And no doubt many 
godly hearts were lifted up to heaven for de- 
liverance at Salem and this at Ipswich." 

John Perkins opened the first ordinary or 
inn in Ipswich and was chosen quartermaster 
of the military. He was one of several to sign 
a petition, February 16, 1681-82, to resist the 
claims of Mason to a title to lands about Glou- 
cester. He was engaged in the coast fisheries and 
used a part of what is Little Neck for curing his 
fish, as early as 1645. He gave his sons farms 
before his death. He died December 14, 1686, 
and his wife, September 27, 1684. Children: 
John, born in 1636, died 1659; .Abraham, 1640; 
Jacob, 1646; Luke, 1649; Isaac, 1650; Nathan- 
iel, 1652 ; Samuel, mentioned below ; Thomas ; 
Sarah. 

(Ill) Samuel, son of John (2) Perkins, 
was born at Ipswich, in 1635, and married, in 
1677, Hannah, daughter of Twifford and Han- 
nah West. He had a deed of land in Ipswich 
from his father, on which he had built a house 
in 1674. He served as a soldier in the Xarra- 
gansett war, and for his services then received 
a portion of land at Voluntown, on the eastern 
border of Connecticut. This land afterwards 
came into possession of his son Ebenezer, who 
settled upon it. Samuel Perkins was a cord- 
wainer by trade. Fle died intestate in 1700. 
His wife survived him and was administratrix 
of his estate. Children: Samuel, born Novem- 
ber 26, 1679 ; Ebenezer, mentioned below ; Eliz- 
abeth, June 13. 1683; John, May 12. 1692. 

(I\') Ebenezer, son of Samuel Perkins, was 
born in Ipswich, February 3, 1681. He mar- 
ried (first), August 14, 1710, at Preston, Con- 
necticut, Hannah Safford. He married (sec- 
ond) . He was a farmer by 

occupation and removed from Ipswich to Pres- 
ton, where he bought one hundred and twenty- 
three acres of land, October 27, 1714. He 
sold this land in 1716, and removed to Volun- 
town, and settled on the land given his father 
for services in the Narragansett war. Novem- 



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ber 17, 1735, he sold this land, and removed 
to Coventry, Rhode Island. He died in the 
latter place, before 1754. Children, recorded 
in Preston: Newman, born March 8, 171 1; 
Samuel, May 18, 1712; Oliver, April 29, 1713; 
Charity, July 4, 1714; Ellenher, July 26, 1718; 
Lemuel, April 2, 1720; Ebenezer, mentioned 
below; John. Child of second wife: Margaret, 
1720, married, December 26, 175 1, Levi Adams, 
of Canterbury, Connecticut. 

(V) Ebenezer (2), son of Ebenezer (i) 
Perkins, was born in \'oluntown, Connecticut, 
July I, 1721. He settled at Coventry, Rhode 
Island, and married there, Alarch 22. 1741, 
.Vbigail Pratt. Children : Mary, born Septem- 
ber 28, 1742; Hannah, June 25, 1744; Martha, 
November 10. 1746; John, mentioned below; 
Ebenezer, April 18, 1752; Abigail, November 
6, 1754; Francis, March 3. 1757; William, 
June 12, 1 76 1. 

(VI) John (3), son of Ebenezer (2) Per- 
kins, was born at Coventry, Rhode Island, 
January 2, 1749, according to the town rec- 
ords, and died at Burlington, Otsego county. 
New York, November i, 1812. (His birth 
before the change in the calendar, in 1752, 
accounts for the different day of the month 
given as his birthday, viz: January 13). When 
he was twenty years old he settled in Foster, 
Rhode Island, and, in 1785, removed to Pow- 
nal, Vermont, where he resided for six years. 
He came to Burlington, New York, in 1794, 
and settled there on a farm. He was a minute 

^ man in the revolution, in Rhode Island, with 
the rank of orderly sergeant. He married 
Elizabeth Harrington, who was born June i, 
1749. Children: Sarah, Abigail, Elizabeth, 
Joanna ; Ebenezer, mentioned below ; Martha, 
Mary, John, Josiah, Caleb and Joshua. 

(VII) Ebenezer (3), son of John (3) Per- 
kins, was born in Foster, Rhode Island, April 
30, 1777, and died in Burlington, New York, 
October 28, 1851. At the age of sixteen he 
went with his parents to \'ermont, and thence 
to Burlington, New York, before his parents, 
cleared land and built a house for the«family, 
which came a year later. He married Ruth 

. Children : John S., mentioned below : 

Amy, Ebenezer, Thomas, Ruth and Truman. 

(VIII) John S., son of Ebenezer (3) Per- 
kins, was born in Burlington, Otsego county, 
New York, March 22, 1796. and died in \'irgil. 
New York, August 18, 1854. He was edu- 
cated in the public schools and from early 
youth followed farming for a livelihood. In 



1820 he came to \'irgil, but two years later he 
returned to his native town. In 1833 he set- 
tled permanently in \'irgil, however, and lived 
there on a farm during the rest of his life. He 
married, March 2, 1815, Sally Elster, who 
was born May 4, 1797, and died August 19, 
1885. Children : John Casper, mentioned below ; 
Ebenezer, Thomas, Tudson ^'inton, .\niy and 
Phebe. 

(IN) John Casper, son of John S. Perkins, 
was born at Burlington, in 181 5, and died at 
Virgil. January 9, 1883. After attending the 
public schools of Burlington and Virgil, in 
which he received a good education, he taught 
school in \'irgil for a time. His principal occu- 
pation in life, however, was farming, and he 
lived most of the time in Virgil. In his younger 
days he was active in the state militia. Like his 
father and ancestors for generations before 
him, he was a zealous and earnest member of 
the Baptist church. 

He married (first) Achsah J. Sessions, born 
May 23, 1819; (second) Catherine Jane Price, 
born September 26, 1818, died February 18, 
1896. Child of first wife: i. John Horace, 
born November 30, 1842, a market gardener 
in Cortland, New York, who married Meliona 
Oakes. and has eight children : Fred, Frank, 
Ella, Dell, Grace, Ada, Cora and Hattie. Chil- 
dren of second wife: 2. Josephine, born Sep- 
tember 22. 1845 ; married John Stillman, and 
had: Frank B., Emma, William J., Earl and 
Eva. 3. .\chsah, born .\pril 20, 1848, died 
January 19, 1849. 4. Emma \\, born January 
4, 1853, died May 31. 1857. 5. William Jay. 
mentioned below. 

(X) William Jay, son of John C. Perkins, 
was born in \ irgil, Cortland county. New 
York, February 2, 1855. He received his edu- 
cation in the public schools, at the old Cortland 
Academy, and at the Cortland State Normal 
School. When he was seventeen years old he 
became a clerk in a drug store, and, three 
years later, was admitted to partnership by 
F. H. Cobb, in the manufacture of confection- 
ery, importing and dealing in foreign fruits, 
nuts, tobacco, etc. The firm was known as 
Cobb & Perkins, and continued with the ut- 
most success until 1895, ^ period of twenty 
years. In 1896 Mr. Perkins engaged in busi- 
ness as a druggist in Cortland. When his 
store was destroyed by fire, in March, 1905, 
he decided to retire from business. He has 
continued to make his home in Cortland, how- 
ever, and has spent much time in travel in 



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gave to young Jewett the use of his private 
office and library, thus enabling him to com- 
plete his medical course in less than the usual 
time. For a short time he engaged in practice 
with his former preceptor, Dr. Shipman, at 
Cortland, and then settled at Summer Hill, 
Cayuga county. New York, where he met with 
considerable success. In 1849 he settled at 
Cortland, where for fifty years he was actively 
engaged in the practice of his beloved pro- 
fession. Success in his chosen calling had 
greater place in his mind than its emoluments, 
and he was wont to treat rich and poor alike, 
regardless of financial consideration. His rides 
over the roads of Cortland county were made 
in all kinds of weather, at all hours of the day, 
and much of his study was carried on in 
his carriage or sleigh, while visiting distant 
patients. He was an admirer of good horses 
and was often dependent upon the intelligence 
of these well-trained animals to convey him 
safely through snowdrifts and over rough 
roads, while he was engaged in study. Dr. 
Jewett took very few vacations, was known 
as an exceptionally skillful surgeon, and was 
considered one of the best read physicians of 
the state. He was esteemed quite as highly as 
a citizen and died widely regretted. He gave 
no attention to political matters, or other inter- 
ests outside of his profession, finding his re- 
ward in the sense of duty done. He was one 
of the founders of the State Medical Associa- 
tion, was a member of its council, vice-presi- 
dent, and president of its Third Branch Asso- 
ciation. He was a member of the Cortland 
County Medical Society and of the New York 
Medico-Legal Society. He was a frequent 
contributor to medical journals, was accurate 
in diagnosis and in surgical operations, the 
family physician of many leading families of 
Cortland county. .At the time of his death he 
was the oldest practitioner in that district. 

He married, October i, 1850, Matilda El- 
mira Ingalls, born July 2, 1828, at Summer 
Hill, Cayuga county. New York, daughter of 
Benjamin Ingalls. She died in Cortland, June 
16, 1907. Children: i. Granville Sharp Pat- 
ter.son, born July 30, 1851, resides on the 
paternal homestead in Cortland. He married 
(first), August 23, 1882, Anna M. Etheridge, 
who died April 5, 1898, and he married (sec- 
ond), November 26, 1903, Nellie A. Lennon. 
who died January 31, 1908. He married 
(third). August 22, 1910, M. Frances McHale. 
2. .'\lden March, mentioned below. 3. George 



Walter, born May 11, 1855, died at the age of 
three years thirteen days. 

(IX) Alden March, second son of Dr. 
Homer O. and Matilda E. (Ingalls) Jewett, 
was born December 21, 1852, in Cortland, and 
pursued his studies in the academy and State 
Normal School, of that town. In 1871, in his 
nineteenth year, he entered the employ of Delos 
Saunders, a jeweler of Cortland, and remained 
with him three years, in the meantime master- 
ing the trade. For the next eleven years, he 
was employed in Pennsylvania, and returned 
to Cortland in 1886. At this time he opened a 
store on his own account, and since that date 
has continued upon the same site. His uniform 
courtesy to patrons and his shrewd business 
management have brought to him much suc- 
cess, and his store is one of the best estab- 
lishments of the kind in Central New York. 
Mr. Jewett is active in the social life of the 
community, being a member of Cortlandville 
Lodge, No. 470, F. and A. M., of Cortland ; 
Cortland Chapter, No. 194, R. A. M. ; Central 
City Council. No. 13, of Syracuse; and Cort- 
land Commandery. No. 50 K. T. He is also 
one of the charter members of* Cortland Lodge 
of Perfection, A. A. O. N. M. S. J. U. S. A., 
and a member of Central City Consistory, S. 
R. M., of Syracuse, and a member of Kalurah 
Temple, A. A. N. M. S., at Binghamton. He 
is past commander of Cortland Commandery, 
and past thrice potent master of Cortland 
Lodge of Perfection. For many years he has 
been vestryman in Grace Episcopal Church. 

He married, August 28, 1890, Clara Lucy 
Smith, daughter of Judge Abraham P. and 
Mary E. (Bronson) Smith, of Cortland ( s'te 
Smith IV). They have one daughter, Helen 
Etheridge Tewett, born June 6. 1891. 

(The Smith Line). 

(I) Henry Smith (Henri Schmidt) was 
born in 1748, in Germany, and located, when 
a young man. in W'alkill, New York. He was 
a soldier in the revolution, serving in the Sec- 
ond New Y'ork Regiment, and died in Killa- 
wog, Broome county. New York, in October, 
1829. 

(II) Abraham, son of Henry Smith, was 
born in 1778, in Coxsackie, New York, and 
died in Virgil, Cortland county. New Y'ork, in 
1863. He was an early resident of that town 
and engaged in agriculture. He married Nancy 
Hunt, daughter of Dr. Japliet Hunt, the first 
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(III) Nathan, son of Abraham and Nancy 
(Hunt) Smith, was born in \'irgil, April 8, 
1808, died in Cortland, October, 1S84; mar- 
ried Lucy Mallory. 

(IV) Abram P., son of Nathan and Lucy 
(Mallory) Smith, was born April 6, 1831, in 
the eastern part of tlie town of \'irgil. and 
died July 4, 1897, in Cortland. After attend- 
ing the common schools of his native town, 
he attended Cortland Academy, at Homer, and 
the State Normal School, at Albany, from 
which he was graduated in 1853. After teach- 
ing one year at the head of the Marathon 
schools, he decided to take up the study of law 
and entered the office of Hon. Horatio Ballard, 
in Cortland, with whom he continued his 
studies until admitted to practice in the state 
courts, January 8, 1856. In November, of the 
same year, he was elected district attorney for 
Cortland county, in which position he con- 
tinued three years, and, in 1859, was the Re- 
publican candidate for county judge. At the 
opening of the civil war, he enlisted as a mem- 
ber of the Seventy-sixth New York \'olunteer 
Infantry, known as the "Fighting Seventy- 
sixth." which was recruited chiefly in Central 
New York. On the organization of the regi- 
ment he was commissioned quartermaster, with 
the rank of lieutenant, and served until May, 
1862, when he resigned to resume his law prac- 
tice in Cortland. He was elected judge and 
surrogate of Cortland county in 1867, and 
served continuously sixteen years, the longest 
period in which the office had been held by the 
same person up to that time. He was admitted 
to practice before the L^nited States courts, 
January 4, 1874. Down to the expiration of 
his term as judge he had practiced independ- 
ently, and soon after admitted to partnership 
his son, David Eugene Smith, and for one year 
this firm was in active practice under the title 
of A. P. & D. E. Smith. At the end of this 
time the latter was succeeded by Dorr C. 
Smith. In 1889 the latter gave way to Henry 
A. Dickinson and the firm of Smith & Dickin- 
son continued in active practice until the death 
of its head. Judge Smith was noted as a jury 
lawyer and was occupied in the trial of an 
enormous number of cases. As a judge he 
was clear, firm and concise, and his decisions 
were rarely called in f|uestion. He was a power 
in the councils of the Republican party, and 
was often in demand as a public speaker, being 
witty and fluent, and exercised a wide influ- 
ence among the people of Central New York. 



He compiled a history of the Seventy-sixth 
Regiment, which has since been the standard 
work in that line. He was a member of Grover 
Post, No. 98, Grand Army of the Republic, 
and was socially congenial and popular in the 
community. He was very helpful to many 
young men who were ambitious to make a start 
in the profession, and was uniformly kind and 
sympathetic with all. 

He married (first) Mary Elizabeth Bronson. 
born May 27, 1837, in Virgil, and died in Cort- 
land, July 31, 1872. He married (second) 
Mrs. Ellen P. Stedman. There were four 
children of the first marriage, namely: Bron- 
son, David Eugene, Nora and Clara Lucy. 
The first and third died in childhood. David 
Eugene, born January i, i860, now holds the 
chair of mathematics in Columbia College, 
New York, and is the author of many mathe- 
matical text books. Clara Lucy, born Febru- 
ary 28, 1869, was married, August 28, 1890, to 
Alden March Jewett, of Cortland, as above 
noted. She is an active member of the Daugh- 
ters of the American Revolution, of which she 
is a past regent (see Jewett IX). 



George Bates, said to have been 
BATES born in England, located at Brim- 
field. Hampshire county, Massa- 
chusetts, before 1735. He married at Brim- 
field, December 6, 1735, Rebecca Dick. Chil- 
dren, born at Brimfield : Mary, October 9, 
1736; George Jr., December 23, 1737: Samuel, 
November g, 1738, married Eunice Sherman 
and lived at Brimfield : Hepzibah, Februarv 2, 
1741 ; Thomas, January 18, 1743; Asa, May 
20, 1745; Lemuel, mentioned below; Elisha, 
March 25, 1740- 

(II) Lemuel, son of George Bates, was 
born at Brimfield, March 4, 1747. He left his 
native town about 1800. and located in what 
is now Cincinnati, Ohio, driving through the 
wilderness with other pioneers, and he owned 
a hundred acres in what is now the heart of 
the city of Cincinnati. He was a saddler by 
trade, and, in addition to his trade, was a 
dealer in cattle, and operated the ferry across 
the river to the Kentucky shore. He was seized 
with malarial fever, like so many of the other 
pioneers in this section of the country, and 
was obliged to leave the place. He stopped 
on his way home, at Syracuse, New Y'ork. and 
later decided to locate at Homer, New York, 
where he bought a farm on which he spent the 
rest of his life. He was a soldier in the revolu- 



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tion from Brimfiekl, sergeant in Captain Eben- 
ezer Stoddard's company (Second Hampshire) 
in 1782, and was engaged in suppressing the 
insurgents at Northampton. He married Faire- 
zinah (also given Resinah) Thompson, of 
Scotch ancestry. She died at Homer, New 
York, August 3, 1852, aged ninety-eight years. 
Children : Sally, born at Brimfield, November 
20, 1773; daughter, March 24, 1776; Joseph 
Thompson, October 17, 1778; Patty, February 
5, 1781 ; Samuel, July 20, 1783; Ransford, 
May 19, 1785; Bathsheba, November 27, 1787; 
Lemuel, mentioned below ; Barbara ; Hepsi- 
bath ; Tabitha ; Fairezinah, April 27, 1797; 
Nabby, February 10, 1799. 

(HI) Lemuel (2), son of Lemuel (i) Bates, 
was born in Brimfield, in 1790, and died in 
Homer, New York, August 29, 1882, aged, 
according to his gravestone, ninety-one years. 
He was a young lad when the family went 
west, and he returned with them to Homer, and 
he followed farming there all his active life. 
He married (first) .Anna Stephens, who died 
April 2j, 1825, aged twenty-four years; (sec- 
ond) Fhebe Ann Sweet, who died June 19, 
1856, aged fifty-one years. Children of first 
wife : Calvin, Stephen S. and Joseph T. Chil- 
dren of second wife: Horton S., Henry; Will- 
iam, mentioned below ; Augustus, Ballard, El- 
nora, Nancy, Caroline and Phebe. 

(IV) William, son of Lemuel (2) Bates, 
was born in Cortland, New York, April 21, 
1831, and died September 14, 1904, aged sev- 
enty-three. He was educated in the public 
schools and learned the trade of blacksmith in 
his native town, where he lived until i860, 
when he removed to Freetown, New York. He 
followed farming in connection with his black- 
smith business. He was a member of the 
lodge of Free Masons, at Moulton, New York, 
and of the Baptist church. He married (first) 
Elvira Woodruff, born in 1832, died December 
4, 1862, daughter of Madison and Hannah 
(Russell) Woodrutif, of Cortland. He mar- 
ried (second) Margaret Borthwick, of Free- 
town, New York, who survives him (1911). 
Children of the first wife : Eugene Wallace, 
mentioned below ; Frank W., died February 
24, 1874. aged nineteen years. Children of 
second wife: George, Merton, Martha, Nellie 
and Jennie. 

(V) Eugene Wallace, son of William Bates, 
was born in Cortland, New York, October 13, 
1833, and was educated there in the common 



schools, Cortlandville Academy, Normal School 
of Cortland, and took a commercial course at 
Lovett's Commercial College, of Binghamton, 
New York. For three years after he left 
school he was a bookkeeper in Cortland, and 
afterward he entered the employ of his grand- 
father, Madison Woodruff', a manufacturer of 
pottery, in Cortland, and continued with him 
for eight years. In 1885 he bought out the 
business of his employer and carried it on 
alone for about six years. After selling the 
pottery business he was for a time a retail 
grocer, but since 1895 he has been in the insur- 
ance and real estate business in Cortland, and 
has achieved notable success. From January, 
1901, to January i, 1911, he was assessor of 
the city. In religion he is a Methodist, and 
was on the board of trustees of the Methodist 
church. He is a member of \'esta Lodge, No. 
255, of Odd Fellows, of Cortland. In politics 
he is Republican. 

He married, in 1874. Ella Palmer, born at 
Cortlandville. May 16, 1853. died November 
25, 1906, daughter of Prosper and Lucy (Still- 
man ) Palmer, of Cortland. They had one son, 
F. Albert Bates, born in 1875. now a clerk in 
the office of the Lehigh \'alley Railroad Com- 
pany, at Cortland ; married Anna Wright, of 
Homer, New York, daughter of Lewis Wright, 
and they have two children : Eugene W. and 
Uarlene W. Bates. 

Mr. E. W. Bates married (second), Decem- 
ber 17, 1907, Helen O. Brooks, daughter of 
James A. and Ophelia Brooks, of iMcGraw- 
ville. New York. 



(IV) Joseph Thompson Bates, son 
BATES of Lemuel (2) Bates (q. v.), was 

born in Homer, New York, in 
1822, and is now living at Union, Broome 
county. New York. He had a public school 
education. He learned the trade of harness- 
maker, and for several years was employed 
as a journeyman at his trade in Marathon. 
New York. He came to Cortland, where he 
was for thirty years constable and deputy 
sheriflf of the county during part of that time. 
In 1890 he retired from active business and for 
several years has made his home with his son 
and daughter in Union. He has a wide ac- 
quaintance throughout Cortland and the coun- 
ty, and is held in high esteem by all who know 
him. He married Sarah Hatfield. Children : 
Rosetta; .'\llen ; Anna; Theodore T., mention- 



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€d below ; Ida ; Rev. William, a Baptist min- 
ister at Union ; Mina, lives with her brother, 
Rev. William, at Union. 

(V) Theodore Thompson, son of Joseph 
Thompson Bates, was born at Cortland, Au- 
gust I, 1853, and was educated there in the 
common schools. At the age of si.xteen he was 
apprenticed to the trade of tinsmith at Homer, 
Xew York, and afterward also learned the 
trade of plumber at Cortland. In 1882 he 
embarked in business in Cortland, in the firm 
of Bates & Hollister, plumbers and tinsmiths, 
and the firm continued until 1885, when it be- 
came Smith, Kingsbury & Bates, afterward 
Smith & Bates, and finally T. T. Bates, without 
a partner. In 1906 the present partnership 
was formed, under the name of T. T. Bates & 
Son. Mr. Bates has been very successful in 
business and is coimted among the most sub- 
stantial men of affairs in the community. He 
is well known in the Masonic fraternity, in 
which he has taken the thirty-second degree. 
He is a member of Cortlandville Lodge, Free 
and Accepted Masons, of which he has been 
worshipful master ; of Cortland Chapter, No. 
194, Royal Arch Masons, of which he has been 
high priest ; of Cortland Commandery, No. 50, 
Knights Templar, of which he has been com- 
mander ; of Otseningo \'alley Consistory, of 
Binghamton, and of Kalurah Temple, Mystic 
Shrine, of Binghamton. He is also a member 
of the Benevolent and Protective Order of 
Elks, of Cortland. ?Ie married, in 1874, 
Theresa C. Cam. of Homer, New York, born 
in 1855, daughter of Edward and Mary (Hare) 
Carn. Children, born in Ci>rtland : .\rthur 
Earl, mentioned below ; Mabel Irene, died in 
infancy. 

(\T ) .Arthur Earl, son of Theodore Thomp- 
son Bates, was born in Cortland, New York, 
May 15, 1878, and educated in the public 
schools of his native town and at the State 
Normal School, at Cortland. He learned the 
plumbing business in the employ of his father, 
and, in 1906, was admitted to partnership. 
Since then the business has been conducted 
under the firm name of T. T. Bates & Son. He 
is a member of Cortlandville Lodge, Free and 
Accepted Masons ; of Cortland Chapter, No. 
194, Royal Arch Masons ; of Cortland Com- 
mandery, No. 50. Knights Templar, and was 
raised a Mason, exalted to chapter and knight- 
ed to commandery by his father. He is past 
master. 

He married, I-"ebruary 12, ii)o6, Grace L. 



llogardus, of near Mason City, Iowa, born 
June 26, 1885, daughter of Seymour and Jessie 
( Webster j Bogardus. Children : Arthur Sey- 
mour, born July 23, 1908; Blanche 15ogardus, 
February 5, 1910. 



Before the general adoption of 
D.W IS surnames in Great Britain the 
Welsh people were accustomed to 
ilistinguish those bearing the same Christian 
name from one another by adding the father's 
name with a possessive, as "Harry's," "David's" 
and these were in time shortened and slightly 
varied, thus forming the very frec|uent names 
among those people, of Williams, Jones, Harris 
and Davis. The family whose history is herein 
outlined was among those early planted in 
New England, and has furnished citizens to 
New York and other states, who have been 
nc)ted for energy, probity, ability and high 
moral character. There were numerous .Amer- 
ican immigrants bearing the name early located 
in northeast Massachusetts. Francis Davis 
was a resident of .\me.sbury, Massachusetts, as 
early as 1640. James Davis was in Newbury 
before that date. John Davis was located in 
Ipswich, and a second John Davis was among 
the early residents of Newbury. 

( I ) Dolor Davis was the ancestor of the 
very numerous family which has been down 
to the present time prominently identified with 
Massachusetts. He came from the county of 
Kent, England, although undoubtedly of Welsh 
ancestry, and settled first at Cambridge, Mas- 
sachusetts, where he received a grant of land. 
.\ugust 4, 1634. His wife and three children 
came over in the following year, accompanied 
by her brother. General Simon Willard, one 
of the founders of Concord and Lancaster. 
Massachusetts. Dolor Davis was a carpenter 
and builder and removed from Cambridge to 
Du.vbury, where he was adnlitted a freeman 
of the Plymouth colony, March 5, 1639. He 
and his wife were dismissed from the church of 
Duxbury and joined the church at Barnstable. 
Massachusetts, August 27, 1648. He had a 
land grant in Duxbury, in 1640, and was sur- 
veyor of highways, constable and a member of 
various committees in Barnstable. In 1655 he 
left the Plymouth colony, and returning to 
Massachusetts purchased one hundred and 
fifty acres of land in Concord. Eleven years 
later he returned to Barnstable, where he died 
in June, 1673. Dolor Davis married (first), 
in England, March 29, 1^124, Margery Willard, 



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who was baptized November 7, 1602, at Horse- 
monden, Kent, England, and died prior to 
1667. She was the daughter of Richard Will- 
ard, a yeoman of Horsemonden. His will made 
September 13. 1672, mentions his second wife 
Joanna, and states that his sons, Simon and 
Samuel, had already received their portions of 
his estate. Children : John, of Barnstable, born 
in England, about 1626, inherited the paternal 
homestead ; Mary, born in England, 1631 : Eliz- 
abeth, born in England ; Lieutenant Simon, 
born about 1638, probably in Cambridge, died 
in Concord, in 1713 : Samuel, mentioned below : 
Ruth, born at Barnstable, March 24, 1645. 

(II) Samuel, third son of Dolor and Mar- 
gery (Willard) Davis, was probably born in 
Concord, Massachusetts, in which town he 
lived and died. He was admitted a freeman. 
March 21, 1690. and resided in that part of 
the town which became Bedford, where his 
homestead has continued in the family for 
many generations. It is located on the edge 
of the river meadow, on the road from Con- 
cord to Bedford, and the old well, which is still 
in use, is believed to have been dug by Samuel 
Davis. The date of his death is not recorded, 
but he was living as late as 17 14. He mar- 
ried (first), January 11, 1666, at Lynn, Mary 
Medow. who died October 30, 17 10. He mar- 
ried (second), October 18, 171 1. Ruth Taylor, 
who died August 16, 1720. Children: Mercy, 
died in her second year ; Samuel, born June 21. 
1669, resided in Bedford; Daniel, mentioned 
below: Mary, born .August 12. 1677. inarried 
John Stearns ; Eleazer. .\ugust 26. 1680. re- 
sided in Bedford; Lieutenant Simon, July 9, 
1683, was one of the most prominent citizens 
of Rutland. Massachusetts : Stej^hen, March 
30, 1686, resided in Bedford. 

(III) Daniel, second son of Samuel and 
Mary (Medow) Davis, was born March 26, 
1673, in Concord, and lived in that town. When 
the new town of Bedford was set off, in 1729. 
his farm was included in that town. He died 
February 10, 1741. He married. July 27. i6g8. 
Mary Hubbard, born June 3. 1682. daughter 
of Jonathan and Hannah (Rice) Hubbard. 
.She married (second) Ebenezer Stajjles. of 
Mendon. and died February 2, 1769. Daniel 
Davis" children: Jonathan, born February 15. 
1700; Daniel, September 19, 1701, lived in 
Bedford; Mercy, November 11, 1703, died in 
her sixth year; Ejihraim, January 27, 1706; 
Nathan, March 31. 1708; .\mos, April 18, 
T711 : Ji>-,iah, July 19. 1713: N'athaniel, men- 



tioned below; Mary, April 4, 1719; Ezra, died 
two months old ; Hannah, died thirteen years 
old; Mercy, born July 23. 1725. 

(I\') Nathaniel, seventh son of Daniel and 
Mary (Hubbard) Davis, was born December 
3, 1715, in that part of Concord, now Bedford, 
and settled in Rutland, Massachusetts, where 
he resided several years. In 1763 he was one 
of the first settlers of Rockingham, Vermont, 
where he was a prominent citizen, being a 
foundation member of the church and one of 
the donors of land for the meeting-house and 
cemeten'. He died there, October 26, 1802. 
The family tradition says he was twice mar- 
ried, but record of only one marriage can be 
found. This was in Bedford, April 16, 1741, 
the bride being Susanna, daughter of John and 
Catherine (Whiting) Lane. .She was born 
April 8. 1720, in that part of Billerica now 
Bedford, and died July 30, 1795. One family 
tradition says that his second wife was Mary 
Lane, born 1717. Only seven children are 
found of record, the first four born in Rutland. 
Thev were : Nathaniel, died young ; Susanna, 
born March 26. 1743; Hannah. August 25, 
1745. died unmarried; Levi. May 20, 1753; 
Nathaniel, 1754, married Lydia Harwood, lived 
in Rockingham ; Joshua ; John Lane, mention- 
ed below. 

(V) John Lane, son of Nathaniel and Sus- 
anna (Lane) Davis, was born November 8, 
1757, possibly in Northfield, Massachusetts, 
whence the family tradition says he removed 
to Rockingham, but this is doubtful. Per- 
haps he was born in, or near Rutland. Massa- 
chusetts. He was a soldier of the revolu- 
tion and a pensioner, and lived in Chester 
and Rockingham. \'ermont. and died Decem- 
ber 29, 1839. He married, in Rockingham, 
February 28. 1799, Susanna Lucius, born July. 
1762, died December 5. i860, in her ninety- 
ninth year. The record of the marriage states 
that he was a resident of Chester and she of 
Rockingham. Children: Ofa, born July T2, 
1800. died at the age of two years ; John Lane, 
mentioned below : Eri Luther. April 20. 1804, 
died September 16. 1877; Calvin Emerson, 
June 15. 1806; James Warren. May 4. 1809; 
Laura A.. July 20, 181 1 ; Hiram John, .\ugust 
16, 1813; George, May 3, 1815. The sixth is 
not recorded in Rockingham. 

(\T) John Lane (2), eldest surviving son 
of John Lane (i) and Susanna (Lucius) 
Davis, was born June 2, 1802, in Rc^kingham, 
\'ermont, died in Freeville, New York, fanu- 



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ary 15, 1886. He was apprenticed or "bound 
out" at an early age, to a "Parson" Whiting, 
of Rockingham, \"ermont, with whom he re- 
mained as apprentice boy for many years, 
doing chores, working on the grounds and 
waiting upon the master. He was denied the 
usual advantages given to New England boys 
in the way of education, and was allowed to 
go to school only three months during his boy- 
hood. He had no money with which to buy 
his books, but he finally procured an old spell- 
ing book and then quarried out a slate and 
rubbed it down with another stone to give it 
the proper surface. Nevertheless he always 
seemed to be well educated — wrote a fine hand ; 
composed and spoke grammatically ; was a 
natural matheiuatician, and an omnivorous 
reader, and, with it all, was blessed with a very 
retentive memory. The wages of young men 
in those days were small, but he used to boast 
that between his twenty-first and twenty-fourth 
year he had saved up the sum of three hun- 
dred dollars, all he earned, which was con- 
sidered a fair start in life. He followed his 
sweetheart, Mary Boynton, a school teacher, 
from \'ermont to McLean, New York, where 
he worked with his future brother-in-law at 
the carpenter trade. During the early part of 
his life he was elected to the office of constable, 
and was also overseer of highways, collector, 
etc. He was noted for his industry, temper- 
ance and public spirit. He was also a man of 
exceedingly courteous and kindly manners, 
which he. doubtless, acquired during his early 
training in New England. He was a devoted 
Whig and a constant reader of the Albany 
Weekly Journal and the New York Tribune. 
which, with him, were almost household gods. 
He enjoyed such authors as Theodore Parker, 
Dickens, Thackeray and the like. His admira- 
tion for public men and measures, especially 
of his own party, was always in evidence, and, 
as an illustration of his zeal, when word was 
passed around that Henry Clay was to speak 
at the State Fair at Syracuse, in the "forties," 
which was before the day of railroads, this 
ardent follower of the Kentucky statesman, 
although at a busy season of the year, drove 
from his home to Syracuse during "the night, 
some fifty miles, reaching the city in the morn- 
ing of the day the address was to be de- 
livered, attending the meeting and was back 
to his fields at work the second morning. That 
trip and address was an event in his life. He 
not only could describe, with great accuracy 



and vividness, the appearance of the noted 
orator, but could repeat almost word for word 
the address that he delivered. He was most 
skillful and thorough in all his duties as stock- 
man and farmer, and was most highly respect- 
ed by all his friends and neighbors, and owned 
a fine farm near the village of McLean, New 
York. He was an exceedingly strong, active 
man until he was taken with a fatal malady at 
the age of eighty-three. He married Mary, 
daughter of Abraham and Betsey (Marsh) 
Boynton, in 1830. Their children were: Byron, 
Lucius, Eliza, George B. and Mary. A me- 
morial window, dedicated to him and his wife, 
Mary (Boynton) Davis, was placed in the 
Universalist church, at McLean, by his family, 
in the year 1907. 

(\'II) Lucius, second son of John Lane (2) 
and Mary (Boynton) Davis, was born July 30, 
1834, in McLean, New York, and now (1911) 
resides at Cortland, New York. He was a 
man of high integrity and character and pos- 
sessed of wonderful fortitude and physical 
courage. Many incidents of his life would 
make the ground work of a thrilling romance. 
His early life around McLean was uneventful. 
He was a farmer boy until early in 1861. He 
went into the oil region of western Pennsyl- 
vania, just then developing, and locatetl at Oil 
Creek. His opportunities for success were fast 
developing when Fort Sumter was fired on 
and President Lincoln made bis call for volun- 
teers. He was invited to join an Ohio regi- 
ment being raised near the Pennsylvania line, 
where he was then located, but preferred to 
go home and go to the front with his old 
frienils and acquaintances, who were then en- 
listing. He came back home and being with- 
out any political influence or backing that 
would enable him to become an officer, he en- 
listed, July, 1861, as a private in the Seventy- 
si.xth New York Volunteer Infantry, then being 
organized at Cortland. With this regiment he 
left for the front in January, 1862, and par- 
ticipated in the battles of Cedar Mountain. 
(Jainesville, Second Bull Run, South Moun- 
tain, Antietam, besides minor skirmishes, dur- 
ing the campaign of 1862. At Gainesville he 
was wounded in the left breast, a wound that 
would have been fatal but for the fact that the 
bullet was partially stopped by a roll of blankets 
he was carrying over his shoulder. At Sec- 
ond Bull Run, General Doubleday's brigade, 
of which the Seventy-sixth Regiment was a 
part, was in an exposed position in a ravine. 



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confronted by a large part of the Confederate 
army. A driver of an ammunition wagon had 
brought up a load of ammunition, and had 
been shot, together with the lead mule of the 
six mule team, and in the change of position 
this wagon was between the two lines and only 
a short distance from either, on a field being 
swept constantly by bullets. General Double- 
day riding u]) and observing the position of 
this wagon, and realizing that he was about to 
retreat and this wagon of ammunition would 
fall into the hands of the enemy, called for a 
volunteer soldier to go with a member of his 
staff to bring back that wagon or destroy it. 
The duty was one of great danger and no one 
could be blamed for holding back, but Lucius 
Davis stepped forward and volunteered for the 
service. Leaving his gun with one of his com- 
rades, he went with the officer and attempted 
to bring off the wagon of ammunition, but 
with the lead mule killed, the others were un- 
manageable and could not be driven or led. 
While engaged in trying to bring back the 
wagon, the bullets of the enemy were singing 
about their ears, going through the top of the 
wagon and exposing these men to the risk of 
death every moment. Learning that they could 
not bring the wagon, they built a fire under it. 
opened some bo.xes of powder and made jjre- 
parations to explode it. The enemy then 
charged, but having fired the train the two 
men made their way in safety to their own 
lines, whil^ the wagon was exploded and de- 
stroyed before it could be reached by the Con- 
federates. .Again on the same day when one 
of the LTnion batteries had opened fire on the 
enemy and its shells were falling and explod- 
ing in this ravine where the regiment lay out 
of sight. General Doubleday again called for a 
volunteer to go up on the hill in the face of 
the Confederate batteries' fire, and give the 
order to the L^nion battery to cease firing. 
Again Lucius Davis volunteered for this haz- 
ardous service, and made a run up the hill, ex- 
posed to exploding shells on all sides, success- 
fully performed his mission and observing that 
the balance of the army had retreated, returned 
to his general and advised him that his support 
had left him and that he had better withdraw, 
which he did at once. General Doubleday then 
said to him, "You are a brave man, — come to 
my tent to-night and I will see what I can do 
for you." Rut in the retreat there was no 
opportunity to see the general, nor did he 
have the inclination to seek out promotion or 



reward for the service he had performed. 
Nevertheless, shortly afterward he was pro- 
moted to be orderly sergeant of his company 
by the colonel of the regiment, undoubtedly 
upon the recommendation of General Double- 
day, "for bravery and strict attention to busi- 
ness," and, on February 7, 1863, he was com- 
missioned by Governor Seymour, of Xew York, 
second lieutenant, with rank from Xovember 
II, 1862. On May 19, 1863, he was commis- 
sioned first lieutenant in Company C, Seventy- 
sixth Regiment, by Governor Seymour, as a 
further appreciation of his gallantry. At the 
battle of South Mountain, which was fought 
largely in the night, while on the firing line, a 
bullet cut the rim of his straw hat completely 
off close to his head. At this battle, standing 
by a comrade, Mell Luther, he called Luther's 
attention to a Confederate crawling toward 
them in a cornfield. Luther could not see the 
approaching enemy, so he coolly borrowed 
Luther's gun, took careful aim, and fired. The 
crawling ceased. 

In the campaign of 1863 he took part in the 
battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and 
Gettysburg, besides other minor engagements. 
.\t Fredericksburg his regiment was engaged 
in throwing up a fortification, at the same time 
being exposed to the fire from the canon of a 
Confederate battery, and with the shells burst- 
ing around them, the men became somewhat 
nervous while they were exposed. The canon 
were at such a distance that one could see the 
puff of smoke several seconds before the ball 
or shell would reach the point where it was 
directed. Noticing this Lieutenant Davis told 
the men to work until he should give them 
warning; so standing upon the exposed en- 
trenchment, he watched the batteries, and 
when he saw the puff' of smoke, gave warning 
and the men would then drop into entrench- 
ment out of danger, while he remained on top 
coolly pacing back and forth, without taking 
any precaution for his own safety. 

At Gettvsburg the Seventy-sixth Regiment 
was marching in front of the First Corps 
which opened the battle, and Company C, com- 
manded by Lieutenant Davis, was marching in 
front of this regiment, so that this company 
opened the battle of Gettysburg, firing the 
first shot. They had marches through the 
town and deployed in battle line on Seminary 
Ridge, where in an open field they made a 
stanil in the face of the advance guard of the 
Confederate army. A Union battery, which 



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had been driven in from some advanced posi- 
tion, came tearing back through the line, throw- 
ing the men of this company ami the regiment 
into more or less confusion, but they were 
rallied and steadied by Lieutenant Davis, who 
closed the files and led them gallantly into the 
face of the fire of the enemy. At this time, 
while handing a gun to a wounded comrade, 
who had fallen, and who was likely to fall into 
the hands of the enemy, he was shot through 
the right hand, but doing the wound up with 
his handkerchief, and placing a tourniquet on 
his wrist and fastening it with a stick, which 
he held under his arm, he continued in com- 
mand of his company. For several hours, 
fighting against tremendous odds, they held 
their line, permitting the main part of the 
Union army to come up and form in battle 
line behind them, where the main battle was 
fought. When it was necessary to retreat 
Lieutenant Davis brought his men back in 
good order in the face of a very heavy fire, 
with men dropping all around him, and taking 
careful pains, as guns v^'ould fall from their 
hands, to stop, pick up the gun and break it, 
so that it would not fall into the hands of the 
foe. For a part of the distance, when the fire 
was heaviest, and it appeared that no man 
would get off in safety, he marched backward, 
so that if he fell he would not be shot in the 
back. 

As they passed through Gettysburg he took 
possession of a house, established it as a tem- 
piorary hospital and directed his men to bring 
in as many as they could of their wounded 
comrades. He waited here until he saw his 
brigade colors going past, and then realizing 
that the whole line was in retreat, and if he re- 
mained longer he would be captured, he gave 
some last directions for the comfort of the 
wounded soldiers and left to join his retreating 
comrades, being practically the last man to 
leave the city before it was occupied by the 
Confederates. 

During this time he had also received some 
injury or wound in his left leg, below the knee, 
which at that time was not thought to be 
serious. The wound that he received in the 
hand before noon, was not dressed until after 
dark at night, when he was advised by the 
surgeon that his hand must be amputated. He 
refused to submit to this operation, saying that 
he could save his hand, and after consulting 
his regimental .surgeon and having the wound 
dressed he retired with some other officers to 



a farm house, near Round Top, where he 
watched the next two days battle, being unable 
to participate and being compelled to go with 
little food and drink and no care until after 
the battle was over, when, with three other 
w-ounded men, he employed a farmer to carry 
him to the railroad some distance away, where, 
with other wounded, he got into a freight car 
and went to Wilmington, Delaware, a journey 
of several hours without food and care, and 
was then transferred to a train and taken to a 
hospital in Philadeljjhia. From there he soon 
left for his home, where he might be cared for 
by his mother and his local doctor, and w^as 
there greeted with great affection by his family 
and neighbors, he having been reported in the 
newspapers among those killed at Gettysburg. 
After his wounds healed he attempted to re- 
turn to the war, but the examining surgeon 
declared him physically unfit and reluctantly 
he was compelled to accept a discharge on No- 
vember 9, 1863. He subsequently received, 
January 10, 1871, in consideration of his dis- 
ting^iished .services, a commission as brevet 
major from Governor Hoffman, of New York. 
At the close of the war he accepted a posi- 
tion as superintendent of construction of tele- 
graph lines along the Milwaukee and LaCrosse 
railroad, in Wisconsin. This was a country 
sparsely settled and inhabited by a tribe of 
Indians, which caused great trouble among the 
settlers by thievery and acts of violence. On 
one occasion, while riding along the Mississippi 
river, on the VN'isconsin side, he stopped over 
night with a settler who had a wife and small 
babe. During the night the house was attack- 
ed by the Indians, who broke windows and 
battered down the door, and caused the set- 
tler, his wife and Lieutenant Davis to take 
refuge in the loft overhead. In the darkness 
of the night the settler was lowered from the 
window by a rope taken from a bed by Lieu- 
tenant Davis, to row across the river to Win- 
ona. Minnesota, for help, leaving Lieutenant 
Davis to protect the woman and babe. The 
Indians raised one of their number on their 
shoulders through a trap door in the floor of 
the loft, but when he grasped the sides to draw 
himself up. Lieutenant Davis seized an axe 
and cut his fingers off, causing him to drop 
back. Then with a shotgun and a revolver, 
which he had. Lieutenant Davis opened fire 
on the Indians below and stood them off until 
the settler returned with help. A large number 
of Indians were captured and the rescuers 



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found six dead Indians in the lower part of 
the cabin who had been shot down during the 
encounter. 

He returned to the east about 1868 and re- 
ceived the appointment of jjostmaster of the 
village of Marathon, Cortland county. About 
1870 he was appointed railway mail clerk on 
the Southern Central railroad, taking the first 
mail over that road, and was subsequently 
transferred to a similar position on the Erie 
railroad. His health failing in 1876 he took 
up farming in Virgil, Cortland county, and in 
the town of Groton, Tompkins county, until 
about 1892, when the wound in the left leg, 
which had given him trouble ever since the 
war, became so serious that he was obliged to 
have the leg amputated above the knee. He 
then retired from active life, moving in the 
fall of 1892 to Cortland, where he has since 
resided. 

He married, September 23, 1863, Harriett 
Francis, born August 23, 1839, in Virgil, New 
York, daughter of Richard and Caroline 
(Gager) Francis. Children: Leland G., Row- 
land L. and Ralph H. 

(Vni) Rowland Lucius, second son of 
Lucius and Harriett (Francis) Davis, was 
born July 10, 1871, in Dryden, Tompkins coun- 
ty. New York. His early life was spent on a 
farm in the town of Virgil, and the town of 
Groton. obtaining a preliminary education in 
the district schools and in the graded school at 
McLean. Subsequently he attended the State 
Normal School, at Cortland, where he gradu- 
ated in June, 1896, and entered the Cornell 
College of Law the following Se])tember, and 
graduated with the degree of LL. B. in June. 
1897, having completed the then two years 
course in one year. He was admitted to the 
bar on July 6, 1897, and began the practice of 
his profession in the city of Cortland. In 
1899 he was elected police justice of the village 
of Cortland, which office was subsequently 
made that of city judge, when Cortland be- 
came a city in 1900, in which year he was re- 
elected, serving until January i, 1903. He 
has continued the practice of his profession 
in the city of Cortland, as a member of the 
firm of Davis & Lusk, taking an active part 
in mnnv ini[)ortant trials. He early took an 
active interest in Republican politics in Cort- 
land county, and was secretary of the Repub- 
lican county committee from 1898 to 1901, 
and chairman of the Republican county com- 
mittee in 1907-08-09, and has been frequently 



a delegate to state, judicial and t)ther district 
conventions. 

He married, June 15, 1905, Iva A. Yager, 
of Cortland, daughter of Edwin M. and Hattie 
(Hunt) Yager, born January 2, 1883. Their 
children are: Rowland L. (2). born August 3, 
1907, and Harriet Iva, ]\Iay 2, 1910. 



John Ingersoll, immigrant 
INGERSOLL ancestor, was born in Eng- 
land, and settled early at 
Hartford, Connecticut. Thence he went to 
Northampton, Massachusetts, about 1(155, and 
later to Westfield, but finally returned to 
Northampton. He died at Westfield, Septem- 
ber 3. 1684. He married (first) Dorothy, 
daughter of Thomas Lord, one of the first set- 
tlers of Hartford, about 1651. She died at 
Northampton in January, 1657, aged about 
twentv-six years. He married (second) Abi- 
gail, dauehter of Thomas Bascom, one of the 
first settlers of Windsor. Connecticut, where 
she was born and was baptized June 7. 1640. 
He married (third) Mary Hunt, sister of Jon- 
athan Hunt, of Northampton, about 1667. 
Mary Hunt's mother was Alary Webster, 
dauehter of John Webster, one of the first 
settlers of Hartford, and fifth governor of the 
colonv of Connecticut. Mary Ingersoll died 
at \\'estfield. September i, 1690. Children of 
first wife: Hannah, born i6=;2: Dorothv, 1654; 
Margerv. January, 1656. Children of second 
wife: Abisrail, January 11, 1659; Sarah. Octo- 
ber 30. 1660; Abiah, Aueust 24, 1663: Hester, 
Sentember 9, 166=;. Children of third wife: 
Tlionias. March 28. 1668 : Tohn. October 19, 
1^169, at Westfield: .Abel. November 11. 1671 ; 
Ebenezer, October 15, 1673: Joseph. October 
t6, 1671;: Mary, November 17, 1677; Ben- 
jamin. November 15, 1679; Jonathan, men- 
tioned below. 

Tonathan. son of John Tnger.soll, was born 
at ^^'estfield, May 10, 1681, died November 
28. 1760 (" gravestone). In 1707 he was a resi- 
dent of Mil ford. Connecticut. He married, in 
1 71 2, Sarah Miles, widow of John Miles, and 
daughter of Samuel Newton, of Milford. 
wranddnuHiter of Robert and Alary Newton. 
She died February la, 1748, in the sixty-sec- 
ond vear of her ace. Children : Jonathan, men- 
tioned below: Sarah, born June 18. 1716, died 
young; Alary, December 14, 1718; David. Sep- 
tember 4. 1720: Jared, lune 3, 1722: Sarah. 

Rev. Jonathan (2) Ineersoll, son of Tona- 
than (i) Ingersoll, was born in 1 713. at Strat- 



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ford, Connecticut. He graduated at Yale Col- 
lege in 1736, and entered the ministry, being 
licensed by the Presbytery of New Jersey, at 
Elizabethtown, February 18, 1736. He lived 
for a time in Newark, New Jersey, and was 
afterward installed as pastor of the Congre- 
gational church, at Ridgefield, Connecticut, 
the second pastor of that church. He was a 
man of fine mind and good heart, and served 
his parish with great ability and tidelity luitil 
he died, October 2, 1778, in the fortieth year 
of his ministry. In 1758 he was chaplain of 
the colonial troops in the French and Indian 
war, and served at Lake Champlain. He mar- 
ried, in 1740, Dorcas, daughter of Rev. Joseph 
Moss, of Derby, Connecticut. She died No- 
vember 29, 181 1, in her eighty-sixth year. Chil- 
dren : Sarah, born October 28, 1741 ; Dorcas, 
October 15, 1743; Jonathan, April 16, 1747; 
Mary, December 20, 1748 : Mary ( 2d) : Abigail, 
May 2. 175T : Joseph, August 11, 1753: Han- 
nah, .\pril 9. 1756; Esther, August 10, lyfio: 
Moss, June 6, 1763: Anne, April 5, 1765. 

Jared, brother of Rev. Jonathan (2) Inger- 
soll, was born June 3, 1722, in Milford. He 
was graduated from Yale College in 1742, and 
soon afterward settled in the practice of law 
at New Haven. In 1757 he went to Great 
Britain as agent of the colony, receiving a 
special appointment from the general assem- 
bly of Connecticut. He went again in 1764, 
and was appointed stamp master. At that 
time lie was a popular and influential lawyer, 
but the indignation against the Stamp Act ex- 
tended to the official in charge of the enforce- 
ment of the law and a mob assembled and 
compelled him to resign his office. The resig- 
nation was dated at Wethersfield, September 
19- i7'j5- I" 1770 he was appointed by the 
Crown, judge of the vice-admiralty court, in 
the middle district of the colony, and went to 
Philadelphia to reside. .-\.t the beginning of 
the revolution he returned to New Haven, and 
died there. He earned the reputation of being 
one of the ablest and most eloquent lawyers of 
his time. He was of open, frank and engaging 
manner and very successful in his practice. 
He married (first) Hannah Whiting, who died 
in 1779, daughter of Colonel Whiting, and 
granddaughter of Rev. John Whiting. He 
married (second), in 1780, Hannah Ailing. 

(I) Isaac Ingersoll, a descendant of the 
Connecticut family mentioned above, was born 
in Connecticut. He settled, after the revolu- 
tion, in the town of Pawling, Dutchess county. 



New York, where he was living, according to 
the first federal census in 1790, and had in his 
family two males over si.xteen. one under that 
age, and two females. 

(II) Daniel D., son of Isaac Ingersoll, was 
born in 1787, in Connecticut, and removed 
with the family to New York state, when very 
young. He came to Cincinnatus, New York, 
about 1825, among the first settlers, and lived 
there the remainder of his life. He died there, 
March 8, 1857. He had a common school edu- 
cation and learned several trades, being natur- 
ally skillful with all sorts of tools. He was 
an excellent cabinet-maker, and an expert ma- 
chinist. For many years he operated a saw- 
mill, and he devised the first successful shingle- 
sawing machine. A gifted musician, he played 
the violin remarkably well and made many ex- 
cellent violins. He married Eunice Burton, 
born in 1790, died at Cincinnatus, New York, 
May 28, 1833, daughter of Lewis and Lois 
P.urton. Children: Stephen Miles, mentioned 
below, and Amanda. 

(HI) Stephen Miles, son of Daniel D. In- 
gersoll, was born in Connecticut, or New York, 
July 8, 1819, and moved with his parents to 
Dutchess county. He died at North Pitcher, 
New York, May 14, 1899. ^^ came to Cin- 
cinnatus in childhood with his parents and was 
educated there in the common schools. He 
learned the trade of painter and wagon maker, 
and for many years had a wheelwright and 
carriage sho]5 at Willet, New York. He lived 
some years in Chenango county, and later 
located at Taylor, Cortland county. New York. 
In religion he was a Methodist : in politics a 
Democrat. He married, February 3, 1842, 
Betsey Mericle, of Cincinnatus, born there 
May I, 1822, died there January 12, 1901. 
Children : David Franklin, born February 8, 
1843, settled in the west; Francis Miles, men- 
tioned below ; George .\lfred, born April 14, 
1847, died October 21, 1901 : Adelbert E., born 
June 18, 1849, a farmer and dealer in country 
produce; Henry DeWitt, born May 30, 1851, a 
dealer in livestock at North Pitcher, New 
York. 

(]\') Francis Miles, son of Stephen Miles 
Ingersoll, was born in Willet, New York, 
February 22, 1845, ^''"' was educated there in 
the public schools. Pie began to work in his 
father's carriage shop and afterward learned 
the trade of carpenter, working at that trade 
until 1873, when he came to Cortland, New 
York, in the employ of the Cortland Wagon 



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Company. He was associated with this con- 
cern in various important relations for a period 
of twenty-three years. Since 1893 lie has de- 
voted his attention to his private affairs, hav- 
ing extensive real estate interests in Cortland 
and elsewhere. He is a member of John L. 
Lewis Lodge. Odd Fellows, of Cortland ; of 
the Cortland Encampment and Canton Cort- 
land, and of IJright Light Rebekah Lodge. In 
religion he is a Congregationalist, in politics a 
Democrat. He married (first), 1866, Melissa 
Hinman, of Marathon, died in 1872, daughter 
of Lyman Hinman. He married (second). 
July 4. 1874, Sarah Hammond, of Marathon, 
daughter of Delos and Betsey (Cleveland) 
Hammond. Child of first wife: Lettie, mar- 
ried John Bowen, of Marathon. Child of sec- 
ond wife: Fred M. D., born October 23, 1877. 
employed in the office of the Pilot Generator 
Company, in the Hudson Terminal Building, 
50 Church street. New York City ; married 
Edith Niver. of Cortland, and has one son, 
Donald B., born July 12, 1904. 



Deacon John Warfield, im- 
W'.VRFIELD migrant ancestor of the Mas- 
sachusetts family, settled first 
at Dedham, and later at Mendon, Massachu- 
setts, in 1685. He resided on the Ceorge place, 
Mendon, and was a prominent citizen, deacon 
and sexton of the church, and the first school- 
master of the town. He married (first ) Eliza- 
beth Sanford, who died March 24, 1669; (sec- 
ond) Pergrina , who died April i, 1671 : 

(third) Hannah Randall. Children of first 
wife: I. John, born August 20, 1662, married 
Hannah , deeded homestead to son Sam- 
uel before he died, providing for daughter 
Mary, and mentioning son Elihu in the deed. 
2. Elizabeth, August 29, 1665. Children of 
third wife: 3. Ithamar, March 28, 1676 (an 
Ithamar was living in western Massachusetts 
in 1790, probably a grandson). 4. Ephraim, 

October 4, 1679 : married Hannah , and 

had Samuel, Eliphalct, Hannah, John, Lydia, 
Experience, Rachel and Ephraim, as shown by 
the will of Eliphalet in 1749. 5. Elihu, men- 
tioned below. 6. Marv, at ATendon, .April 17, 
1685. 7. Elizabeth, March 8, 1688. 

(H) Elihu, son of John Warfield, was born 
at Dedham, .April 27, 1682. His wife Mary 
died September 15, 17 17, and he married (sec- 
ond) Sarah . His estate was distributed. 

in 1744, to widow Sarah, then wife of William 
Sprague, and the children, as follows (by first 



wife) : I. Mary, born November 7, 1715 ; mar- 
ritd Jonathan Hayward. 2. Elizabeth, April 
29. 1717: married Eleazer Carpenter, of Reho- 
both. Children of second wife: 3. Elihu, born 
October 24, 1722. 4. Sarah, October 5, 1724; 
married John .Albee. 5. Job, July 7, 1726; 
married, June 12, 1751, Huldah Thayer. 

(HI) Josiah, nephew of Elihu Warfield. 
was born about 1720. In 1774 Josiah and Job 
Warfield, undoubtedly cousins, had settled in 
Charlemont, Hampshire county, Massachu- 
setts, coming with other settlers from Mendon 
and vicinity (see "History of Charlemont"). 
The names of his grandchildren indicate a 
close relationship with Elihu Warfield. As he 
came with Job, son of Elihu ; and as Elihu, a 
son of John, was guardian of Job when he 
was fourteen years old, it is probable that Jo- 
siah was son of John, mentioned above, among 
the children of the immigrant. The records 
are not available to prove his parentage, but 
his place in the family is not to be doubted. 

( I\') Joshua, son of Josiah W'arfield, was 
born at Mendon, .April 15, 1757. and went with 
his father to Charlemont, locating in the por- 
tion now known as the town of Coleraine. He 
was a soldier in the revolution from Coleraine, 
in Captain Lawrence Kemp's company. Febru- 
ary 23 to April 10, 1777, at Ticonderoga : also 
a fifer in Captain Nahum Ward's company. 
Colonel David Wells' regiment ( Hampshire 
county), from September 22 to October 18, 
1777, and was at the taking of Burgoyne, Sep- 
tember 23, 1777. From July 13 to October 10, 
1780, he was in Captain Isaac Newton's com- 
panv. Colonel S. Murray's regiment. He was 
on a descriptive list of date, .April 28, 1781, 
when his age was stated as twenty-three years, 
his height five feet five inches, and complexion 
light, a farmer by occupation. He enlisted for 
three years, and. in 1782, we find him in Cap- 
tain Noah .Allen's company. Colonel Joseph 
\'ose's regiment, at Quarters York Hutts. For 
five years or more he was almost constantly 
in the army. He died July 21, 1835. He mar- 
ried, March 25. 1784, Prudence Buck, born 
November 4, 1760, died June 7, 1853. Chil- 
dren: I. Betsey, born March 23, 1785. 2. 
Josiah. February 6, 1787. 3. Sary, November 
'21, 1788. 4. Joshua, August 10, 1790. 5. 
Job, April 21, 1792. 6. Prudence, August 6, 
"1794. 7. Palmer, May 25, 1796. 8. Jerusha, 
June 8. 1798. 9. Elihu, '.April 8, 1801. 10. 
Dorothea, June i, 1803. 

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field, was born in Coleraine, August 10, 1790, 
and died 1870. He came to New York state 
in 1827, and settled at Groton, Tompkins coun- 
ty, driving to Albany from his former home 
and thence coming by the Erie canal to Syra- 
cuse, New ^'ork. He was one of the pioneers 
in the town and lived there the remainder of 
his life. He married, December 20, 1815. 
Catherine Thompson, born June 23, 1793, died 
December 21, 1869, daughter of Stephen 
Thompson, who was a soldier in the revolu- 
tion. ChiUlren : i. William Lyman, born De- 
cember 2, 1816, died April, 1877. 2. Thurber, 
January 29, 1818, mentioned below. 3. Asa 
H., December 14. 1819. 4. Catherine, July 29, 
1821, died August 22, 1845. 5- Eliza A., July 
22, 1823. 6. Samuel N., December 8, 1826, 
died September 29, 1857. 7. Nancy, February 
26, 1829, died August 27, 1855. 8. I'helje, 
born September 3, 1836. 

( \'I ) Thurber, son of Joshua (2 ) WarfieUl. 
was born in Massachusetts, at Coleraine, or 
vicinity, January 29, 1818. died at Cortland, 
New York, September 17, 1900. He was nine 
years old when he came to New Y'ork with his 
parents, and he lived at Groton, Tonijjkins 
county, until 1857, and was educated there in 
the public schools. .AH his life he was a farmer. 
After 1857 he made his home at Cortland, New 
York. In politics he was a ^^ hig. and in later 
years was a great admirer»and earnest follower 
of Horace Greeley, the great editor of the 
New York tribune, from the time it was 
founc'ed until he died. The only time he voted 
any other than the Republican ticket, after the 
Republican ])arty was founded, was when 
Greeley himself was candidate for President 
on the Democratic ticket. In religion he was 
liberal in his views and belonged to no denomi- 
nation. He married (first), November 26, 
1840, Rhoda Little, born in Tompkins county, 
September 3, 1817, died July 12, 1874, daugh- 
ter of Barzilla and Hepsibah (Howe) Little. 
He married (second) Lucy A. (Perigo) War- 
field, widow of William ll. Warfield, and she 
survives him. Children, all by first wife: i. 
Hepsy, died in childhood. 2. Hepsy Catherine, 
born November 6, 1843, '-^^^'^ April 23, 1880: 
married, January i, 1861, George D. Calkins, 
who died December 22, 1883. 3. Elbert Joshua, 
mentioned below. 

(VH) Elbert Joshua, son of Thurber War- 
field, was born in Groton, Tompkins county. 
New York, March 27, 1855. He was but two 
years old when the family came to Cortland, 



and he attended the district schools there and 
the Cortland Normal School. He worked at 
farming in his boyhood and for three years 
after leaving school, and then for three years 
engaged in the manufacture of butter and 
cheese. While in the west he learned the trade 
of brick mason and followed it for four years, 
returning to New Y'ork state in 1882, and for 
a short time he was employed at his trade in 
Syracuse. In 1884 he came to Cortland again, 
and in jjartnership with D. C. lieers, under the 
firm name of Beers & Warfield, engaged in the 
business he has since followed as a mason and 
contractor. The firm has had the contract for 
nias<in work on many of the business buildings 
and manufacturing plants in the city of Cort- 
land, such as the great Wickwire jjlant, the 
Cortland Wagon Company, the Garrison Block, 
the Cortland House, the Wallace Block. In 
their line of trade the members of this firm 
stand among the foremost in the city. Mr. 
Warfield was trustee of the incorporated vil- 
lage of Cortland for four years, and has also 
been on the board of fire commissioners and 
the board of police commissioners of the city. 
He is a member of Vesta Lodge, Odd Fellows. 
He married, October 3, 1883, Eva F. Town- 
ley, born at McLean, New York, November 
10, i8s9. (laughter of Lucius and Octavia 
(Marsh) Townley. Her father was born at 
Ludlowville, Tompkins county. New York, 
I'ebruary 7, 1822, son of Smith Townley, who 
lived in Pennsylvania. Charles Townley, father 
of Smith Townley, was born in I7r)2, and 
served in the revolutionary war. Effingham 
Townley, father of Charles Townley, was born 
in 1729, and married Jemima Earle. Richard 
Townley, father of Effingham Townley, set- 
tled in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Nicholas Town- 
ley, father of Richard Townley, died in 1687, 
aged seventy-six years. The ancestry of the 
Townley line in England has been traced to 
the year 1475. Children of Mr. and Mrs. 
\\'arfield : i. Louise, born July 7, 1887; mar- 
ried, December 15, 1909, Joseph F. Twenty- 
man, electrician of Cortland. 2. Claude Town- 
ley, born September 2, 1895. 3- Mildred lone, 
born December 15, 1896. 



The Beers family appears to have 
r>EERS originated in the parish of West- 

clifl:'e. countv of Kent, England, at 
a place called Bere's of Byer's Court. William 
de Bere, of Bere's Court, was bailiff of Dover 
about 1275, and Nicholas de F'ere held the 



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Manor of Bere's Court in the twentieth jear 
of the reign of Hehry III. Of this family was 
Roger Byer, or Bere, who died in the reign of 
Queen Alary. In 1542 his son John purchased 
the Horsman Place, in Dartford, said to have 
been a mansion of some note. In his will, 
dated 1572, John Beer founded four alms- 
houses in Dartford, and devised his mansion 
to his eldest son Henry. His grandson, Ed- 
ward Beer, died unmarried in 1627, bequeath- 
ing Horsman Place to John Twistleton, of 
Drax. 

(I) Martin Beer, or Bere, of Rochester, is 
the first ancestor to which the American fam- 
ily can be traced in an unbroken line. He was 
living in Rochester, county Kent, in i486; 
married a daughter of Thomas Nyssell, of 
Wrotham, England. 

(II) John Beer, son of Martin Beer, or 
Bere, married Faith, daughter of John Roy- 
den, of Rochester, and had James and Mary. 

(HI) James Beer, son of John Beer, mar- 
ried Dorothy, daughter of John Kingswood, 
gentleman, of Rochester, and had two sons, 
John and James. 

(IV) John (2) Beer, son of James Beer, 
lived at Gravesend ; married Mary, daughter 
of Robert Selby, of Yorkshire. Children : 
John ; Samuel ; Richard, known as captain, 
born 1607, came to America in 1635, and locat- 
ed at Watertown, Massachusetts, represented 
his town in the general court thirteen years, 
commanded a company in the Peciuot war and 
was slain by Indians near Xorthfield, Septem- 
ber 4, 1675 ; James, mentioned below ; Alary. 

(V) James (2) J'eer, son of John (2) Beer, 
of Gravesend, was a mariner and died before 
1635. His widow Hester died in 1635, and in 
the same year their two sons, Anthony and 
James, accompanied their uncle, Richard Beers, 
to America. James located in Fairfield, Con- 
necticut, in 1657, and purchased a house and 
lot in 1659, and another lot in 1661, in Green- 
field. He was admitted a freeman in 1664. He 
died in 1694. Anthony, the other son, is men- 
tioned below. 

(\^I) Anthony Beers, from whom most of 
the Connecticut families of this surname are 
descended, son of James (2) Beers, was born 
at Gravesend, England. He came to Water- 
town, Mas.sachusetts, with his uncle. Richard 
Beers, and took the freeman's oath there. May 
6, 1657. He then removed to the adjacent 
town of Roxbury, and, in 1658, to Fairfield, 
Connecticut. He was a mariner, and was lost 



at sea in 1676, his widow Elizabeth surviving 
him. Children : Samuel, born at Watertown, 
May 9, 1647, died young; Ephraim, July 5, 
1648; John, mentioned below; Esther, (Jctober 
16, 1654; Samuel, May 2, 1657, died aged four 
months; Barnabas, September 6, 1658; Eliza- 
beth, April, 1661, at Fairfield. 

(\TI) John (3), son of Anthony Beers, 
was born at Watertown, Massachusetts, Janu- 
ary 20, 1652. He was a soldier and was severe 
ly wounded in King Philip's war, December 
19, 1675, took part in the Xarragansett fight, 
and died soon afterward. He joined the church 
at Stratford, Connecticut. About 1667 he 
bought a house lot, "bounded east by the street, 
west by the burying place, south by a highway 
fotir rods wide, and north on the common 
land." That highway now leads to the Strat- 
ford Congregational burying-ground. He and 
his wife had but one child recorded, Samuel, 
mentioned below. 

(VIII) Samuel, son of John (3) Beers, 
was born November 9, 1679, died at Newtown, 
March 12, 1725. He married, in 1706, Sarah, 
daughter of Samuel and Mary (Titharton) 
Sherman, the latter a daughter of Daniel and 
Jane Titharton. Children : Mary, born July 9. 
1708, in Stratford; John, September i, 1710; 
Samuel, June 26, 1712; Daniel, November 23, 
1714; Abraham, at Newtown; Nathan, men- 
tioned below; Hantj^h, May, 1722; Abigail, 
.\pril 17, 1724. 

(IX) Nathan, son of Samuel Beers, was 
born at Newtown, Connecticut, February 10, 
1719, and followed the trade of blacksmith in 
his native town and at Norwalk. He died June 
18, 1805, and his wife, Lydia (Hawley) Beers, 
died June 30, 1776, aged seventy-one. Chil- 
dren : Nathan ; Ebenezer, mentioned below ; 
.Samuel, Lydia, Hannah, .Vbijah, Ezekiel. 
Sarah, .Abigail, Alary, Anna and Esther. 

(X) Ebenezer, son of Nathan Beers, was 
born about 1740, in Norwalk or vicinity. He 
settled in Alinisink, Orange county, New Y'ork. 
.According to the census of 1790 he had two 
sons (three males) over si.xteen, one under 
sixteen and two females in his family. 

(XI) A son of Ebenezer remained in 
Orange county. Among his children were John ; 
Joseph, mentioned below ; Irene and Rebecca. 

(XII) Joseph, son of Beers, came 

from Orange county, Xew Y'ork, and settled 
in Cortland, New Y^ork, where he died, aged 
sixty-seven years. For many years he follow- 
ed his trade as brick mason, at Cortland, and 



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for about twenty years he followed farming. 
He married Alehitable Winters, of Long Island, 
who died February 19, 1873, aged sixty-one 
years. Children : John, Jonas, Elmira : David 
Clark, mentioned below ; Charles F. and Henry. 
(XIII) David Clark, son of Joseph Beers, 
was born in Middletown, Orange county. New 
York, December 21, 1843, ^^^ came with his 
parents to Cortlandville, New York, when he 
was four years old, and received a common 
school education there. He enlisted, October 
4, 1861. in Company A, Seventy-sixth Regi- 
ment, New Y^ork Infantry, and served until 
September i, 1865, when his company was 
mustered out, at the close of the civil war. His 
company was in the Army of the Potomac, and 
he took part in the second battle of Bull Run, 
the battles of Gettysburg, Cedar Mountain, 
Chancellorsville, and all the other engagements 
in which his company participated. He was 
wounded at Bull Run and Gettysburg. At the 
close of the term of his enlistment Mr. Beers 
returned to Cortland, learned the trade of 
mason and worked at it a number of years. 
In 1884 he formed a partnership with E. J. 
Warfield, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere 
in this work. The firm of Beers & Warfield 
prospered from the first and has done a large 
share of the business in its line as contractors 
and builders in the city of Cortland. Many of 
the business buildings, mills, factories, hotels 
anil residences have been built by this firm. 
Mr. Beers served the village corporation for 
two years as trustee, before Cortland was in- 
corporated as a city. He is a member of 
Grover Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of 
which he is past commander. 

He married, in 1871, Helen M. Wadsworth. 
born in Homer. April 26, 1851, daughter of 
Ela and Amanda (Howe) Wadsworth (see 
Wadsworth \TII). Children: Carrie, died in 
childhood; Harry, born January 11, 1878, a 
mason by trade : Gertrude, died aged twelve 
years : \Villiam, born March 22, 1884, mar- 
ried Catherine Dugan, of Binghamton, New 
York; Lena, October 19, 1888, married John 
1 M. Smith, of Syracuse, New York. 

(The Wadsworth Line"). 

The surname Wadsworth is derived from 
the Anglo-Saxon words Waldes-worth, mean- 
ing W'ood's Court, and from very ancient times 
has been in use in Yorkshire, England, where 
it is still common. The surname Walworth 
had the same origin. The only coat-of-arms 



of Wadsworth is of the Yorkshire family, and 
is described : Gules, three fleurs-de-lis, stalked 
and slipped, argent. Two immigrants of the 
family, probably sons of Thomas Wadsworth, 
came from England to America in the early 
settlement. Christopher, William, mentioned 
below. The Bible that Christopher brought 
with him is still preserved in the Cowler fam- 
ily of Hartford. He settled in Duxbury, Mas- 
sachusetts, and became a prominent citizen. 

( I ) William \\'a(lsworth came with his 
brother Christopher in the ship "Lion," land- 
ing at Boston, Sunday, September 16, 1632, 
after a voyage of twelve weeks. It is believed 
that he was here earlier and had returned to 
England. He was born about 1600. He was 
admitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay Col- 
ony, November 6, 1633. He settled in Cam- 
bridge, and when the town was organized was 
elected to the first board of selectmen, and 
served in 1634-35. From Cambridge he came 
to Hartford. Connecticut, in the Hooker com- 
pany, and lived there the remainder of his 
days. He died in 1675. He was among the 
more wealthy and substantial proprietors of 
the town. He was collector in 1637 ;" select- 
man. 1642-47, and active in church and state 
affairs. His home lot was co-extensive with 
the present square bounded by Asylum, Trum- 
bull and West Pearl streets, and the road to 
the river, and continued in the family until 
1773, when it went into the hands of George 
and William Burr, relatives. He inarried (sec- 
ond) Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Samuel 
Stone. Children of first wife: Sarah, married 
John Wilcox; William, died in infancy; Mary, 
married Thomas Stoughton ; John, mentioned 
below. Children of second wife; Elizabeth, 
1643; Samuel, 1646; Joseph, captain, immor- 
talized in history by his exploit in hiding the 
colonial charter in the Charter Oak ; Sarah, 
1650; Thomas, 1651 ; Rebecca, 1656. 

'(II) John, son of William Wadsworth, was 
torn in Hartford. He was an early settler of 
Farmington, Connecticut, where he lived until 
his death, in 1659. He was one of the most 
prosperous and influential citizens. In 1669 
of eighty- four taxable estates his was third, 
with a valuation of one hundred and eighty- 
three pounds. He was sergeant of the mili- 
tary company, and member of what was later 
called the state senate. He was present when 
his brother. Captain Joseph Wadsworth, con- 
cealed the charter. He married Sarah Stanley, 
also born in Hartford, who survived him. 



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NEW YORK. 



Children : Sarah, born 1657 ; Samuel, 1660, 
mentioned below; John, 1662; Mercy, 1665; 
William, 1671 ; Nathaniel (twin), 1677; James 
(twin), 1677; Thomas, 1680: Hezekiah, 1683. 

( III ) Samuel, son of John Wadsworth, was 
born in 1660, in Farmington, Connecticut. In 
1699 and 171 1 he represented the town in the 
general assembly, and, in 17 13, he was a lieu- 
tenant in the militia. He married, at Farming- 
ton, in 1689, Hannah Judson. Children, born 
at Farmington: Hannah, 1693; Sarah, 1695; 
Samuel, mentioned below. 

( I\' ) Samuel ( 2 ) , son of Samuel ( i ) Wads- 
worth, was born in Farmington, in 1689, died 
there, in 1745. He married (first), in 1728, 
Susanna Fenn, who died in 1732, and (sec- 
ond), in 1737, Rebecca Porter. Child of first 
wife: James, born 1729. Children of second 
wife: Samuel, mentioned below; Asa, married, 
at Tyringham. Massachusetts, February 19, 
1761, Sarah Hill; Hannah. 

(\') Samuel (3), son of Samuel (2) Wads- 
worth, was born at Farmington, and settled 
with his brothers at Tyringham. He was a 
soldier in the revolution, in Captain Ezekiel 
Herrick's company. Colonel Brown's regiment 
(Berkshire county), from Tyringham, June 
29 to July 21, 1777, reinforcing the northern 
army. He married Thankful . Chil- 
dren, born at Tyringham : Reuben, mentioned 
below; Susanna and Ezekiel (twins), June 7, 
1767; Silas. May, 1770; Sarah, May 2t, or 
June 15, 1773; Amos and James, September 
30, 1775 (twins). 

(VI) Reuben, son of Samuel (3) Wads- 
worth, was born at Tyringham, Massachusetts, 
December 6, 1762, died in 1837, He married 

Ruth . Children, born at Tyringham : 

Electa, born 1784, married Gideon Hobart ; 
Archibald, mentioned below; Berenice, 1793; 
Sylvester; Samuel F., born 1798. 

(VII) Archibald, son of Reuben Wads- 
worth, was born at Tyringham, in 1787, died 
in 1873. He settled at Homer, New York, and 
became a prominent and respected farmer of 
that town. He was a member of the Congre- 
gational church. He married Eunice Main, 
who died in 1872. aged seventy-nine years. 
Children, born at Homer: Manly, born 1817; 
Ela, mentioned below ; Waty jane, married 
Erastus Goodell ; Electa, 1831. married Syl- 
vester Kinney. 

(VIII) Ela, son of Archibald Wadsworth, 
was born in Homer, New York, in 1826. He 
was a farmer in Cortland all his active life. 



He married, in 1847, Amanda Howe. Chil- 
dren: Alvea A., born 1849, cl'^d 1863: Helen 
M.. 1 8s I, married David C. Beers (see Beers 
XIII) : William H., 1852, died 1861 ; Harvey 
E., 1856, died 1858; Myron H., 1858, died 
1861 ; ,\Iary L., 1861, married (jeorge T. Latti- 
mer ; Clark H., 1863, married Estella Pierce; 
Marvin W., 18A6, married Xenia Doran ; Mil- 
ton E., i86g. 

The family of Edgcomb is a 
EDCiCOMB very old and distinguished 
family in Devonshire, Eng- 
land, and has been settled in the parish of Mil- 
ton Abbot from a remote period. Certain old 
documents relative to them are written in the 
Norman-French, and in them the name ap- 
pears as "de Eggescombe." In the mansion 
of the elder family there is an inscription on 
an old gateway dated "R. E.,'" 1292. Th; 
name was derived from the seat and is spelled 
variously in old documents as Eggescombe, 
Edgescombe, Edgecomb and Edgecumbe. 

( I ) John Edgcomb, immigrant ancestor, 
was the son of Nicholas Edgecomb, of Plym- 
outh, England, and is supposed to have set- 
tled first in Kittery, Maine, as early as 1640. 
A Nicholas Edgecomb, probably the father of 
Jolin, was instrumental in establishing a settle- 
ment on Casco Bay, and visited it in 1658. 
John Edgcomb did not remain permanently in 
Kittery, but removed to New London, Con- 
necticut, where he settled about 1673. He re- 
ceived a grant of land through the Connecti- 
cut assembly in 1663. His estate consisted of 
a "homestead in the town plot and two con- 
siderable farms." He married (first), Febru- 
ary 9, 1673, Sarah, daughter of Edward Stal- 
lion. He married (second) Elizabeth, widow 
of Joshua Hempstead. Children : John, born 
November 14, 1675: Sarah, July 29, 1678; 
Joanna, March 3, 1679; Nicholas, January 23, 
1681-82; Samuel, 1689; Thomas, mentioned 
below. 

(II) Thomas, son of John Edgcomb, was 
born 1694, in New London, and settled in; 
Norwich before 1720. He married (first) 
Catherine Copp. He married (second) Esther 
Post. The latter survived him but a few 
months. While on her way to New London, 
she was thrown from her horse and severely 
hurt. She lived for two weeks in great agony, 
and though the best medical skill was em- 
ployed, she died May 20, 1746, at the age of 
forty. He died in Norwich, .September 16; 



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1745. Children of first wife: Thomas, died 
in Norwich, April 29, 1755; John, was in the 
expedition against Cape Breton, and died there 
after the surrender in 1746, aged twenty; Jon- 
athan, a seaman by occui)ation, taken by a 
Spanish privateer .\iigust 3, 1752, carried to 
Spain, and imjjrisoned there for several months, 
he escaped and reached a French port in safety, 
worked his passage to England on an English 
vessel, but was seized by a ])ress gang and 
forced on board a man-of-war; after a year's 
service he again escaped, and finally reached 
home, November 30, 1754, is said to have 
settled in \ ermont ; Samuel, mentioned below. 
(Ill) Samuel, son of Thomas E<lgcomb, 
was born 1730, and married, Alay 7, 1752, 
Dorothy Smith, of Groton, Connecticut. Me 
settled there, and was by trade a cabinet- 
maker, also a fanner. He was an important 
member of the society for the propagation of 
the gospel in foreign parts. He was deacon 
of the First Presbyterian Church, vestryman 
or warden from 1765 to 1767. and a man of 
great worth. He died .August 14. 1795. and 
his wife, January 14, 181 3, aged eighty- four. 
Children: Katherine, born March 8, 1753, died 
March 14. 1759; Dorothy, December 8, 1754: 
David, June 8, 1756; Elizabeth, January 15, 
1758: Samuel, h'ebruary 28, 1760; Gilbert, 
March 3, 1762, mentioned below; Jabez, Octo- 
ber 6, 1763; Hannah, May 27, 1765: Thomas. 
June 29, 1767; Asa, April 14, 1772. died Sep- 
tember 4, 1774. 

( 1\') Gilbert, son of Samuel Edgcomb. was 
born March 3, 1762. and married. June 21. 
1790, Lucy Allyn, of North Groton. Connecti- 
cut, now Ledyard. He removed thence to 
Broughton, where his children were born. He 
iViwas a soldier of the revolution, and enlisted 
n when only fifteen years old. He was with 
iilWashington at \'alley Forge, and served 
J, through a three years' campaign. He received 
djan honorable discharge in 1780. September 
j6, 1781, he volunteered in defence of Fort 
aijGriswold. The garrison consisted of one hun- 
11 dred and si.xty men, of whom eighty- four were 
il killed on the spot. The remaining seventy-six 
;[\vere taken prisoners, placed on board a man- 
;«bf-war and carried to New York. Here they 
in,were imprisoned in an old sugar house until 
Ivifter the surrender of General Cornwallis. 
:v, ivhen they were discharged. In 1820 he re- 
i;i- noved to Cortland, New York. He was a 
ilfarmer by occupation; a man of sound mind 
i(i md unyielding will. Children, born in Brough- 



ton: Lucy, April 14, 1795; Gilbert, September 
27, 1797; Erastus, October 15, 1803; Isaac 
.\llyn, mentioned below. 

( \' ) Isaac Allyn, son of Gilbert Edgcomb, 
was born May 12, 1806, in Groton, died July 
6. i860. He married, 1828, Clarissa Wood- 
ruff, born in Farmington, Connecticut, .\ugust 
19, 1800, died October 15, 1865, daughter of 
Gedor anil Sarah (Ingham) Woodruff. Her 
father. Gedor Woodruff, was born July 20, 
1 761, served three years in the revolutionary 
war, he was the son of Zebulon Woodruff, 
born March 11, 1718. The latter was the son 
of Joseph, born in 1679, son of John, born 
1643, son of Matthew Woodruff. Children : 
I. Charles A., born May 9, 1829 ; married Mary 
J. Tucker, November 6, 1876; child, Charles 
R., born July 25, 1882, lived in Spaft'oril, New 
York. 2. Frances J., November 23, 1830; 
married Irving A. Wheeler, of Stonington, 
Connecticut, 1859; lived in Providence. 3. 
Sarah T., June 16, 1832; married, in 1858, 
Gilbert I. Honywell; lived in Homer, New 
"^'ork. 4. Isaac, October 16. 1834. mentioned 
bel(jw. 5. Martin, June 7, 1836; married, No- 
vember 13. 1866, Emily G. Merritt, a shoe 
dealer by occupation, in Cortland ; six chil- 
dren : Lena E., born December 23, 1867; Louis 
E., ;\ugust 24, 1869; J. Grace., .Vovember 23, 
1873; M. Glenn, October 3, 1875; Allyn I., 
.\pril 25. [878; R. Irene, June 28, 1891. 6. 
George W., November 23, 1840: married F. 
Eudell Squires, July 9, 1872; child, James E., 
born July 9, 1873, died November 24, 1878. 7. 
Clark .\., January 22, 1843; married. Novem- 
ber, 1868, Addie Lyon; children; Oliver C, 
born 1870; Addie A.. July 18, 1875; lived in 
South Frankfort, Michigan. 

( \ I ) Isaac, son of Isaac Allyn Edgcomb, 
was born in Groton, New York, October 16, 
1834, and received his education in the com- 
mon schools of his native town. In 1852 he 
came to Cortland, New York, and learned the 
harness-maker's trade. He continued in this 
business until 1900, when he retired. He has 
always been actively identified with the Meth- 
odist church, in Cortland, and, for forty years, 
has been its steward and trustee. He married, 
March 13, 1861, Evaline D., daughter of Isaac 
and Nancy ( Peabody ) Spencer, born in Virgil, 
New York, December 25, 1834. Her father 
was the son of Amos Spencer, who married 
Dorcas W'oodcock ; they had twelve children, 
ten sons and two daughters. Amos Spencer 
was the son of Thomas Spencer, who was a 



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NEW YORK. 



descendant of William Spencer, of Cambridge, 
Massachusetts, in 163 1. Both Thomas and 
Amos Spencer served as captains in the revolu- 
tion. Child of Mr. and Airs. Edgcomb: Ernest 
Isaac, born January 10, 1867; he was educated 
in the State Normal School, in Cortland, and 
graduated in 1884: also at Syracuse Univer- 
sity, from which he graduated in 1888. He 
then studied law in the office of Nottingham 
& Goodell, of Syracuse, and was admitted to 
the bar in 1891. He practices law in Syracuse, 
and is also professor of law in Syracuse Uni- 
versity. He is at present attorney for the 
Beebe trolley lines, which run out of Syracuse, 
and surveyor of customs for the port of that 
city. For several terms he was chairman of 
the board of supervisors in Syracuse, and offi- 
ciated as such when the new courthouse was 
erected, as well as member of the building 
committee, the building costing $1,400,000. He 
is a member of several college fraternities and 
other fraternal organizations, and steward in 
the First Methodist Church. He married, 
April 20, i8g8, Grace, daughter of Frank J. 
Webb, of Syracuse. They have one son, Julian 
Webb, born December 3, 1902. 



The Newton family, which is 
NEWTON one of the most numerous in 

New England, is of English 
origin, and was founded in America early in 
the colonial period. It is still very numerously 
represented throughout New England, and is 
identified with the best interests of that sec- 
tion, contributing its proportionate share to its 
development and progress. Representatives 
are now scattered over distant states. 

(I) Richard Newton, whose birthplace and 
ancestry has been the subject of many years 
study by well equipped genealogists, arrived 
in Massachusetts prior to 1645, in which year 
he was admitted a freeman of the colony and 
resided for several years in Sudbury. In com- 
pany with John Howe and others he petition- 
ed for the settlement of Marlborough, whose 
incorporation as a town they secured in 1666, 
and removing thither, he located in that part 
of the town which was afterwards set off as 
Southborough. He lived to be nearly one 
hundred years old, and died about August 24, 
1701. The Christian name of his wife was 
either Anna or Hannah, and she died Decem- 
ber 5, 1697. Their children, as shown by the 
records of Marlborough, were: John, born 
1641 ; Moses, 1646; Ezekiel ; Joseph ; Hannah, 



April 13, 1654, died unmarried; Daniel, De- 
cember 21, 1655. There may have been others. 

( II ) Daniel, fifth son of Richard and Anna 
( probably Loker ) Newton, was born Decem- 
ber 21, 1655, probab!/ in Sudbury, and died 
November 20, 1739, in Marlborough. He lived 
in that part of the town which was subsequent- 
ly set off as Southborough. He married, in 
Alarlborough, December 30, 1679, Susannah 
Morse, born January 11, 1663, in W^atertown, 
Massachusetts, daughter of Joseph and Sus- 
annah (Shattuck) Morse. Children: i. Dan- 
iel, mentioned below. 2. Benjamin, born May 
I, 1683; married, October 3, 1712, Abigail 
Knapp, of Newton. 3. Susanna, born Febru- 
ary 14, 1684. 4. Isaac, born March 12, 1686; 
married Sarah . 5. Ephraim, born Feb- 
ruary 12, 1689; married. May 29, 171 1, Chris- 
tian Ripley. 6. Abraham, born March 2, 169 1 ; 
married, October 20, 1709, Rachel Newton. 
7. Mary, born July 26, 1693, died August 12, 
171 1. 8. Samuel, born August 10, 1695, died 
1 77 1. 9. Nathaniel, born September 4, 1697. 
ID. Lydia, born August 24, 1699; married, Au- 
gust 12, 1719, Samuel Morse. 11. Mary, born 
May 10, 1702; married, September i, 1725. 
Othniel Taylor, of Worcester. 

(HI) Daniel (2), eldest child of Daniel (i) 
and Susanna (Morse) Newton, was born May 
29, 1681, in Marlborough, where he probably 
passed his life. He married Sarah Mutton, 
and they were the parents of Daniel ; Ezekiel, 
mentioned below ; Elizabeth ; William ; Judith, 
died young ; Judith ; Robert, and Joanna. 

(IV) Ezekiel, second son of Daniel (2) and 
Sarah (Hutton) Newton, was born August 
27, 1707, in Marlborough, and resided in South- 
borough, where he was a farmer. No record 
of his death appears. He married. May 31, 
1731, in Marlborough, Tirzah, daughter of 
Jonathan and Bethiah (Rice) Newton, whose 
ancestry is as follows : 

Moses, son of Richard Newton, was born in 
1646, and resided in Marlborough. October 
27, 1668, he married Joanna Larkin, who died 
December 25, 1713, and, on April 14, 1714, he 
married for his second wife, Sarah Joslin. She 
died November 4, 1723. Moses was the father 
of eleven children. He distinguished himself 
in defending the town against the savages dur- 
ing King Philip's war. In relation to this inci- 
dent the Rev. Asa Packard wrote the follow- 
ing account : 

The Sabbath when Mr. Brimsmead was in sermon 
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dispersed by the outcry of "Indians at the dor." 
The confusion of the first moment was instantly 
increased by a fire from the enemy; but the God 
whom they were worshiping shielded their Hves and 
limbs, excepting the arms of one Moses Newton, 
who was carrying an elderly and infirm woman to 
a place of safety. In a few moments they were 
sheltered in their fort, with the mutual feelings 
peculiar to such a scene. Their meeting house and 
their dwelling houses left without protection, were 
burnt. Fruit-trees pulled and hacked and other 
valuable effects rendered useless perpetuated the 
barbarity of the savages many years after the 
inhabitants returned. The enemy retired soon after 
their first onset, declining to risk the enterprise 
and martial prowess of the young plantation. 

Jonathan, son of Moses and Joanna (Lar- 
kin) Newton, was born September 30, 1679, 
in Marlborough, and married there. October 
26, 1708, Bethiah Rice, born October 29, 1682, 
daughter of Daniel and Bethiah (Ward) Rice. 
Children : Tirzah, married Ezekiel Newton ; 
Jonathan, Tabitha, Bethiah, Johanna, Heph- 
ziba, David, Thankful, Gideon, Nathan and 
EInathan. 

Children of Ezekiel and Tirzah (Newton) 
Newton : Elizabeth, born February 19. 1S32, 
in Marlborough ; .\le.xander, February 14, 1733 ; 
Nehemiah, June 23, 1736; Persis, February 
18, 1741 : Ezekiel, mentioned below; Daniel, 
May 20, 1749. All except the first are record- 
ed in Southborough. 

(\') Ezekiel (2), son of Ezekiel (i) and 
Tirzah (Newton) Newton, was born August 
30, 1745, in Southborough, and resided in 
Alarlborough until 1776, or later, and probably 
resided elsewhere thereafter. He was a private 
in Captain Josiah White's company, of Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel Benjamin Flagg's division, Colo- 
nel Samuel Denney"s (Worcester county) regi- 
ment, which marched, August 21, 1777, on 
alarm and was turned back. He is credited 
with five days' service, including two days' 
(forty miles) march home. Roll dated Spen- 
cer. He died December 5, 1792, but this date 
does not appear on any public records. He 
probably resided in Marlborough at the time. 
Diligent search fails to disclose the maiden 
name of his wife Tabitha, who was born Au- 
gust 14, 1746. Four of his children are re- 
corded in Marlborough : Persis, born March 
16, 1771 : F'oUy, March 29, 1772; Haven, De- 
cember 29, 1773; Windsor, January 13, 1776. 
Private records indicate four other children. 

(\T) Ezekiel (3), son of Ezekiel (2) and 

Tabitha ( ) Newton, was born April 12, 

1788, in Northborough, and died February 11, 



1852, at Groton, New York. He was a shoe- 
maker by trade and lived for some years in 
North Concord, now Lisbon, Ne<v Hampshire, 
where he was toll-keeper of the bridge over 
the Ammonusuc river. The present name of 
Lisbon was adopted in 1824. For fifty years 
previous there had been two Concords in the 
state of New Hampshire. In 181 1 he removed 
from Lisbon to Tompkins county. New York, 
and settled first at Groton City, New York. 
Soon after removing to Summer Hill, New 
York. He married in Bolton, Massachusetts, 
.April 16, 1810, Rebecca Moore, born January 
9. 1787, in that town; died June 9, 1871, in 
Cortland, New York. The record of his mar- 
riage in Bolton calls him "Ezekial Newton of 
North Concord, New Hampshire." Children : 
I. Charles, mentioned below. 2. Elihu Reed, 
born September 18, 1812, died October 7, 
1899, at Wayne, Pennsylvania. 3. Ezekiel A., 
born October 25, 1814, at Groton, New York, 
died there, July 9, 1859. 4. Orissa, born April 
14. 1816, at Groton. 5. Albert, born July 10, 
181 7. at Groton, died December 6, 1906. 6. 
Nancy E., born April 14, 1820. died Novem- 
ber, 1868. 7. Adelia C. born August 13, 1822, 
died March 10, 1897. 8. Caroline M., born 
June 13, 1824, died September, 1896. 9. 
George M.. born August 24, 1826, living at 
Groton, New York. 10. Andrew, born Sep- 
tember 10, 1828, died February 12, 1837. 

(\"H) Charles, eldest child of Ezekiel (3) 
and Rebecca (Moore) Newton, was born .'April 
23, 181 1, in North Concord, New Hampshire, 
and died November 14, 1894, in Groton, New 
York, where he was a farmer. He married, 
June 13. 1834, at Summer Hill, New York, 
Mary NVoolsey, of that town, born August i, 
1812, died June 2, 1891, in Groton. Children: 
I. George, born March 19, 1833, died June 5, 
1857. 2. Rebecca Jane, born December 6, 
1837: married Myron F. Thomas, of Groton, 
New York ; resides in Pasadena. 3. Charles 
Biirdette, born August 16, 1840, resides in 
Ciroton. 4. Hiram, born March C. 1848, died 
May 22. 1849. 5- ^Villialn Henry, born De- 
cember 29, 1850, died July 25, 185 1. 6. Will- 
iam Henry, mentioned below. 

(N'HI) William Henry, son of Charles and 
Mary (Woolsey) Newton, was born Septem- 
ber 13, 1833, in Locke, New' York, and learn- 
ed the trade of carriage trimming. He was 
in the coal and lumber business in his younger 
days, in Groton, New York. In 1883 he locat- 
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in the manufacture of carriage goods and is 
still conducting' a prosperous business at tha: 
place. He is«a member of the Baptist church. 
He married, June 6, 1876, in Groton, .Mary 
Alida Williams, born June 6, 1856, in that 
town, daughter of James Williams, a native of 
the same jilace, and Lydia Ellen ( Brown ) 
Williams, born August 6, 1726, daughter of 
David Brown, of Groton, Massachusetts, who 
was son of David Brown, of Plum Hollow, 
\'ermont, who served in the revolutionary war. 
(IX) Earle Williams, only child of William 
Henry and Mary A. (Williams) Newton, was 
born February 9, 187c;, in Groton, New York. 
He was educated at Cortland Normal School 
and Phillips .\ndover .Vcademy, graduating in 
1899. After graduation he went into the office 
of his father's manufacturing plant until De- 
cember I, 1901, when he was taken into part- 
nership with his father at Cortland, and to- 
gether they conducted a business under the 
firm name of W. H. Newton & Son. He 
married, June 22, 1909, in Colora, Maryland, 
Anna Moore, born February 16, 1883, in that 
town, daughter of William H. Moore, whose 
father was a Quaker farmer living at that 
place, and India S. (Christie) Moore, of Col- 
ora, Maryland. 

(The Williams Line). 

(i) Deacon William Williams, of Salem, 
Massachusetts, born November 11, 1749, died 
August 8, 1854. He married Hiphza Samson, 
and they had ten children. 

(2) Benjamin, son of Deacon William Will- 
iams, born. Savoy, Massachusetts. November 
14, 1783, died June 2, 1872; married, "April 6, 
1808, Rebeckah Morton. He came to Groton, 
New York, in 1809. They had eight children. 

(3) James, son of Benjamin Williams, was 
born in Groton, New York, April i, 1821, and 
died March 26, 1899. He married Lydia Ellen 
Brown, born .'\ugust 6, 1826. Child: Mary 
Alida, born June 6, 1856, in Groton, New 
York, married, January 6, 1876, William Henry 
Newton (see Newton VIII). 



William Knox, according to the 
KNOX history of Blandford, Massachu- 
setts, came to that town from Bel- 
fast, Ireland, in 1737. There was a large settle- 
ment of .Scotch-Irish in this town. His brother. 
Adam Knox, said to have been born in 1719, in 
Ulster province, north of Ireland, settled in 
Boston, in 1737. William had three sons : John. 



mentioned below : William, and .\dam ; and 
probably daughters. 

(11) John, son o*^ William Knox, was born 
about 1730, and probably came with his father 
to Blandford, Massachusetts. The name of his 
wife is not known. He lived at Blandford, evi- 
dently following farming, as did his father. 
He had sons : William ; James, mentioned 
below; Elijah, and John; and probably daugh- 
ters. 

(HI) Captain James Knox, son of John 
Knox, was born as early as 1760. He was a 
private in Captain John Ferguson's company. 
Colonel Timothy Danielson's regiment, from 
Blandford, from April 20, 1775, to August, 
and later in the year. He was sergeant from 
Blandford, in Captain .Aaron Coe's company. 
Lieutenant Colonel Timothy Robinson's regi- 
ment. Oliver and John, sons of Adam Kno.x, 
were soldiers from Blandford. also David, son 
of William. .Afterward James Knox was 
known as cajjtain, and doubtless held a com- 
mission in the militia as captain. He was one 
of the earliest settlers of the town of Windsor, 
Broome county. New York, whither he went 
after the war. living for a time, apparently at 
Hillside. In 1790 he appears to be a resident 
of Hillside, according Ito the first federal cen- 
sus, but he must have removed soon to Broome 
county, as the history states that he came there 
in 1786, or a little later. The same authority 
states that he was an officer in the revolution, 
and we have given his record as sergeant. He 
may have hail other service not appearing on 
the records, which, of course, are not complete. 
He is said to have been one of W'ashington's 
Lifeguards. With his family he located near 
the north part of the valley on the old home- 
stead, lately owned by Milton Knox, a descend- 
ant. He married Lydia Stratton. Children : 
James, Hezekiah. Charles, Henry, William, 
Caleb and Ira. mentioned below. 

(IV) Ira, son of Captain James Knox, was 
born in Windsor, Broome county. New York, 
November 17, 1801. died March 10, 1871. Edu- 
cated in his native town, he turned naturally to 
the calling of agriculture and followed it suc- 
cessfully. In all matters pertaining to the wel- 
fare of the community, political and otherwise, 
he was keenly interested, and he served in the 
state militia when a young man. 

He married, September 2, 1835, Anna Doo- 
littlc, born at Colesville, New York, August 
27, 181 1, died March 4, 1884, daughter of Abel 
Doolittle, who was born July 2"], 1780, and died 



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March 11, 1868. Her father married, June 14, 
1804, Hannah Sage, born November 26, 1778, 
died April i.^, 1854. Children of Ira and Anna 
(Doolittle) Knox: Milton; Stratton Sage, 
mentioned below ; James. 

(\') Hon. Stratton Sage Knox, son of Ira 
Knox, was born in Colesville, Broome county, 
New York, February 5, 1845. His early school- 
ing was received in the public schools, and at 
Windsor Academy. Later, he spent part of 
his time teaching school and part in getting a 
higher education. In 1869 he came to Cort- 
land, and two years later was graduated from 
the State Xormal School, of that town. In 
the fall of 1871 he entered upon an optional 
course at Wesleyan I'niversity, Middletown, 
Connecticut, and in the following year, left 
college to begin the study of law in the office 
of Al. M. Waters, of Cortland, where he con- 
tinued until he was admitted to the bar, in 
September, 1875, at the general term in Schnec- 
tady, New York. Before the close of the year 
he had entered intopartnershipwith Mr. Waters 
and the firm continued until 1881, when Mr. 
Waters removed to Syracuse. During the 
years 1883-89 he was county judge and surro- 
gate. In ])oiitics he is a Democrat. In 1895 
lie was retained by the National liank of Cort- 
land, as attorney, having charge of its legal 
affairs, and, since 1897. he has been president. 
Judge Kno.x was a prime mover in the plan 
to provide a sewer system for Cortland, and 
he was ajipointed on the first board of sewer 
commissioners in 1892, and has been president 
of the board ever since. During the years 
1895-97 '''s was attorney of the village corpor- 
ation, and it was during his term of office that 
the village began to ])ave the streets, and the 
Railroad street ])aving was done. He is vice- 
president of the Cortland Savings Bank. He 
is a member of the Cortlandville Lodge of 
Free Masons : of Cortland Chapter, Royal 
Arch Masons, was master of the lodge for five 
years, and district deputy of twenty-seventh 
district for two years. He has held many 
])ositions of private trust, especially in the set- 
tlement of important estates, and for many 
years has had one of the largest practices in 
the surrogate's court of this county. 

He married, December 25, 1873, Myra W., 
daughter of Merton M. and Elizabeth ( Bra- 
don) Waters. She died May 8, 1905. They 
had no children. His home is in the city of 
Cortland. 



The family of Lusk is of Scotch 

LL'SK origin, and first appeared in .Amer- 
ica in the early part of the eight- 
eenth century. At that tiine three brothers of 
the name, John, Thomas and William, settled 
in Connecticut, and from them have descend- 
ed all of the name in that state. Their history, 
however, is but fragmentary, and is gathered 
mostly from town and church records and 
gravestone inscriptions, in the towns of New- 
ington, Farmington, New Britain, Enfield and 
other places in Connecticut. From these sources 
we learn that there was a Stephen Lusk in 
Newington, in 1715. also a John Lusk, of New- 
ington, about 1740, the latter apparently an 
earlier settler of Plainfield, Windham county, 
Connecticut. John's two brothers, Thomas 
and William, the latter with his wife, came to 
Newington church, by letter, from Meriden, 
Connecticut, August 13, 1749. General Levi 
Lusk, a soldier in the revolution, is supposed 
to have been a son of this William. .Ml these 
families lived in that part of Farmington which 
adjoined Newington, and were practically con- 
temporary. James, of Farmington, is sup- 
posed to have been a younger brother of the 
three above mentioned. 

( I ) John Lusk, immigrant ancestor of this 
branch, was of Plainfield, Connecticut, in 1740, 
and, September 17th. of that year, received 
from Jacob Gibbs, of Wethersfield, half an 
acre of land in Newington. March 19, 1745- 
46, being then of Wethersfield, he purchased 
four acres of land, again in Newington. Later 
deeds give records of other purchases of land 
liy him, all in Newington, near the Farming- 
ton line. He married (first) Janet . 

who died at Newington, May 2, 1742, aged 

thirty-three. He married (second) Jane , 

who died February 5, 1788, aged eighty-three. 
He died July 24, 1788, aged eighty-six. All 
three were buried in the Newington church- 
vard. Children of second wife, recorded in 
Wethersfield: William, born September 12. 
1 744, mentioned below : John, February 20, 
1748: Eunice, May 9, 1750: Samuel, January 
29, 1752. 

(li) William, son of John Lusk, was bom 
in ^^'ethersfield, September 12, 1744. He mar- 
ried. March 30, 1769, Elizabeth Gibbe. Chil- 
dren : Chester ; Simon ; James, mentioned 
below ; William. 

(Ill) James, son of William Lusk, was born 
1770. died April 24, 1808. He married and 



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had children: William, Franklin, Simon J., 
mentioned below. 

(IV) Simon J., son of James Lusk, was 
born August 19, 1807, died July 21, 1894, at 
Lisle. Broome county, New York. He was a 
pioneer in the latter section, to which he came 
from Connecticut, and was actively engaged 
in farming all his life. He was a vigorous and 
powerful Scotchman and eminently fitted for 
the hardships and dangers of a frontier life. 
He married Rebecca Mercereau, born in 
Broome county. April 12. 181 1, died Novem- 
ber II, 1893. Children: Cornelius M. ; Sam- 
uel R., mentioned below ; Franklin ; Eliza J., 
married Ira Cook ; Olive A., married Orlando 
Benedict ; William : Susan ; James Lanning ; 
George A. ; Charles. 

(V) Samuel R., son of Simon J. Lusk, was 
born in Lisle, Broome county, New York, Au- 
gust 27, 1835, died September 6, 1896. In 
1862 he enlisted in the One Hundred and 
Thirty-seventh Regiment, Company E, and 
served throughout the war. He was in the 
battles of Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and 
Lookout Mountain. In the latter engagement 
he was wounded in the head and never fully 
recovered, and finally died from this wound. 
For a number of years he was engaged in the 
grocery business in Centre Lisle. New Y'ork. 
He married, about iSCi^. Clara M. Root, born 
in Lisle, September 7, 1847, died November 
13, 1886, daughter of William and Anna 
(Burghardt) Root. Child, Clayton R., men- 
tioned below. 

(VI) Clayton Riley, son of Samuel R. Lusk, 
was born in Lisle, December 21, 1872. He 
received his early education in the schools of 
his native town, later attended the Cortland 
Normal School, from which he graduated in 
1895, afterward entered Cornell University, 
from which he graduated in 1002. He was 
admitted to the bar the same year, and located 
in Cortland, in partnership with Rowland L. 
Davis, under {he firm name of Davis & Lusk. 
In 1904 he was elected city judge and served 
for two terms. He is a member of the Phi 
Delta Phi fraternity, the Tioughnioga, and the 
Cortland City clubs, and of the Elks and the 
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Cort- 
land. In religion he is an Episcopalian. He 
married, June 23, 1904, Anna, daughter of 
Eli and Grace (Lee) Mix. Her father, Eli 
Mix, was born at Chenango Forks, New Y'ork, 
in 1835, died in 1905. He married Grace F.. 



daughter of Samuel and Rhoda Ann (Miller) 
Lee. He was the son of John Mix, bom at 
Chenango Forks, and Henrietta (Parsons) 
Mix. John was the son of Jesse Bradley Mi.x, 
who was born in New Haven, Connecticut, 
and came to Chenango Forks, in 1816, and 
Rebecca (Gilbert) Mix, also of New Haven. 
Jesse Bradley Mi.x was the son of Nathaniel 
Mi.x, born in New Haven, 1796, and Thankful 
(Ailing) Mi.x. Nathaniel Mi.x was the son 
of Nathaniel Mix, born in New Haven, 1724, 
and Sarah (Bradley) Mix. Nathaniel Mix 
was the son of Nathaniel Mix, born in New 
Haven, 1692, died 1756, and Rebecca (Lines) 
Mix, second wife. Nathaniel Mi.x was the son 
of Nathaniel Mix, born in New Haven, 1651, 
died 1725, and Mary (Pantry) Mix. Nathan- 
iel Mix was the son of Thomas Meeks, or Mix. 
who was the immigrant ancestor, of London, 
England, a member of the New Haven colony, 
in 1643. He married, in 1649, Rebecca Turner. 
Child of Clayton R. Lusk : Elinor Mix, born 
October 14, 1908. 



William Peck, immigrant ancestor, 
PECK was born in the city of London, 

England, or its vicinity, in 1601, 

and married there, about 1622, Elizabeth . 

He sailed from London in the ship "Hector," 
with his wife and son Jeremiah, and arrived at 
Boston, Massachusetts. June 26, 1637. It is 
jjrobable that he came in the company of Gov- 
ernor Eaton, Rev. John Davenport and others, 
principally from London. He was one of the 
original projirietors of the New Haven colony, 
in 1638, and his autograph signature is affixed 
to the fundamental agreement or constitution, 
June 4, i(')39, for the government of the infant 
colony. October 20, 1640, he was admitted a 
freeman. He was trustee, treasurer and gen- 
eral business agent of the Colony Collegiate 
School, established on the basis of the Hopkins 
fund. He was by occupation a merchant, and, 
from 1659 until his death, a deacon of the 
church in New Haven. His name usually ap- 
pears on the records with the title of "^Ir.," 
then a prefix of res]:)ect and distinction. His 
home lot and dwelling-house and shop were on 
Church street. His first wife, Elizabeth, died 
December 3, 1683, and he married (second) 
Sarah, widow of William Holt. He died Octo- 
ber 4, 1694, and was interred in the old bury- 
ing-ground now under the Center church. Chil- 
dren of first wife: Jeremiah, born in London, 



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1623, mentioned below ; John, New Haven, 
1638; Joseph, New Haven, January, 164 1 : 
EHzabeth, New Haven, April, 1643. 

(II) Jeremiah, son of William Peck, was 
born in the city of London, or its vicinity, in 
1623, and came to this country with his parents 
in 1637. He received a very good education, 
acquired in part before he left London. He 
is said by Cotton Mather "to have been bred 
at Harvard College," but his name does not 
appear in the catalogue of graduates. In the 
year 1636, and for some time previous, he had 
preached and taught school at Guilford, and 
continued to do so until 1660, when he took 
charge of the Collegiate School, at New Haven. 
This was a colony school, established by the 
general court in 1659, and was intended to fit 
young men for college. He remained there 
until the summer of i66i, when the school was 
temjiorarily suspended for lack of funds. In 
the autumn of that year he was invited to 
preach at Saybrook, Connecticut, and, it is sup- 
posed, ordained there, and settled as a min- 
ister, September 25, 1661. After a few years 
there was some dissatisfaction with his min- 
istry and a misunderstanding as to the pro- 
visions of his agreement of settlement. Al- 
though this was amicably arranged he left Say- 
brook and returned to Guilford, in 1666. He 
had been for some time, together with numer- 
ous ministers and churches in the New Haven 
and Connecticut colonies, decidedly opposed 
to the "Half-way Covenant," and especially 
hostile to the union of the two above-named 
colonies, under the charter of Charles II. On 
this account he decided to emigrate from the 
colony, and, in 1666, removed to Newark, New 
Jersey, where he became one of the first set- 
tlers. Soon after his arrival at Newark he 
was settled in Elizabethtown, as the first min- 
ister there, in 1669 or 1670. In 1670, and 
again in 1673, he was invited by the people of 
Woodbridge, New Jersey, and, in 1676, by the 
people of Greenwich, Connecticut, to become 
their minister, but in both cases declined. Sep- 
tember, 1678, he was again invited to settle as 
a minister at Greenwich, and removed thither 
in the autumn of 1678. Here he became the 
first settled minister and remained until 1689. 
when he resigned on account of dissatisfaction, 
caused by his refusal to baptize the children of 
non-communicants. In 1691 he became the 
first settled minister of the church in Water- 
bury. Here he continued until his death, June 
4, 1699. He was a man of much usefulness, 



both as a teacher and minister in the frontier 
settlements, and possessed considerable energy 
and ability. 

He married, November 12, 1636, Johannah, 
daughter of Robert Kitchell, of Guilford, who 
came to New Haven in the company of Eaton, 
Davenport and others, in 1638, and the follow- 
ing year settled in Guilford, where he was a 
prtjminent man and one of the first ]ilanters. 
He migrated to Newark, in 1666, and died 
there, about 1672. His wife died in Green- 
wich, in 1682. Johannah (Kitchell) Peck sur- 
vived her husband and died in Waterbury, in 
171 1. Children: Samuel, born January 18, 
1 659, mentioned below : Ruth, born New Haven. 
.April 3, 1661 ; Caleb, Saybrook, 1663; Anne. 
Saybrook, 1663; Jeremiah. Newark, 1667; 
Joshua, Elizabethtown, 1673. 

(III) Samuel, son of Jeremiah Peck, was 
born at Guilford, January 18, i(')39. He re- 
moved to Greenwich, with his father, in 1678, 
and became a man of large wealth and influ- 
ence. For fifty years he was justice of the 
peace, and held other important positions in 
Greenwich. He married, November 27, 1686, 
Ruth, daughter of Peter Ferris, of Stamford, 
Connecticut. Her father was a son of Jeffrey 
Ferris. Children, born in Greenwich: Samuel, 
March, 1688, mentioned below ; Jeremiah, De- 
cember 29, 1690; Joseph, May i, 1692; David, 
December 13, 1694; Nathaniel, August 15, 
1697: Eliphalet, 1699; Theophilus, March, 
1702: Peter, about 1704; Robert, 1706. He 
died at Greenwich. April 28, 1746. and his 
wife. September 17, 1745, aged eighty-three. 
Their gravestones are still standing in the old 
Greenwich cemetery. 

(IV) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (i) Peck, 
was born in March, 1688, in Greenwich. He 
was a carpenter by trade and also a farmer. 
He lived in that part of Greenwich known as 
Old Greenwich, and died there, in December, 

1733. He married, in 1715, Elizabeth . 

She survived him, and, in 1733, married (sec- 
ond) John Clogson, and removed to Redding, 
Connecticut, where she died. Children, born 
in Greenwich: Mary, 1716: John, 1718, men- 
tioned below : Samuel, April, 1720 ; Ruth. Janu- 
ary, 1724. 

(V) John, son of Samuel (2) Peck, was 
born in 1718, in Greenwich. He lived in Old 
Greenwich, on a small farm, near the shore of 
Long Island sound, and died in Greenwich, 
September, 1771. He married, 1741, Sarah, 
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Park, New York, January ii, 1814, aged nine- 
ty-five years. Children, born in Greenwich : 
John, November 12, 1742, mentioned below; 
Heath, 1745 ; Nathan, 1747 ; Sarah, 1749 ; Ruth, 
July II, 1751 ; Abijah, April 3, 1758; Abigail, 
September 30, 1760; Elizabeth, July 19, 1763. 

(VI) John (2), son of John ( i) Peck, was 
born November 12, 1742, in Greenwich. He 
served as a soldier in the French war ; was in 
the campaign of 1759, and remained in the 
army until the treaty of peace in 1763. In 
1772 he removed from Greenwich to that part 
of Great Nine Partners, which is now the town 
of Stanford, Dutchess county. New York. Late 
in 1780 he again removed to that part of Little 
Nine Partners, which is now the town of 
Alilan, in the same county, where he lived until 
May, 1788. when he returned to Stanford. In 
1792 he removed to the west of the Hudson 
river, now the town of Hunter, Greene county, 
New "^'ork. On account of the unfavorable 
climate and remote situation of this location, 
he removed again, in February, 1785. to the 
town of Sherburne, Chenango county. New 
York. He lived there and in the adjoining 
town of Norwich until his death, in Sherburne, 
September 19. 1819. After his removal from 
Greenwich, in 1772, he lived always on the 
borders of civilization and endured all the 
hardships and labors of frontier life. He was 
one of the most enterprising and valuable 
pioneers in the settlement of the state of New 
York. His occupation was that of a farmer. 
He had but little education, but great natural 
talents, firmness and energy. He married, 
October, 1764, Sarah, daughter of Nathan 
Northrop, of Salem. New York. .She was born 
in the latter place, October 28, 1746, died in 
Smyrna, New York, November 11, 1830. Chil- 
dren, bom in Greenwich: Samuel, 1765, died 
1768; Joel, December 2, 1767; Sarah, Decem- 
ber I, 1769; Mary, October 28, 1771. Born in 
Stanford: Phebe, .August 16, 1774; Stephen, 
October, 1776, died there, December, 1777; 
Stephen Northrop, May 14, 1778, mentioned 
below; John, September 11, 1780. Born in 
Milan: Nathan, January 27, 1783; Betsey, 
April I, 1786. 

(VII) Stephen Northrop, son of John (2) 
Peck, was born in Stanford, New York, May 
14, 1778. He was a farmer by ocupation, and 
one of the first settlers of the town of Solon, 
New York, 1800. He died there, August 17, 
1874. He was a man of genial characteristics. 



sound common sense and agreeable habits, and 
as such was esteemed by all who knew him. 
He married (first) Lydia Philips, December 
4, 1800, and (second) Clarissa Hobart, Octo- 
ber 3, 1849. Children, born in Solon: Polly, 
September 22, 1801 ; Lyman, December 24. 
1803, mentioned below; Hiram, May 25, 1806; 
Nathan, January 31, 1809; Emily, October 15, 
181 1 ; Stephen N., May 13, 1814; Piatt, June 
II, 1817; Smith W., March 25, 1820; John, 
June 10, 1823; Sally, October 8, 1825. 

(\'III) Lyman, son of Stephen Northrop 
Peck, was born December 24, 1803. in Solon, 
and died at Cortland, New York, April 30, 
1877. He was a farmer in his native town 
during the major part of his active business 
life. After he retired he lived in Cortland. 
He was a member of the Baptist church, at 
Solon. In politics he was a Republican. He 
married, September 25, 1828, Almira Thomp- 
son, born October 10, 1806, died June 25, 1896. 
She was a daughter of Zenas Thompson, of 
Scotch ancestry, from one of the families that 
came to New England early. Children: i. Dr. 
Xorlhrop J., a dentist of Independence. Iowa; 
died July 16, 1888. 2. Lyman Jr., farmer and 
justice of the peace at Solon ; died January 30, 
1887. 3. Hon. Rufus T., mentioned below. 4. 
Charles Townley, mentioned below. 5. Dr. 
Melvin D., physician and surgeon in the pen- 
sion department at Washington, D. C. 6. Bur- 
dett, died in Canada, in 1867. 7. Eui^hemia. 
died in infancy. 

(IX) Hon. Rufus T. Peck, son of Lyman 
Peck, was born in Solon, December 24, 1836, 
and (lied July 24, 1900, at .Xuburn. New York. 
His early education was obtained in the com- 
mon schools, and at the New York Central 
College, and, for fourteen years, he was a 
successful school teacher. For three years he 
was in business as a general merchant in his 
native town. In the fall of 1874 he was elect- 
ed, on the Re])ublican ticket, to the oflice of 
school commissioner of the northern district 
of Cortland county, was reelected, and served 
two terms. He was nominated again, but de- 
clined a third term. He read law in the office 
of Hon. R. Holland Duell, of Cortland, and 
was admitted to the bar at the January temi 
of the supreme court, held at Albany, in 1876, 
but he practiced law only in connection with 
his own business affairs. In February, 1876. 
he became financially interested in the publish- 
ing business of Major L. H. Evarts, of Phila- 



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delphia, and the firm became Evarts & Peck, 
publishers of many city and county histories 
in the United States. 

In the fall of 1888 he was elected assembly- 
man from Cortland county, and served three 
terms with distinction, from 1889 to 1891. 
None of his predecessors had been honored 
with three terms since the earliest years of the 
county. With good reason he could regard 
his legislative career with pride and satisfac- 
tion. He was one of the most industrious and 
energetic, as well as one of the ablest of mem- 
bers, attending promptly and faithfully to any 
local business committed to him, whether by 
his political friends or his opponents. FSecause 
of his business training, his popularity and 
great influence with fellow-legislators, he took 
a position of leadership in the assembly and 
secured the passage of a number of im])ortant 
bills, among which may be mentioned the "dis- 
trict quota" bill, in accordance with which the 
school money was afterward apportioned 
among the school districts of the state. He 
was also instrumental in securing the enact- 
ment of the law making the first appropriation 
for the State Normal School, at Cortland. In 
1893, while Cortland was joined with Onon- 
daga county in a state senatorial district, j\Ir. 
Peck was the Republican candidate for state 
senator, but was prevented from taking the 
office, after election, on account of the mixing 
I of ballots between difi'erent districts in Onon- 
l daga county. With the vote of the districts 
I in which the wrong ballots were used, Mr. 
Peck was elected, but without them he was 
defeated and the court construed the ballot 
law in such a way that the will of the people 
■ was defeated. In his church relations Mr. 
Peck was a Baptist, uniting with that denomi- 
nation in early manhood, and for many years 
trustee of the First Baptist Church, of Cort- 
land. During the last year of his life, his 
health was failing, and he was in a private 
sanitarium, at Auburn, at the time of death. 
He married (first), June 25, 1859, Susan 
Wells, born August 22, 1835, in Kings town- 
ship, Ontario, Canada, and died at Cortland, 
New York, August 31, 1889. He married 
(second), December 14, 1892, Jeanette Dut- 
ton, of Perry, Iowa. Children, all by first 
wife: I. Louise N., born July 8, i860: mar- 
ried William E. Albee, of Minneapolis. 2. 
Arthur R., born March 28, 1862, real estate 
agent and broker at Syracuse, New York ; 
married Carrie Aldrich, and has one son, Aid- 



rich R., born in 1896. 3. Frank John, men- 
tioned below. 4. Fred Ross, born August 28, 
1869, a coal dealer in Syracuse, New York. 

(X) Frank John, son of Hon. Rufus T. 
Peck, was born in Aurora, province of Ontario. 
Canada, March 15, 1864. When he was about 
a year old, however, his parents returned to 
New York, and located at Solon, Cortland 
county. He attended the public schools there 
and at Cortland, whither the family removed 
when he was ten years old. For a time he 
was a student in the State Normal School. He 
was in the employ of Cobb & Perkins, a whole- 
sale concern, for a year. His business career 
really began, however, in the National Bank of 
Cortland, in which he became a clerk in 1882. 
His ability and faithfulness won him jiromotion, 
and he became, in the course of time, the 
cashier, a position he has filled with signal suc- 
cess and discretion since 1889. He is a di- 
rector in the Cortland National Bank, and 
treasurer of the Warren-Tanner Dry Goods 
Company, of Cortland. For two terms he was 
treasurer of the incorporated village of Cort- 
land. He is treasurer of the Presbyterian 
church, of which he is a prominent worker. 
In politics he is a Republican. 

He married, June 10, 1894, .Annie, daugh- 
ter of Samuel Keator ( see Keator \'III). They 
have one child, Susan, Ixirn September 22, 
1896 

( IX) Charles Townley, son of Lyman Peck, 
was born in Solon, September 10. 1848, died 
in Cortland, February i, 1903. He was edu- 
cated in the schools of Solon, also the old 
academy at McGrawville, and the Cortland 
Normal School. For several years he taught 
school in Solon, and was in business there 
later. He kept a general store and was post- 
master. In 1882 he removed to Cortland and 
began the manufacture of horse powders, in 
which business he continued until his death. 
For two years he served as tiiistee of the 
village of Cortland. He was a Republican in 
politics and a member of the Methodist church. 
He was also a member of Cortlandville Lodge, 
I'Vee and .Accepted Masons. He married. April 
17, 1878, in \^■ashington, D. C, Kate McClel- 
land, daughter of John and Catherine Eliza- 
beth (Hodgson) ^IcClelland, of Washington. 
Her father, John McOelland, was born in 
Washington, and died there, in 1883, aged 
sixty-nine years. He was a machinist by trade, 
and had an iron foundry. He was the inven- 
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he was made captain of Company D, District 
of Columbia Volunteers, and served in the 
defense of W^ashington until relieved by the 
northern troops. In 1845 '''^ married Cath- 
erine Elizabeth Hodgson, who died in 1872, 
aged fifty-two years. He was the son of John 
AdcClelland, who was born in Londonderry, 
Ireland, 1774, of Scotch parents. He came to 
America and settled in Frederick, Maryland, 
but, in 1800, removed to Washington, where 
he was one of the first settlers. He was a 
Presbyterian, was the first trustee of the old 
church, which is now known as the New York 
Avenue Presbyterian Church. He married 
Mary Miller, of Frederick, and after his mar- 
riage he and his wife started on horseback on 
their wedding journey for Washington. He 
died in 1845. Children of Charles Townley 
Peck: I. Charles \'ernon, born in Cortland, 
December 6, 1882, educated in the Cortland 
Normal School, now a member of the Peck 
Furniture Company, of Cortland ; married 
August 27, 1908, Josephine E. Pinney, of Ell- 
ington, Connecticut ; one son. Charles Vernon, 
born October 31, 1909. 2. Elizabeth McClel- 
land, born April 27. 1886; married, October 
II, 1910, Willis A. Schleit, of Syracuse, New 
York, assistant salesmanager for Pierce. But- 
ler & Pierce, of Syracuse. 



(VIII) John Peck, son of Stephen 
PECK Northrop Peck (q. v.), was born 
at Solon, June 10, 1823, died May 
21, 1888. He succeeded to the homestead of 
his father and followed farming all his active 
years. In addition he owned several other 
valuable farms in Solon and other real estate 
in Cortland, and was a prosperous and sub- 
stantial citizen. He was an active and promi- 
nent member of the Baptist church. He mar- 
ried, July 23, 1862, Caroline Kinney, born at 
Cortland, New York, April 9, 1842, daughter 
of Buel and Charlotte Ann (Leonard ) Kinney. 
Children: i. Lottie Maria, born July 21, 1863; 
married (first), February 22. 1883, John C. 
Peet ; (second) Emmett Jennings, a druggist 
of Cortland. 2. Linus W.. mentioned below. 
3. Miles John, mentioned below. 4. Ida Louise, 
born October 4, 1871 ; married, October 4, 
1899, Earl B. Lovell, head of the engineering 
department of Columbia University, New 
York City. 5. Cora Etta, born March 14, 
1874; married, August 13, 1896, Carlos J. Cole- 
man, attorney and farmer. 

(IX) Linus Willard, son of John Peck, was 



born May 16, 1866, in Solon, New York, and 
was educated in the union schools at McGraw- 
ville, and at the Eastman Business College, at 
Poughkeepsie, New York. When his father 
died in 1888, he succeeded to the homestead, 
which he still owns, and for several years he 
carried on the farm. In 1894 he removed to 
Cortland, New York, and afterward, in part- 
nership with his brother, IMiles J. Peck, en- 
gaged in business there under the firm name 
of Peck Brothers, dealers in all kinds of farm 
machinery and implements, farm wagons and 
horse furnishing goods. In 1897 the firm 
established a lumber business in addition to 
the other lines of trade. In 1902 Mr. Peck 
withdrew from the firm and engaged in the 
wholesale lumber trade and has continued suc- 
cessfully to the present time, with offices at 
Cortland. He has also extensive farming and 
real estate interests in Cortland and vicinity. 
He is a member of the Baptist church, and is 
holding the office of deacon. In politics he is 
a Prohibitionist. He married, June i, 1887, 
Jennie L. Smith, born at Cortlandville, New 
York, April 6, 1867, daughter of Ephraim and 
Louise (Henderson) Smith. Her father was 
a soldier in the Union army in the civil war, a 
private in Company A, One Hundred and 
Fifty-seventh New York Regiment, and took 
part in fourteen hard-fought engagements and 
several other skirmishes. Children of Mr. and 
Mrs. Peck: Lena May, born March 8. 1889; 
John Carl, February i, 1895. 

(IX) Miles John, son of John Peck, was 
born in Solon, New York, March 10, 1869. 
He attended the district schools of his native 
town and the New York Central College, at 
McGrawville, New York. After the death of 
his father, he had the management of five 
farms belonging to the estate, comprising five 
hundred and ten acres, and continued until 
1893, when, owing to an injury received in a 
railroad w'reck while he was on his way to the 
\N'orlfrs Fair in Chicago, he had to give up 
farming. For a time he represented the Mc- 
Cormick farm machinery in this section and 
carried on an extensive business in that line 
for several years. He sold sixty-three ma- 
chines the first season and to celebrate his suc- 
cess, invited his customers to a bant|uet and 
had a parade with a brass band. He was also 
for a time emi)loyed in the Cortland Foundry 
and Machine Company. In 1806 he formed a 
partnership with his brother, Linus W., under 
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began business February 1. 1896, in the store 
at 97 Main street, Cortland, with a spacious 
storehouse in the rear, deahng in agricultural 
machinery, farm implements, wagons, sleighs, 
horse furnishing goods and farm supplies. In 
1897 the firm engaged also in the lumber busi- 
ness, and, April i, 1899, moved to the armory, 
on Main street. This building had a floor 
space of eighty by two hundred and twenty 
feet, and was divided into two departments. 
The horse furnishing department, manufactory, 
warerooms and office occupied a space thirty 
by sixty, and the display rooms for implements, 
machinery and vehicles the remainder of the 
building. The lumber yard was in the rear of 
this building. After ten years the tirm was 
dissolved and Linus W. continued in the lum- 
ber business, while Miles J. was employed by 
the Equitable Life Insurance Company, of 
New York, for a time. He has been interested 
in various other enterprises and all of them 
have proved successful. He bought five hun- 
dred acres of timber land in Solon, New York, 
cleared it and made a handsome profit. In 
1907 he bought the Wickwire farm of one 
hundred and seventy-two acres, near the city 
of Cortland. 

Probably no dairy in Central New York is 
attracting more attention from people inter- 
ested in fancy stock than this. The farm was 
for years in possession of the Wickwire 
Brothers and was known far and near as the 
"Wickwire" farm. It now enjoys just as great 
prominence as the "Peck" farm, and it is an 
interesting fact that at one time it was owned 
by Moses Kinnev, a greatgrandfather of Mr. 
Peck. 

Having in view the creation of a model dairy 
farm, Mr. Peck began at once to rearrange 
and enlarge the barns, which with the erection 
of three silos gives him ample room to carry 
on the dairy business with the least possible 
expense. With the buildings in readiness he 
began the formation of a dairy that has become 
famous over a wide territory. It is at the pres- 
ent time composed of seventy-six grade Hol- 
steins, and the amount of milk obtained from 
them is enormous, as will be seen farther along 
in this article. The stables are white as lime 
can make them, and they are kept very neat, 
a feature that counts for much in the disposal 
of milk. 

Sixty-eight cows are milked and the amount 
they produce is the test of their value. At the 
present time the yield from the sixty-eight 



cows is one thousand five himdrecl and fifty 
quarts, or an average of forty-nine pounds a 
day to a cow. This gives a sum total of nearly 
three thousand three hundred pounds each day. 

Of course some of the cows are greater pro- 
ducers than others, and a few individual rec- 
ords will be interesting. One of the herd gives 
ninety-one pounds a day, two others eighty- 
five pounds each, and fifteen others an average 
of seventy pounds each, and it may be well to 
state that only two milkings are made in a day. 
Thirty of the cows produce an average of sixty 
pounds a day, or twenty-eight forty-quart cans. 
These figures seem startling, and they are 
startling to one not familiar with present-day 
dairying, and they place the Peck herd among 
the leading dairies of the state. 

The amount of feed consumed by this dairy 
is another interesting feature, for to produce 
such extraordinary results the cows must be 
well fed and watered. In round numbers the 
entire herd is given the following ration daily : 
One thousand one hundred pounds of mixed 
grain, one thousand pounds of cabbage, six 
hundred and fifty pounds of hay and one thou- 
sand five hundred and fifty pounds of ensilage. 
The cows are all watered in the stalls. The 
milk goes daily to McGrawville, where it is 
cooled and then shipped to New York. 

To keep up the high standard of his dairy Mr. 
Peck is continually buying and selling, and the 
calves he hires raised to the age of three years 
by outside parties whose land is not as valuable 
as his is. He has customers for his stock all 
over the country, and especially on Long 
Island is the demand for cows from "Peck's 
dairy" very great. 

Notwithstanding the large amount of feed 
consumed bv his stock, Mr. Peck raises an 
ample supply and really has more ensilage than 
he can use. Some of the land raises fine tim- 
othy hay, but instead of feeding this he sells 
it and buys alfalfa. What new seeding he 
does is entirely to clover instead of timothy. 
By rea.son of the large quantity of fertilizer he 
has, the land yields heavy crops, and Mr. Peck 
buys the best of seed obtainable. For instance, 
last year he sent to Wisconsin for twenty-five 
bushels of a species of heavy yielding oats, 
paying fifty dollars, or two dollars a bushel. 
The yield on nine acres was eight hundred 
bushels, while the ordinary crop of our com- 
mon oats is about fifty bushels to the acre. 
And now Mr. Peck is selling part of these 
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Mr. Peck has established one of the largest, 
if not the largest, market of the highest grade 
Holstein cattle in the state of New York. 

He is a member of \'esta Lodge, Independ- 
ent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the Baptist 
church, and was superintendent of the First 
Baptist Church Sunday school for five years. 

He married. December 26, 1889. Gertrude 
M., daughter of Ephraim and Louisa (Hender- 
.son) Smith, of Cortland, and sister of his 
brother's wife. Children: Elizabeth L., born 
in Solon, 1893 ; Stanley, died aged eighteen 
months; Lawrence (twin), born in Cortland, 
December 18, 1902; Leslie, twin of Lawrence. 



Captain James Sands, the immi- 
S.AXDS grant ancestor, is said to have 
come from Reading, Berkshire, 
England. He was born in England, in 1622. 
The history of Block Island asserts that he 
was son of Henry Sands (Sandis or Sandys), 
of Boston, the first of the name in this country, 
but it appears more likely that the two were 
brothers. Henry was at Rowley in 1639, and 
admitted a freeman October 6, 1640; returned 
to Boston before 1648. when he assigned a 
quarter interest in the ship "Welcome" ; died 
in 165 1. His first child was born in 1638. 
according to the records. 

Captain James Sands is said to have come 
first to Plymouth, in New England. The his- 
tory of Block Island relates in detail the story 
of his contract to build a house for the famous 
Mrs. .Anne Hutchinson, in 1642, after she was 
exiled from Boston. He abandoned the job. 
after a threatening visit from the Indians, and 
Mrs. Hutchinson and her entire household 
were slain in the house afterward. Eastches- 
ter, where the house was located, could be 
reached by vessel from Long Island sound. 
Sands had a grant of land next the "round 
meadow," in Portsmouth. October 5, 1643, and 
he bought more land in 1654. He was a free- 
man in 1655, and a commissioner of Rhode 
Island in 1657, but on account of illness could 
not serve. He was one of the original settlers 
of Block Island (or Xew Shoreham), Rhode 
Island, and. in if)()i. received Lot No. 12, in 
the north part of the island, in the first division. 
In 1664 he was ordered to come before the 
governor of Rhode Island to qualify as con- 
stable or conservator of the ]ieace at Block 
Island, the government of which Rhode Island 
assumed. He was the first deputy to the gen- 
eral assembly. In 1670 he and four others 



were appointed to make a rate and assess taxes 
there. In 1671 he sold his property at Ports- 
mouth. During King Philip's war he was 
assistant warden. A large storehouse was 
garrisoned by him and the women and children 
of the island gathered there for safety. Three 
French privateers landed a force on the island, 
July 3, 1689, plundered the inhabitants, killed 
their cattle, etc., making headc|uartcrs in the 
house of Sands, "which was large and ac- 
comadable for their purpose and not far from 
the harbor." His will, with codicil, dated Feb- 
ruary 24, 1695, was proved May 6, 1695, his 
wife .^arah named as executrix. To his chil- 
dren he bequeathed four hundred acres of 
land, fifty-si.x head of cattle, three hundred 
sheep, horses, thirty swine, a negro woman, 
house, barn, mill and considerable other per- 
sonal estate. His widow Sarah gave the 
negress Hannah, March 9, 1699, to her grand- 
daughter, Sarah Sands, daughter of Edward; 
the negress Sarah to granddaughter, Catherine 
Niles ; a negro boy to grandson. Sands Ray- 
mond, and a negro girl Rose to granddaughter, 
Elizabeth Raymond, the slave girls to be free at 
the age of thirty, the boy at thirty-three. The 
widow's will was dated October 17, 1703, and 
proved June 13, 1709, bequeathing considerable 
])er.sonal property to children and grandchil- 
dren. His gravestone is standing at Block 
Island. He died March 13, 1695. He mar- 
ried Sarah Walker. In religion he was a Bap- 
tist and a friend of Roger Williams. He was 
the first freeman on the island and the fore- 
most citizen, the first deputy to the general 
court and he procured the citizenship of the 
islanders and procured the town charter. Three 
of his four sons removed to Cow Neck, now 
Sands Point, on Long Island on the sound, 
though they kept their farms on the island and 
returned every spring to shear their sheep. 
Children: i. John, mentioned below. 2. Sarah, 
married, February 14, 1671, Nathaniel Niles. 
3. Mercy, married, .April 29, 1683, Joshua Ray- 
mond. 4. James, married ^lary Cornell ; willed 
rights in Goshen, Orange county. New York. 
5. Samuel, lived at Cow Neck, will proved in 
Rhode Island, 17 16. 6. Edward, born 1672, 
died 1708. 

( II ) John, son of Captain James Sands, was 
born in 1652, and died at Cow Neck. Long 
Island. March 15, 1712: married Sybil Ray, 
born March 19, 1665, died December 23, 1733, 
daughter of Simon and Mary (Thomas) Ray. 
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1678-80-yo; captain in 1680. and freeman in 
1684. In 1696 he removed from Block Island 
to Cow Neck. He antl his wife are huried in 
the family lot, which he gave for the purpose 
of a burial ground. He bought his farm at 
Cow Xcck. in 169 1, of Richard Cornell, of 
Rockaway, adjoining the farm of his brother. 
Samuel Sands. Children : John, mentioned 
below; Nathaniel, born 1687; Edward, 1691 ; 
George, 1694; Mary, 1697; Catherine, 1700; 
Dorothy, 1703: Abigail, 1708. 

(Ill) John (2), son of Captain John (2) 
Sands, was born in l^>lock Island, January 22, 
1683-84. and died on the homestead. Cow 
Neck, .August 15, 1763. The gravestones of 
both John and wife are preserved in the Sands 
burying-ground at Cow Neck. He lived at 
Cow Neck until ten years after his marriage 
and then moved to the interior of Cow Neck, 
where he lived until about 1733, when he re- 
moved to his father's homestead, which he 
purchased from his brother Nathaniel. He 
married at .Newport, Rhode Island, September 
9, 1706, Catherine, daughter of Robert Guth- 
rie. She was born on Block Island, June 24, 
i6)o, and died at Cow Neck, Febniary 10, 
1769. His will was dated February 2"]. 1759, 
and was proved September 30. 1763. Chil- 
dren (authority. Bunker's "Long Island Gene- 
alogies") : I. John, born 1708: married (first), 
in 1734, Elizabeth Sands; (second). 1736. Eliz- 
abeth Cornell. 2. Robert, December 26, 1710: 
died unmarried, April 12, 1735. 3. Edward. 
January 17, 1711-12; ancestor of all the pres- 
ent families of this surname on Block Island. 
4. Mary, 1713. died March 15, 1724. 5. George, 
1717, died young probably (not the George 
who died January 15. 1777). 6. .Xnne, Alarch 
16, 1719; married (first) Christopher Dean; 
(second) David Brooks. 7. Nathaniel, No- 
vember 30, 1721, died 1783; married Mercy 
Sands. 8. Joshua, March 22, 1725, died 1787. 
9. Simon, July 12, 1727, died 1782; married 
(first) Catherine Tredwell, (second) Sarah 
Sands. 10. Gideon, October 22, 1729; married 
Mary Sands. 11. Mary, born about 1731-32; 
married Samuel Gifford. 12. George, men- 
tioned below. 13. Benjamin, November, 1735, 
died 1824; married Mary Jackson. (Some 
records from "Descent of Comfort Sands"). 

(I\') George, son of John (2) Sands, was 
born Auril 17, 1733, at Sand Point, and died 
in Middletown, Delaware county, New York, 
.A.ugust 8, 1816. He married Jemima, daugh- 
ter of Abel and Ruth Smith." He settled at 



Middletown. Delaware county, where he fol- 
lowed farming. .Among his children was Abel, 
mentioned below. 

(V) Abel, son of George Sands, was born 
.April 9, 1758, and died at Middletown, New 
York, June 11. 1821. He married Elizabeth 
Brooks, of F'oughkeepsie, New York, and she 
died September 8, 1825, aged fifty-seven years. 
Children: Edward; Isaac; George H.. men- 
tioned below, and several daughters. 

(VI) George H., son of Abel Sands, was 
born in Middletown, June 5, 1792, and died 
there. February 24, 1849. He was educated 
in the district schools and followed farming. 
He was also a general merchant, postmaster of 
the town, and justice of the peace. In his 
younger days he was active and prominent in 
the state militia, rising to the rank of colonel 
in command of his regiment. He was espe- 
cially zealous in promoting the welfare and 
assisting in the development of the town and 
region in which he lived. By his first wife, 
he had several children. He married (second) 

Jane, daughter of Samuel and ( Yaple) 

Smith, born May 4, 181 7. She is now living 
with her son in Cortlanl, at the advanced age 
of ninety-four years. Children of second wife: 
I. Ellen Jane, living with her brother, George 
S. Sands. 2. George S. (posthumous), men- 
tioned below. Jane (Smith) Sands married 
( second ) Chancy Keator, by whom she had 
two children; Mary Alida, deceased wife of 
William J. Walker, and Li via Elizabeth, wife 
of Clark Olds, of Erie, Penn.sylvania. 

(VII) Hon. George Smith Sands, son of 
George H. Sands, was born in Middletown, 
.August 19, 1849, !i'i<' attended the public 
schools there. He was afterward a student at 
Andes Collegiate Institute, Andes. Delaware 
county, and Delaware Academy, at Delhi, New 
York; in 1867-68 he attended the Cortland- 
ville .Academy, and in the winter of 1868-69 he 
was emi)loyed in the First National I'ank of 
Cortland, whither the family removed in .April, 
1867. The experience and training he received 
in the bank he found of incalculable value to 
him in later years. .At the opening of the 
State Normal School, in Cortland, he was en- 
rolled as one of the first students, and he pur- 
sued the classical course there until May, 1870. 
when, deciding to study law, he became a stu- 
dent in the office of M. M. Waters, Esq. In 
due course he was admitted to the bar, No- 
vember, 1873. During the vacation of 1869 
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S. Squires & Company. In 1873 he was elect- 
ed town clerk, holding the office for two years ; 
in 1876 he was elected justice of the peace, and 
reelected in 1880, serving for six years and 
executing the important duties of this office as 
magistrate and member of the town board with 
fidelity and ability. He resigned in 1883, in order 
to devote his entire attention to his practice, 
which had grown rapidly in the meantime. In 
politics Mr. Sands has always been a Repub- 
lican. In 1896 he was prominently mentioned 
as one of the candidates for the Republican 
nomination for justice of the supreme court, 
in the sixth judicial district. Mr. Sands re- 
luctantly accepted the nomination for member 
of assembly at the convention in 1898. when 
the party was divided by factional strife, and 
was elected. In recognition of his services as 
a wise and able legislator he was renominated 
the following year, and was reelected by a 
united party. In the legislature he supported 
all party measures, although he disagreed with 
the majority of his party in some very import- 
ant measures on which caucus action was not 
taken. As a member of the committee on 
codes, claims and federal relations, he was re- 
quired to devote much of his time to the pre- 
liminary examination of proposed laws and he 
became known as one of the few who gave 
such work conscientious attention. Codes com- 
mittee stands fourth in the list of importance 
in the assembly. In his second term he served 
on the special statutory revision committee, 
judiciary and other important committees. lie 
is trustee of Cortland Savings Bank. 

Mr. Sands is a member of Cortlandville 
Lodge of Free Masons, No. 470; of Cortland 
Chapter, No. 194, Royal Arch Masons; and 
has served several terms as master of his lodge 
and has been assistant grand lecturer in this 
district. His home is on Alain street, Cort- 
land. He is unmarried. 



The surname Phelps is a varia- 
PHELPS tion of the spelling of Phillips, 

meaning son of Philip, in the 
case of the original ancestor using it. The 
spelling of the surname has been varied and a 
number of different family names are traced 
to the same origin. One family of the Phelps 
claims to be descended from the Guelph fam- 
ily of Germany, to which Queen Victoria be- 
longed, but no proof in the records has been 
found to establish the claims. Some branches 
of the American family of Phelps are descend- 



ed from the ancient Phelps family of Tewks- 
bury, Gloucestershire, England. The ancient 
coat-of-arms is described thus : Sable, lion 
chained and rampant. \'arious branches of 
the family bear coats-of-arms in England. 

(I) James Phelps, progenitor of most of 
the Americans of this surname, was born about 
1520, and is supposed to have been a brother 
of Francis Phylppe, of Nether Tyne, Stafford- 
shire, England. He married Joan , who 

was given permission to administer on his 
estate. May 10, 1588. Children, baptized in 
the Tewksbury Abbey Church, England : Will- 
iam, August 4, 1 560, mentioned below : Thomas, 
August 10, 1563: George (Giles), September 
5, 1566: Alice, December 24, 1572, married. 
June 21, 1595, John Hope; Edward, May 10, 
1578; Keneline. October 16, 1580; Richard, 
October 16, 1583; Robert, July 18, 1594; Nich- 
olas. 

(II) William, son of James Phelps, was 
baptized at Tewksbury Church, August 4, 
1360, died probably in 161 1. He married Dor- 
othy — — ■ — , who administered his estate, and 
died in 1613. Children, baptized at Tewks- 
bury: Mary, September 4, 1587, died young; 
Mary, April 23. 1588: Thomas, June 24, 1590; 
Dorothy, February 29, 1595; \\'illiam, August 

19, 1599; James, July 14, 1601 ; Elizabeth, 
May 9, 1603; George, mentioned below. 

(III) George, son of William Phelps, was 
born at Tewksbury, England, about 1606. He 
came to New England with his brother Will- 
iam, sailing from Plymouth, England, March 

20, 1630. in the ship "Mary and John," four 
hundred tons. Captain Squab, with one hun- 
dred and forty passengers, and landing at Nan- 
tasket, now Hull, Massachusetts. He was one 
of the original thirty settlers at Dorchester 
with his brother, and was a member of Rev. 
Mr. Warham's church. He had a grant of six 
acres of land there, January, 1632. He was 
elected one of ten men to order the affairs of 
the colony for one year. He was admitted a 
freeman, May 6, 1635. In the fall of 1635 he 
was one of the founders of Windsor, Con- 
necticut. His home there was at the junction 
of Farmington and Great rivers, the latter 
now the Connecticut, the second lot south of 
Loomis property, and a very desirable farm. 
He had an orchard of a thousand trees. He 
married (first), in 1637, Philury, daughter of 
Philip Randall. Her father was born in Eng- 
land, and emigrated to New England in the 
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man Randall, was in Dorchester in 1630, and 
in Windsor in 1635. She was a member of 
Rev. Mr. Warham's church, and died in Wind- 
sor, April 29, 1648. He married (second) 
Widow Frances Dewey, November 16, 1648. 
Her first husband was Joseph Clark. He re- 
moved to Westfield, Massachusetts, in 1670, 
and was a juror at Hartford and Springfield. 
His will is dated June 6, 1687. Children of 
first wife, born at Windsor: Isaac, August 26, 
1638; Child, died 1647; Abraham, January 22, 
1641 ; Child, died 1647 ; Abigail, died 1649 ; 
Joseph, born June 24, 1647. Children of sec- 
ond wife: Jacob, February 7, 1650, mentioned 
below; John, February 15, 1651-52; Nathaniel. 
December 9, 1653. 

(IV) Jacob, son of George Phelps, was born 
in Windsor, February 7, 1650. He married, 
May 2, 1673, Dorothy, daughter of John and 
Dorothy (Lord) Ingersoll, born Hartford, 
1654; died \\'estfield. Massachusetts. Her 
father, John Ingersoll, came from England to 
Hartford, in 1651, and was of Northampton, 
Massachusetts, 1666; Westfield, i668-6g. He 
married three times. Dorothy Lord was the 
daughter of Thomas Lord, gentleman, and 

Dorothy , of England, and was one of 

the first and most prominent families of Hart- 
ford. Jacob Phelps settled in Westfield, and 
died there, October 6, 1689. His widow mar- 
ried second Mr. Root. Children, born in West- 
field : Dorothy, October 18, 1674, died Febru- 
ary 2. 1675 ; Dorothy, May 20, 1675 ; Hannah, 
November 26, 1677; Israel, April 3, 1681 ; 
Benjamin. January 8, 1683-84; Joseph, August 
5, 1686 ; Jedediah, mentioned below. 

(\') Jedediah, son of Jacob Phelps, was 
born in \\'estfield, December 7, 1688. He mar- 
ried Elizabeth Janes, who died in Lebanon, 
Connecticut, April 10. 1757. He settled in 
Lebanon, with three of his brothers, and from 
1708 to 171 1 the land records show several 
purchases of real estate in Lebanon. He died 
there, February 13. 1752. Children, born in 
Lebanon: Elizabeth, December 3, 1709: Abi- 
gail, November 4, 1710; Jacob, April 16, 1713; 
Paul, mentioned below ; Silas, January 27, 
1720; Jeremiah, June 26, 1724; Lucy, June 
26, 1725; Jedediah, June 20, 1727. 

(VI) Paul, son of Jedediah Phelps, was 
born in Lebanon, April 25, 1717. He was a 
farmer by occupation, and settled in Lebanon, 
where he died April 13, 1752. He married, 
December 11, 1740, Jerusha, born in Lebanon, 



December 6, 1720, died there, March 17, 1752, 
daughter of William and Mercy (Bailey) 
Dewey. Children, born in Lebanon : Jemima, 
August 13, 1741 ; Zerviah, October 8, 1742; 
Jerusha, May 29, 1744; Lurany, August 30, 
1746, died young; Paul, October 19, 1748, 
mentioned below: Lurany, January 14, 1751. 

(VII) Paul (2), son of Paul (i) Phelps, 
was born in Lebanon, October 19, 1748. He 
married (first) Zerviah, daughter of John and 
Sarah (Huntington) Calkins. He married 
(second) Theodosia Root. He settled first in 
Lebanon, and after the death of his first wife 
removed to Mansfield, Connecticut. Thence 
he went to Westfield, ^Massachusetts, and then 
to Pennsylvania, where he died. He is re- 
ferred to in the will of his father, dated No- 
vember 22, 1762. The Mansfield town records 
give the baptism of Jedediah, October 3, 1784, 
with the foregoing six children, "all of the 
household of Paul and Zerviah Phelps." Chil- 
dren, born at Lebanon: Anna, September i, 
1768: Simeon, October 4, 1771 ; Zerviah, No- 
vember 16, 1773: Elijah, October i, 1775. Chil- 
dren, born at Westfield: John, May 18, 1779; 
Solomon, April 25, 1781 : Jedediah, baptized 
October 3, 1784; Paul, baptized Alay 21, 1786, 
according to Mansfield church records, men- 
tioned below. 

(VIII) Paul (3), son of Paul (2) Phelps, 
was born in Mansfield, January 30, 1786. He 
settled first in Shaftsbury, Vermont, and later 
in Palmyra and Walworth, Wayne county, 
New York. He traveled on the road with a 
tin peddler's cart for many years, and was also 
a farmer. He married, February 21, 1809, 
Freelove Wait, born October 5, 1785. Chil- 
dren : Phebe, born December 29, 1809 ; Per- 
milia, August 12, 181 1; Philinda, August 9, 
1812, married Orswin Shapley; Philo, men- 
tioned below; Lucy Ann, April 25, 1818, mar- 
ried Wooster Howard ; Lyman, December 27, 
1819; William Bowen, June 14, 1822; Arsena 
Ann, September 24, 1825; Henry James, De- 
cember 5, 1827, died June 7, 1828. 

(IX) Philo, son of Paul (3) Phelps, was 
born September 14, 181 5, at Shaftsbury, Ver- 
mont, died in Cortland, New York, September 
6, 1886. He is supposed to have come to Cort- 
land with his parents when quite young. He 
received a common school education, and 
worked for the Cadeys in Dryden, New York, 
for a number of years. He came to Cortland 
before the railroads were built there, and did 



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contract teaming and trucking. He also dealt 
in butter and produce, which he took over the 
road to .Mbany, Syracuse and Binghamton. 
Jie was actively engaged in this work until 
within two years of his death. He was a Re- 
publican in politics. He married, September 
9, 1837, Rachel, daughter of Royal and Eunice 
(.■\twater) Shapley, born in \'irgil, New York, 
June 29, 1814, died June 17, 1892. Children: 
I. Andrew S., born September 27, 1838, soldier 
in the civil war: lives in Joliet, Illinois, manu- 
facturer. 2. Mary E.. .^pril 8, 1840, deceased. 
3. William E., October 21, 1841, deceased. 4. 
Amanda J.. June 5, 1843, died March 9, 1844. 
5. Byron M., November 30, 1845. with lienton 
Lumber Company, Cortland : married, 1868, 
Nellie Barber; children: Herbert J., born Oc- 
tober 7, 1870: Webb Barber, June 3, 1881. 
married Nettie .\. Waldo, daughter, Lucy (j.. 
born March 28. 1908. 6. Frances A., October 
18, 1847, died September 7, 1904: married 
(first) Patrick Mallory, (second) James E. 
iLombard. 7. John Homer, mentioned below. 
8. Frank A., F'ebruary 14, 1854, mentioned 
below. 9. Emily L., November 6, 1858 ; mar- 
ried L. R. Lewis. 

(X) John Homer, son of Philo Phelps, was 
born in Cortland, August 13, 1849. He was 
educated in the district schools and at Cortland 
.Academy. As a young man he worked on a 
farm, and learned the trade of carpenter. He 
worked at the latter trade for some years, 
went to work for the Benton Lumber Com- 
pany, of Cortland, in 1879, and has been with 
them since. He is the superintendent and 
foreman of the plant, and a stockholder in the 
company. He has been chief engineer of the 
fire department in Cortland and was its first 
paid chief. He is a member of the Methodist 
church. He married, June 29, 1874, Olive L. 
Hakes, born in Fabins, New York, June 22, 
185 1, daughter of Jesse and Catherine (Jones) 
Hakes. Children : " i. Nora, born March 6, 1875. 
lives at home. 2. Earl i\L, October 30, 1876, 
mentioned below. 3. Bertha Lazette, October 
18, 1882, died March, 1883. 4. Frances, Sep- 
tember 13, 1883: married Delmer S. Rowe. of 
Cortland ; son, John Phelps. 5. Jesse Hakes, 
mentioned below. 

(XI) Earl M., son of John Homer Phelps, 
was born in Cortland, October 30, 1876, and 
was educated in the public schools of Cortland, 
and in the Normal School there. He also took 
a course in dairv husbandry at Cornell L^ni- 
versity, and then went into the milk business 



in Cortland. He handles also butter, cheese 
and eggs, and has continued in the business for 
about ten years. He is a member of Cortland- 
ville Lodge, No. 470, Free and .Accepted 
Masons, of Cortland. In religion he is a }ileth- 
odist. He married, December, 1902, Jessie 
Price, born in Liverpool, New York, May 24, 
1874, daughter of William Joshua Taylor and 
Mary Ann ( Leiff ) Price. Her father was 
born in Poulshot, Wiltshire, England, Septem- 
ber 10, 1839, came to .America in 1846, with 
his parents, returned to England, and, in 1855, 
returned to America again. He served through 
the civil war and now lives in Liverpool, New 
York. He married Mary .Ann Leiff, of Liver- 
pool, New York, born February 2/. 1845, died 
December 5, 1901. Their childrer^ were : Lil- 
lian, Sidney and Jessie. Children of Earl M. 
Phelps: Marion, born December 20, 1903; 
Earl M., October i, 1905; Florence, May 23, 
1907: John Homer, January 22. 1909. 

(XI) Jesse Hakes, son of John Homer 
Phelps, was born in Cortland, May 3, 1887. 
He received his education in the public schools, 
the Cortland high school and the Cortland 
Business College and began his business career 
in the employ of his brother in the dairy and 
prodrce business. In December, 1909, he en- 
tered the insurance business, and, in January, 
1910, was appointed general agent of the North 
.American Insurance Company, a position he 
now holds. He is a member of Cortland City 
Lodge, Knights of Pythias. In politics he is 
an independent, and in religion a Methodist. 
He married, July 15, 1905, Lillian M. Howard, 
born at Cortland, New York, September 23, 
1884, daughter of William A. and Catherine 
(Hulbert) Howard. Children: John Howard, 
born February 14, 1908: Olive Katherine, July 
8, 1910. 

(X) Frank .Augustus, youngest son of Philo 
Phelps, was born at Cortland, New York, Feb- 
ruary 14, 1854. He attended the public schools 
of his native town, the Cortlandville .Academy 
and the State Normal School, at Cortland. Dur- 
ing his youth he worked on his father's farm 
and he learned the trade of blacksmith when a 
young man. He was a clerk for four years 
in stores at Scranton, Pennsylvania; Auburn 
and Cortland, New York. For twenty-five 
vears he was employed in the H. F. Benton 
Lumber Company mill, manufacturing sash 
and blinds. Since IQ02 he has been in the 
emplov of the L^nited States government, being 
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Cortland post office. He has always taken a 
keen interest in politics and has served the 
town as collector of ta.xes, and city as super- 
visor in si.xth ward two terms. He resigned 
the office of supervisor to accept his present 
office in the mail service. He has been chair- 
man of the Republican village committee. In 
religion he is a Liaptist, an active member and 
deacon of the First Baptist Church, of Cort- 
land. For four years he was superintendent 
of the Sunday school, and for seven years a 
trustee, most of that time being chairman of 
the board. His home is in Cortland. 

He married, September g, 1874, Harriet Lu- 
ella \'an Buren, born in Cortland, November 
26, 1853, (laughter of John Calvin \'an Buren. 
born -April 25, 1834, died May 2, 1906, and 
Rosalthea AI. (Chaffee) \'an Buren. born April 

3, 1837, died July 17, 1910, Moses \'an Buren, 
father of John Calvin \'an lUiren, was born 
April 4, 181 1, died June 2, 1871), married, Feb- 
ruary 9, 1832, Anna Alaria Baker, born March 
20. 1812. died November 11, 1870. Dow Van 
Buren, father of Moses \'an P)Uren, was born 
March 15, 1781. died March 24, iS^fh married 
Maria Gardner, born May 7, 1781, died Janu- 
ary 25, 1854. Children of Mr. and Mrs. 
Phelps: I. Ilenry Emmett, born Sejitember 29, 
1875, a gas titter and plumber in Irvington. 
New Jersey; married, September 8. 1897, Flor- 
ence Foote, of Ithaca, New York, born April 
2/, 1879; child, Margaret P.eatrice, born Jul\- 
7. 1899, in Cortland. 2. Millicent Louise, born 
November 14. 1880; married, September i, 
1909, Floyd Eugene McAllister, of the firm 
of John McAllister & Son, commission mer- 
chants of Cortland. 3. Robert Arthur, born 
November 15, 1884, now with the Pough- 
keepsie Light. Heat and Power Company, 
Poughkeepsie, New York; married. June 26, 

1907, Katlierine T. Cniacke, of Poughkeepsie. 

4. Frank Eugene, born April 9, 1887, a plumber 
by trade ; married Jessie Whiting. December 
31, 1907. 5. Benjamin Harrison, born April 
10, 1889, lives with his parents ; has been in the 
government mail service since he was seven- 
teen, first as substitute postman, and, since 

1908, as regular carrier. 



(Ill) William (2) Phelps, son 
PHELPS of William ( i ) Phelps (q. v.), 
was baptized in Tewksbury Ab- 
bey Church, Tewksbury, England, August 19. 
1599. There is no record of his wife or date 
of his marriage. He lived for a time in Tewks- 



bury, however, and his first child was born 
there. Shortly afterwards, he removed to one 
of the southern counties, and, March 20, 1630, 
with his wife, six children and brother George, 
emigrated to New England in the ship "Mary 
and John." This ship carried one hundred 
and forty passengers, who had been organized 
into a church before sailing. They landed at 
Nantasket, now Hull. Massachusetts, May 30, 
1630, and settled in Dorchester, the first settlers 
and founders of that town. William Phelps 
took an active part in town affairs and was 
made freeman during the first six months. No- 
vember 9. 1630, he was one of a jury of twelve, 
at the first jury trial in the New England 
colony. September 27, 1631, he was chosen 
constable; Alay 9, 1632, one of a committee 
of sixteen, chosen by the colony to see about 
the raising of a public stock. In 1635 he was 
a delegate to the general court. He was sev- 
eral times appointed, with others, to lay out 
and settle the bounds between towns. In 1635 
Rev. Mr. Warham, with sixty of his church 
in Dorchester, removed to the settling of Wind- 
sor. Connecticut. Among his followers were 
William Phelps and his family, and brother 
( jeorge. 

I'Vom the beginning, William Phelps took 
a prominent place in the town of Windsor, 
and, March 3, 1636, was one of seven com- 
missioners appointed to govern the new colony, 
then under the control of the Massachusetts 
Company, In 1638 the settlers of Windsor, 
W'ethersfield and Hartford met at the latter 
place, and adopted a constitution for the Con- 
necticut colony, now declared to be outside 
the jurisdiction of Massachusetts. This docu- 
ment was drawn up by the presiding magis- 
trate. Roger Ludlow, with the assistance of the 
magistrates, of whom William Phelps was one. 
He held the office of magistrate from 1639 to 
1643, 1656 to 1662. He was also deputy in 
1651. Alany records of purchase and sale of 
land by him are to be found in the land records 
of Windsor. He was one of the most promi- 
nent and highly respected men in the colony, 
and was accorded the title of Mr., given only 
to people of distinction. His first wife died 
in 1635, and he married (second), in 1638, 
Mary Dover, one of the ])assengers on the ship 
"Mary and John." and a member of the Dor- 
chester and Windsor church. He died in 
Windsor. July 14, 1672, and his wife, Novem- 
ber 27, 1675. Children of first wife, born in 
England : Richard, baptized in Tewksbury, De- 



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cember 26, 1619; William, born 1620; Sarah, 
1623 ; Samuel, 1625 ; Nathaniel, 1627 ; Joseph, 
1629. Children of second wife: Timothy, born 
in Windsor, mentioned below ; Alary, born in 
Windsor, March 2. 1644. 

(IV) Lieutenant Timothy Phelps, son of 
William (2) Phelps, was born in Windsor, 
September i, 1639, died in 1719. He lived in 
Windsor, on the old homestead, on land pur- 
chased by his father from the Indians. He 
was freeman, May 2, 1664. He was chosen 
lieutenant of the train band in Windsor, May, 
1690, and captain. May, i6g6. He was ap- 
pointed a lieutenant by the general court, in 
1709, and served in Queen Anne's war, under 
Colonel William Whiting, Captain Matthew 
Allyn's company. He married. March 19, 
1661, Alary, daughter of Edward Griswold, of 
Killingworth, Connecticut, born in Windsor, 
baptized October 13, 1644, died before her 
husband. Children, born in Windsor: Timo- 
thy, November i, 1663; Joseph, September 27, 
1666, mentioned below ; William, February 4, 
1669; Cornelius, April 26, 1671 ; Mary. Au- 
gitst 14, 1673; Samuel, January 29, 1675: Na- 
thaniel, January 7, 1677; Sarah, December 27, 
1679; Abigail, June 3, 1682; Hannah, August 
2, 1684; Anne, "October 2, 1686; Martha, No- 
vember 12, 1688. 

(V) Joseph, son of Timothy Phelps, was 
born in Windsor, September 27, 1666, died 
August 30, 1716. He married, November 18, 
1686, Sarah, daughter of John and Phillury 
(Thrall) Hosford, born in Windsor, Septem- 
ber 27, 1666, died probably in Hebron. Her 
father was a man of considerable property for 
those times, and left her on his death, one hun- 
dred pounds. Joseph Phelps settled first in 
Windsor, but removed about 1710 to Hebron, 
where he owned a large amount of land. Chil- 
dren, born in Windsor : Sarah, August 14, 
1687; Mary, June 8, 1689; Joseph. March 16, 
1692; Abigail, October 15, 1693, fl'^*^' yoimg; 
Edward, 1697 ; Benoni, June 24, 1699, prob- 
ably died young; John, September 20, 1703, 
mentioned below; Abel, February 19, 1705; 
Daniel, March 28, 1707; Ichabod, April 3, 
1708; Jonathan, 1710; Abigail, December. 
1714. 

(VI) John, son of Joseph Phelps, was boni 
in Windsor, September 20, 1703, died in Heb- 
ron, February 10, 1769. He married (first) 
Anna, daughter of Obadiah and Mindwell 
(Phelps) Hosford (of line of George Phelps), 
February 11 or 14, 1725. She was born in 



Windsor, February 23, 1705, died in Hebron, 
in 1740. He married (second), 1742, Mind- 
well Hosford, sister of his first wife. Chil- 
dren of first wife, born in Hebron: Aaron, 
March 25, 1728-29, died April 7, 1743; Anna, 
March 25, 1728-29; John, September 27, 1730, 
mentioned below; Sarah, October 4, 1733; 
Amos, May 30, 1736; Roger, December 24, 
1738. Children of second wife: Aaron, Alarch 
31, 1743; Mindwell, 1744: Sarah, March 30, 
1745; Nathan, 1750, died young, unmarried. 

(VII) Sergeant John (2) Phelps, son of 
John ( I ) Phelps, was born in Hebron, Sep- 
tember 27, 1730, died there. He served as a 
soldier in the revolution. Fourth Connecticut 
Regiment, Colonel John Durkee, Captain Hin- 
man's company, for three years. He was made 
sergeant, .\ugust 27, 1778, discharged March 
14, 1780. He was for a time under General 
Sullivan in New York, and after his discharge ; 
soon reenlisted. He was a farmer by occupa- I 
tion and settled in Hebron. He married, Janu- 
ary 16, 1755, in Lebanon, Deborah Dewey, i 
born in Lebanon, died in Hebron. Children, 
born in Hebron: Anna, November 12, 1755; 
John, October 19, 1757: Obadiah, Januarj- 21. 
1759; Jared, October 15, 1760; Norman, No- 
vember 8, 1763; Nathan, December 31, 1765. 
mentioned below ; Benjamin, February 3, 1768; 
Dudley, March 8, 1771 ; Keziah, June 10, 1773: 
Sarah, June 10, 1778. 

(VIII) Nathan, son of Sergeant John (2) 
Phelps, was born in Hebron, December 31, 
1765, died in Becket, Alassachusetts, Novem- 
ber 3, 1841. He married, April 6, 1786, Abi- 
gail Fuller, born Hebron, November 25, 1766, 
died in Becket. April 5. 1853. She was a sis- 
ter of his brother Jared's wife. He settled in 
Becket. Children, born in Becket : Cynthia, 
January 16, 1787: Abigail, July 19, 1789, died 
August 18. 1791 ; Abigail, May 26, 1791 ; 
Alvah, June 5, 1793, died August 22, 1793; 
Nathan, August 19, 1794; Elizabeth, June 3, 
1797; Harvey, March 19, 1800; Dudley, June 
10, 1802. died August 9. 1817; Denise, Octo- 
ber 5, 1804: Benjamin, July 14, 1807; Alvah, 
August 2, 1810; Gideon, mentioned below. 

(IX) Gideon, son of Nathan Phelps, died 
in Triangle, New York, about 1871. The gcne- 
alog)' does not give his name in the list of chil- ; 
dren. He was a farmer at Triangle, Broome 1 

county. He married Martha . Chil- 1 

dren: Rudolphus, Harvey, Dudley, Philip; 
Seth, mentioned below : Baruch. 

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in Triangle, August 22, 1836, died December 
14, 1910. He was educated in the district 
schools of his native town and afterward 
taught school there. In later years he fol- 
lowed farming for his occupation. He was a 
member of the Baptist church of Triangle and 
for many years superintendent of its Sunday 
school. In politics he was a Republican. He 
married, April 14, 1858, Caroline Brockett, 
born May, 1836, in Chenango county, daugh- 
ter of Willis and Martha (Hubbard ) Brockett. 
Children : Theodore, mentioned below ; Carrie, 
October 28, 1862, married (first) George Har- 
rison, of Smithville, New York, and had one 
child, Rollin T., married (second) Edward J. 
Jones, of Triangle, a farmer ; Eugene, born 
March 17, 1870, contractor, living in Staten 
Island, New York; Mary D., twin of Eugene, 
a school teacher. 

(XI) Theodore, son of Seth Phelps, was 
born in Triangle. Broome county. New York, 
November 11, 1859. He attended the public 
and select schools of his native town. He fol- 
lowed the lumber business for three years in 
Broome and Chenango counties, for nine years 
carried on farming in Triangle, and for nine 
years was in the retail grocery business in 
Itaska, Broome county. New York. In 1905 
he came to Homer, New York, and since then 
has been engaged in the grocery business in 
that town with abundant success. Since 1905 
he has been postmaster of Little York. He 
married. May 18, 1887, Hattie Edson, of Wind- 
sor, Broome county. New York, daughter of 
Charles and Chloe (Edwards) Edson. Chil- 
dren: Helen E., born September 25, 1890, a 
student of Syracuse University; Genevieve I., 
October 18, i893,attendingHomer high school. 



The pedigree of this family traces 
ADAMS the ancestor, according to one ac- 
count, to Ap Adam, the father of 
John, or Lord Ap Adam, who was called to 
parliament by Edward I., as Baron of the 
Realm, from i2()6 to 1301. and states that he 
came out of the Marches or Borders of Wales 
into Devonshire. This statement has been dis- 
credited by genealogists, though proof of error 
seems as much wanting as proof of correct- 
ness. If correct, the lineage includes kings of 
England and France, and goes back to Charle- 
magne. 

(I) Henry Adams, immigrant ancestor, was 
bom in England, and came from Braintree, 
England, to Braintree, Massachusetts, about 



1632-33. He was allotted forty acres of 
land for the ten persons in his family, Feb- 
ruary 24, 1639-40. President John Adams, 
a descendant, believed that Henry Adams 
came from Devonshire, and erected a monu- 
ment to him in the old burying-ground at 
Braintree, now Ouincy, with this inscription, 
"In memory of Henry Adams, who took flight 
from the Dragon persecution in Devonshire, 
England, and alighted with eight sons near 
Mount Wallaston. One of the sons returned 
to England ; and after taking time to explore 
the countr}', four removed to Medfield, and 
two to Chelmsford. One only, Joseph, who lies 
here at his left hand, remained here — an orig- 
inal proprietor in the township of Braintree." 
The monument commemorates "the piety, hu- 
mility, simplicity, prudence, patience, temper- 
ance, frugality, industry and perseverance" of 
the .Adams ancestors. 

President John Quincy Adams, however, 
dissented from the conclusion of his father 
that Henry Adams was from Devonshire. Sav- 
age agrees with the younger Adams that the 
immigrant was from Braintree, county Essex, 
England, and some of the sons were from 
Chelmsford, in that county. It is generally be- 
lieved that the wife of Henry Adams returned 
to England, with the daughter L^rsula, and 
died there. Henry Adams died at Braintree, 
October 6, 1646, and was buried on the 8th. 
In his will, proved June 8, 1647, he mentions 
sons Peter, John, Joseph, Edward, Samuel, 
and daughter Crsula. Children, born in Eng- 
land : Lieutenant Henry, born 1604, married, 
November 17, 1643, in Braintree, Elizabeth 
Paine, settled in Medfield ; Lieutenant Thomas, 
1616; Captain Samuel, 1617; Deacon Jona- 
than, 1619; Peter, 1622; John, about 1624; 
Joseph, 1626; Ensign Edward, mentioned 
below. 

(II) Ensign Edward Adams, son of Henry 
Adams, was born in 1630, in England, and 
came with his parents to Braintree, Massa- 
chusetts, in 1632 or 1633. He settled with 
three other brothers, in ^ledfield, Massachu- 
setts. He was ensign and selectman and repre- 
sented the town in the general court in 1689- 
92-1702. He died November 12, 1716, in Med- 
field, "the last of the original settlers." He 
married (first), 1652, Lydia, daughter of Rich- 
ard and Agnes (Bicknell) Rockwood. She 
died March 3, 1676-77; he married (second), 
1678, Widow Abigail (Craft) Ruggles, of Rox- 
bury, Massachusetts, who died in 1707; mar- 



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ried (third), January 6, i/og-io, Sarah Tay- 
lor. Children, born in Medfield : Lydia, born 
July 12, 1653 ; Captain Jonathan, April 4, 1655 ; 
John, February 18, 1657-58; Elias, February 
18, 1658-59. married a great-granddaughter of 
Miles Standish ; Sarah, May 29, 1660; Lieu- 
tenant James, January 4. 1661-62; Henry, Oc- 
tober 29, 1663, mentioned below ; Mehitable. 
March 30, 1665; Elisha, August 25. 1666; Ed- 
ward, June 28, 1668; Bethia, April 12, 1670, 
died 1672; Bethia, August 18, 1672, died 
young; Abigail, June 25, 1675, died young; 
Miriam, February 26, 1676-77, died young. 

(III) Henry (2), son of Ensign Edward 
Adams, was born October 29, 1663, in Med- 
field. He married (first), December 10, 1691, 
Patience, daughter of Thomas and Mary 
(Wight) Ellis. She was born February 22. 
1668-69, died 1695. He married (second). 
1697-98, in Providence, Rhode Island. Ruth 
Ellis, sister of Patience, born October 31. 1670. 
He married (third) Mrs. Hannah Adams, at 
Canterbury, Connecticut. He removed first 
to Providence, where he married his second 
wife, and had several children born. Thence 
he removed to Canterbury, about 1706. where 
he spent the remainder of his life. He died 
there, June 22, 1749. His last wife, Hannah, 
died March 20, 1748-49. His will was made 
September 10, 1748, and proved July 21, 1749. 
He bequeathed to his wife the goods she 
brought with her for her three daughters, 
names his three sons, David, Solomon and 
Ebenezer, giving to the first mentioned twenty 
pounds, and to the other two, ten pounds each. 
To his three daughters. Hannah Burnai). Ruth 
Kingaley and Patience, he gave four hundretl 
pounds in bills of credit. A residue of his 
property was to go to Henry and Joseph, and 
his son David and son-in-law, Abraham Rur- 
nap, were named as executors. Children, born 
in Medfield. of first wife: David, September 
3. 1692; Hannah, February 21, 1693-94. Chil- 
dren of second wife, born in Providence: Solo- 
mon, .^pril 23, 1699; Henry, October 14, 1700; 
Ruth, April 10, 1702; Ebenezer (twin), Feb- 
ruary II, 1704; Patience (twin) ; Joseph, men- 
tioned below. 

(IV) Joseph, son of Henry (2) .Adams, 
was born in Providence, July 28, 1706, died in 
New Marlborf)ugh, Massachusetts, October. 
1769. He settled in New Marlborough, and 
was one of the five persons who formed the 
first church in that town. He married, 1738, 
Miriam, daughter of Moses and Mary (John- 



son) Cleveland, born January 30, 1718-19, died 
in New Marlborough, June 18, 1766. Her 
father. Moses Cleveland, had a brother Aaron, 
who was the father of Grover Cleveland. Her 
mother was Mary (Johnson) Cleveland, daugh- 
ter of Obadiah Johnson, of Canterbury. Con- 
necticut. Children, born in Canterbury: Mary. 
September 23, 1738; .\aron, April 14, 1741, 
dietl young: Huldah. June 26. 1743. Born in 
New Marlborough: Captain Simon, March 12, 
1746. a soldier in the revolution; Corporal 
Moses, November 30, 1748. mentioned below: 
Henry, September 30, 1750; Sergeant Zebe- 
diah, July 5. 1753, soldier in the revolution: 
Alice, December 8, 1755 ; Joseph, .April 3, 1758. 
died August 18. 1858; Aaron. July 20, 1761. 
soldier in the revolution. 

( V) Moses, son of Joseph .\dams. was born 
in New Marlborough. November 30. 1748. He 
was a soldier in the revolution, enlisted from 
Lenox, Massachusetts, corporal in Captain 
Soul's company, .April 19. 1775, served seven- 
teen days; enlisted May 8, 1775. Captain Noah 
.Allen's company. Colonel Edward Wiggles- 
worth's regiment, served one month, one day; 
reported dead, August. 1777, at X'alley Forge. 
He married .\nn Willard, a sister of Dr. Will- 
iam Willard. Children, born in Lenox : Nor- 
man, died young of yellow fever, at Philadel- 
phia ; Moses, born about 1772-73, mentioned 
below; Captain Lyman. April 12, 1775. 

(\T) Moses (2), son of Moses (i) .Adams, 
was born in Lenox, about 1772-73, died in 
Wayne county. New York, in 1842. He mar- 
ried Sylvia Johnson, who died December 5. 
1852. aged seventy-five. He removed from 
Lenox to I'nion (now Lisle), Broome county, 
New 'N'ork. Children, born in LInion (now 
Lisle): Norman, .August 10. 1794; Charles. 
June 14, 1797; Louisa, March 7, 1798; Har- 
riet. September 24. 1799; Moses, January 10, 
1802, mentioned below; Edward, June 30, 
1804; George, April 13, 1806; Walter. Febru- 
ary 25. 1808: \'alentine, February, 1810, died 
Marcli 1 1, 181 1. 

(\TI) Moses (3), son of Moses (2) .Adams. 
was born in Union village, town of Lisle. Jan- 
uary 10, 1802, died in Marathon. New A'ork. 
January 21, 1890. He was bound out at the 
age of eight years, and lived with his guardian, 
with the exception of a few years, until the 
death of the latter. He was left, by will, the 
farm, the farming utensils, and one-half of the 
stock. He continued to live on this farm and 
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Marathon. In politics he was originally a 
Whig, but upon the formation of the Repub- 
lican party became a member of the latter 
party. He served as assessor and sujjervisor 
of his town for a number of years. He mar- 
ried, October 28, 1824, .\nn. daughter of Moses 
Lockwood, born in Pound Ridge, Westchester 
county. Xew York. April 6, 1803, died in 
Marathon, March. 1893. Children: Lyman, 
born October 31. 1825. mentioned below : Mary 
Ann, July 24, 1828, married Charles lirink, 
deceased; Eveline, January 29. 1830, married 
Benjamin B. Woodworth, lived in Cortlantl ; 
Charles C, May 30, 1832: Helen A., August 
21, 1834, married Edward Dunham Robie. a 
retired United States naval engineer, lives in 
Washington, D. C. : John O.. April 7. 1837; 
Walter, h'ebruarv (•>. 1840. of Maratln)n, Xew 
York. 

(\'1I1) Lyman, son of Aloses (3) Adams, 
1 was born in Marathon, October 31, 1825. and 
received a common school education in the 
town of Lisle. Here he remained until he was 
twenty-two years old. He then taught school 
for three months, and later went into a store 
in Broome county as a clerk, and also clerked 
in a store at East \ irgil. At the end of a few 
months, in 1849, he returned to his native 
t town. Marathon, and stayed there as a clerk 
I for about five years. In October, 1853. he 
i went into a general mercantile business with 
R. P. Burhans as partner. At the end of a 
I year they took into partnership Anson Peck, 
' and after two years more Mr. Burhans went 
out of the business, which was then conducted 
under the firm name of Peck & Adams. In 
1 i860 James H. Tripp was taken into the firm 
I and the name became Peck, Adams & Tripp. 
After a short time they closed out the business. 
and dissolved the partnership. Messrs. .Adams 
and Tri])i) then removed to Canandaigua. New 
York, where they were employed in a bank. 
; At the end of a year there, they returned to 
Marathon, leased their old storeroom, and car- 
ried on a mercantile business until 1883, when 
they again closed it out. liefore this they had 
together conducted a private banking business, 
which had been highly successful, and. in 1883. 
set about organizing a bank, into which they 
merged their own banking interests. In 1884 
the Mrst National Bank of Marathon, was 
started, with Mr. Tripp as president, and Mr. 
Adams held the position of cashier until his 
death. Mr. Adams distinguished himself in 
business as a shrewd, practical and conserva- 



tive man, of good judgment and uiiquestion- 
ed integrity. He was a Republican in poli- 
tics, but had given little time to political mat- 
ters. He served, however, as supervisor of 
the town for two years. 

He married (first), September 15. 1853, 
Ruth, daughter of William and Lucy ( Church) 
Squires, of Marathon, died January 6, 1863. 
He married (second), September 11, 1865, 
Louisa M., daughter of William L. Denton. 
Child of first wife, born in Marathon: Edgar 
L., April 2/, 1857, mentioned below. Child of 
second wife, born in Marathon: Augusta D., 
.August 15, 1873, died January 30, 1904, mar- 
ried Thaddeus R. Clark, of Marathon. 

(IX) Edgar L.. son of Lyman Adams, was 
born at Marathon, New York, yVpril 27, 1857. 
He began his education in the public schools 
of his native town, and, like many successful 
men. is still educating himself. The Mara- 
thon Independent was established in July, 1870, 
and in the following April he became an ap- 
prentice in the office of that newspaper. In 
the fall of 1872 he entered the employ of his 
father's firm as clerk, but a mercantile life was 
not attractive, and, in 1874, he returned to the 
office of the Independent, and worked in vari- 
ous pt>sitions until .April, 1876, when he ac- 
cepted a position as local editor of the Cort- 
land Democrat, then owned by B. 15. Jones. 
Two months later he was called back to Mara- 
thon to take charge of the Independent, on ac- 
count of the failing health of its publisher, 
Wallace Kelley, and when the business was 
sold, in December following, he continued as 
editor of the paper, in the employ of the new 
owners. Brooks & Day. This firm was suc- 
ceeded, May I, 1878, by Brooks & Adams, the 
interests of the junior partner having been ac- 
quired by Mr. Adams, and with the exception 
of a brief period, Mr. Adams has been editor 
and proprietor ever since. For a time he was 
c>n the staff' of the Syracuse Sunday Times, 
having leased the Independent from 1880 to 
1 88 1. .As a writer, especially of humorous 
|)aragraphs, Mr. .Adams has won a national 
reputation. The paragraphs that brightened 
his newspaper week after week gave it a wide 
circulation and were copied extensively in other 
publications. In recent years the pressure of 
numerous business interests and public duties 
have restricted his output as a writer, but his 
wit is in evidence from time to time in the 
Independent and in after-dinner speeches. 

"Brick" Pomeroy. editor of Ponieroy's Deni- 



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ocrat, and a wit of national reputation, said of 
Mr. Adams in an article entitled "The Humor- 
ous Writers of America" : "The Cortland Dem- 
ocrat, N. Y., independent, is another paper, 
whose editor has sense, wit and ambition, Ed. 
L. Adams is its editor, and he is fast making 
his paper noted in causing people to inquire 
as to the size and whereabouts of Marathon. 
His paper is largely quoted, as its paragraphs 
are unusually pointed, witty and close-fitting. 
.'\lmost any man can write a long article, but 
it takes a good man to let go, when he has said 
enough." Mr. Adam's connection with the 
Xevv York State Press Association has made 
him widely acquainted among the newspaper 
men of the state and he enjoys the personal 
friendship of many prominent writers. A con- 
temporary editor recently wrote a sketch of 
Mr. Adams, in which he said : "He is manifest- 
ly a character and a leader. Everybody loves 
Edgar, partly because he is full of wit, full of 
ideas, full of energy and life and is an all- 
round good fellow, and partly because he is 
just lovable. * * How Marathon would sur- 
vive without Edgar L. Adams is a problem. 
He has dipped into various branches of liter- 
ary work — humorous, pathetic, political and 
just plain news items. He has, we believe, re- 
frained from poetry. His readers can, there- 
fore, look back over his career and forgive 
many of his sins. As a humorous writer he 
has in his time pleased such raucous critics as 
the once famous 'Brick' Pomeroy, who praised 
his humorous work ; and, away along in the 
twenty-first century, we will say, when obitu- 
ary writers or rather historians, set forth the 
annals of the truly great and good, it is not 
improbable that the name of Edgar L. Adams 
will shine forth in letters of burnished gold 
with such contemporary humorists as George 
-•Xde. Wu Ting Fang, Borge Jailey of the 
Houston Post. Chauncey Depew, E. Tracey 
Sweet of the Scranton Tribune-Republican, 
Irvin S. Cobb and others of the present day 
who are helping to brighten life with their 
wit and wisdom. At even a still more remote 
period, when some enterprising mahatma is 
pawing around among the spooks in search of 
a convivial spirit to drive away the blues, we 
hope Edgar may be found in his little sanctum 
in Marathon, buried in his paper — The Inde- 
pendent — for somebody must read it, you 
know. In the meantime, he is publishing a 
newspaper worth, among other considerations, 



any farmer's cordwood and turnips in pay- 
ments of arrears on subscription." 

It is hardly necessary to add that the Inde- 
pendent exerts a large and wholesome influ- 
ence in the community by virtue of its inde- 
pendent and public-spirited policy. He is vice- 
president of the New York State Press Asso- 
ciation. He has been a member of the Demo- 
cratic county committee and often represents 
his party as delegate to nominating conven- 
tions. He was president of the village of 
Marathon in 1894-95. Fo'' si.xteen years he was 
a member and twelve years secretary of the 
board of education of Marathon. He was the 
nominee of his party for assemblyman in this 
district. He declined a nomination for county 
treasurer in 1893. He was one of the prime 
movers in securing a municipal water works 
and served on the original water commission, 
and is now a member of that body. 

He is a stockholder of the First National 
Bank and was one of the founders and for 
three vears was vice-president of the Climax 
Road Machine Company. He is a member of 
Marathon Lodge, No. 438, Free and Accepted 
Masons, of Marathon ; of Cortland Chapter. 
No. 194, Royal Arch Masons ; of Cortland 
Commandery, No. 50, Knights Templar ; of 
Katurah Temple. Mystic Shrine, of Bingham- 
ton. For three years he was president of the 
.A. H. Barber Hose Company of the local fire 
department. He attends the Presbyterian 
church. 

He married, May 13, 1879, Ella V. Court- 
ney, born July 21, 1861, of Willet, Cortland 
county, daughter of Oscar and Carshena 
(Dyer) Courtney. They have no children. 



The surname Benedict is de- 
BENEDICT rived from the Latin bcnedic- 

tus, meaning blessed, used as 
a personal or baptismal name in Latin coun- 
tries, and. in fact, throughout all Europe. St. 
Benedict founded the Romau Catholic Order 
of Benedictine, in A. D. 520, fourteen Popes 
taking this name between 574 and 1740. 

( I ) Thomas Benedict, immigrant ancestor, 
was born in Nottinghamshire. England, in 
1617. According to family tradition, apparent- 
ly verified, he was the only representative of 
his family when he came to .America. His an- 
cestors, original from the districts of France, 
and of Latin ancestry, fled to Germany on ac- 
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land and finally settled in England. He mar- 
ried Mary Bridgum, or Bridgham, who came 
to Xew England, in 1638, in the same ship. 
The family history was written in 1755, by 
Deacon James Benedict, who had his facts 
from the wife of the immigrant, viz: "Be it 
remembered that one William Benedict about 
the beginning of the fifteenth century (doubt- 
less meaning about the year 1500), who lived 
in Nottinghamshire, England, had a son born 
unto him whom he called William after his 
own name ( an only son ) and this William, 
the second of the name, had also an only son 
whom he called William, and this third Will- 
iam had in the year 1617 one only child whom 
he called Thomas and this Thomas' mother 
dying, his father married the widow Bridgum. 
Now this Thomas was put out an apprentice 
to a weaver who afterwards in his twenty-first 
year came over to New England together with 
his sister-in-law (step-sister) Mary Bridgum. 
Afterwards said Thomas was joined in mar- 
riage with Mary Bridgum. .After they had 
lived some time in the Bay parts ( Massachu- 
setts) they removed to Southold, Long Island, 
where were born unto them five sons and four 
daughters, whose names were Thomas, John, 
Samuel, James, Daniel, P>etty, Mary, Sarah and 
Rebecca. From thence they removed to a 
farm belonging to the town called Hassama- 
mac, where they lived some time. Then they 
removed to Jamaica on said island where 
Thomas their eldest son took to wife Mary 
Messenger of that town. And last of all they 
removed to Norwalk, Fairfield county, Con- 
necticut, with all their family where they all 
married." The generations are given down to 
the time of writing, March 14, 1755, by James 
Benedict, of Ridgefield. Connecticut. 

Traces of Thomas Benedict are found on 
the records at Jamaica, December 12, 1662, 
when he was appointed to lay out the south 
meadows and was voted a home lot. He 
served on other committees and held various 
offices. He was appointed magistrate, March 
20, 1663, by Peter Stuyvesant, the Dutch gov- 
ernor of Xew -Amsterdam. In the same year 
he signed the petition for annexation to Con- 
necticut. He was lieutenant of the town, De- 
cember 3. 1663; was a grantee of Elizabeth- 
town. February 8, 1665, he was appointed 
one of the two delegates from Jamaica to a 
general meeting of Long Island towns in New 
York. This is thought to be the fitst English 
legislative body convened in New Y'ork. April 



7, 1665, he was appointed lieutenant of the 
foot company of Jamaica. .After coming to 
Connecticut he was town clerk of Norwalk, 
1665, and reappointed the following year. He 
continued to hold this office until 1674, and 
after an interval of three years, was again 
appointed. The records, in his own handwrit- 
ing, are still preserved, and are legible and 
properly attested by his own signature. He 
was selectman for seventeen years, ending in 
1688. As early as 1669 he was a freeman ; 
representative to the general assembly in 1670, 
and again in 1675. I" ^lay, 1684, he and three 
others were appointed by the general court to 
plant a town at Faquiage. This town was 
later, 1687, called Danbury. "His good sense 
and genera! intelligence, some scientific knowl- 
edge and his skill as a penman, made him their 
recourse when papers were to be drafted, 
lands to be surveyed, and apportioned or dis- 
putes to be arbitrated. It is evident that very 
general respect for his judgment prevailecl, 
and that trust in his integrity was ec|ually 
general and implicit." It is highly probable 
that he was concerned in establishing the 
church both at Southold and Huntington, and 
was also identified with the founding of the 
first Presbyterian church in Ainerica, at Ja- 
maica, in 1662. He was deacon of the Nor- 
walk church during the last years of his life. 
His will was executed February 28, 1689-90. 
Of his household James Benedict wrote: 
"Thomas Benedict and Mary, his wife, who 
walked in the midst of their house with a per- 
fect heart. They were strict observers of the 
Lord's day from even to even." Many of his 
descendants followed in the office of deacon of 
the church. "The savor of his piety, as well 
as his venerable name, has been transmitted 
through a long line of deacons and other godly 
descendants to the seventh generation." Chil- 
dren : Thomas, died November 20. i688-8g ; 
John : Samuel, mentioned below : James ; Dan- 
iel ; Elizabeth, married John Slauson ; Mary, 
married John Olmsted ; Sarah, married James 
Beebe ; Rebecca, married Dr. Samuel Wood. 
(II) Samuel, son of Thomas Benedict, lived 
with his father until after his removal to Nor- 
walk, Connecticut. He married there (first) 
name unknown. He married (second), July 
7, 1678. Rebecca, daughter of Thomas An- 
drews, of Fairfield, Connecticut. In the fall 
of 1684 and the following spring, he with sev- 
eral others, mostly connections of the Benedict 
family, purchased land of the Indians and 



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made the first settlement at Danbury. "They 
soon built a little church, only forty feet by 
thirty ; when its frame was raised every person 
in the town was present and sat together on 
the sills." Samuel Benedict, who had been a 
deacon when living in Norwalk, was also first 
deacon of this church. In the patent of Dan- 
bury, granted by the general assembly, May, 
1702, he is named as patentee. His will, made 
at Danbury, April 15, 1718, was recorded 
March 20, 1719. Children: Joanna, born Oc- 
tober 2.2, 1673; Samuel, March 5, 1675; 
Thomas, March 27, 1679 ; Nathaniel, mention- 
ed below; Abraham, June 21, 1681 ; Rebecca, 
married, June 18, 1712, Samuel Piatt: Esther. 

(III) Nathaniel, son of Samuel Benedict, 
made his will January 19, 1767, and it was 
proved December 11, 1767. It mentions wife 
Sarah, sons Isaac and Nathaniel, also grand- 
son John, of Cornwall. The inventory of his 
estate amounted to two hundred and twenty- 
one pounds three shillings seven pence. Chil- 
dren : John; Isaac, born in 1719, mentioned 
below; Nathaniel; Samuel, 1726. 

(IV) Isaac, son of Nathaniel Benedict, was 
born in 1719, and married Mary Videtto, of 
Danbury, who died November 2, 1803. He 
died September 15, 1813, at Monterey, Massa- 
chusetts. He bought land in Tyringham, Mas- 
sachusetts, in 1772. but was living in Danbury, 
when he made his will. August 3, 1801. Chil- 
dren : Abigail, September 30, 1745 ; Abel, men- 
tioned below; Mary, November 21, 1750; Sam- 
uel, July 29, 1753 : Priscilla, July 6, 1755 ; Eliz- 
abeth, February 3, 1761 : Rebecca, November 
20, 1771. 

( V ) Abel, son of Isaac Benedict, was born 
October i, 1748, and married Hannah, daugh- 
ter of Hezekiah and Hannah (Judd) Benedict. 
Hezekiah Benedict was the son of James, 
grandson of James, and great-grandson of 
Thomas Benedict. He was a royalist in the 
revolution, moved to Schoharie county, about 
1775-76, and died there. Hannah, wife of 
Abel Benedict, was born 1747, and died De- 
cember 28, 1799. Abel Benedict was a lieu- 
tenant in the revolution. He lived at Mon- 
terey, and died there, December 20, 1819. Chil- 
dren : Mary, died young ; Hannah, married 
Sereno Dwight, of Aurelius ; Lucy, married 

Pearce, of Pompey ; Jemima, married 

Stephen, son of Gilbert Benedict ; Phebe. died 
young; Clarissa, married Ethel, son of Na- 
thaniel Benedict; Isaac, born May 29, 1775; 
Abel, mentioned below. 



(VI) Abel (2), son of Abel (i) Benedict^ 
was born February 11, 1777, and married, Sep- 
tember 5, 1799, Betsey, daughter of Samuel 
Wadsworth, who died June 4, 1840. He died 
November 25, 1824, at Cortland, New York. 
Children: Laura, born Sejit ember i. 1800; Al- 
bert, November 4, 1802; Eliza, September 22, 
1804, died October 15, 1815; Horace, men- 
tioned below; Luke, January 14, 1809; Julia, 
July 17, 1811; William. May 16, 1813, died 
May 13, 1814: Oren, April 20, 1816, died No- 
vember, 1824; Orilla, April 20, 1816; George 
W.. November 28, 1818: Rensselaer D., Janu- 
ary 30, 1 82 1, died March, 1891 ; Almon F.. 
October 8, 1824. 

(VII) Horace, son of Abel {2) Benedict, 
was born October 21, 1806, married, February 
I. 1844, Nancy L., born 1826. daughter of 
Levi Bonney. He lived in Cortlandville, New- 
York. Children : Archibald W., born August 
20, 184s; Byron A., mentioned below; Lovina 
M.. May 10, 1848; Orilla, July 23, 1849; 
Emma M., July 13, 1851 ; Elmer H., June 18. 
1861. died February 17, 1862; Irving A.. 
March 8, 1863. 

(\ HI) Byron Almon, son of Horace Bene- 
dict, was born in Cortlandville, Cortland coun- 
ty. New York, October 11, 1846, and died at 
Cortland, March 16. 1908. He attended the 
public schools and Cortland Academy, and was 
graduated from Hamilton College. After 
leaving college he began the study of law in the 
oflice of Judge W. H. Shankland and was ad- 
mitted to the bar. He became the junior ])art- 
ner in the well-known law firm of Duell & 
Benedict, which continued until the death of 
Judge Duell, after which he was alone in prac- 
tice at Cortland. During the six years prior 
to his death, he also had an office in Syracuse, 
but continued to reside in Cortland. Twice he 
was elected district attorney of Cortland coun- 
ty, and for many years he was one of the 
leaders of the bar. In addition to his law 
business he was interested financially in vari- 
ous enterprises and ac(|uired large holdings 
in real estate. He was a director and attorney 
of the Cortland National Bank and one of the 
promoters and owners of the opera house in 
Cortland. In religion he was a Presbyterian. 
While in college he was a member of the Theta 
Delta Chi fraternity, of Hamilton. 

He married, in 1870, Anna T. Clapp, of 
Hartford, Connecticut, born September 22, 
1847, daughter of Aaron and Priscilla S. 
(Hurlburt) Clapj). Her father was born in 




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Northampton, Massachusetts, and was de- 
scended from one of the most prominent of 
the early colonial families of Dorchester. Mas- 
sachusetts, his grandfather, Thomas Clapp, 
being one of the presidents of Yale College. 
Children: i. Bessie, born November 13, 1879; 
married, July 30, 1902. William H. McGraw. 
of Cortland, of the firm of McGraw & Elliott, 
druggists ; child : Harvey llenedict McGraw, 
born June 20, 1904. 2. Harriet Priscilla, born 
January 30, 1886; married, December 29, 1908. 
Levi Richard Chase, a lawyer, of Cortland, and 
ex-district attorney. 3. P'lorence A., died in 
infancv. 



The name Hulbert is spelled 
HULBERT -m different ways, Hulbert, 

Hulburt, Hulbut. Hurlbut. be- 
ing among those most commonly used. The 
coat-of-arms of the English family is: Quar- 
terly argent and sable, in the sinister chief and 
dexter base, each a lion rampant, or. over all 
a bend g^des, charged with the amulets of the 
third. 

( I ) Thomas Hulbert. or Hurlbut. came to 
America early, and was a s'oldier under Lionel 
Gardiner in the fight at Saybrook, Connecticut, 
in 1635. It is supposed tliat he came with 
Gardiner in a fishing vessel, July 10, 1635. In 
an encounter with the Pequot Indians, in 1637. 
he was wounded by an arrow, almost through 
the thigh. An account of this skirmish was 
left in a manuscript by Lionel Gardiner, he 
being urged to write it, as he said, by Robert 
Chapman, Thomas Hulbert and Major Mason. 
They were a company of ten men and were 
attacked by about a hundred Indians, whom 
they successfully held off until they reached 
their homes. Thomas Hulbert was a black- 
smith by trade, and after the Pequot war estab- 
lished himself in W'ethersfield, Connecticut, 
where he was one of the early settlers. He 
was clerk of the train band in 1640. deputy to 
the general court, grand juror, and constable 
in 1644. He had grants of land in Wethers- 
field, for his services in the Indian wars. It 
is said that the house occupied, in 1888, by 
Miss Harriet Mitchell, in \\'ethersfield. was 
on the site of his house. He married Sarah 

. Children : Thomas ; John, born March 

8, 1642: Samuel: Joseph; Stephen, mentioned 
below : Cornelius. 

(II) Stephen, son of Thomas Hulbert, was 
born in Wethersfield, Connecticut, about 1649. 
He was twice married. According to one au- 



thority, he married, December 12, 1678, Doro- 
thy , and according to another, he mar- 
ried, on the same date. Phebe . He is sup- 
posed to have been a mechanic by occupation. 
He was granted by the town of Wethersfield. 
February 23. 1694. "a piece of land 8 feet in 
breadth, 70 feet in length, flanking upon his 
own lot next his house to set a shop upon." 
There is no record of his death nor of the 
deaths of either of his wives. Children of 
Stephen and Dorothy, the first four born in 
Wethersfield: Stephen, .Sei)tember 17, 1679: 
Thomas, January 2^, 1681, mentioned below; 
Joseph, July 10, 1683: Benjamin, October 29, 
1685: Phebe. .\ugust 2, 1688; Dorothy, March 
3, 1690. 

(HI) Thomas (2), son of Stephen Hulbert. 
was bom in Wethersfield, January 23, 1681. 
He was a farmer by occupation and spent his 
life in his native town. He married. January 
II, 1705, Rebecca, daughter of John Meekins, 
of Wethersfield, or East Hartford, and grand- 
daughter of the immigrant, John liiddle, of 
Hartford. He died April 10. 1761. His will 
was dated November 19, 1755, and left one- 
third of the estate to his wife during her life. 
Children, born in Wethersfield : Stephen, Feb- 
ruary 3, 1706: Hannah. March 8, 1708; John, 
October i. 17 10: Rebecca, January 12, 1713,' 
Thomas, February 19, 1715; Amos, .April 14, 
1717: Elijah, December 9, 1719; Elizabeth, 
1721 ; Timothy, mentioned below. 

( I\') Timothy, son of Thomas (2) Hulbert, 
was born in Wethersfield, January ifi, 1723. 
He was a farmer by occupation and lived in his 
native town. He owned also land in Glaston- 
bury, Connecticut, which he had received from 
his father's estate. He married, October 5, 

1757, Sarah Clark. Both his name and that 
of his wife appear in the catalogue of Wethers- 
field church, 1758. He died August, 1773, and 

his widow married (second) Collins, 

and (third) Chamberlain. Children. 

born in Wethersfield: Timothy, August 12, 

1758, mentioned below; Titus, .April 15, 1760: 
Sarah, January 7, 1762; Philip, September 30, 
1764, died November 30, 1766; Ruth, Novem- 
ber 22, 1766; Philip, January 7. 1769. 

(V) Timothy (2), son of Timothy (i) 
Hulbert, was born in Wethersfield, .August 12, 
1758. He learned the trade of carpenter, but 
was afterwards a farmer. He lived in Pitts- 
field, where he applied to be exempt from 
church taxation. He died July 12, 1838. He 
married (first), March 7, 1784, Mary Robbins. 



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born in Pittsfield, January 13, 1765, died tliere 
June 4, 1809. He married (second), March, 
181 1, Olive Caldwell, born in Pittsfield, died 
there, October 16, 1855, or 1856. Children, 
born in Pittsfield: Elizabeth, December 14, 
1784: Stephen, July 31, 1786; Mary, January 
17, 1788; Timothy, October 2, 1789, mentioned 
below; Huldah, September 11, 1791 ; Sarah, 
June 14, 1793, died June 27, 1793; Sarah 
(twin), September 16, 1794; Polly (twin), 
died September 17, 1794; Oren, October 26, 
1796; Julia Ann, August 13, 1798; William 
Hayes, November 11, 1800; Laura Maria, 
March 5, 1803; Royal Alonzo, July 17, 1804; 
Jerome Bonaparte, August, 1806. 

(VI) Timothy (3), son of Timothy (2) 
Hulbert, was born in Pittsfield, October 2, 
1789. About 1810 he removetl to Truxton, 
New York, where he lived until his death, 
May 20, 1848. He was a carpenter and joiner 
by trade, and did a wonderful amount of busi- 
ness. Much of his handiwork in those lines 
has remained until to-day as a witness of his 
careful workmanship and honest efforts. He 
became the owner of a large farm and attain- 
ed prominence and high standing in his com- 
munity. During his younger years he organ- 
ized a military company, of which he was 
made captain. His commission, dated April 
8, 1822, was signed by Governor DeWitt Clin- 
ton, and his company was assigned to the One 
Hundred and Twenty-fourth Regiment, state 
militia. In politics he was a Democrat of an 
uncomijromising type, and an ardent supporter 
of his party at all times. He represented his 
town on the board of supervisors for years, 
and was once a candidate for the nomination 
of member of assembly. In religion he was a 
Methodist, and trustee of the local society. 
He married, February i, 1817, Mehitabel 
Miner, of West Rloomfield, New York, born 
July 20, 1797. He had six sons, all of whom 
were in the produce business ; two located in 
New York City, where they were large pro- 
duce dealers and exporters, and the other four 
scattered throughout the state, buying and 
raising produce. Children : Emily Eliza, born 
March 24, 1818; William, December 26, 1819; 
Pauline. March 9, 1822. died .'\ugust 29. 1823; 
Lafayette, June 29, 1824, mentioned below ; 
Jerome, February 23, 1827, mentioned below; 
George Allen, September 27, 1829, mentioned 
below : Marvin Miner, November 7, 1832 ; Ed- 
win Murray, January 2, 1836. 

(\TI) Lafayette, son of Timothy (3) Hul- 



bert, was born in Truxton, New York, June 
29, 1824. He was a produce dealer and ex- 
porter in New York City, and was associated 
with his brother William. He carried on busi- 
ness there as late as 1863. He married Helen 
Miner, of Jersey City, New Jersey. Children : 
Ernest M., mentioned below; Marvin Miner, 
born June i. i860, died January 26, 1861 ; 
Leila. 

(VIII) Ernest M., son of Lafayette Hul- 
bert, was born in New York City, in 1834, died 
in Cortland, New York, September 20, 1905. 
He attended the schools of New York City, 
also Holbrook Military School on the Hudson, 
and Peekskill Military School. He prepared 
for West Point, but on account of his father's 
death, was obliged to give it up. He removed 
to Cortland and went into the hardware busi- 
ness with William Newkirk. Later he became 
engaged in the manufacture of window screens 
with W. J. Greenman. He had besides exten- 
sive real estate interests in Cortland, and dur- 
ing the later years of his life was retired from 
active life. He was a member of the Presby- 
terian church. He married Ella Roe, daughter 
of Jerome and Mary (Roe) Hulbert (see Hul- 
bert VII). Child, Louis Roe, mentioned below 

(IX) Louis Roe, son of Ernest M. Hul- 
bert, was born in Cortland, New York, April 
17, 1 88 1. He attended the Cortland Normal 
School, Cascadilla Preparatory School, and 
Williams College, Williamstown, Massachu- 
setts. .After finishing his college course, he 
entered the manufacturing plant of his father 
in Cortland. In January, 19 10, he began the 
manufacture of shoes in Cortland in company 
with H. R. Rice, under the firm name of Rice- 
Hulbert Shoe Company. He is a member of 
the Presbyterian church. He married, June, 
1906, Irene, daughter of William and Esther 
(Jennings) Hout. They have one son, Ernest 
Hout, born August, 1907. 

(VII) Jerome, son of Timothy (3) Hul- 
bert, was born February 23, 1827, in Truxton, 
New York. He received a common school 
education, and afterwards learned the trade of 
harness-maker. He did not, however, con- 
tinue that occupation for any length of time, 
but. in 1855. entered the wholesale produce 
business with four of his brothers. He re- 
mained in this latter business throughout his 
life and was eminently successful in it. In 
politics he was a Republican, much interested 
in the cause of good government, and radically 
opposed to the rule of party bosses. He never 



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sought office, however. In religion he was a 
Presbyterian, and a very active member of that 
church. For years he was the superintendent 
of the Sunday school, also president of the 
Young Men's Christian Association. He was 
a man of rare attainments, and held in the 
highest respect by all who knew him. In his 
business relations he united keen judgment, 
strict integrity and an unusual sense of jus- 
tice. In his home life he was loyal and most 
indulgent to the members of his family. He 
was public spirited and always ready to take 
up any work which woukl contribute to the 
])rosperity and welfare of his town. He lived 
the greater part of his life in Marathon. He 
married Mary, daughter of Sylvester Roe (see 
Roe V'l). He died in Marathon, December 
17, 1884. Child, Ella Roe, married Ernest M. 
Hulbert (see Hulbert VIII). 

(VII) George Allen, son of Timothy (3) 
Hulbert, was born September 27, 1829, in 
'Truxton, New York. He attended the local 
schools, and, in 1851, entered Cortlandville 
Academy to prepare for Yale College. He 
did not, however, enter college, but instead 
commenced the study of law in the office of 
Judge Daniel Hawks, then county judge and 
surrogate of Cortland county. He continued 
his study of law in the offices of H. & A. L. 
Ballard, at Cortland, and with Hon. Charles 
Mason, justice of the supreme court of Hamil- 
ton, Madison county. For advanced legal study 
he spent a year at the law school, at Ballston 
Spa. Saratoga county, and finished his course 
at the Albany Law School. In 1854 he was ad- 
mitted to the bar and began the practice of his 
])rofession in Hornellsville, Steuben county. 
After spending fourteen months in that city 
he removed to Chicago, Illinois, where he en- 
tered the office of John H. Kedzie and re- 
mained about a year. He then returned to the 
east, and became engaged in a mercantile busi- 
ness in Onondaga county. In 1864 he re- 
moved to Marathon, New York, and with 
four of his brothers entered the wholesale pro- 
duce business, under the name of William Hul- 
bert & Brothers, with headquarters in New 
York City. He and his brother Jerome had 
charge of the purchasing at Marathon. The 
firm prospered and they became leaders in the 
butter and cheese business in New York City. 
They continued for thirty years, and each 
brother accumulated a fine fortune. After the 
death of Jerome, George Allen Hulbert dis- 
continued the produce business and resumed 



the practice of law, which he continued until 
his death. 

In politics he was a Democrat of the Stephen 
A. Douglas type, and throughout the civil war 
was a strong Unionist. Though he never 
sought office, he was found to be a safe and 
disinterested assistant in party councils and 
served for many years on town and county 
committees. He was at one time one of the 
supervisors of the town and was justice of 
the peace for twenty-three years. He was also 
notary public. During his term of office the 
honesty and justice of his decisions were never 
questioned, and the dignity with which he 
presided over his court, and the order which 
he insisted upon in it, tended to raise the 
standard of the office in the county at large. 
He was a man of more than ordinary ability 
and of high attainments, honorable and straight- 
forward in all his dealings, of excellent busi- 
ness instincts, and possessed of the confidence 
of his fellow-citizens. He was keenly inter- 
ested in the improvement of the village of 
Marathon, and added much to its architectural 
beauty by the erection of several buildings, 
notably, in 1886, a three-story business block 
on Main street. The ground floor of this 
building is devoted to stores, the second to 
offices, and the third to a public hall, equipped 
with a stage and scenery. The use of this hall 
has been free for all public entertainments. In 
1898 he also erected one of the handsomest 
residences in the village. Besides these build- 
ings he has also improved other dwellings in 
the town. In religion he was a Methodist and 
an ardent worker in that church. 

He married Mary, daughter of Richard and 
Mary (Hinkley) Smith, born in Fabius, New 
York. Her father, Richard Smith, was from 
New Bedford, Massachusetts, and in his day 
was a well-known sea captain. He was born 
in Dublin, Ireland. Her mother, Mary (Hink- 
ley) Smith, was born in Barnstable, Cape Cod, 
Massachusetts. Mrs. Hulbert is one of the 
best musicians in Central New York, and was 
for several years organist of the Methodist 
church in Marathon. She has continued her 
husband's plans for improving the property 
and adding to the prosperity and appearance 
of the village. Mr. Hulbert died March 12, 
1900. 

(The Roe Line). 

(Ill) Nathaniel (2) Roe, son of Nathaniel 
(i) Roe (q. v.), was born in 1700, and died in 
1789. He married Elizabeth Phillips, born 



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1702, died 1788. Children: Phillips: James, 
mentioned below ; Nathaniel. William. Han- 
nah, Elizabeth. Sarah. Deborah. 

(IV) James, son of Nathaniel (2) Roe, was 
born in Kingston, New York, April 4, 1744. 
He was a soldier in the revolution. He mar- 
ried, October 19. 1770, Elizabeth Elting. Chil- 
dren : James, Elizabeth ; John Elting, men- 
tioned below ; Sylvester, Ann. William, Na- 
thaniel, Rachel : i'eter, grandfather of the 
author, E. P. Roe. 

(V) John Elting, son of James Roe, was 
born in Kingston, in 1774. He married and 
among his children was Sylvester, mentioned 
below. 

(VI) Sylvester, son of John Elting Roe, 

was born in 1801. He married , 

and among their children was Mary, born 
1831, married Jerome Hulbert (see Hulbert 
VII). 

Thomas Charnick Glover, of an 
GLO\'ER ancient English family, lived 
and died in Lancashire, Eng- 
land, leaving sons Thomas, mentioned below, 
and Charnick. 

(II) Thomas, son of Thomas Charnick 
Glover, was born in Lancashire, England, 
about 1760. He came to this country at the 
age of eighteen years with his brother Char- 
nick, and at the close of the revolutionary war 
settled in Schoharie county. New York, among 
the pioneers, and followed farming there dur- 
ing the remainder of his life. He had three 
sons, Henry, John and Jacob, and four daugh- 
ters. 

(IV) Henry, grandson of Thomas (ilover, 
was born at Sharon, Schoharie county. New 
York, September 19, 181 1, died at Troups- 
burg. New York. .March 28. 1865. He married 
Eliza McDowell, born at Otego, Otsego county. 
New Y'ork, March i, 1814, died February 3, 
1887, at St. Paul, Minnesota. Children': i. 
Charles, born May 14, 1835 : married Ruth 
Morey. 2. Jeanette, September i, 1836, died 
January 14. 1875; married William J. Loucks. 
3. Margaret, l'>bruary 18, T838: married 
Alonzo H. Haxton. 4. Martha, November 25. 
1839: married William Chase. 3. Henry, April 
8, 1840, mentioned below, f). Matilda, April 
22, 1843: married R. McElroy. 7. Lucy Ann, 
October 16. 1844: married Samuel Olmstead. 
8. George W.. December 13, 1845; married 
Harriet Tififany. 9. William, September 25, 
1847, died September 18, 1887; married Delia 



Holt, a widow. 10. Maryetta, November 4. 
185 1 ; married Lafayette Stowe : she died about 
one year after marriage. 

(V) Henry (2), son of Henry (i) Glover, 
was born at Skaneateles Junction, Onondaga 
county. New Y'ork, April 8, 1840. He re- 
ceived his education in the public schools. In 
his younger days he lived in Te.xas Valley, 
Cortland county. New Y'ork. and followed 
lumbering. For the past forty- four years, 
however, he has made his home in the town of 
Lisle, Broome county. New York, and has 
followed farming. He is a staunch Democrat 
and has served as deputy sheriff. He married 
Mary Loesa, born December 7, 1848, died 
April 17, 191 1, daughter of Joseph Sparrow, 
who came of a prominent Cape Cod. Massa- 
chusetts, family. Her mother was .\zubah 
(Close) Sparrow. Children: i. Clyde V., born 
June II, 1878, died November 28, 1879. 2. 
F. Ray. born November 8. 1880. engaged in 
the poultry business at Lisle, New York : mar- 
ried Grace L. Glezen. 3. Harold Jay, men- 
tioned below. 

( \T ) Harold Jay, son of Henry ( 2) Glover, 
was born in Lisle, Broome county. New York, 
March 29, 1885. He attended the public 
schools of his native town and graduated from 
the Lisle high school and from the Lowell 
Business College, at Binghamton, New Y'ork. 
He began the study of law in the office of 
-■Kttorney Paige, of Lisle, and began his law 
course in the Law School of Syracuse Univer- 
sity. Because of his health he was compelled 
to give up his studies at the university, and. in 
February, 1906, he entered the office of Milo 
C. Paige. He was admitted to the bar in Oc- 
tober, 1903, and remained as law clerk in the 
office of ^Ir. Paige for a short time. He came 
to Marathon. New York, in P'ebruary, 1909, 
and opened an office. Since then he has been 
in general practice in that town, and he also 
has an insurance business in connection with 
his legal practice. In politics he is a Demo- 
crat and he has been the nominee of his party 
for assemblyman in the district, which com- 
prises Broome county. He is member of the 
State Bar Association. 



"He beareth gules two chev- 
PARSONS rons ermine between three 

eagles displayed or: By the 
name of Parsons. Crest: An eagle's head 
erased at the thigh, standing on a leopard's 
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Charles I., in 1634, bestowed upon his faitlifiil 
subject. Sir Thomas Parsons, bart., of Great 
Milton, or Great Torrington, the immediate 
ancestor of tiie founder of the family of that 
surname in America, and himself a descendant 
of an English family of great antiquity, dating 
to Walter I'arsons, of ^ilulso, Ireland, 1290, 
and back of him in England to the time of the 
Conquest, for the Parsons of Ireland went 
there from England. 

Cornet Iose]ih Parsons, son of Sir Thomas 
i'arsons, hart., and said to have been an officer 
in the English army, sailed from Gravesend, 
England, July 4, 1635, in the barque "Trans- 
port," Edward Walker, master, for Boston, 
and next appears with William Pynchon's col- 
ony of ])lanters who founded a settlement at 
.Agawani, now Springfield, Massachusetts, in 
the year 1636. C)n July 15, of the same year, 
his name apjiears as witness to a deed of 
cession from the Indians of the Connecticut 
valley to Pynchon's company, conveying to 
them all the lands in the region of Springfield, 
for the "consideration of eighteen yards of 
wampum, 18 coats, 18 hatchets, 18 hoes and 
i8 knives" ; but the consideration was fair, 
for William was a just man and they who com- 
prised his company of planters were all just 
and honorable men and none others were ad- 
mitted inhabitants of his plantation. Cornet 
Joseph Parsons was born in Great Torrington. 
near Exeter, Devonshire, England, and on his 
voyage to New England was accompanied by 
his brother Benjamin and others of the family, 
but it is with him and his descendants that we 
treat particularly in these annals. He was a 
man of considerable importance in the planta- 
tion at .\gawam and Springfield, and, in 1642, 
he was one of the founders of the new planta- 
tion at Xorthamjjton and one of the first ]3ur- 
chasers of Indian lands there in 1645. He was 
a fur trader and hatl the sole right of barter 
and traffic in furs in the valley, for which 
right he paid annually the sum of twelve 
pounds. He accumulated a large estate in 
lands and goods. He died October g, 1683. 
He married, November 26, 1646, Mary, daugh- 
ter of Thomas and Margaret ( Ford) I'.liss. of 
Hartford, Connecticut. Children : Joseph, born 
November, 1647; Benjamin, 1649, died same 
year; John, August 14, 1650; Samuel, January 
23, 1653, settled in Durham, Connecticut ; 
Ebenezer, May i, 1655, killed by Indians in 
King Philip's war, September 8, 1675 ; Jona- 
than. June 6. 1657 ; David, April 30, 1(^59. died 



young; Mary, June 2~. 1661, accused with the 
heresy of witchcraft and tried before the court 
of assistants, Boston, May 13, 1692, and ac- 
([uitted of the charge; Hannah, .-\ugust i, 
1663 : Abigail, September 3, 1666, married John 
Cotton; Hester. December 24, 1672. 

( I) Timothy Parsons, a descendant of Cor- 
net Josqjh Parsons, was born April 7, 1801, 
died in the village of Maine, New York, April 
18, 1877. He came to the above-mentioned 
village in 1837. from Otsego county. New 
"S'ork. and lived there most of his life. He was 
a farmer and wagon maker by trade. He mar- 
ried. May 24, 1821. Deborah Knott, born May 
17, 1805, died March i, 1881. Children: 
Eunice Amanda, born May 16, 1822, died 
March 3, 1879; married Abe Curtiss ; Delos 
Timothy, October 5, 1823, died young; Will- 
iam Albert; Sally, February 5, 1827, died Feb- 
ruary 15, 191 1 ; Henry, fleceased ; Walter, de- 
ceased; Maria, deceased; Melissa, married M. 
D. Newton, lives in Downey, California; Eva, 
October 24, 1847, married Frank M. Perry, 
lives at Whitney's Point, New York. 

(II) William Albert, son of Timothy Par- 
sons, was born in Butternuts, Otsego county. 
New York. May i, 1823, died July 12, 1905. 
He removed with his parents to the town of 
Maine, Broome county. New York, when 
twelve vears of age. He received a common 
school education and became a farmer. He 
was actively engaged in farming for about 
forty years, but during the later years of his 
life was retired. He also had a sawmill. In 
politics he was at first a Republican, and later 
a strong Prohibitionist. In religion he was a 
Baptist, as were all of his family. He mar- 
ried. January 27, 1848, Cynthia Alaria, daugh- 
ter of .Adin and Emily L. (North) Ross, born 
in Candor. Tioga county. December 28. 1830. 
(lied March 30, 1904. Children; i. Clarence 
.-\.. burn June 3, 1849; married, in 1872, .\de- 
laide M. Poole, of Oswego, New York; is a 
court stenographer in the United States court, 
and lives at 415 West One Hundred and Fifty- 
fourth street. New York City ; children : Harry 
K., deceased ; Charles E., Grace Isabelle, Clar- 
ence A., Eva Louise. Robert M., Florence .Ade- 
laide. 2. M. Eva, born June 22, 1855, a teacher 
in Ilion. New York. 3. Minnie R., born De- 
cember 3, 1 861, died July 23, 1891 ; married 
-Andrew J. Doughty. 4. Son, born May 15, 
1864, died in infancy. 5. Bert Ross, men- 
tioned below. 

(III) Bert Ross, son of William .Albert 



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Parsons, was born in Carolina, Tompkins 
county, New York, August 2, 1872, and was 
educated in the schools of his native town, the 
Candor Free Academy, and the Waverly high 
school. After leaving school he was for sev- 
eral years a bookkeeper. In 1894-95 he began 
the study of medicine in the office of Dr. 
Gamble, of W'averly, and, in 1896, entered the 
Eclectic Medical Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio,' 
from which he graduated in 1899. He then re- 
turned to New York and passed a successful 
examination in the University of the State of 
New York. In August, 1899, he rcmoveil to 
Marathon, New York, and commenced the 
practice of his profession. He has made his 
home there since. He has been coroner of 
Cortland for nine years. He is a member of 
the Cortland County and State Medical soci- 
eties. He is also a member of the Independ- 
ent Order of Odd Fellows; the Free and Ac- 
cepted Masons, of Marathon, also of sev- 
eral college fraternities. In politics he is a Re- 
publican, and in religion a Methodist. He 
married, October 4, 1899, Rosabelle Springer, 
of Tioga county, daughter of George and Ruth 
Elizabeth ( Stevens) Springer. Children : Harry 
D., born March 8, 1904; Russell G., Septem- 
ber 25, 1907. 

John Fish, immigrant ancestor, is 
FISH believed to have come to this country 

as early as 1637, and to have settled 
first in Lynn, Massachusetts. In 1635 he was 
located in New London, Coimecticut, and be- 
tween the above-mentioned dates, lived prob- 
ably in Stratford, Connecticut. He had a home 
lot and about six acres of land there, which he 
sold, .September 29, 1655, to John Willcockson. 
The location of this lot is show^n on a map 
drawn by Rev. Benjamin L. Swan, and j^rint- 
ed in the "Hawley Record," page 432, where 
it is marked as belonging to John Willcockson. 
The same year, he removed to New London, 
and remained there for a short time. In 1668 
he had lived in Stonington. Connecticut, long 
enough to become an inhabitant of that town. 
This required a two years' residence. At that 
time he was one of the forty-three inhabitants 
to whom a house lot was granted. His allot- 
ment was No. 5, and was retained by him 
during his life. August 6, 1674, he was act- 
ing town clerk at a town meeting. In 1675 he 
was one of three hundred volunteers from 
Connecticut, in King Philip's war, and, in 
1700, received for his services a grant of land 



in the town of \"olunto\vn, which had been set 
aside for the Indian war volunteers. As he 
had then been dead for a number of years, the 
grant came into the possession of his son Sam- 
uel, who in his w-ill divided it between his ow^n 
sons, Moses and Aaron. It is still owned by 
their descendants. 

August 22, 1679, John Fish was chosen and 
unanimously voted school-master for the town 
of Stonington, to instruct children in reading, 
writing, arithmetic and grammar. December 
5, 1680, he was admi-tted a member of the Con- 
gregational church of Stonington. He was a 
land surveyor and laid out many of the public 
grants of Stonington. In this work his brother- 
in-law, Gershom Palmer, was associated with 
him during the years 1680-81. By grant and 
purchase, he became proprietor of consider- 
able tracts of land in Groton and Stonington 
and other neighboring towns. He married 
(first) "Eland, who belonged to an an- 
cient and honorable family of Yorkshire, Eng- 
land. August 25, 168 1, he married Widow 
Hannah (Palmer) (Hewitt) Sterry. She was 
a daughter of Walter and Rebecca (Short) 
Palmer, and married, April 26, 1659, Captain 
Thomas Hewitt, who was a sea-faring man, 
and never returned from one of his voyages. 
In 1670 she petitioned the general court for 
permission to marry again, and, on December 
27, 1671, married (second) Roger Sterry. The 
latter died before 1680, and she married 
(third), as above stated, John Fish. Children 
of John Fish, all by first wife: John; Jona- 
than ; Samuel, bom 1656, mentioned below ; 
Mary. The records of the Congregational 
church at Stonington show the baptisms of 
Samuel, Mary and John, March 13, 1680, all 
of whom were adults at that time. 

(II) Samuel, son of John Fish, was born in 
1656, according to his gravestone record, it is 
supposed in New London, and died February 
27. 1733- He was a soldier in King P'hilip's 
war, and received, in 1700, as a return for his 
military service, a grant of land in XOluntown. 
This grant he afterwards be(iueathed to his 

son Samuel. He married (first) Sarah , 

who died December 11, 1722, aged sixty-two 
years. He married (second) Widow Dorothy 
(Wheeler) Smith. Both he and his first wife 
are buried in the old Packer burying-ground in 
Groton, Connecticut. Children: Samuel, bap- 
tized April 18. 1695, mentioned below; Mary, 
baptized April 18, 1695; David, baptized April 
18, 1695, married, March 30, 1721, Grace Pal- 



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mer; Margaret, baptized April i8, 1695, mar- 
ried Gideon Cobb ; John, baptized November 
8, 1696, married, July 19, 1726, Esther John- 
son, died July 4, 1782. 

(III) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (i) Fish, 
was baptized April 18, 1695, died January 20, 

1724. He married Sarah . Children : 

Captain John, born about 1712; Captain Dan- 
iel, 1714; Sarah, married Morse; Eliz- 
abeth, married Rose ; Samuel, mention- 
ed below ; Jane, married Rev. Timothy Wight- 
man. 

(IV) Samuel (3), son of Samuel (2) Fish, 
was born about 1720, at Stonington. The rec- 
ords of his family are not available, but it is 
thought that he was the father of Elias, men- 
tioned below. In 1790, according to the first 
federal census, there were ten families of Fish 
in New London county. Aaron and Sprague 
Fish were neighbors ; Samuel, John and John 
Jr. lived in the same vicinity, and Nathan and 
Sands. The size of the families and ages of 
children indicate that Nathan, Ambrose and 
Aaron were probably a generation older than 
the others. John, John Jr., Samuel, Ebenezer, 
Sands, Sprague and Elias had no sons over 
sixteen years in their families. Elias is men- 
tioned below. 

(V) Elias, son or nephew of Samuel ("3) 
Fish, born 1760-65, had one son under sixteen 
and two females in his family, in 1790. The 
names next his on the census, which was evi- 
dently taken according to residence, were those 
of Joseph Holley and Increase Stoddard. He 
was a sea-faring man, and followed the sea for 
many years, also working at the trade of ship- 
carpenter. In later life he settled in Otsego 
county. New York, where, after farming some 
years, he died. Children: Samuel, Gurdon, 
Jerry, Eldridge ; Laura, Ixirn 1803, married 
Dr. Gerrit P. Judd, son of Dr. Elnathan Judd, 
of Paris, New York, and they lived, for many 
years, as missionaries in Honolulu, Hawaiian 
Islands ; Sybil, married James Tracy. 

(VI) Eldridge, son of Elias Fish, was born 
November 22, 1798; died October 10, 1865, in 
Cortland county. New York. He lived at 
Schuyler Lake, Otsego county. New York, and 
at Solon. He was a lay preacher, or exhorter, 
in the Methodist Episcopal church, an earnest 
Abolitionist, and a man of strong convictions 
and strict piety. He followed farming for a 
vocation. He married. August 27, 1821, Bet- 
sey Taft, born at Schuyler Lake, August 11, 
1800, died May, 1871, daughter of Daniel 



Taft, a descendant of Robert Taft, of Mendon, 
Worcester county, Massachusetts, from whom 
President Taft also descends. Children: i. 
Prosper W., born July 26, 1822, died in Cali- 
fornia, August 16, 1901. 2. Eunice, born Sep- 
tember 8, 1824, died October, 1861. 3. Laura, 
born September 9, 1826, died May, 1898. 4. 

Bessie, born 1831 ; married Barnett. 5. 

Edwin R., born March 4, 1835, died in the 
service in the civil war, November 3, 1863. 6. 
Susan A., born July 9, 1838, died January 8, 
1899. 7. James Elias, mentioned below. 

(\TI) Rev. James Elias Fish, son of Eld- 
ridge Fish, was born in Solon, Cortland county, 
New York, August 28, 1842. He attended the 
public schools at Solon and McGrawville, and 
then studied for the ministry. From 1888 to 
1896 he was engaged in evangelistic work, and, 
in the meantime, studied, in order to prepare 
for the ministry, and, in 1897, was ordained in 
the Congregational church, at Lester, Broome 
county. New York. He was pastor of the Con- 
gregational church, at Lester, until October 21, 
1901, and since then he has supplied churches 
at Lapeer, Cincinnatus, Whitney's Point and 
Cortland, New York. He was one of the first 
to volunteer in response to the call of Presi- 
dent Lincoln, at the beginning of the civil war, 
and, September 9, 1861, he was mustered into 
the service, in Company A, Tenth New York 
Cavalry. His regiment was attached to the 
Army of the Potomac, and he took part in the 
battles of Fredericksburg, Brandy Station, Mid- 
dleburg, Gettysburg, and others of importance. 
He was discharged for disabilitv, in October, 
1863. 

Air. Fish studied medicine for two years 
and a half, when a young man, and afterward 
he continued his experiments, until he perfect- 
ed the formula, which, for the past thirty 
years, he has had on the market under the 
trade name of W'ormwood Ointment. The 
business of manufacturing the proprietary 
article has become one of the leading industries 
of the town of Marathon, and the product has 
a large sale in all parts of the country, and 
testimonials of its worth have been received 
from many different states. Mr. Fish is a 
member of Hiram Clark Post, No. 154, Grand 
Army of the Republic, of Marathon. In poli- 
tics he is an independent. 

He married (first), February 3, 1864, Alice 
E. May, born August 2. 1845, fli^*^ Febriiary 
2, 1886, daughter of Joseph and Catherine 
(Rose) May. He married (second), March 



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27, 1888, Wattie L. Tierce, of Hamilton, Madi- 
son county, New York, daughter of William 
and Charlotte ( Way ) P'ierce, of Otselic Cen- 
ter, Chenango county. Children of first wife: 
I. Edwin, born February 10, 1865, resides in 
liuttalu; married Emma Kern, and has two 
children — Alice and Alva. 2. Frederick U.. 
born February 21, 1867, an artist, lives at 
Canastota, Xew York : married Lizzie Harri- 
son, daughter of Rev. George Harrison, and 
has one child — Earl. 3. X'innie, born May 4, 
1876 : married Charles Morgan, of Toledo, 
Ohio, son of General Morgan : child — Charles 
Morgan. 4. Bessie, born August 28, 1882; 
married .\rthur Stolberg: no children. 



The name liouton is of French 
BOUTON origin, and from 1350, for two 

centuries, the court records of 
France abound with the name. Nicholas Bou- 
ton, who bore the title of Count Chanilly, 
Baron Montague de Naton, was born about 
1580, and was the father of Harard and John, 
twins, and Noel, all of whom were Huguenots 
and refugees during the jjersecutions of the 
Protestants by the Catholics. Noel afterwards 
returned to France, where he distinguished 
himself, and was subsequently made Marshal 
of all France. 

(I) John Bouton, immigrant ancestor, sail- 
ed from Gravesend, England, July, 1635, and 
landed in Boston, Massachusetts, in December 
of that year. He was then aged twenty. He 
lived first in Boston, then in Watertown, and 
early in the settlement of Hartford, Connecti- 
cut, removed there. In 1651 he removed again 
to Norwalk, Connecticut, wliere he became an 
influential citizen. In 167 1, and for several 
years after, he was a representative in the 
general court of Connecticut, and held other 

offices in Norwalk. He married .Alice . 

who survived him, and married (second) Mat- 
thew Marvin, as his second wife. Her will 
was dated December i, 1680, and mentioned 
her son, John Bouton ; daughters, Bridget Kel- 
logg, Abigail Bouton, Rachel Smith, and grand- 
children, Ruth and Rachel Bouton, and Sarah 
Brinsmead. Among their children were : John, 
mentioned below; Richard, born about 1639, 
died in Norwalk, June 27. 1665, married Ruth 

: Bridget, born about 1642, married, in 

1660, Daniel Kellogg, lived in Stockbridge, 
Massachusetts. 

(II) John (2), son of John (i) Bouton, 
married (first) Abigail, daughter of Matthew 



Marvin, by a first wife. She was born at 
Hartford, about 1640, and was living in 1680, 
when she was mentioned in the will of her step- 
mother, Alice Marvin, formerly wife of John 
I'.outon ( I ). He married (second) Mary Steven- 
son. He lived in Norwalk. His will was dated 
December 25, 1705, and he died between that 
date and February 18, 1706-07. In his will he 
mentioned wife Mary, sons John, Matthew, 
Joseph, Thomas, Richard and daughters Rachel, 
.Abigail, Mary and Elizabeth. Children, born in 
Norwalk: John, September 30, 1659, meiition- 
etl below ; Matthew, December 24, 1661 ; Rachel. 
December 16, 1667; .Abigail, April i, 1670; 
Mary, May 26, 1671 ; Joseph, about 1674 : 
Thomas, about 1676; Elizabeth, 1679; Jlich- 
ard, 1680. 

(HI) John (3). son of John (2) Bouton, 
was born in Norwalk, September 30, 1659, 
died before January 2, 1704-05. His estate 
was divided November 21, 1705, among "six 
children living." The sixth was probably Dan- 
iel. Matthew, his brother, and John, his son, 
w( re administrators. He settled in Norwalk, 
where he owned land jointly with his brother 
Matthew, which he sold, January 25, 1693. 
The town records of Danbury show that he 
owned land there, and those of New Canaan 
that he was among the constituents of the 
.Society of that place. He married 

Children : John, over twenty-one at 



time of inventory, married Sarah, daughter of 
Jakin Gregory, mentioned in his grandfather's 
will; .\bigail, born 1689: Mary, 1692; Na- 
thaniel, 1695; Eleazer, 1701-02; Daniel, 1705. 

(I\') Nathaniel, son of John (3) Bouton, 
was born in Norwalk. 1695. He was one of 
the constituents of New Canaan. In his will, 
dated 1775, he makes no mention of his son 
John and daughter Rebecca, who probably died 
before that date. He married (first) Hannah 

; (second) Mary . Children, 

born in New Canaan : Hannah, November 24, 
1721 ; .\bigail, February 28, 1723: Nathaniel, 
September 6, 1726; Samuel, .April 11, 17.30; 
Jehiel, February 17, 1732; Mary, Novembej 
II, 1734: John, July 23, 1737; Daniel, Octobei 
24, 1740; Rebecca, 1742. 

(\') Nathaniel (2), son of Nathaniel (i^ 
Bouton. was born in New Canaan, Septembei 
6. 1726. He married (first), April 13, 1755 
Lydia Penoyer, born .April 15, 1724. He man 
ried (second) Rachel Kellogg, of Norwallj 
Children of first wife: Nathaniel, baptize 
Sc]itemher 7. 1756; James, baptized Decembe 



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4, 1757; Lydia, baptized May, 1761, married 
Elnathan Weed (see Weed V) ; Mary, bap- 
tized October 2, 1763. Children of second 
wife: Enos, born February 27, 1770; Nathan- 
iel, born Poundridge, New York, 1778; James, 
born I'oundridge, married Abby Baker; Eli- 
asaph, born Poundridge, married Polly Slau- 
son ; Dangliter, married Samuel Young ; Eliza, 
bom Poundridge: Rachel, born Poundridge, 
married Simeon Luce. 

(The Weed Lino). 

(I) Jonas \Veed, immigrant ancestor, came 
from England in the company of Sir Richard 
Saltonstall, in 1630, and settled first at Water- 
town, Massachusetts. He was admitted a free- 
man, May 18, 1631, and was dismissed from 
the church at Watertown to that at Wethers- 
field, Connecticut, March 24, 1636. He set- 
tled about 1642, in Stamford, Connecticut. His 
will was dated November 16, 1672, and his 
inventory was dated June, 1676. He bequeath- 
ed to his children : John, Daniel, Jonas, Sam- 
uel and four daughters. Children : John, mar- 
ried Joanna Westcoat. and lived in Stam- 
ford : Daniel, mentioned below ; Jonas, mar- 
ried Bethia Hawley ; Samuel : Mary, married 
George Abbott : Dorcas, married James 
Wright; Hannah, married Benjamin Hoyt : 
Sarah. 

(H) Daniel, son of Jonas Weed, was born 
about 1650, probably at Stamford. He lived 
in Stamford and in the adjacent town of Rye, 
Westchester county. New York, where, before 
his death, according to probate records, he had 
been living for twenty years. He died No- 
vember 2y, ir)97, and the probate records give 
the ages of the children in 1698, from which 
their dates of birth are computed, viz: Sarah, 
born November 18, 1675; Abraham. August 
18, 1680; Daniel, mentioned below: Ebenezer, 
< )ctober 22, 1692 ; Nathaniel, October 22, 1696. 

( ni ) Daniel (2), son of Daniel ( i ) Weed, 
was born March 19, 1685, according to the 
probate records, which state that he was thir- 
teen years old, March 19, 1698. He married 

filizabeth . Children, born in Stamford : 

Daniel, November 12, 1709: Elizabeth, Febru- 
ary 16, 1711-12; Hezekiah, September, 171 5; 
Reuben, mentioned below; Deborah, May 2, 
1724 : Nehemiah. 

( I\') Reuben, son of Daniel (2) Weed, 
was born at Stamford, October, 1717. He 
married there, June 28, 1738, Lydia Hawley. 
Children, born at Stamford: Reuben, Febru- 



ary 3, 1740; Abigail, December 3, 1741 ; John, 
March 21, 1742-43: Eliphalet, April 28, 1745; 
Lydia, December 31, 1749; Sarah, February 
-3' 1755 • Elnathan, mentioned below. 

(V) Elnathan, son of Reuben Weed, was 
born at Stamford, Connecticut, April 14, 1758, 
died April 11, 1844. He removed to Pound- 
ridge, Westchester county. New York, and 
served in the .American army in the revolu- 
tionary war. He married Lydia Bouton, of 
Poundridge (see Bouton V). She was born 
March 26, 1761. Children: Jared, born April 
8, 1783; Stephen, mentioned below; Betsey, 
April 30, 1788; Sally Hoyt, October 12, 1790; 
Elnathan, November ti, 1792; Abigail, Octo- 
ber 30, 1796; Samuel, December 14, 1799; 
Mary Anna, January 12, 1801 ; Louisa, March 
7, 1803; Joseph W., July 19, 1806. 

(VI) Stephen, son of Elnathan Weed, was 
born September 8, 1785, died August 9, 1859. 
He married, about 1805. Julia Waring. Chil- 
dren : Diantha, married William Doubleday ; 
Julia .\nn. married Charles W. Sanford; Har- 
riet, married William P>oyd : Betsey, mention- 
ed below ; Waring, married Mary Ayers : .\le.x- 
an 'er, married Jennie Cowan; Alary Louisa. 

(VII) Betsey, daughter of Stephen Weed, 
was born March 3, 181 3. She married, P'ebru- 
ary 3. 1840, Rev. Samuel Webster Bush, who 
was born in 1806, in Fairfax county, \'irginia. 
and was brought up in .\lbany. New York, in 
the Webster family, and was educated there 
in the public schools. He studied law and 
after he was admitted to the bar, practiced 
for a few years. He decided, however, to 
enter the ministry and took up the study of 
theology at the Auburn Theological Seminary. 
His first pastorate was at Binghamton, New 
York, in charge of the Congregational church. 
Subsequently he was pastor at Skaneateles, 
New York, where he was located for seven 
years : at Norwich, New York, where he 
preached three years ; at Cooperstown, New 
York, eight years. Afterwards he returned 
to Binghamton. and during the last years of 
his life was chaplain of the Inebriate Asylum 
there. He died at Binghamton, March 20, 
1877. Of great scholarly and literary attain- 
ments, Mr. Bush had a most winning jierson- 
ality and devout pious character, and was 
greatly beloved by his parishioners. 

Children : Julia Charlotte Bush, born April 

13. 1842, now residing in Binghamton: Mary 
Louisa Bush, born January 18, 1844. died July 

14, 1881 ; Frances Bush, born May 30. 1830, 



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resides in Binghamton ; Arthur Sanford Web- 
fc.ster Bush, born April 29, 1859, resides in 
Binghamton. 

The Hilton family is of old Eng- 
HILTON lish origin. The first of the 

name in this country were two 
brothers, William, mentioned below, and Ed- 
ward, who came over from London with j\Ir. 
David Thompson, in 1623, to begin a planta- 
tion at Piscataqua. The place of settlement 
was at Dover Neck, seven miles from Ports- 
mouth, in the limits of New Hampshire. They 
were all fishmongers by trade, and were sent 
over not only to fish, but also to plant vine- 
yards, discover mines, etc. Exhaustive search 
of the records of the Fishmongers' Company, 
of London, by Charles H. Pope, in 1907, failed 
to reveal the names of the three men, but a tax 
roll of London, made in 1641, brought to light 
by Mr. Gerald Fothergill (see "New Eng. 
Reg.," Ixi), gives the name of Edward Hilton 
in the list of fishmongers, with the memo- 
randum "Newe England" after it. This indi- 
cates that Edward had certainly been in busi- 
ness in London and had continued the sale and 
shipment of fish to a recent date. No trace 
of his native parish or his ancestry have been 
found. He was the leader of the little planta- 
tion, and received the patent for the land — the 
Squamscott Patent — as it was called, includ- 
ing what is now known as Dover, Durham, 
Stratham, and parts of Newington and Green- 
land, etc. The council for New England "for 
and in consideration that Edward Hilton and 
his Associates hath already sundry servants 
to plant in New England at a point called by 
the natives Wecanacohunt otherwise Hilton's 
Point, lying some two leagues from the mouth 
of the river Piscataquack * * where they have 
already built some houses and planted corne. 
And for that he doth further intend by Divine 
Assistance to transport thither more people 
and cattle * * * a work which may especially 
tend to the propagation of Religion and to the 
great Increase of Trade * * convey to him 
all that part of the River Pascataquack call- 
ed or known by the name of Wecanacohunt or 
Hilton's Point * * with the .south side of 
the River and three miles into the Maine land 
by all the breadth aforesaid," etc. Possession 
was given in the name of the Council by Cap- 
tain Thomas Wiggin and others, July 7, 1631. 
(Sup. Court files, New Eng. Reg., xxiv., 264). 
Part of this land was sold to individual set- 



tlers, part to the Lords Say and Brook and 
some to New England gentlemen. Edward 
Hilton settled in Exeter, after some time, and 
signed the petition of its inhabitants in the 
year 1642. That same year, he was appointed 
by the Massachusetts Bay Government one of 
the local justices of the court, sitting with the 
magistrates on the highest questions and act- 
ing by themselves in cases not beyond certain 
limits. On account of this office, the general _ 
court held him to be exempt from taxation, in ■ 
1669. He filled other important offices and J 
was highly honored in the colonies. In 1653, 
he had a grant of land comprising the whole 
village of Newfields, which was made to him 
in return for his setting up a sawmill, and a 
considerable part of this later grant has re- 
mained to this day in the possession of his 
descendants. He was selectman of Exeter 
from 1645 nearly every year up to 1652. In 
1657, he was one of the committee of two 
from that town to meet the committee from 
Dover to settle the bounds between the two 
towns. He has been called "The Father of 
New Hampshire." He died early in 1671. 
The name of his first wife is unknown. He 
married (second) Jane, daughter of Hon. Alex- 
ander She])ley. 

A possible clue to the ancestry of Hilton is 
found m the record of a suit brought in the 
Piscataqua court by William Hilton, April 4, 
1642, respecting a payment to "Mr. Richard 
Hilton of Norwich (Northwich)." Mr. H. F. 
Waters found a record at Wotten-under-edge, 
Gloucestershire, England, of the baptism of a 
child of Richard Hilton, "coming out of New 
England." J 

(I) William Hilton, immigrant ancestor, of ■ 
this branch, and brother of Edward, came from 
London to Plymouth, Massachusetts, in the 
"Fortune," November 11, 1621. Soon after 
his arrival, he wrote a letter of great historical 
and personal interest, published by Captain 
John Smith in his "New England Trialls," in 
the edition of 1622. His wife and two children 
followed him in the "Anne," July or August, 
1623, but their names arc not known. In the 
allotment of land, 1623, he received one acre, 
and his wife and children three acres. He 
was in Plymouth in 1624, but as his name does 
not appear in the list of those jjrescnt at the 
division in 1627, it is probable that he had re- 
moved before that date, to the settlements on 
the Piscataqua. July 7, 1631, he was one of 
the witnesses to the livery of seizin to his 




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brother Edward, of the lands embraced in the 
Squamscott of Hilton's Patent, dated March 
12, 1629-30. December 4, 1639, he was grant- 
ed land on the other side of the river, and, 
February 3, 1640, it was agreed at Exeter, that 
"Mr. William Hilton is to enjoy those marshes 
in Oyster River which formerly he had pos- 
session of and still are in his possession." He 
was made freeman. May 19, 1642, and that 
same year, had a grant of land of twenty acres, 
at Dover. In 1644, he was deputy to the gen- 
eral court at Boston from Dover. About this 
time, he removed to Kittery Point, Maine. At 
a court held at Gorgeana, June 27, 1648, he 
was licensed to keep the ordinary at the mouth 
of the Piscataqua, and also to run a ferry. He 
removed to York, about 165 1, and, November 
22, 1652, when the Massachusetts Commission- 
ers arrived there to receive the submission of 
the inhabitants he was one of the fifty persons 
who acknowledged themselves subject to the 
government of Massachusetts Bay and took 
the oath of freemen. At a town meeting, held 
at York, December 8, 1652, it was ordered that 
he should have the use of the ferry for twenty- 
one years. He was selectman, 1652-53-54, and 
had grants of land from the town, July 4, 1653, 
and June 4, 1654. His first wife was Anne 

, who came over in 1623. It is supposed 

that he had a second wife, Frances, who, after 
his death, married Richard White. He died 
1655 or 1656, and letters of administration 
were granted June 30, 1656, to Richard White. 
His children were : William, mentioned below, 
and perhaps others. 

(II) William (2), son of William ( i ) Hil- 
ton, lived in York. He had a grant of land 
from the town, August 25, 1679, and others, at 
later dates. He married Ann, whose maiden 
name may have been Beale. He died between 
March, 1699, and June, 1700. His wife sur- 
vived him. Children : William, mentioned 
below; Hannah, married (first), about 1708, 
John Cole, (second) Mark Shepard : Ben- 
jamin : Dorcas, married Samuel Moor ; prob- 
ably others. 

(III) William (3), son of William (2) 
Hilton, was bom about 1679, in Dover, New 
Hampshire, or York, Maine. He received sev- 
eral grants of land in York, in 1702-03. and, in 
171 1, was still a resident of that town, styling 
himself fisherman. He bought land in Man- 
chester, Massachusetts, November 22, 1709. 
and had a dwelling-house in that part called 
Black Cove. He bought other land adjoin- 



ing, September 30, 1714, and is then called 
of Manchester, fisherman and coaster. He 
had also a dwelling-house at Muscongus and 
bought land there, February i, 1719-20. He 
appears to have been extensively engaged 
in the fisheries and coasting trade of the latter 
town, made great improvements and owned a 
large stock of cattle there. December i, 1715, 
he was made one of a committee to procure a 
minister for Manchester, and, March 12, 1715- 
16, was one of the selectmen. He was also 
one of the tythingmen in 1717, and, in 1718, 
one of the "Chow erds and feld Driveers." 
He married, June 2, 1699, Margaret Stilson, 
daughter of James and Margaret (Gould) 
Stilson, born in 1679, died in Manchester, No- 
vember, 1763. She married, December 8, 
1727, John Allen, who died about 1737. Her 
mother was Margaret Gould, daughter of Alex- 
ander and Margaret (Brown) Gould, born in 
New Harbor, now Bristol, Maine, about 1659. 
Her grandmother, Margaret Brown was the 
daughter of John and Margaret (daughter of 
Frances Hay ward) Brown. John Brown was 
the son of Richard Brown, of Barton Regis, 
Gloucester, England, and settled in Pemaquid, 
at the head of New Harbor, now Bristol, 
Maine. 

About 1686, 1687 or 1688, Margaret Stilson 
was captured by the Indians, together with her 
mother and brother James, and carried to Can- 
ada. At the same time, her father, James Stil- 
son, was fired upon and killed when crossing 
the water at Muscongus in a canoe, and the 
voungest child, a baby in arms, was burned to 
death. The mother, after remaining in cap- 
tivity for several years, was released, and mar- 
ried in Marblehead, March 30, 1696. Thomas 
Pitman, and died January, 1750. The two 
children remained in Canada several years 
longer, but were finally ransomed. James re- 
moved to Newcastle and Portsmouth, New 
Hampshire. 

William Hilton died in Manchester, June 
21, 1723, and was buried in the old burying- 
ground there. The inscription on his grave- 
stone called him lieutenant. Children : Eliza- 
beth, baptized in Marblehead, December 8, 
1700; Stilson; Mary, baptized in iVIarblehead, 
April 16. 1704: Margaret, baptized in Marble- 
head, May 26, 1706; Joshua, baptized in Mar- 
blehead. March 14, 1707-08; William, men- 
tioned below; Samuel, born in Manchester, 
May 16, 1713; Thomas, baptized in Marble- 
head, August 14, 1715; Benjamin, born in 



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Manchester, August 27, 1717; Amos, baptized 
in Marblehead, March 12, 1720-21. 

(IV) William (4), son of WilHam (3) Hil- 
ton, was born in Manchester, Massachusetts, 
and married there, December i, 1731, Mary 
Lee. He is supposed to have Hved on his 
father's homestead, at Muscongus, and to have 
carried on farming at Broad Cove, the com- 
munication between the two places being by 
water. In the summer of 1758, he and his 
three sons, William, Richard and John, had 
just landed at the latter place, and were on 
their way to the farm, when they were fired 
upon by Indians in ambush. William was shot 
dead, and the father was badly wounded in the 
knee by an Indian who had rushed forward 
and seized \\'illiam"s loaded gun as the latter 
fell. Richard discharged his gun at one of 
the Indians and wounded him in one knee, so 
that he was a cripple for life. Many years 
afterwards, the same Indian, then very old 
and lame, visited the place, and affirmed that 
his lameness was occasioned by a shot from 
a white man, at the very s])ot where this fight 
occurred. The two sons, with their father, 
made their way back to Muscongus, where the 
latter died from the wound shortly after. The 
body of William was buried on the bank where 
he was killed, but was many years later, taken 
up and reinterred in the same coffin with the 
body of his brother Richard. Children, born 
in Manchester: Mary, August 26, 1732; Will- 
iam, December 29, 1734; James, June 27, 1737, 
mentioned below; Richard, September i, (?) 
1739; Anna, December 12, 1741. Children 
born after the parents left Manchester: John, 
whose only daughter married Thomas Hilton ; 
Ebenezer, died at the age of four; Ruth, mar- 
ried (first) Enoch Avery, (second) .Samuel 
Waters, Esq. ; Elizabeth, baptized in Manches- 
ter, .\ugust 12, 1750: Joseph, settled in New 
Milford; Mathias, died young. 

(V) James, son of William (4) Hilton, was 
born at Manchester, Massachusetts, June 27, 
1737, and was baptized July 10 following. He 
removed with the family, about 1742, to Bristol, 

Maine. He married .Sarah . He died 

at I'ristol and his will was dated July 2, 1799, 
and the inventory was dated September 2 fol- 
lowing. The will be(|ueathed to children — 
William, Mary Merritt, Jane, James, John, 
Margaret, Sarah, Su.san, I-llizabeth, Nancy, 
Joshua and Joseph. In 1798 William, Joshua 
and John, of this family, were taxed in Bristol, 
in the United States direct tax. Children, born 



at Bremen (Bristol): William, born July 4, 
1760; Mary, May 4, 1762; Jane, August 16, 
1764; James, December 16, 1766; John, men- 
tioned below ; Joshua, in Bristol, July 10, 1770. 
resided in Bremen; Joseph, July 18, 1772; 
Samuel, November 6, 1775 ; Margaret, March 

14. 1777- 

(VI) John, son of James Hilton, was born 
at Bristol, Maine, March 10, 1768, and died 
at Bremen, May 9, 1833; married Sally Blunt, 
who was born at Bristol, April 6, 1767, and 
tlied at Bremen, February 16, 1841, daughter 
of Ebenezer and Catherine Blunt. He resided 
at Ijremen, and, in 1790, had, according to the 
first federal census, three females in his family. 

Children: i. James Poor, mentioned below. 
2. Catherine Blunt, born .August 5, 1795, died 
December 20, 1823, at Bremen: married, in 
1817, John Hilton (7), son of John (6) and 
Jane Hilton : after her death he went west. 3. 
Ebenezer Blunt, born June 27, 1797; married, 
in 1825, Eliza Hilton (7) ; died in Minnesota, 
in 1879-80; she was daughter of Jacob and 
Sally (.Averill) Hilton; removed to Minne- 
sota in 1856. 4. Hannah, born December 2, 
1798, died at Des Moines, Iowa, .April 24. 
1841 ; married, second wife, John Hornby, of 
P)remen, and removed to Iowa in 1839. 5. 
Harriet, born April 29, 1800, died at Jefferson, 
Maine, 1852; married (first). May 11, 1820, 
James Hilton (6), son of John and Jane (Hil- 
ton) Hilton ; married (second) Roeuel Peaslee 
(7). 7. Eliza Blunt, born May 22, 1803, 
died March 2, 1877, at Alna. Maine; married, 
second wife, Warren Averill, of Alna. 8. 
John, born May 9, 1805, died June 18, 1807. 

9. John Thurston, bom June 24, 1807, died 
Februarv 7, 1873, at Bremen, Maine; married 
(fir.st), June 24, 1832, Abigail Glidden, who 
died April. 1850, (second) Julia A. Weymouth. 

10. Jane Yates, or Yeats, born .August 4, 1813, 
or 1819, died May 31, 1853; married Samuel 
F. Huzzey ; resided at Bremen, Maine. 

(VII) James Poor, eldest child of John 
Hilton, was born in Bremen, Maine, January 
8, 1794, and died there, in 1884. He was a 
farmer and spent his life in his native towii. 
He was postmaster of the town in 1849, ^nd 
represented his district in the legislature. In 
politics he was a Republican in later years. 
He married Mary Averill Hilton, born at Alna, 
Maine, November 6, 1795, died at Bremen, 
November 7, 1868, daughter of Jacob and 
.Sally Hilton. Her father was born at .Alna, 
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1847; her mother, Sally ,\verill, was born 
June 22. 1777, died December 14, 1859: they 
had eleven children. Samuel Hilton, father of 
Jacob, was born October 7. 1741, died at .Alna, 
August 29, 1809: married Judith Carter, who 
died February 14. 1800: they had eleven chil- 
dren. 

Children of James Poor Hilton, born and 
recorded at Bremen: Caroline H., June 16, 
1818; Edwin Averill. Sejitember 7, 1820: 
Francis T.. March 5, 1823, died in 1824; Mary 
C, September 6. 1825: John F., January 4, 
1828, mentioned below; James H., April 8. 
1830: Sarah E., June 2, 1832: Herman S., 
August 23, 1834, died November 10. 1852; 
Jacob Emery, December 11, 1838. died Janu- 
ary 3, 1863. 

(\ ni) John F., son of James I'oor Hilton, 
was born at Bremen, Maine, January 24. 1828, 
died at Damariscotta, Maine, March 7, 1882. 
He was etlucated in the public schools of 
Damariscotta and spent his active years in 
that town, a ship-joiner by trade, employed in 
the ship-yards there. In politics he was a Re- 
publican and for fourteen years he served on 
the board of selectmen of that town. He mar- 
ried ( first ) Laura A. Blumnier, of Bristol, 
Maine. He married (second) Lizzie A. Weeks, 
of Jefferson, Maine. Child of first wife: i. 
Frank L., mentioned below. Child of second 
wife: 2. Mary, deceased. 

(IX) Frank L., son of John F. Hilton, was 
born in Damariscotta, Maine, August 12, 1857. 
He attended the public schools of his native 
town and the Lincoln Academy, at New Castle, 
Maine. He learned the carpenter's trade, and 
followed it until twenty-one years old in his 
native town. After two years spent in a sea 
voyage, he came to Tru.xton, New York, in 
1880, and has made his home there since then. 
For three years lie was in the mercantile busi- 
ness, and, in 1883, he engaged in the wholesale 
profluce business in Truxton, in partnership 
with Otis D. Patrick, under the firm name of 
Hilton & Patrick. The firm has continued 
with notable success to the present time. He 
is also one of the owners of the Bryant Furni- 
ture Company, manufacturing furniture at 
Truxton. In politics he is a Republican and 
he has been town clerk of Truxton. In 1902 
he was appointed postmaster and has continued 
in that office to the present time. He is a mem- 
ber of De Ruyter Lodge, Free Masons, of 
De Ruyter, New York ; the Cortland Chapter, 
Royal Arch Masons, of Cortland, and the 



Cortland Commandery, Knights Templar, of 
Cortland; of Katurah Temple, Mystic Shrine. 
of Binghamton, New York; of the Benevolent 
and Protective Order of Elks, of Cortland. 

He married, in 1882, Josephine Hall, of 
Tru.vton. New York, born 1864. died January 
20, 1910, daughter of Henry and Mary (Rob- 
ertson) Hall. Mr. and Mrs. Hilton had no 
children. 



Dr. Japeth or Japhet Hunt, was 
lUX'i" born in 171 1. and settled early in 

Xobletown, Columbia county. New 
York, near Spencertown and Hillsdale and 
what is now Austerlitz, New York. Near him 
settled a brother. John Hunt. Neither can be 
traced to any of the other Hunt families in 
the colonies, and it is likely that they were 
iiumigrants. though possibly of the Westches- 
ter county family. John Hunt lived to be 
nearly a hundred. His farm adjoined that of 
Captain John Collins. In 1790 the first federal 
census shows that John Hunt, of Hillsdale, 
had in his family two males over sixteen, five 
under that age and four females. Samuel, 
eldest son of John Hunt, had two males over 
sixteen and one female: his wife was Sally 
(Bagley) Hunt, and their descendants have 
been prominent in Hillsdale. Another son of 
John. John Hunt Jr., had. in 1790, two sons 
under sixteen and seven females. Pelatiah 
Hunt, a nephew of Dr. Japeth or Japhet Hunt, 
and presumably also a son of John Hunt, had 
five sons under sixteen and tliree females in 
his family at Hillsdale: from other sources we 
know that Gideon and Seth Hunt were brothers 
of Pelatiah. In 1790 Dr. Japeth or Japhet 
Hunt, according to the census, was at Hills- 
dale, and had in his family two males over 
sixteen, two under that age and four females. 
That number corresponds with the family rec- 
ord. Dr. Japeth Hunt was a surgeon in the 
army, during the French and Indian war and 
the revolution. He died ^larcli 7. 1808. aged 
ninetv-six years. He married Elizabeth Davis. 
He settled in Marathon, in 1796. the first 
pioneer there, taking up land in the south part 
of the present village and built a log house on 
land now or lately owned by G. P. Squires, 
between the river and highway. Dr. Hunt 
was buried in the Marathon burial-ground. 
Children: i. John, mentioned below. 2. Will- 
iam, married .Anne, daughter of Matthew Cole. 

3. James, lived and died in Genoa. New York. 

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Genoa, moving to Indiana in 1796. 5. Nancy, 
married Abram Smith, and died December 28, 
1808, leaving sons Cyrus and Nathan, the latter 
of whom was father of Judge A. P. Smith, of 
Cortland. 6. Hannah, married Nathan Thorp. 

(II) John, son of Dr. Japeth Hunt, was 
born in Hillsdale or Nobletown, near the New 
York-Massachusetts line, in disputed territory, 
July 2-], 1765. died at Marathon, Augvist 8, 
1815. He settled in Marathon, in 1796, buying 
a hundred acres of land and building the first 
dwelling-house — a log hut — within the present 
limits of Marathon. He brought with him his 
wife, a daughter, three years old. and a son, 
six months old. He was justice of the peace 
for fifteen years, and held that office at the 
time of his death. He married, at Hillsdale, 
December 25, 1791, Lydia Mallory, born Oc- 
tober 17, 1760, died May 7, 1856. Children, 
first two born at Hillsdale: i. Naomi, Novem- 
ber 16, 1792, married Charles Richardson. 2. 
Japeth, born October 26, 1795, died February 
20, 1796. 3. Samuel M., mentioned below. 4. 
Mary, December 17, 1800, married Cyrus 
Phelps. 5. Elizabeth, January 27, 1803, mar- 
ried Jacob Meecham. 6. Lydia, July 26, 1805, 
married Horace McClary and Huntley. 

7. Joanna, July 25, 1808, married Ira Lynde. 

8. Su.sanna, March 8, 181 1, married Ira Lynde. 

(III) Dr. Samuel M. Hunt, son of John 
Hunt, was born at Marathon. Cortland county. 
New York, October 8, 1798, the first white 
child born in that town. His first schooling 
was received there in a barn used for a school- 
house, later in a primitive log house, the win- 
dows of which were of oiled paper. He enter- 
ed Cortland .\cademy in i8ig. He studied 
medicine under Dr. P. B. Brush, of Bingham- 
ton, and was licensed by the Medical Society 
of Chenango county, in 1825, when Dr. Henry 
Mitchell was president. He practiced first at 
Sharp's Corners, on the Otselic river, now 
the town of Triangle, Broome county. New 
York. Afterward he located at Lisle, in the 
same county, and later at L'nion and Maine, 
also in Broome county. But for many years 
he practiced in his native town. He was an 
able and successful physician and surgeon, prac- 
ticing for many years in Marathon. He wrote 
an account of the Hunt family for "Goodwin's 
History of Cortland County" (1859), and was 
accourrted a man of rare literary attainments, 
a useful and honored citizen. He married, 
December 11. 1823, Maria Havens. Children: 
I. Charles H., born September 4, 1824; mar- 



ried Anne DeP. Livingston. 2. Dr. John W., 
born February 28, 1826, at Upper Lisle, 
15roome county, where his father was then 
living; died December 12. 1859: was a promi- . 
nent Free Mason, and grand scribe of the Sons \ 
of Temperance ; deputy county treasurer and 
assistant secretary of state of New York ; mar- 
ried Eliza S. Hobart. 3. Daniel Delos, men- 
tioned below. 4! Duray, born June 9, 1834; 
married a daughter of Chester Cooke. 5. De- 
Forest, born August 15, 1842. 6. Eliza M., 
August 31, 1844. 

(I\') Daniel Delos. son of Dr. Samuel M. 
Hunt, was born at Upper Lisle. Broome coun- 
ty. New York, ^larch 12. 1828, died at Mara- 
thon, .April 6, 1890. He received his early 
education in the public schools, and during his 
boyhood worked at farming. From the farm 
he entered upon a mercantile career and was 
clerk in various general stores in the vicinity. 
In his twenty-fourth year he engaged in the 
dry goods business on Cortland street, Mara- 
thon, in the second building standing at the 
north end of the bridge. He was for many 
years one of the leading merchants of the 
town. In 1869 he built the Mansard Block, 
then deemed an innovation in business build- 
ings, and moved his store into it. He admitted 
to ]iartnership. about this time, Oscar \\'ildey, 
who retired from business in 1875. In 1882 
he admitted to partnership, his son-in-law, C. 
M. Chapman, and the firm continued to the 
time of the death of the senior partner. Mr. 
Hunt was a man of much public spirit, favor- 
ing the projects that tended to improve the 
village and benefit the people. One who knew 
him wrote: "D. Delos Hunt pursued a business 
career in Marathon of nearly forty years and 
left behind him a record of probity and integ- 
rity that has engraven his name high among 
the men who made Marathon a busy hive of 
industry. Personally and socially he was of 
an agreeable and pleasant nature; kind and 
charitable ; ever willing to lend a helping hand 
and zealous of his good name and business 
ability. The news of his death came upon the 
community like a shock, though his long ill- 
ness had prepared his friends to expect the 
worst. His death was mourned by all who 
knew him and who realized, many of them, 
that they had not only lost a dear jjersonal 
friend, but that his departure from among 
them would be a serious loss to the community. 
His long, last illness was a rare example of 
patience, hopefulness and fortitude." He was 



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"keenly interested in town and village affairs 
and held the offices of trustee and president of 
the incorporated village of Marathon. 

He married. January 24, 1853. Esther A. 
'Carley, born December 4, 1830, died May 12, 
1909, daughter of Alanson and Sally (Cort- 
right) Carley (see Carley \'II). Children: i. 
J. Warren, resides in Marathon. 2. Corrie L., 
1)orn in 1859; married, in 1880. Carlton M. 
Chapman, of Syracuse, New York, son of 
•Charles A. Chapman. He was in partnership 
for many years with Daniel Delos Hunt, her 
father, but retired some years ago on account 
•of ill health and is now traveling salesman. 
They have one daughter, .-Kona Louise, born 
March 17. 1885, married John D. Hanson, of 
Grand Rapids. Michigan, and has a daughter, 
Esther Dorothy, born .April 13, 1910. 



Buchanan is one of the old- 
BUCHANAN est and most honored of 
Scotch surnames. The fam- 
ily was in Stirlingshire as early as the year 
1200. An important branch of the family went 
to Ulster, north of Ireland, in the early days 
of the dispossession of the Irish and settle- 
ment by Scotch and English Protestants under 
King James in 1610 and afterward. The name 
•of Captain William Buchanan of Lord of Ards' 
Quarters, county of Down, appears in the list 
of those ordered to remove under a Declara- 
tion of Commissioners, May 23, 1653, in ac- 
cordance with a plan of the English govern- 
ment to remove all popular Scots from Ulster 
to certain districts in Munster. This shows 
that the family was then well known in county 
Down. It flourished especially in the adjacent 
. county of Tyrone and in the census of births 
in 1890 we find that out of twenty-four births 
that year in all Ireland, twenty-one were in 
Tyrone. 

(I) James Buchanan. American immigrant, 
came to this country from the north of Ire- 
la-iid, doubtless from the family at Tyrone, 
and settled among the pioneers in Orange 
county. New York, as early as 1737. He died 
.-\pril 6. 1775. and is buried in Goodwill church- 
yard, near Montgomery. New York. 

(ID John, son of James Buchanan, w-as 
born in Orange county. New York, lived in 
Orange anrl Herkimer counties, and died about 
1808 in Herkimer county. He enlisted and 
served as sergeant of Captain Theodore Bliss' 
company. Second Artillery, of the Continental 
.■\rmy, under Colonel John Lamb, on March 



23. 1777. for three years. His name last ap- 
peared on muster roll for November and De- 
cember, of 1779. He also served as a private 
in Captain William Talbert's company. Colonel 
James McClaughry's regiment, of New York 
militia, and was ordered into service by Gov- 
ernor Clinton to reinforce the garrison at West 
Point at the time General Comwallis was 
marching down the river. He married Miriam 
Eager, of an old Massachusetts family. Chil- 
dren : Thomas; James E., mentioned below; 
William, John, \\'atkins, Polly and Martha. 

( III) James E., son of John Buchanan, was 
born in Orange county. New York, April 24, 
1788, died at Cortland ville \'illage, McGraw, 
New York, December 29, i8(3o. He was a 
soldier in the w-ar of 1812. He came to Cort- 
land county in January, 1818, and was one of 
the pioneer settlers of the town of McGraw- 
ville, coming thither from Herkimer county. 
He was educated in the public schools. All 
his active life he followed farming. In relig- 
ion he was a Congregationalist ; in politics a 
Democrat. He married, January 19, 1814, 
Sally Farmer, born June 23, 1793. in Herkimer 
county, died in McGraw, New York, Septem- 
ber 4, 1878, daughter of John Farmer. Chil- 
dren : John F., born November 26, 1814, died 
December 29, 1876: James, April 18, 1817, 
died .April 12. 1868: Sophia, December 30, 
1819, died January 8, 1820; jMiriam, July 6, 
1 82 1, died March 13. 1900, married David 
Short; Sally, August 18, 1824, died November 
4, i82(S: \Viniam W'illard, nientioned below; 
Sanford, born May 21, 1828, died December 
f). 1849; Thomas Watkins, February 16, 1832, 
died January 19, 1877. 

(I\') U'illiam Willard, son of James E. 
Buchanan, was born July 5, 1826, in McGraw- 
ville. New York, died September 25, 1886. He 
attended the public schools of his native town 
and Homer Academy, and for a few years 
taught school in Cortland county. During most 
of his life, however, he followed farming at 
Cortlandville. In politics he was a Republican. 
He was an active member of the Presbyterian 
church, at McGrawville. He married. Febru- 
arv 20, 1851. Amelia Hatfield, born Septem- 
ber 20. 1828, in Cortlandville. and is now liv- 
ing with her son at McGraw. New York. She 
is a daughter of William and Ann (Smith) 
Hatfield. Their only child was William J., 
mentioned below. 

(\') William J., son of William Willard 
Buchanan, was born in McGrawville, New 



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York, September 13, 1857. He attended the 
public schools of his native town and the 
L'nion High School, of McCiravvvillc. He 
conmienccd his hiisiiu-ss career in 1879. in the 
employ of W II. McGraw & S(jn, in the manu- 
facture of corsets. He contiinied with the 
Mc(iraw Corset Company, as the concern was 
known after incorjioration, for a period of 
twenty years and for many years he was super- 
intendent of the ])lant. In 1901 he organized 
the Empire Corset Company, of which he has 
since been jjresident, and the business has 
grown to large proportions. The plant is 
modern and designed for efficiency and com- 
fort of the workers. The factory is thirty- 
six by three hundred feet, two stories high, 
with basement. The basement is devoted to a 
cutting room and printing plant and for a stock 
room where the steel stays, rubber cloth and 
other goods used in the factory are kei)t. It 
is interesting to note that forty tuns of these 
steel stays are kept on hand. In the i)rinting 
plant all the bo.x labels used in the business are 
printed. In another part of the basement also 
are the two strip folder machines of a new 
automatic type, made especially for the corset 
business. The fold and cut are made in one 
operation, the cloth strips being for the inner 
side of the corset to cover the stays. In the 
east end of the basement is an .\cme self- 
clamping cutter with new-style friction gear 
for cutting square cloth. The corsets are cut 
out from brass patterns with knives, forty- 
eight thicknesses being cut at each time. The 
scraps are sorted into two grades and sold to 
])aper mills. More than five thousand yards 
of cotton cloth and one hundred and fifty 
dollars worth of elastic webbing are used daily. 
On the first floor are the offices, the |)aper 
box stock-room, the label room, j)acking and 
sliip))ing de|)artments. t)n the second lloor the 
rough work of construction, such as the as- 
sembling of parts, boning, staying, girdling, 
are performed, and for this purjw.se there are 
fifty-two needle and sixty-three three-to-ten 
needle machines, oiierated l)y steam ixnver and 
geared to three thousand three hundred stitches 
a minute. One ten-needle machine of the 
latest type is used for narrow girdles only. 
Nearly all the machines are of the latest pat- 
terns from the best makes. In the finishing 
room on this tloor the corsets are com])leted. 
This room contains sixteen new-style binding 
machines of the comi)ound feed type, doing 
two thousand stitches a minute. In this room 



also are the eyelet machines, not unlike the 
Mergenthaler linotype machines of the printers, 
and the single needle machines for plain stitch- 
ing with which the lace and hose supporters 
are attached to the corset, running at the rate 
of four thousand stitches a minute. When 
the corset is complete it is rolled by a machine 
designed for the work and boxed, after in- 
sjiection, and ready for shipment. One in- 
genious and wonderful machine in this room 
is that which threads the ribbon within the 
lace. In a small room on this floor starch is 
sprayed by machinery upon the finished corset, 
which is then taken to the laundry. The ])ower 
house contains a steam engine of one hundred 
and five horse ]jower and a thirty-five kilo- 
watt dynamo. Water for the plant is pumped 
from an eighty-three- foot well. 

The "Never Rust" corset, the "Sorosis" and 
the "Reduzyou" styles, manufactured by this 
company, have proved extremely popular and 
are known throughout the country. The com- 
[lany emplo\s two hundred and fifteen women 
and thirty-five men. Four traveling salesmen 
are ke])t busy and the goods are sold not only 
in this country, but in Cuba, Mexico, Canada 
and other foreign countries. In i()io the com- 
])any uiaiuifactured one hundred thousand 
dozen corsets, and in some days the plant has 
produced four hundred dozens. The officers 
of the company are: William J. Buchanan, 
president : I larry C. ChafYee, secretary ; Hart- 
ley K. Alexander, treasurer. A sketch of Mr. 
ChafTee appears elsewhere in this work. Mr. 
.Alexander was born in i8(W), in East Homer; 
for thirteen years he was bookkeeper for the 
P. II. McCraw & Son's corset factory. He is 
a graduate of the b'lmira School of Commerce; 
is ex-])resi(lcnt of the village, member of the 
water board and board of education, steward 
of the Methodist church and treasurer. Mr. 
J. II. Hill, superintendent of the cutting room, 
and a director of the comjjany, is an expert in 
the art of designing corsets. 

Mr. Buchanan is keenly interested in the 
village in which his business is located. He 
was ])resident of the incorporated village in 
1892-03-94-93 : has been secretary of the fire 
dejiartment ; was ])resident of the board of 
education for several terms and is at present 
railroad commissioner of the town of Cortland- 
ville. He is a prominent member of the Pres- 
byterian church, of which for a number of 
years he has been an elder and treasurer. 

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Cortlandvillc, born January i, 1861, daughter 
of Harvey D. and ^Iartha (Thompson) HoUis- 
ter. They have one son, W'ilHam Harvey, born 
September 1 1. 1894. 



John Hunt, hke his brother. Dr. 
HUXT Jai)eth Hunt, has never been traced 

and the evidence or rather lack of 
evidence indicates that both came from Eng- 
land. Among the descendants of John is a 
tradition that he came from Roxbury, Con- 
necticut. Roxbury was formerly part of Wood- 
bury, Connecticut, and is not an old town, 
comparatively speaking. Its records are not 
good, and no trace of this family is found 
either in \\'oo(lbury or Roxbury. The family 
may have stayed there but a short time and 
then joined the tide toward New York state. 
John and Dr. Japeth settled in Columbia coun- 
ty, near the town of Hillsdale. John lived to 
be nearly a hundred years old. His farm ad- 
joined that of Captain John Collins. The 
first federal census shows that John Hunt, of 
Hillsdale, had in his family two males over 
sixteen, five under that age and four females. 
Some of the sons had already families of their 
own. A full list of his children has not been 
found. Children: i. John Jr., had in 1790 at 
Hillsdale two sons under sixteen and seven 
females. 2. Samuel, had two males over six- 
teen and one female ; one account states that 
Samuel was the eldest. 3. Pelatiah, had in 
Hillsdale five sons under sixteen and three 
females. 4. (jideon. 5. Seth, mentioned below, 
frobably others. 

(II) Seth, son of John Hunt, was born 
about 1745, probably in Connecticut, and set- 
tled with his father and luicle in Columbia 
county. New York. He married Mary, daugh- 
ter of David Irish. They had a son Ransom, 
mentioned below. 

(III) Ransom, son of Seth Hunt, was born 
in 1768, in Connecticut. He and his brother- 
in-law, Abram lilaklee, located at Otego, New 
York, coming from Bennington, \'ermont, and 
Ransom Hunt cleared a farm in the wilder- 
ness there and built his log house. As the 
settlement grew he erected a sawmill and grist- 
mill, the first in that section, and for many 
years kept a tavern. He was a prominent citi- 
zen : he represented the district in the state 
assembly, and was a member of the constitu- 
tional convention for the state of New York. 

He married Sabra Blaklee, of an old Con- 
necticut family, born in 1768, died May 3, 



1848. Children: i. Ransom, was a Cajjtist 
minister and lived in Otego ; married Mchitable 
FoUett ; four children : Seth, John, .Susan and 
Jane. 2. By ram, born August 8, 1791 ; was 
also a Baptist minister ; moved to the vicinity 
of Knoxville, Pennsylvania, and was the father 
of ten children, whose descendants are still 
living there. 3. Russell, of Corning, New 
York : was the father of four children. 4. Ann. 
married Mason Hughston, of Otego, New 
York : nine children. 5. Laura, married Oba- 
diah Blaklee, of Otego, New York ; no chil- 
dren. 6. Harvey, mentioned below. 

(I\') Harvey, son of Ransom Hunt, was 
born January 3, 1808, in Otego, New York, 
and died there, November 30, 1888. He re- 
ceived a good education in the public schools 
and became a lawyer. In addition to his law 
practice he was occupied in farming. He 
served thirteen years as weigher in the Custom 
House, in New York City. In early life he 
was a Democrat, afterward a Republican. He 
served the town for several years as supervisor 
and was chairman of the board of supervisors 
of the county. He was elected an assembly- 
man from Otsego county, reelected and served 
two terms in the legislature, 1841-42. He 
married (first), March 5, 1827, Louisa Sco- 
field, born January 22, 1808, in Troy, New 
York, died in 1843. He married (second) 
Wealthy Birdsell, Ixjrn at Otego, New York, 
in 1812, died .November 5, 1889, daughter of 
Michael and Wealthy (Webster) Birdsell. 
Wealthy Webster was related to Daniel Webs- 
ter, the statesman. Children of first wife: i. 
George W. 2. Theodore L., resides at Otego. 

3. Ira Wallace, living at Neanah, Wisconsin. 

4. Helen A. 5. Susan. 6. .Albert, lives at 
Binghamton ; married Adelaide Bates : chil- 
dren : Harvey A., William B., Maud and Ruth. 
Children of second wife: 7. Dr. Dwight B., a 
physician at Otego, New York. 8. Dr. Will- 
iam B., a physician in New York City. 9. 
Eva. died in infancy. 10. James B., mentioned 
below. 

(\') James B., son of Harvey Hunt, was 
born at Otego. New York, March 25, 1856. 
He attended the public schools of his native 
town, and followed farming when a young 
man. He learned the trade of wheelwright 
and wagon-maker in Otego, and followed it 
until 1890, when he came to Cortland, New 
York, to work for the McGraw concern as a 
blacksmith. After twelve years in this factory, 
he left to engage in business on his own ac- 



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count in Cortland. He carried on a wagon 
manufacturing business until January, 191 1, 
when he bought a manufacturing plant in 
Homer, New York, and reorganized the Homer 
Wagon Company, of which he is president and 
secretary. This concern has done a large and 
flourishing business. Mr. Hunt is a member 
of Vesta Lodge, No. 255, Odd Fellows, of 
Cortland. For many years he was a singer of 
considerable note in Central New York, and 
sang in church choirs, concerts and in public ; 
was a member of the celebrated Cortland City 
Quartette. 

There were a number of Colo- 
McGRAW nial pioneers named McGrath 

or McGraw, sometimes spelled 
also Magrath, Megrath, Magraw and Megraw. 
In 1790, according to the first federal census, 
there was quite a numerous family, the second 
generation, or perhaps the third, in the town of 
Mohawk, Montgomery county, New York. 
Christopher McGraw had two males over six- 
teen, and one fejnale in his family ; his son 
Christopher Jr. had two sons over sixteen and 
two under that age and four females. Daniel 
and Edward had young families and Margaret, 
evidently a widow, was head of a separate 
family containing herself and a daughter. 

During the revolution there were Daniel Mc- 
Grath, of .'\mherst, Massachusetts ; John Mc- 
Grath, of Maine: James McGrath, of Rutland, 
Massachusetts (McGrow) ; Moses, of Boston, 
aged forty-five in 1781. A Lieutenant John 
McGraw or Megraw appears to have lived at 
Natick, Needham, and perhaps Sudbury and 
Concord ; was in the recruiting service ; also 
probably the same man who was in Captain 
Joseph Butler's company and Colonel Nixon's 
regiment ; married Jane Chamberlain, of Need- 
ham, at Needham, March 18, 1776. Some of 
these Massachusetts families located in \'er- 
mont. 

(I) Samuel McGraw, son of a Scotch-Irish 
pioneer in \'ermont, was born October 17, 
1772. The first settlers of Plymouth, Ver- 
mont, where he lived for a time, came about 
the year 1800 and he probably came a few 
years later, but in 1803 he located in Cortland- 
ville, New York, and is said to have come 
thither from New Haven, Connecticut. He 
lived for a time at Blodgett's Mills. In 1806 
he came to what is now the town of McGraw 
and built the first log house there; in 181 1 he 
built the first frame house in the town. He 



became a leading citizen, owned much of the 
land, and the village and postoflice of Mc- 
Grawville and McGraw were named for him. 
lie (lied at McGraw, February 6, 1836. 

He married, in 1794, at Bennington, Ver- 
mont, Elizabeth Whitcomb, who was born 
February i, 1775, died July 7, i860. Children: 
I. William, born January 28, 1796, died Octo- 
ber 22, 1862; married Sally Barnum : had ten ] 
children. 2. Harry, mentioned below. 3. 
Hiram (twin of Harry), born September 25, 
1797, died July, 1798. 4. Hiram, born January 
24, 1800, died April 5, 1877; married (first) 
Philena Graves; (second) Martha Sturtevant. 
5. Betsey, September 24, 1802. died December 
5, 1879; married Reuben G. Dowd. 6. John, 
May 30, 1804, died June 27, 1848; married 
Minerva Graves. 7. Samuel, September 25, 
1806, died December 14, 1889; married (first) 
Jerusha Eaton: (second) Nancy Clark. 8. 
Marcus, born October 31, 1808, died May 16, 
1870; married (first) Louisa Eaton; (second) 
Eliza Y. Munson. g. Marcia, January 3, 1811, 
died May 2, 1855 ; married Rev. George G. 
Ilapgood. ID. Newton, Jiyie 30, 1813; mar- 
ried Rowena Jones. 11. Elinor, October 8, 
1815, died December 4. 1886: married Thomas 
Rogers. 12. Maria, November 19, 1817, died 
March 6. 1897; married David W. Greenman. 

(II) Harry, son of Samuel McGraw, was 
born September 25, 1797, in Vermont or Con- 
necticut, died at McGrawville, New York, 
May 16, 1849. He was educated in the public 
schools. When his father died he became head 
of the family, and from 1818 to 1849 he con- 
ducted a general store in McGrawville and 
was first postmaster there from 1827 to 1849. 
In politics he was a prominent Whig; he was 
a member of the state assembly in 1843. ^nd 
assessor and supervisor of the town. He at- 
tended the Presbyterian church of which his 
ancestors had been members. He inherited 
much real estate from his father and it in- 
creased in value rapidly under his care. Much 
of his fortune was made in real estate. He 
married, in Cortlandville, New York. Janu- 
ary 13. 1820, Sally Smith, born October 2, 
1793, died May i, 1874, daughter of Captain 
Joseph and Rhoda (Parker) Smith (see Smith 
V). She was a devout Christian and kind 
mother. Children, born at McGrawville: i. 
Lucetta. born January 11, 1821 ; married Rev. 
E. B. Fancher ; resides at McGrawville ; chil- 
dren : Ezra B.. Edward P., Sarah L.. Cynthia, 
Henry R. and Minnie (twins), the latter of 




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whom died in infancy, and James R. Fancher. 
2. Perrin IL, mentioned below. 3. Pamelia, 
February 3, 1825 ; married, in McGrawville, 
1855, Henry M. Kingman, son of Oliver and 
Betsey Kingman ; merchant of Cincinnatus ; 
has one adopted daughter, Carrie E. Kingman. 
4. Marinda, July 14, 1827; married, Septem- 
ber 5, i860, in McGrawville, Henry C. Hend- 
rick, M. D., born Guilford, New York, Sep- 
tember II, 1827, son of Leontes and Zilpha 
(Farnham) Hendrick ; surgeon during the 
civil war, president of the examining board of 
United States surgeons, Cortland ; resides at 
McGrawville ; child, Henry Delos Hendrick, 
born October 11, 186 1. 5. Delos, October 21, 
1829, a merchant and produce dealer at Mc- 
Grawville. 6. Louisa Maria, October 21, 1832, 
died February i, 1833. 

(HI) Perrin H., son of Harry McGraw, 
was born in McGrawville, New York, Decem- 
ber 28, 1822, died October 16, 1899. He at- 
tended the public sehools of Cortland, Homer 
and Mexico, New York. He began his busi- 
ness career as a general merchant in partner- 
ship with his brother Delos. The firm then 
extended the business and built up an extensive 
produce and commission trade, especially in 
butter and cheese. He withdrew from the 
produce business to establish the corset manu- 
facturing business, which he conducted in a 
factory at McGrawville, under the name of 
the jNIcGraw Corset Company, and he con- 
ducted the business, which was eminently suc- 
cessful and which grew to very large propor- 
tions, until he retired in 1890, and was suc- 
ceeded as manager by his son, Albert Perrin 
McGraw. 

In politics Mr. McGraw was in early life a 
Whig, but a leading and influential Republican 
during his later life. He succeeded his father 
as postmaster of McGrawville ; represented the 
district in the state assembly in 1854; was state 
senator for two years in 1859-60, and held 
other offices of trust and honor. At the be- 
ginning of the civil war he assisted the state 
authorities to organize a regiment and was 
appointed its quartermaster. He served seven 
months in the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh 
Regiment of New York Volunteer Infantry. 

No public improvement made during the 
active life of Mr. McGraw can be mentioned 
in which he was not interested. He was one 
of the founders and during the entire existence 
of the institution was president of the New 
York Central Academy ; the principal promoter 



and first president of the U. C. & C. railroad, 
chartered April 9, 1870, and completed to Mc- 
Graw, September 18, 1897, by N. A. Bundy, 
as the Erie & Central New York Railroad. 
Mr. McGraw was a leader in the educational 
and church matters of the village, and for 
many years was an elder of the Presbyterian 
church. Largely through his ambition, energy 
and consummate business ability, a rural com- 
munity was transformed into a thriving manu- 
facturing center. 

He married, April 26, 1846, Louisa Pritch- 
ard, born June 9, 1824, died April 23, 1890,. 
daughter of Garrett and Philena Pritchard, of 
Solon, New York. Children, born at McGraw- 
ville : Mary Louisa, February 3, 1853, died 
December 16, 1864; Albert Perrin, mentioned 
below. 

(IV) Albert Perrin, son of Perrin H. Mc- 
Graw, was born in McGraw, New York, June 
12, 1856. He attended the common schools 
and fitted himself to enter college, but he v^'as 
attracted to a business career and at the age 
of twenty-two became associated with his father 
in the manufacture of corsets. When his father 
retired from the business in 1890 he became 
the manager and was treasurer and secretary 
of the corporation, the McGraw Corset Com- 
pany. The business which his father estab- 
lished and built up to remarkable success con- 
tinued to thrive and increase under the admin- 
istration of the son. In addition to the manu- 
facture of corsets, the company made waists, 
skirts and other garments. The McGraw skirts 
and waists, corsets and other products acquired 
a national reputation. In 1897 the A. P. Mc- 
Graw Corset Company absorbed the old com- 
pany, and Mr. A. P. AIcGraw became its presi- 
dent and treasurer. In 1908 Mr. McGraw sold 
the business and since then has devoted his 
time to his dairy farm and spring water busi- 
ness. This is one of the largest and best dairy 
farms in this region, comprising two hundred 
acres of land near the village of McGraw. 
The dairy buildings are models of cleanliness 
and equipped with all the wonderful, new 
dairy machinery and apparatus. He has a herd 
of twenty or more Holsteins and Ayrshires 
and they are kept in the pink of condition by 
proper care and diet. The butter from his 
dairy finds a local market and nearly every 
family in the village of McGraw is supplied 
with milk from this dairy. Water for the 
dairy is supplied by an artesian well bored in 
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feet and a half and so excellent is the c|uality 
that it has found a market among those careful 
to use iHire water. A chemist who analyzed 
the water reported : "This is very pure from a 
chemical and bacteriological standpoint. Spec- 
troscopic tests prove the absence of injurious 
metals or minerals. For table use I recom- 
mend the water with confidence." Every bot- 
tle of the water is labeled "Tres-Pur" and is 
shipped in various sizes of receptacles from 
quarts to five gallons. Mr. McGraw, in addi- 
tion to the interests mentioned has been inter- 
ested in the manufacture of wagons, paper 
and wooden boxes, etc., and at present is in 
partnership with his son, Charles A. McGraw, 
in the manufacture of corset laces, under the 
name of the McGraw Manufacturing Com- 
]iany. 

Mr. McGraw is an active and prominent 
member of the Presbyterian church and has 
been superintendent of the Sunday school for 
a period of nearly thirty years. In politics 
he is a Republican and he has been a member 
of the Republican county committee, president 
of the incorporated village and of the board of 
education of McGraw. He has traveled ex- 
tensively both in this country and abroad. He 
was a member of the McGrawville Lodge, No. 
320, Odd Fellows, and of Camp Mo. 36, Sons 
-of \'eterans. 

He married, January 18, 1882, Emeline M. 
Childs, born September 13, 1859, in W'alling- 
ford, X'ermont, daughter of Hon. Charles D. 
and Mary Cornelia (Munson) Childs. Her 
father was born June 29, 1830, son of Abial 
Qiilds; her mother, Mary Cornelia (Munson) 
Childs, was born January 13, 1835, died Sep- 
tember 17, 1866. Mrs. A. P. McGraw is a 
prominent member of the Daughters of the 
American Revolution, of which she is regent, 
■of the Presbyterian church and various social 
and charitable organizations. Children: Charles 
Albert, mentitjned below ; Agnes Childs, born 
November 12, 1891. 

f\') Charles Albert, son of Albert Perrin 
McGraw, was born at McGraw, Cortlandville, 
New York, December 28, 1886, and was edu- 
cated in the public schools of his native village 
and at the Cortland high school. He became 
associated with his father in the corset business 
as bookkeeijcr and general manager of the 
A. P. McGraw Corset Com])any. After the 
business was sold, in 1908, he and his father 
entered partnership in the manufacture of 
corset laces at McGraw, under the name of the 



Mc(;raw Manufacturing Company, and the 
junior partner has charge of the business. In 
politics he is a Republican, and is serving as 
treasurer of the village of McGraw, and in 
religion a Presbyterian. 

He married, June 29, 1910. Josephine Louise 
Patrick, of Truxton, New York, born Febru- 
ary 7, 1888. daughter of Otis D. and Louise 
Frances (Kenney) Patrick. 

(The Smith Line). 

( I ) Richard Smith, immigrant ancestor, was 
a proprietor of Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 
1641, and must have been of age at that time. 
A gravestone at Ipswich is said to read "Died 
September 2. 1714, aged eighty-five. ' If this 
is the same Richard, and no trace of any other 
is found, the age or date of death must be 
given or copied wrong. He must have been 
born as early as 1629.^ His daughter married 
Edward Gilman Jr., who bought land of him 
at Ipsw'ich. October 9, 1647. This land he 
mortgaged, December 25, 1648, to his father, 
Edward Gilman Sr., who sold it October 2, 
1651, to his brother (brother-in-law), Richard 
Smith, of Shro]j])um (Shropham), county 
Norfolk, England. If this transaction is stated 
correctly, there was probably a Richard Smith 
Sr., father of the Ipswich man. Chiklren, as 
given by Hammett : Richard, mentioned below ; 
Elizabeth, married Edward Gilman, of Exeter ; 
Mary, married Philip Call, John P>urr and 
Henry Bennett : Martha, marrietl John Rogers. 

(II) Richard (2), son of Richard (i) Smith, 
may be the Richard whose death has been men- 
tioned. He married, November 16, 1659, Han- 
nah Cheney, of Newbury. She was born No- 
vember 16, 1642, daughter of John and Martha 
Cheney. Children, born at Ij^swich : Richard, 
died July 22, 1700; Daniel, died June 8, 1725; 
Nathaniel, married Elizabeth Fuller ; John, 
married. December 4, 1702, Mercy Adams: 
Joseph, mentioned below : Hannah, married 

Chadwell : Martha, married Jacob 

Boardman : Dorothy, married. December 4. 
1702. Robert Rogers: Elizabeth, died in 1747. 

(III) Joseph, son of Richard (2) Smith, 
was born at Ipswich, July 16, 1685. He mar- 
ried, in 1710. Joanna Fellows. He removed 
to Sudbury late in life and is buried at East 
Sudbury, now Wayland, where he died May 3, 
1754. His wife Joanna died there, September 
25. 1781. aged ninety-two years. Children: 
Joseph, mentioned below : Ephraim, died .\\>x\\ 
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(I\') Captain Joseph (2) Smith, son of 
Joseph (I) Smith, was born in Ipswich in 
1716, died at East Sudbury. March g. 1803. 
His wife Abigail died there December 29. 1814. 
aged ninety-three (gravestone)- Children, born 
at Sudbury: Samuel, born June 17, 1742: Mar- 
tha. December 7, 1743: Joseph, mentioned 
below; Abigail, August 16. 1747; Jane, Febru- 
ary 26, 1751 ; Mary, June 5, 1753 ; Isaac, March 
5. 1755 1 Aaron, November 3, 1756; David, 
July 12, 1759. 

( \" ) Captain Joseph ( 3 ) Smith, son of Cap- 
tain Joseph (2) Smith, was born at Sudbury. 
November i. 1745, died at EJarre. September i, 
1809. He was a soldier in the revolution from 
Sudbury and Natick. He was sergeant in Cap- 
tain Joseph Morse's company. Colonel John 
Paterson's regiment. May to August. 1775 ; also 
in Captam Moulton's company. Colonel Ezekiel 
How's regiment (Fourth Middlesex) of Sud- 
bury and afterward of Captain Morse's com- 
pany. Colonel Putnam's regiment. He was on 
a list of names of men raised for the conti- 
nental service as returned by Lieutenant John 
Megraw to Colonel Ezekiel How. February 7. 
1778. He was lieutenant, ensign and quarter- 
master in Colonel Rufus F'utnam's regiment 
(Fourth and Fifth) seven months and twenty- 
three days as ensign, two months and thirteen 
days as t|uartermaster and twenty-four months 
and twenty-four days as lieutenant: adjutant 
and lieutenant from January to December, 
1780: lieutenant in Captain Joshua Benson's 
company. Colonel Putnam's regiment of light 
infantry in 1 781 : reported in command of his 
company with Marquis de Lafayette in April, 
1781, and June 15, 1781. Always called cap- 
tain after the revolution. He married, at r>arre. 
December 14, 1786, Rhoda Parker, of Barre. 
Children, born at Barre: Rufus, November 8, 
1787: Abigail. August 16. 1789; Aaron. No- 
vember 4. 1791 ; Sally. October 2. 1793. she 
removed to Homer. New York, in 1816, two 
years after her father died, and she married. 
January 13. 1820. Harry McGraw (see Mc- 
Graw il )." 

At the battle of Bunker Hill Smith's com- 
pany was stationed northwest of the hill, 
toward Cambridgeport. to prevent those on the 
Iiill from being flanked. He was with the 
army at Long Island and White Plains and 
one of the twelve hundred who stormed Fort 
Stony Point. He spent the winter at \'alley 
Forge, where he had the small-pox and suf- 
fered greatly. He afterwards went south with 



Washington's army and was m many of the 
principal battles and was at the surren ler of 
Cornwallis at Yorktown. He commanded one 
of the light infantry companies and was one 
of the ofificers called together by Washington 
when he delivered his farewell address. His 
company disbandeil in 1783. and he returned 
to Lis home in liarre. lie owned a farm of 
one hundred and seventy-three acres, being 
known as the Rocking Stone Farm, from a 
famous rocking stone located upon it. He was 
adjutant under General Lincoln in Shay's re- 
bellion. He served on the Barre school com- 
mittee, and was town treasurer in 1792. He 
was an inn holder. His first location in Barre 
was easterly of the E. W. Heminway house on 
the opposite side of the road. In 1801 he 
erected a tavern which he conducted for twelve 
years, and which is now a tlwelling-house oppo- 
site the school house of District No. 9. 



Roger Burlingham, im- 
BURLINGH.\M migrant ancestor, died 

September i. 1718. He 
came to this country as early as 1654. in which 
year he settled in Stonington. Connecticut. In 
1660 he was of Warwick, Rhode Island, and 
September 25, 1671, of Providence. On the 
latter date he and two others were appointed 
to make a rate and levy an assessment at Mas- 
hantatack. In 1690 he was elected deputy 
from Warwick, but there being much debate 
in the assembly as to the legality of the elec- 
tion, it was ordered that he should not be ac- 
cepted. He was a member of the town coun- 
cil in 1698. September 6, 1704, he deeded to 
his son Peter, his house and fifty acres, sub- 
ject to the use and profits for Roger and 
wife for life. His will was made November 
28, 1715, and proved September 13, 1718. His 
wife ]\Iary was made executrix, but as she 
died soon after, the eldest son John took ad- 
ministration. Roger married Mary , 

who died in 1718. Children: John, born Au- 
gust I, 1664, mentioned below: Thomas, Feb- 
ruary 6, 1667 : Mary, married. December 19. 
1689. .\mos Stafford, died 1760: Jane, mar- 
ried (first! John Potter, (second). 171 1, Ed- 
ward Potter : .\lice : Mercy : Roger, married 

Eleanor : Peter, died 1712, unmarried; 

Elizabeth, born January 9, 1684: Patience, 
born 1(385. 

(II) John, son of Roger Burlingham. was 
bf^rn August i, 1664, and lived in Providence. 
Rhode Island. He married, Marv. daughter 



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of Moses and Mary (Knowles) Lippitt. He 
had received on the death of his brother Peter, 
the latter's deed of gift of their father's home- 
stead, dwelHng-house, etc., which Peter had 
received from his father some time before. 
December 23, 1712, John took the house and 
fifty acres for himself, and divided the remain- 
der of the property equally between his other 
brothers, Thomas and Roger. He also pro- 
vided that if their father and mother needed 
assistance, all three brothers should be at equal 
charge. March 18, 1719, he sold to Samuel 
Gorton, son of Captain Benjamin Gorton, a 
mansion house and sixty acres of land in 
Providence, for three hundred and ninety 
pounds. Children : John ; Roger ; David, men- 
tioned below ; Barlingstone, born January 25, 
1698; Benjamin; Elisha. 

(III) David, son of John Burlingham, was 
born about i6go, died January 27, 1755. He 
lived at Gloucester, Rhode Island. J^Iarch 6, 
1719, he had a legacy by will from his grand- 
mother, Mary Lippitt. He married . 

Children, born at Gloucester : Mary, July 9, 
1729; Benedict, November 19, 1731 ; Thomas, 
August 13, 1734, mentioned below; David, 
October 26, 1736, married Mehitable Bishop; 

, August 5, 1739; Shutely, August 12, 

1 741 ; Sarah, February 19, 1744, died Decem- 
ber 9, 1745; Patience, March 9, 1746; Elisha, 
September 6, 1749; Benjamin, March 18, 1753. 

(IV) Thomas, son of David Burlingham, 
was born at Gloucester, Rhode Island, August 
13' 1734- ^J^ married ■ — — . Chil- 
dren: Lydia, born October 15, 1757; Thomas, 
April 16, 1760; Nathan, February 24, 1762. 
mentioned below; Esek, March 24, 1765; Pa- 
tience, August 5, 1767; Charles, November 8, 
1769; Jean. April 19, 1772, married, March 7, 
1793, Jesse IMowry ; Creta, July 14, 1778. mar- 
ried, March 13, 1804, ; James, 

February i, 1782. 

(V) Nathan, son of Thomas Burlingham, 
was born February 24, 1762, and married, May 
13, 1782, Sarah, daughter of Richard Bart- 
lett. They were married by Rev. John Smith, 
Esquire. He settled in I.anesboro, Massa- 
chusetts. According to the census of 1790, he 
had at that time one male over sixteen, one 
under sixteen and four females in his family. 
Among his cliildren was George, mentioned 
below. 

(VI) George, son of Nathan Burlingham, 
was born in Lanesboro, Massachusetts, about 
1785-90, died in Solon, New York, June, i860. 



He came to New York state in his youth and 
settled in Solon, Cortland county. He mar- 
ried (first) Hannah Welch, (second) Joanna 
Whitman. Children of first wife: Hopkins, 
mentioned below ; George ; Philip ; James ; Har- 
vey ; Ann ; Hulda, married Brigham. 

Children of second wife: Alartha Jane, mar- 
ried Giles Martin ; Mary Matilda, married De- 
witt Shattuck. 

(Yllj Hopkins, son of George Burlingham, 
was born in ^Massachusetts, and came to New 
York with his parents when a child. He lived 
in Solon and Preble, New York. He was a 
farmer by occupation. He married Esther, 
daughter of Charles and Rebecca Frink. He 
died in Preble at the age of eighty years. Chil- 
dren : Truman Avery, born December 11, 
1830, mentioned below; Meldrun Webster 
Monroe ; Olivia Ann Esther, married James 
Breed ; Electa Jane Melissa ; William, died 
young ; Nettie, died young. 

(\TII) Truman Avery, son of Hopkins 
Burlingham, was born December 11, 1830, at 
Solon, New York, and spent his early life 
there. He removed later to a farm near Au- 
burn, New York. He was a farmer by occu- 
pation. He was a soldier in the civil war; en- 
listed October 26, 1861, in the Third New 
York Heavy Artillery, Kennedy's battery. 
General Smith's division, Davidson's brigade. 
He participated in the campaign in \'irginia, 
and saw much active service until he was sent 
to Chesapeake Hospital, at Fort Monroe, where 
he died, September 13, 1862, and was buried 
in Hampton National cemetery. He married, 
October 29, 1853, ^lary E. Brown, born in 
Cincinnatus, New York, March 12, 1834, died 
in McGraw, February 19, 191 1, daughter of 
Fenner and Harriet (Terry) Brown, of Cin- 
cinnatus. Her father, Fenner Brown, came 
originally from Rhode Island, and was the 
son of \\'illiam and Rachel (Grossman) 
Brown. William Brown was the son of Josiah 
Brown. Children: i. Charles Avery, born 
May 15, 1856, lives in Olean, New York ; mar- 
ried, June 10, 1881, Kate Beman ; children: i. 
Lloyd, born April 14, 1882, now on the civil 
staff of the governor general in the Philippines, 
married, December 29, 1906, Georgia Beards- 
ley, one child, Lois, born in Alanilla, October 
6, 1908; ii. Mabel, October 13, 1885; iii. Grace, 
February 17, 1890; iv. Raymond, May 24, 
1895: V. Le Verne, May, 1902. 2. Hattie M., 
born March 21, 1859, died April 6, 1890; mar- 
ried Mile C. Thornton, of Solon; one child. 



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Mabel A., married Floyd C. Gilbert. 3. Eiur- 
dette Truman, mentioned below. 

(IX) Burdette Truman, son of Truman 
Avery Burlingham, was born in Owasco, New- 
York, May 23, 1861, and removed with his 
mother to McGraw, New York, in 1867, mak- 
ing his home with her until her death in Feb- 
ruary, 191 1. He attended the district schools 
of the latter place, and later went to McGraw- 
ville Academy and Albany Business College. 
He then became a clerk in a store in Albany, 
and was manager of the City Newsboys' Lodg- 
ing House in the same city. For a period of 
four \ears he was engaged in work on the new 
capitol building in Albany. Later he removed 
to Johnstown and Gloversville, where he was 
in the insurance business, which he left to 
enter the employ of the \Mieeler & \Vilson 
Sewing Machine Company. About 1890 he 
returned to McGraw and conducted a dining 
and lunch room there until June i, 1897, when 
he was appointed postmaster of McGraw. He 
is now serving his fourth term in that office, 
having been reappointed by President Taft, 
December 10, 1909, and within ten days con- 
firmed by the senate. Shortly after his first 
appointment, he purchased new and modern 
fixtures at his own expense, and moved into 
large and convenient quarters. During a dis- 
astrous fire, in January, 1906, however, the 
postoffice was destroyed, and he was forced 
into temporary quarters. He then obtained a 
ten-year lease on a part of the Hendrick build- 
ing, which was planned for postoffice purposes 
and equipped under his supervision. This was 
ready for occupancy, March i, 1907, and is 
undoubtedly one of the neatest, best-conducted 
postoffices of any village of the same size in 
the country. It is furnished with a golden oak 
outfit, including desks, cabinets and ward- 
robes. 

During the fourteen years of his office, Mr. 
Burlingham has conducted the affairs of the 
office in a systematic, businesslike manner, and 
has brought about improvements which have 
added greatly to the comfort and convenience 
of the citizens of McGraw. Among other 
things he has secured a direct exchange of 
mails with mail trains on the Delaware, Lack- 
awanna & Western and Lehigh Valley rail- 
roads instead of having all mail pass through 
Cortland. He has also secured a service over 
the Cortland County Traction Company's lines 
by which early mail from New York is re- 
ceived and a late mail sent out. He has estab- 



lishetl three R. F. D. routes from his office, 
and an international money order business, by 
which money orders can be sent all over the 
world. He is also a photographer and a notary 
public. Mr. Burlingham has been captain and 
chairman of the board of trustees of the Cor- 
set City Hose Company since its incorporation 
in 1897. He has also been secretary of the 
fire department since its reorganization in 
1898. When the former company took pos- 
session of the village hall for three years, he 
was elected manager and has personally super- 
vised the building of a new interior, scenery, etc. 
He is past commander and trustee of Shuler 
Tent, Knights of the ]\Iaccabees ; past chief 
ranger. Independent Order of Odd Fellows ; 
past commander of Sons of Veterans, also past 
commander of Sons of Veterans, United States 
of America. He has never married. 



Thomas Chaffee, immigrant 
CHAFFEE ancestor, came to New Eng- 
land as early as 1635, at which 
date he was living in Hingham, Massachusetts, 
and owned land there. The first mention of 
him in the records of Hingham is as follows, 
under date 1635 : "Given unto John Tucker by 
the town of Hingham for a planting lot six 
acres of land lying upon the Worlds End Hill, 
bounded with the land of Thomas Chaffe and 
the land of John Prince, Southward, and with 
the land of Ralph Woodward, Northward, 
butting upon the Sea Eastward and West- 
ward." The record of Thomas Chailfee's 
grants in Hingham was not made until 1637, 
when he had a house lot and several other 
parcels of land. Between that year and April 
9, 1642, there is no further mention of him, 
but upon the latter date his name appears on 
the records of Nantasket, now Hull, Massa- 
chusetts. February 4, 1650, he sold land to 
Thomas Gill, of Hingham. The last record of 
him in Hull is under the date 1657, and gives 
a list of the "Lands and tenements" which he 
owned there. Sometime between 1657 and 
May 30, 1660, when he sold his lands in Hull, 
he removed to Rehoboth, Massachusetts, of 
which he was one of the proprietors. He re- 
ceived land in the original division of Reho- 
both, and February 9, 1660, made his first 
recorded purchase of land there. He lived in 
that part of the town which was afterwards 
set off as Swansea, Massachusetts. April 11, 
1664, he was called "of Wanamoisett," which 
included Swansea, and Barrington, Rhode 



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Island, and "A planter." At that time he sold 
one of the town lots which he had received in 
the original division. Evidently he took an 
active part in town affairs, for his name ap- 
pears often in the list of those chosen to look 
after such matters. His occupation is given 
as that of a fisherman and a farmer. The name 
of his wife and the date and place of his mar- 
riage are unknown. It is supposed, however, 
that he was inarried in Hull, and that the 
Christian name of his wife was Dorothy. His 
will was made July 25, 1680, and proved March 
6, 1682-83. In it he mentionecl his sons Na- 
thaniel and Joseph. Children, probably born 
in Nantasket : Nathaniel, mentioned below : 
Joseph, born between 1639 and 1646, married 
Annis Alartin. The name in early records was 
spelled Chafife, Chafey and Chafy. 

(II) Nathaniel, son Thomas Chaffee, was 
probably born in Nantasket, between 1638 and 
1642, and died in Rehoboth, September, 1721. 
He married, in Swansea, .August 19, i66g, E.\- 
periencc, daughter of Jonathan and IMiriam 
( Harmon ) Bliss, of Rehoboth. She also died 
in September, 1721. He removed with his 
parents from Hull to Rehoboth between 1657 
and 1660, and in 1669, on the occasion of his 
marriage, is first mentioned in Swansea. May 
19, 1670, he was chosen constable, and in 1672 
owned seventy acres of land there. In 1674 
he was invited by the town of Rehoboth, in 
which he had formerly lived, to return, and 
was offered land there as an inducement for 
doing so. Four months later he had sold his 
lands in Swansea, and is called of Rehoboth. 
February 11. 1675-76, he is mentioned in the 
records of the latter town, and June i, 1680, 
was propounded to be freeman, and the fol- 
lowing year was admitted. March 26, 1681, 
he was chosen to be constable. April 9, 1685, 
in the division of town lots, he received lot No. 
76, and March 29, 1702-03, a second lot. He 
was chosen tythingman, March 22, 1693, and 
March 19, 1703-04. He drew other lots of 
land in 1707 and 1712, and in the latter year 
sold that land drawn in that same year. He 
was a blacksmith by occupation. He left no 
will, inventory, distribution, or other papers 
relating to his estate. In a deed, however, 
dated May 3, 171 5, he gave to his youngest 
son, Noah, all his lands in Rehoboth and 
Swansea, which he had not already given to his 
other children, also his house, barn, and home 
lot. It appears from the same deed that he 
had then bestowed upon each of his other 



children their portion of his estate. Children, 
the first three born in Swansea, the others in 
Rehoboth : Dorothy, married Nathaniel Paine ; 
Thomas, born October 19, 1672 ; Rachel, Sep- 
tember 7, 1673; Nathaniel, January 4, 1675- 
76 ; Jonathan, April 7, 1678, mentioned below ; 
David. August 22, 1680; Experience, March 

24, 1682-83: Mehitable, June 10, 1685, died 
.\ugust 6. i(:)99; Daniel, October 30, 1687: 
Noah, January 19, 1690-gi, died July 9. i6gi : 
Noah. December 17, 1692. 

(Ill) Jonathan, son of Nathaniel Chaffee, 
was born in Rehoboth, April 7, 1678, died 
there December 31, 1766. He married there, 
November 2^, 1703, Hannah, daughter of 
William and Miriam (Searles) Carpenter, 
born April 10, 1684; in 1767 she was appoint- 
ed executrix of her husband's estate. Febru- 
ary 10, 1701-02, he received from his father 
four and a half acres of land in Rehoboth, 
near '"Broken Cross." March 19, 1704, he was 
chosen to act as field driver, and December 11, 
1718, was chosen to serve on the jury of trials. 
That same year he bought one hundred acres 
of land in Ashford, Connecticut, and in 17 19 
one hundred acres more in the same town. In 
1726 he gave half of this land to his eldest son. 
Jonathan, who settled there, and in 1734 sold 
the remainder to his brother David, apparently 
never having lived there. March 28, 1720, he 
was chosen tythingiuan, and June 6, 1725, with 
his wife and son Jonathan, was admitted to 
membership in the First Congregational 
Church in Rehoboth. January 15, 1727, he 
was chosen "to project and prepair a method 
how schools shall be kept in the severall parts 
of the town and how many may be proper for 
the Towne to have." March 30. 1730. he was 
again chosen to serve on the jury of trials at 
I5ristol. and October 15. 1739. was grand jury- 
man, and again, in October, 1745. May 21, 
1744, he was made overseer of the W'Orkhouse. 
He is called husbandman and yeoman. His 
will was made May 5, 1754. His gravestone 
is still to be seen in the old burying-ground, 
formerly in Rehoboth, now in Rumford, Rhode 
Island. 

Children, born in Rehoboth : Jonathan, June 

25. 1704, mentioned below ; Nathaniel, October 
20, 1703; Hannah, October 3, 1707; Dan, Feb- 
ruary 6. 1710-11; Miriam, August 22, 1712; 
Susanna, Sejitember 22, 17 14, died December 
8, 1715; Ephraim, January 25, 1715-16; Will- 
iam, born about 1717. died April 26. 1730; Sus- 
anna, June 10. 1720, died young; Deliverance, 



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September 4, 1721, died May 10, 1736; Josiali, 
May 2, 1723: Susanna, August 28, 1728, died 
May 20, 1736. 

(I\') Jonathan (2), son of Jonathan (i) 
Chaffee, was born in Rehoboth, June 25, 1704, 
died February 9, 1785. He married, in Ash- 
ford. Connecticut, June i, 1727, Abigail Lyon, 
who (lied January 9, 1773. She was admitted 
to the First Congregational Church, of Ash- 
ford, August 5, 1733. He was admitted to the 
church of Rehoboth, June 6, 1725. The fol- 
lowing year he received from his father one 
hundred acres of land in Ashford, where he 
settled. February 23. 1729. he was admitted 
to full communion with the church there. Chil- 
dren, born in Ashford: Jonathan, April 21. 
1728. died same day: Josiah, February 10. 
1729: Thomas, .\pril 8. 1731. mentioned below : 
Hannah, November 28. 1733: William. July 
20, 1736; Susanna, September 10, 1738, died 
young: Abigail, December 17, 1740. died 
young; Deliverance, February 7, 1742-43, died 
young: Jonathan, May 11, 1746; Carpenter. 
January 25. 1749-50, served in revolution. 

(\') Thomas (2), son of Jonathan (2) 
Chaffee, was born in Ashford, April 8, 1731, 
(lied in P.ecket, Massachusetts. December 5. 
1810. He married, in Willington. Connecticut, 
March 26, 1761. Hannah, daughter of John 
and Elizabeth Reed. She was born there, Oc- 
tober 3, 1742. died in Becket. May 5, 1836. 
He was of Ashford in 1758. when he bought 
of James Bicknell. a fellow-townsman, fifty 
acres of land partly in Ashford and partly in 
Willington. .About the time of his marriage, 
he removed to Willington and was of that town 
as late as September 17, 1783, when he bought 
one hundred and si.x acres of land in Becket. 
Soon afterwards he removed to Becket, where 
he and his wife were admitted to the First 
Congregational Church by letter, April 3, 1784. 
March i, 1793. he was chosen, with two others, 
to superintend the records of the church. He 
was a farmer by occupation, and was known as 
a kind and charitable man. Children, all but 
the youngest born in Willington: Benjamin, 
born November 16, 1762; Deliverance, Octo- 
ber 26, 1764: Joshua, May 7, 1766: Thomas, 
March 15. 1768; Jonathan. March 4. 1771. 
mentioned below; Lois, March 12. 1773; Na- 
than, February 24, 1775; Hannah, ]\Iay 22, 
1777; Zephaniah, October 11, 1779; Caleb. 
July 9, 1781 ; Calvin. June 9. 1783; .\bigail, 
April_23, 1785. 

(\'I) Jonathan (3)', son of Thomas (2) 



Chaffee, was born in Willington, March 4, 
1 77 1. He married, in Becket, November 29, 
1792, Rebecca Wadsworth, born in 1774. They 
removed to Homer, Cortland county, New 
York. The date of his death is unknown. 
Children, probably others born in Homer: 
Elias, born in Becket. September 12, 1800; 
Seth Willard. born in Becket. August 6, 1802: 
Orange ; Joseph : Alvin ; Jonathan B. : Thomas 
B., mentione(l below; Sally; Folly; Rebecca; 

Laura, married Scott, and lived in 

Cortland county ; Almira. 

(\ II) Thomas Brewster, son of Jonathan 
( 3 ) Chaffee, was born probably in Connecti- 
cut, about 1815, died in McGrawville, New 
York, June, 1881. He removed with his par- 
ents to New York state and settled first in 
Oswego, where he learned the trade of cabi- 
net-maker. He afterwards settled in Cort- 
landville. New York, and was one of the first 
trustees of McGrawville. He married Eliza, 
daughter of Robert and Betsey (Reed) Wells, 
of White Plains, New Y'ork, born 1817, died 
January 17, 1909. Children; Polemas W., 
lived in McGrawville ; Morris B., lived in 
Toronto, Canada, died 1898; Thomas Jeffer- 
son, mentioned below. 

(VHI) Thomas Jefferson, son of Thomas 
Brewster Chaffee, was born in Homer, March 
6, 1841, died in McGrawville. August 7, 1879. 
He received a common school education, and 
after leaving school worked for a time in 
Owego in a store kept by Stores & Chatfield. 
He was engaged for the greater part of his life 
in the insurance business, and lived in Mc- 
Graw or McGrawville. He served in the civil 
war. in the Fifteenth New York Cavalry, for 
about a year and a half. Most of his time 
was served in Maryland, where he guarded 
Confederate troops who had been taken pris- 
oners. In his home town, McGraw or Mc- 
Grawville, he served as justice of the peace. 
He married Mary, daughter of Henry and 
Cynthia (Dunbar) Hamilton, born in Mc- 
Donough, New Y'ork, ^lay 20, 1839, died No- 
vember i(j, 19(36. Children: Harry Chatfield. 
born .\pril 23, 1868, mentioned below ; Louis 
Sherridan, April 28, 1870, died 1892; Frances 
E.. August 21, 1 87 1, married Eugene \\'. Rus- 
sell, of McGraw. farmer, children : Louis. Aler- 
ton. Webster, Harry Chatfield, deceased ; 
Thomas Jeft'erson, January i. 1876, died Feb- 
ruary 17. 1877. 

( IN ) Harry Chatfield, son of Thomas Jef- 
ferson Chaffee, was born in McGraw. New 



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York, April 23, 1868, and was educated in 'Mc- 
Graw Academy, and the Elmira School of 
Commerce. \Vhen eleven years of age he 
began work for P. H. McGraw & Son, corset- 
makers, and remained with them until 1901, 
when in company with others he organized the 
Empire Corset Company. Of this firm he has 
been secretary and director since its organiza- 
tion. He has been clerk of the village of !Mc- 
Graw for fourteen years, and also president. 
He married. March 27, 1890. Grace E., daugh- 
ter of Samuel and Frances (Trippj Doud. of 
!McGraw. 

(VHI) Polemas \Vells Chaf- 
CHAFFEE fee, son of Thomas Brewster 

Chaffee (q. v.), was born in 
Cortlandville, Xew York. January i, 1846. and 
was educated in the public schools of Cortland 
and McGraw and at the Xew ' York Central 
College at McGraw. He enlisted, October 4, 
1 86 1, in Company A, Seventy-sixth Xew York 
Regiment of \'olunteer Infantry in the civil 
war and was in the ser\-ice three years, lacking 
three months, being discharged on account of 
disability in the spring of 1864. He took part 
in the second battle of Bull Run and in the 
three days at Gettysburg. He was sergeant 
of the guard at Gettysburg and had charge of 
the ammunition train. Since his return from 
the service, he has made his home in McGraw 
and has worked for the corset manufacturers 
of that time. He was with P. H. McGraw & Son 
and afterward with the Miller Corset Company. 
He worked for one year at Bridgeport, Con- 
necticut, for a corset manufacturer. In politics 
Mr. Chaffee is a Republican. He has served 
the town of McGraw for several terms as 
overseer of the poor. He is a member of Mc- 
Graw Lodge, Xo. 320, Odd Fellows, and of 
the Encampment and Canton of Cortland. He 
is chaplain on the colonel's staff' in the Canton. 
He is a member of ^\'illiam H. Tarbell Post, 
No. 476, Grand Army of the Republic, of Mc- 
Graw, and has been an officer. In religion he 
is a Presbyterian. 

He married, in 1888, Mary Marvin Vincent 
Knight, daughter of Henry and Abigail Mar- 
vin. By a previous marriage she had three 
children : Hattie Adelia Vincent, who died aged 
six years; Lelia Sophia Vincent, married 
Claude C. Hammond, of McGraw ; Gertrude 
L. \^incent. 



John Maine, immigrant ancestor, 
MAIXE was born in York, England, 1614. 

and came to America, in 1629. 
He settled at York, Maine. He had a son, 
Ezekiel, mentioned below. The name was 
formerly spelled Mayn, ^layne and Main. 

(II) Ezekiel, son of John Maine, was born 
in 1641, in York, and is next mentioned in 
Scituate. Massachusetts. In 1669 he removed 
to Stonington. Connecticut, and received in 
1670 and 1672 land grants from that town. 
Subsequently he bought other land, and in 
1680 received another town grant. He died 
there, June 19, 1719. Children: Ezekiel; Mary, 
baptized July i, 1677, died young; Jeremiah, 
born 1678, mentioned below; Thomas, baptized 
September 22, 1679, died young; Phebe, bap- 
tized August 7. 168 1 : Hannah. 

(III) Jeremiah, son of Ezekiel jMaine, was 
born 1678. He married, October 11, 1699, 
I\Irs. Ruth Brown. She was baptized at Ston- 
ington, July 16, 1699. He was admitted to 
the Stonington church, May 18, 1712. On 
February 12. 1727, a new church was formed 
in what is now Xorth Stonington, and both he 
and his wife .were dismissed to the latter, by 
request. He died Xovember 11, 1729. Chil- 
dren: Thomas, born July 19, 1700, mentioned 
below; Hannah, baptized May 17, 1702; Eliz- 
abeth, born February 22. 1702-03 ; Lydia, .\pril 
19. 1705; Sarah, ^lay 19, 1706; Jeremiah, 
April 10, 1708; Hepzibah, March 24, 1710; 
Xathaniel, August 4, 1714; Anna, August 21, 
171 S; John, May 20, 1716; Peter, August 5, 
1718. 

(T\') Deacon Thomas Maine, son of Jere- 
miah Maine, was torn in Stonington, July 19, 
1700, and married there, April 20, 1720. Annah, 
daughter of Eleazer and Ann (Pendleton) 
Brown, born February i, 1700. Her father 
was the son of Thomas and Mary (Xewhall) 
Brown, of Lynn, Massachusetts Children,, 
born in Stonington : Thomas. February I2^ 
1721 ; Andrew, August 5, 1723; Timothy, 
April 8, 1727; Joshua, April 5, 1729; Anne, 
July 31, 1731 ; Jonas, Februar>' 7, 1735-36,. 
mentioned below ; Elizabeth, died young ; Eze- 
kiel, born July 8, 1742; Phebe, Xovember 16, 

1747- 

(\^) Jonas, son of Deacon Thomas Maine,j 
was born in Stonington, February 7, 1735-36 J 
died there January 24, 1804. He marrieo 
(first) at Westerly, Rhode Island, June 3^ 



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1756, Patience Peckham, born February 13, 
1732, died Jul}- 23, 1757 or 1758. He married 
(second), April 14. 1760, Content, daughter 
of William and Elizabeth (Dewey) Bromley, 
died August, 1825, aged eighty-nine years. 
Her mother, Elizabeth (Dewey) Bromley, was 
the daughter of Israel and Abigail (Drake) 
Dewey. Israel Dewey was the son of Thomas 
Dewey, immigrant ancestor, of Windsor, Con- 
necticut, from whom is descended Admiral 
George Dewey. Her grandmother, Abigail 
(Drake) Dewey, was a daughter of Sergeant 
Job and Mary (Wolcott) Drake, the latter a 
daughter of Henry Wolcott, of Windsor. 
Jonas Maine was a soldier in the revolution. 
Captain Hungerford's company, Colonel Sam- 
uel McClellan's regiment ; was appointed en- 
sign, November 5, 1780, discharged January 
3, 1781. This regiment saw duty in New Lon- 
don and Groton, Connecticut. Child of first 
wife, born in Stonington : Sinius, March 23, 

1757, died young. Children of second wife: 
Content, February 7, 1761 : Peckham, January 
5, 1763, mentioned below: Patience, March 7, 
1765; Lyman, March 14, 1767; Dewey, Sep- 
tember 14, 1770: Jonas M., March 15, 1772; 
Thomas, married Hannah Chapman, born No- 
vember 28, 1776; Jabish Breed, July 4, 1777; 
Nancy, married John Gray; Paul B., April I, 
1782. 

(\T) Peckham, son of Jonas Maine, was 
born in Stonington, January 5, 1763, died at 
.^dams. New York, June 2, 1842. He mar- 
ried, in 1785, Sally, daughter of John and Eliz- 
abeth (Babcock) Burdick, born September 7, 
1763, died at Guilderland, New York, Janu- 
ary 28, 1837. He was a farmer in the latter 
place. Children : Perez, born January 29, 
1786; Jonas, April i, 1788; John Burdick, 
July 15, 1790; Fanny, January 3, 1792: Lewis, 
April 3, 1795, mentioned below: Asher H., 
September 29, 1798: Sophia, November 8, 
1799: Franklin Brown, April 5, 1802: .\dam 
W., September 12, 1804. 

(VII) Lewis, son of Peckham Maine, was 
born April 3, 1795, in Albany county. New 
York, died at Richfield, New York, Novem- 
ber 3, 1840. He married Catherine Van Ren- 
neslaer, born in Guilderland, Albany county, 
New York. Children : Stephen ; Samuel ; 
Charles M., mentioned below. 

(VIII) Charles Mason, son of Lewis Maine, 
was born in Winfield, Herkimer county, New 
York, in 1832. He settled when a young man 
in West Winfield, Herkimer county. New 



York, and has lived there since. He learned 
the trade of stucco working and has always 
followed it. He married Mabel Blowers, born 
1834, in Marshall, Oneida county. New York, 
daughter of Reuben and Sarah (Wing) Blow- 
ers. Children: Stephen, lives in the west; 
Allie Henry, mentioned below. 

(IX) Allie Henry, son of Charles Mason 
Maine, was born at West Winfield, November 
18, 1862. He attended the public schools of 
his native town and the West Winfield Acad- 
emy. He learned the trade of plumber and 
graduated from a school of sanitary plumbing 
and heating at Scranton, Pennsylvania. He 
was in the employ of G. L. Swift & Sons, of 
Marathon, New York, for ten years. In 1903 
he came to Cortland as a partner of the Ben- 
nett Hardware Company and continued in the 
firm for five years. Since 1908 he has been in 
the heating and plumbing business in Cortland 
on his own account. His establishment is at 
25 Arthur avenue and his shop is equipped 
with the latest apparatus and appliances. He 
carries in stock a large variety of plumbing 
supplies which are displayed in a modern and 
well-planned salesroom. He is agent for the 
Kelsey Warm Air Generator ; for the Century 
Furnace of Akron, Ohio; the Ideal Furnace 
Company of Detroit, Michigan; the Spence 
Hot Water Boiler, made by Pierce, Butler & 
Pierce, of Syracuse, and the Page Boiler, made 
by W. H. Page, of New York. As a con- 
tractor he has handled some of the most im- 
portant plumbing and heating contracts in this 
section. He is a member of the Order of 
Maccabees. While living in Marathon, New 
York, he served the incorporated village two 
years as a trustee. In politics he is a Repub- 
lican. 

He married, February 7, 1886, Marcia M. 
Pratt, of Leavenworth, Kansas, born Novem- 
ber 2, 1865. daughter of Henry D. and Mary 
A. (Blair) Pratt, grandaughter of Charles M. 
Pratt. Children : Mora M., born August 9, 
i8q2: Kenneth Blair, June 27, 1902; Robert 
RoUa, Alarch 7, 1906. 



Thomas Blodgett, immigrant 
BLODGETT ancestor, was born in Eng- 
land, of an ancient and hon- 
ored family, in 1605, if his age was correctly 
given when he sailed for America. He came 
in the ship "Increase," sailing April 8, 1635, 
with his wife, Susan, aged thirty-seven, and 
children, Daniel, aged four, and Samuel, aged 



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a year and a half. The name is variously 
spelled in the early Massachusetts records, 
Blod^et. Blodgett, Blogett. Blogget. Bloghead, 
Bloget, Bloggitt, Bloged, Blokwod, Bloggot 
and P)lodgit. He was a glover by trade, and 
settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where 
he had a grant of land March 6, 1636-37. He 
died in 1642. His will was dated August 10. 
1641, and proved July 8, following. He be- 
queathed to wife, Susan, and three surviving 
children, mentioned below. His widow mar- 
ried, February 15, 1643, James Thompson, of 
W'oburn, and died February 10. 1660-61. Chil- 
dren : Daniel, born in England, 1631, settled 
in Chelmsford, Massachusetts ; Samuel, born 
in England, 1633-34. mentioned below; Sus- 
anna, iDorn in Cambridge, June, 1637 : Thomas, 
born in Cambridge, died August 7. 1639, in 
infancy. 

(H) Samuel, son of Thomas Blodgett, was 
born in England in 1633-34, and settled in Wo- 
burn. He was deputy to the general court, 
1693; commissioner of the rate, 1692; select- 
man, 1681-90-93-95-96-97-1703. Savage gives 
the date of his death as July 3, 1693, an evident 
error, as he was assessed in Woburn until 
1719. Paige in his "History of Cambridge," 
makes his death May 21, 1720, aged nearly 
eighty-seven years, which is consistent with 
the date of birth. He married, December 13, 
1655, Ruth, daughter of Stephen Eggleston, or 
Iggleton, of Boston. She died October 14, 
1703. Children, born in Woburn: Ruth, De- 
cember 28, 1656: Samuel, December 10, 1658; 
Thomas, February 26, 1661, mentioned below ; 
Susanna, married, December 29, 1683. James 
Simmonds; Sarah, February 17, i668; Mary 
(twin), September 15, 1673: Martha (twin of 
Mary). 

(HI) Thomas (2), son of Samuel Blodgett. 
was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, February 
26, 1661, He married, November 11, 1685. 
Rebecca, daughter of John and Rebecca 
(Wood) Tidd, then of Woburn, afterwards 
of Lexington. She was born about 1663, died, 
according to Woburn records, March 8, 1750. 
He was assessed in Woburn from 1684 to 
1689. He removed to Lexington some years 
earlier, but was not assessed in that town until 
1 69 1. He became one of the most active and 
prominent citizens of Lexington, and the an- 
cestor of the greater ])art of the Lexington 
Rlodgetts. He was a subscriber to the meet- 
ing-house in the precinct in 1692, and both he 
and his wife became members of the church. 



March 5, 1699, by a letter of dismissal from 
the Woburn church. In 1710 he was an asses- 
sor, and after the incorporation of the town 
he filled nearly every office of honor and trust. 
In 1714 he was chosen selectman, an office to 
which he was afterwards reelected; he also 
represented the town in the general court. 
At the first town meeting he was elected 
tythingman, which was then regarded as an 
office of great dignity. In Hudson's "History 
of Lexington" it is recorded that he gave one 
pound ten shillings towards the first meeting- 
house, and five shillings towards the purchase 
of Lexington Common, at a meeting held 
A])ril, 171 1. January 9, 1713, it was voted to 
build a new church, and he with four others 
were appointed to carry the measure into 
efifect. He was commonly called captain. He 
died September 29, 1740. His will was ap- 
proved November 24, 1740, and mentioned 
wife Rebecca, sons Thomas, Joseph, Samuel, 
daughters Rebecca, Russell and .Abigail Reed. 
Children, the first three recorded in Woburn : 
Thomas, born August 5, 1686; Rebecca, June 
3, 1689: Ruth, October 14, 1694, probably died 
young; Joseph, September 17, 1696: Abigail. 
November 6, 1698, Woburn record; baptized 
in Lexington, November 3, 1698, Lexington 
record; Samuel, born June 17, 1702; in Wo- 
burn record of deaths; chikl died April 13, 
1688; child, 1691. 

(I\') Joseph, son of Thomas (2) Blodgett, 
was born, probably in Woburn, Sejitember 17, 
1696, and removed with his parents when quite 
young to Lexington. He appears to have 
lived in the latter town until about thirty-five 
years old, but no record of assessment has been 
found in either town. Some time after his 
first marriage, in 1719, he removed to Brim- 
field, Massachusetts, and became a prominent 
citizen there. He was one of the original 
members of the church in 1724, and in 1736 
was on a committee "to treat with the min- 
ister relating to his principles and all soe re- 
lating to ye proposals made by ye town in order 
to settlement & sallery." In the same year he 
gave four acres of land to the minister, and in 
1739 petitioned the town for permission to 
erect a horse-shed at the meeting-house. He 
married (first), November 5, 1719, Sarah 
Stone, born in Lexington, November 9, 1700, 
died May 8. 1733. She was admitted to the 
church in Lexington, June 19, 1728. He mar- 
ried (second), June 29, 1738, Sarah Ingersoll, 
born in Springfield, lilassachusetts, May 17, 



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1718, died April 24, 1774. He died June 10, 
1783. Children of first wife, the first five born 
in Lexington, the last three in I'.rimfield : Jo- 
seph, April 17, 1721 ; Sarah, November 12. 
1722; Anna, April 10, 1724: Abigail, July 18, 
1726; Ruth, March i, 1728; l^enjamin. June 
19, 1730; Abner, June 6, 1732; Thomas, Sep- 
tember 26, 1734. Children of second wife, 
born in Brimfield : Samuel, May 17, 1739: 
Lydia, February 17, 1741 ; Jonas, November 
12, 1743: Azubah, April 12, 1746; Caleb, No- 
vember 24, 1748: Elijah, October 25, 1751 : 
iMarscna, Alarch 4, 1754; Nathan, November 
3, 175''), mentioned below; Admatha, Decem- 
ber 13, 1758. 

(\ ) Nathan, son of Joseph Blodgett, was 
born November 3, 1756. In 1790 he was liv- 
ing at Western, now Warren, ATassachusetts, 
and soon afterward appears to have moved to 
W'hitestovvn, New York, then to Cortlandville. 
He was a soldier in the revolution from Brim- 
field, or Brookfield, in Captain Daniel Gilbert's 
company, Colonel Job Cushing's regiment. He 
came to Cortlandville in 1805, and located in 
lots sixty-five and sixty-six. He died there 
July 12, 1845. On June 7, 1781, he married 
Abigail Bliss, who was born August 30, 1760, 
died March 30, 1837. Their children were: 
1. Loring, born April 22, 1782, died August 
30, 1865: marrieil Nancy Salisbury, of Cort- 
land, December 13-16, 1810; children: i. Dor- 
leska, born October 6, 181 1, died February 25, 
1899; married Alonzo Tisdale, January 17, 
1832; ii. ]\Iarvin, born July 8, 1813, died No- 
vember II, 1845; iii. Loring Jr., born July 25, 
181 5, died July 31. 1842: iv. Hiram Curtis, 
born January 25, 1818, died September 27, 
1899, married, .April 2, 1845, ^fariva McGraw, 
of McGrawville, New York ; their children : a. 
Marsden Loring. born September 5, 1847, died 
November 14, 1862: b. Frank Morgan, born 
November 5, 1849, fli^d December i, 1872; c. 
Helen Mariva, born April 22, 1852, married 
Samuel Dewitt Noyes, of Milwaukee, Wis- 
consin ; they have one daughter. Bertha E., 
born May 15. 1883; d. Charles Herbert, born 
July 7, 1854, died November 14, 1871 ; e. Mary 
Elizabeth, born January 14, 1861, marriecl, 
December 8, 1886, Charles Henry Van Tuyl, 
now of the faculty of the LTniversity of Chi- 
cago, no children ; v. .Abigail, born October 29, 
1810, died July 26, 1820: vi. Alvira, born June 
9, 1821, died January 7, 1842; vii. Nancy Ann, 
born July 14, 1824, died January 14. 1846. 2. 
Rachel, born July 4, 1785, died July 13, 1837; 



married Jacob Badgley, January 31, 1808: chil- 
dren ; .Abigail, married Spencer ; Mor- 
gan ; Laura, married Cyrus Griswold ; Eliza, 
married Severance. 3, Lot, born Au- 
gust 20, 1787, died August 20, 1808. 4. Lewis, 
born March 10, 1790, died September 3, 1870; 
married, December 16, 1816, lietsy Cravath ; 
their children were Horace and James, of Her- 
mitage, New York. 5. Lydia, born September 

27, 1792, died February 4, 1870; married 
Hiram Betts, December 2, 1810: children: 
Samantha, married Elijah R. Stetlman : W'ood- 
ward ; Olive ( Mrs. James A. Calvert ) ; Salina ; 
Elsina, married (first) Bassett, (sec- 
ond) Stout. 6. Abigail, born June 9, 

1795. died March 6, 1797. 7. Franklin Benja- 
min, see below. 8. Eliza, born May 5, 1800, 
died March 26, 1893; married Levi 'I aggart. 
July 23, 1833: children: Susan Jane, married 
(first) William M. Richardson, of Evansville, 
Wisconsin, (second) George Parr, of Boscobel, 
Michigan ; Cornelia ; Abigail Bliss, married 
(first) Cyrus Griswold, widower, (second) 
Albert B. Culver. 9. Dwight F.. born March 
31. 1808, died April 25, 1808. 

(\T) Franklin Benjamin, son of Nathan 
Blodgett, was born January 21, 1798, died 
September 24, 1872. He married, November 

1, 1821, Achsah Dewey. Children: i. Orissa, 
born July 24, 1823, died November 23, 1842. 

2, .Ak)nzo Dwight, see forward. 3. Lewis Gay- 
lord, born May 14, 1827, died August 17, 1828. 
4. John Randolph, born March 12, 1829, died 
Alarch 24, 1873; married, October 23, 1866, 
.Alida Ferris, of Warsaw, New York ; children : 
i. Elizabeth Ferris, born October 12, 1867, 
died .August 13, 1869: ii. Louis Gottschalk, 
born January 11, 187 1. 3. Jane .Amelia, born 
Marcii 28, 1831 ; married, November 22, 1833, 
Theodore Clapp Pomeroy. AL D. ; children : i. 
Mary Louise, born June 13, 1837, died (7)ctober 

3, 1837: ii. and iii. Lewis Blodgett and Willis 
(twins), born June 8, 1861, Willis flied .April 

28. 1862, Lewis B. married Frances Kinnie, 
ATay 23, 1893; iv. Harry Dwight, born May 
17, 1866, married Cora Adelia Patrick, Octo- 
ber 20, i8qo. who died October 22. 1908, leav- 
ing five children : William Dwight, born at 
Phoenix, New A'ork, April 4, 1892 ; Helen Eliz- 
abeth, Phoenix, February 9, 1894: Donald 
Theodore, Syracuse, December 9, 1902 : Harry 
Frederick, Syracuse, February 26, 1903: Ed- 
ward Patrick, Rome, March 25, 1906. 6. Mary 
Louise, born April 13, 1833, died October 2. 
1862: married Rev. Ova Hoyt Seymour, May 



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2"^, 1857 ; children : i. Franklin Miles, born 
July 10. 1858. died fuly 7. 1861 : ii. Harry 
Childs. born July 6, i860, died July 8, 1861 ; 
iii. Randolph Blodgett, born July 24, 1862, 
died June 9, 1906. 

(VII) Alonzo Dvvight, son of Franklin EJen- 
jamin Blodgett, was born June 14, 1825, at 
Cortland, on the farm which had previously 
been in the family for two generations. He 
was educated in the common schools, and fol- 
low-ed farming on the homestead where he was 
born. He married, June 13, i860, Eleanor, 
born February 18. 1831, at Charlemont. Alassa- 
chusetts, died August 23. 1902. at Cortland, 
New York, daughter of Obadiah and Eleanor 
Dickinson. Her father was born at Hatfield, 
Massachusetts, October 23, 1796, died at Onon- 
daga Valley, New Y'ork, April 23, 1879, and 
ner mother was born at Heath, Massachusetts, 
August 3, 1804, died at Onondaga Valley, Oc- 
tober 12, 1888. Three children were born to 
them: i. Edward Dwight, see forward. 2. 
Mary Elpanor, born May 2, 1865, died No- 
vember 12, 1869. 3. Frank Dickinson, born 
March 29, 1871 : married Helen Marguerita 
Wilcox, of Oneonta, New York, August 18, 
1897 ; children : i. Marguerita, born August 
26, 1899. died December 11, 1900: ii. Doro- 
thy, born September 17, 1901 ; iii. Edward 
Dickinson, born September 5. 1904 ; iv. Rich- 
ard Sheridan, born October 19, 1908. 

(\'Iin Edward Dwight, son of Alonzo 
Dwight Blodgett, was born on the homestead 
in Cortland, New York, March 11, 1863. The 
farm is within the corporate limits of the city 
of Cortland, about a mile from the centre of 
the city. He attended the public schools of his 
native town, and the State Normal and Train- 
ing School at Cortland, and entered Amherst 
College, from which he was graduated with the 
degree of Bachelor of Arts in the class of 1887. 
For two years afterward he was city editor of 
the Cortland Standard. From 1889 to 1892 he 
was teacher of Latin and Greek in the State 
Normal and Training School at Cortland. a posi- 
tion he resigned to become secretary and treas- 
urer of tiie Cortland Standard Printing Com- 
pany, whicii iniblishes the Cortland Standard. 
Since then he had been associate editor of the 
daily, semi-weekly and weekly editions of this 
newspaper. In ])olitics he is a Republican, in 
religion a member of the Presbyterian church, 
of which his grandparents were among the 
founders in 1825. Me is a member of Cortland- 



ville Lodge, No. 470, Free and Accepted 
Masons. 

He married, June 13, 1894, Bertha Eveleth, 
daughter of Augustus Turner and Helen (Eve- 
leth ) Jones, of Brockton, ^Massachusetts. She 
is a graduate of Wellesley College in the class 
of 1889. They have two children: Eleanor 
Dickinson, born August 18, 1896, and Edward 
Eveleth, born June 24, 1903. 



The surname Patrick is de- 

PATRICK rived like a large percentage of 
British and other surnames 
from the personal or baptismal name of an 
ancestor. The names FitzPatrick in Ireland, 
and Kirkpatrick in Scotland are, of course, the 
same, the prefixes of the patronymic becoming 
part of the surname. Surnames came into use 
in England and Scotland in 1 100-1200. and at 
a very early date the Patrick family surname 
is found in x-\yrshire, Scotland. The Kirk- 
patricks in some branches dropped the prefix. 
Before 1200 the Kirkpatricks were promi- 
nent in Dumfriesshire and Kirkcudbrightshire. 
Scotland. The Fitzpatrick family is of Irish 
origin, but among the Scotch-Irish the name is 
common. In counties Cavan. Downs and An- 
trim, in the Protestant province of Lister, Ire- 
land, sixty-four children bearing the name of 
Fitzpatrick were born in the year 1890. The 
family of Patrick in England is also ancient. 

The origin of the surnames Kilpatrick and 
Kirk]3atrick are the same. Kil or kirk means 
church. The early home of the Kilpatricks in 
Scotland was in Dumbartonshire and Stirling- 
shire. In 1619 Nicholas Pynnar's survey of 
the Scottish grants made by King James of 
England in LHster province, Ireland, shows 
that James Kilpatrick was one of the settlers 
on the fifteen thousand acre grant of Peter 
Benson in the precinct of Liffer, county Done- 
gal, Ireland, and he is presumed to be the an- 
cestor of the Scotch-Irish Kilpatricks and Pat- 
ricks who came to America. 

Thomas Kilpatrick, born in 1674, came from 
Coleraine. county Antrim, Ireland, to Boston, 
in 1 7 18, with nine sons and one daughter, the 
latter whom was drowned on the voyage. 
From Boston he went to A\'ells. Maine, where 
some of his sons settled, while he and five sons 
afterward located at Biddeford. Maine. This 
family all adopted the spelling Patrick, as far 
as known. 

Some of the Connecticut Patricks are de- 




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NEW YORK. 



scended from Colonel Daniel Patrick, who 
came from England and settled in Watertown 
very early, being admitted a freeman. May i8, 
1 63 1, a captain in the colonial service ; removed 
to Stamford, Connecticut, married a Dutch 
wife. 

(I) Ebenezer Patrick and his brother Will- 
iam came with the first Scotch-Irish from 
Ulster in 1 7 18, and settled in Connecticut. 
Ebenezer made his home at Voluntown, Wind- 
ham county, and in 1765 he removed from 
Canaan, Connecticut, where he lived for a 
time, to Stillwater, Saratoga county, then Al- 
bany county. New York. He married, in Con- 
necticut, Rebecca, daughter of Rev. Robert 
Cam])bell. Among their children was Robert, 
mentioned below. 

(II) Robert, son of Ebenezer Patrick, was 
born in Litchfield county, Connecticut, in 1760, 
died in Stillwater, New York, September i, 
1815. He was a soldier in the revolution and 
took part in the battle of Saratoga. He fol- 
lowed farming all his active life. He married 
(first), February 5, 1781, Elizabeth Ives, born 
1763, died November 26, 1793. He married 
(second). November 5, 1794, Sally Spaulding, 
born in 1775, died August 27, 1797. He mar- 
ried (third), November i, 1797, Polly Gilbert, 
born 1774, died March 26, 1851. Children by 
first wife; Isaac, born December 10, 1781 ; 
Ebenezer, August 2, 1783: Nathaniel, Febru- 
aryary 10, 1785; Elias, December 17, 1786, 
died December 17, 1787; Millia, born Febru- 
ary 2, 1790; Henry, born August 26, 1791, 
died October 8, 1862: Chauncey, born April 
15, 1793, died February 8, 1806. Children by 
second wife: Amos, born July 29, 1796; Son, 
born January, 1797, died in infancy. Children 
of third wife: Sally, born January 18, 1799, 
flied May 20, 1799 ; Sarah, born June 29, 1801 ; 
Olivia, born August 25, 1803; Lydia, January 
15, 1806: James C, November 5, 1810; Mary, 
January 15, 1813. 

fill) Nathaniel, son of Robert Patrick, was 
born in Stillwater, Saratoga county. New York, 
February 10, 1785, died in Truxton, New 
York, October, 1844. He came from his native 
town to Truxton in 1812, and was one of the 
early settlers there, cleared his land and fol- 
lowed farming. He married, in 1810, Pene- 
lope Potter, born May 30, 1793, died October 
4, 1870, daughter of Nathaniel and Sarah 
(Hunt) Potter. Her father was one of the 
first settlers in what is now the town of Cuyler 
in 1794, afterward settled at Truxton. The 



farm he cleared is now owned and occupied by 
John W. Patrick, mentioned below. He was 
"killed by a falling tree. Children of Nathaniel 
and Penelope Patrick: Stephen : Julia A., born 
1813, died 1819; Elias, 1815; Fannie E., Oc- 
tober 13, 1816, married Joseph Hull; Hiram, 
December 31, 1818; Albert, November 2, 1820, 
died May 24, 1838; Charles, August 24, 1822; 
William K., February 16, 1824, died May 8, 
1882; Lydia M., March 21, 1826, now living 
in Syracuse, New York, widow of Alanson 
Benson; Mary, September 21, 1827, died Sep- 
tember 16, 1881, married Charles Angle ; Emily, 
April 25, 1829, died in childhood ; Richard M., 
May 5, 1831 ; Alfred, September 29, 1832; 
Elizabeth, June 22, 1841, died October 4, 1899, 
married Robert Patrick, of Albany. 

(lY) Stephen, son of Nathaniel Patrick, 
was born September 17, 181 1, at Stillwater, 
Saratoga county; died at Truxton, New York, 
May 9, 1890. He came to Cuyler, New York, 
with his parents when one year old. and was 
educated in the district schools. During the 
winter he taught school for several years. 
When he came of age he entered the employ 
of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company, 
and in the course of time became captain of a 
boat. He taught school also during the win- 
ters of the six years that he worked on the 
canal, having schools in the town of Kingston. 
In 1838 he purchased a farm in Cortland 
county. New York, and from that time until he 
died followed farming. In public aflfairs he 
was active and prominent. For many years 
he was a member of the school board, the 
duties of which in part consisted of the exami- 
nation of teachers and the visiting of the dis- 
trict schools. For many years he was assessor 
and supervisor of the town. From 1832 to 
1836 he was a prominent Whig, and later was 
one of the organizers of the Republican party 
in this section, in 1854-56. He represented 
the county in the state assembly, and while in 
the legislature he secured the passage of the 
bill to charter the Cortland Savings Bank, of 
which he was a trustee from the first until he 
died, and he was generally known as the 
"Father" of the institution. He was often 
elected delegate to county and state conven- 
tions of his party, and frequently presided at 
political meetings. As a farmer he was un- 
usually successful, and kept a herd of sixty 
cows. In his later years he carried on also an 
insurance business, having the agencies of a 
number of life and fire insurance companies. 



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He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
church. 

He married, in 1836, Angelina Dickinson, 
of Sullivan county. New York, born July 20, 
1813, died December 23, 1906, daughter of 
Jesse and Matilda Dickinson. Children : Fannie 
Maria, born in 1836. died in 1837: Harriet, 
1839, died in 1841 ; Adam, 1840, died young; 
John \\'esley, mentioned below ; Alvah T., De- 
cember 2J, 1843, lives in Binghamton ; Harriet 
M., October 26, 1845. married Henry L. Glea- 
son, of Cortland; Richard M., December i, 
1847, died July 6, 1891 ; Eliza D., April i, 
1850, died August 21, 1900, married Edwin 
Radvvay: Nathaniel B., May 28, 1852, lives in 
South Dakota: Nellie A, ^lay 2, 1854, mar- 
ried David Jones, of Oakland, Minnesota ; 
Nelson J., January 29, 1856, engineer on the 
Chicago & Northwestern railroad. 

(V) John Wesley, son of Stephen Patrick, 
was born in Truxton, New York, November 

21, 1841. He was educated in the public schools 
there and at Homer Academy. He enlisted at 
the very beginning of the civil war in Company 
H, Twenty-third New York Regiment of \'ol- 
unteer Infantry, and was mustered in April 
26. 1 86 1. He served in the Army of the 
Potomac and took part in the second battle of 
Bull Run, in the battle of South Mountain, the 
battle of Antietam and all other engagements 
in which his regiment participated. He was 
mustered out with the rank of sergeant. May 

22, 1863, and came back to the farm at Cuyler, 
which was cleared by his grandfather, Na- 
thaniel Potter, and he has resided there and 
conducted the farm ever since. He owns four 
hundred and twenty-five acres of land, and has 
nearly a hundred head of cattle, having fifty 
or more milch cows all the time. In politics 
he is a Republican. He has been assessor 
many years and served as supervisor of the 
town for seven years. He is a prominent 
member and a trustee of the Methodist church ; 
a member of \'olney Baker Post, No. 517, 
Grand Army of the Republic. 

He married, December 12, 1866, .\gnes Rob- 
bins, of St. .Xndrews. Canada, daughter of 
John Wakefield and Ann (Dodd) Robbins. 
Her mother was born in England. Children : 
I. Stella A., born January 7, 1868; married, in 
1889, Adelbert D. Theobald. 2. Wesley Bur- 
ton, December 27, 1873; educated at the State 
Normal School, at Cortland, and at Columbia 
University, and at present principal of the 
public schools in Orange, New Jersey ; mar- 



ried, June, 1909, Nellie A. Besse ; child, Irma 
Louise, born June 25, 1910. 3. William Kirk, 
July 4, 1884; educated in the public schools, 
graduating from the De Ruyter High School 
and the State Normal School, at Cortland ; 
now principal of the high school at .\voca. 
Steuben county, New York. 



The surname Gibbs was well known 
(jIBBS in England before the emigration 

of the Puritans to America. Will- 
iam Gibbs, of Lanham, Yorkshire, England, 
for signal service to the Crown, received from 
the King of England a grant of land embracing 
a tract four miles square in the center of the 
town. Tradition says that he had three sons, 
the eldest of whom inherited the paternal estate 
and remained thereon ; that the younger sons 
learned the trade of shipwright, and upon 
reaching their majority received funds from 
the eldest with which to come to America. 
One tradition tells us that one of the brothers 
settled on Cape Cod, the other at Newport. 
Rhode Island. 

(I) Matthew Gibbs, one of the brothers of 
the tradition, was the immigrant ancestor of 
this family. He was born in England, and 
after coming to this country located at Charles- 
town. Massachusetts, where he was living 
about 1650. In 1654 he removed to Sudbury. 
Massachusetts, and settled in the district called 
Lanham, ])robably from his former home in 
England, having a grant of land there in 1659, 
and other grants in 1670. In 1661 he bought 
of Thomas Reed Sr. a third of a farm granted 
originally to Rev. Edmund Brown, near Doe- 
skin Hiil, and in 1675 and 1678 he bought 
more of the same farm. He also purchased 
Gookin and Howland. east of Indian Head. 
He died before 1697. He married, about 1651. 
Mary, daughter of Robert Bradish. His wife 
was admitted to the Charlestown church, Sep- 
tember 23, 1652. Children: Mary, born 1653; 
Hannah, 1654: Matthew. 1653: Thomas, De- 
cember 17, 1656: Elizabeth, 1658: Thomas. 
April 10, 1660: John, mentioned below. 

( II ) John, soil of Matthew Gibbs, was born 
at Sudbury, about 1670; lived at Lanham : died 
there, April 2, 1718. He married (first), xApril , 
27, 1688, Anna, daughter of Thomas Gleason. i 
He married (second"). May 31, 1694, Sarah 
Cutler, of Reading, who died at Sudbury, Au- 
gust 31, 1725. Children of first wife : Thomas, 
born April 19. 1689; Mercy, August 3, 1691 ; 
John. Children by second wife: Nathaniel. 



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mentioned below: Sarah, December 6. 1701; 
Isaac: Jacob, June 25, 1704; Israel. July 11. 
1706; Epliraim, June 12, 1710, died voung. 

(Ill) Nathaniel, son of John Gibbs, was 
born at Sudbury, about 1700: married Bath- 
sheba Parmenter, of Sudbury, who died in 174(1. 
Children, born at Sudbun,' : Eunice, February 
20, 1726-27: Sybella, January 13, 1728; Bath- 
sheba. February 2, 1730-31, died 1737; Lois. 
July 12. 1732: Xathaniel, Alay 21, 1736, lived 
at Sudbury: William, mentioned below: Jesse. 
July 4, 1744. lived in Sudbury. 

( I\' ) William, son of Xathaniel Gibbs, was 
born at Sudbury, March 8, 1740: died intestate 
at Princeton, ^lassachusetts, April 23, 1770. 
He married, April 14. 1762, Joanna Gleason. 
of Lancaster. They settled at Princeton, in 
Worcester county. Children, bom at Prince- 
ton : Ezra, mentioned below : William, August 
22, 1764: Alpheus, June 20, 1766; Theodore, 
August I, 1768: Joanna, June 27, 1770. Will- 
iam Gibbs deeded land. May, 1767, to Elijah 
Hobbs, of Weston. William Gibbs, as one of 
the heirs of Phinehas Gleason, of Rutland, 
East District (Princeton), who died Decem- 
ber 20, 1758, by virtue of his wife Joanna, a 
daughter of Phinehas, deeded land, June 12, 
1765. to John Gleason, of Princeton. Will- 
iam Gibbs, yeoman, deeded twenty-eight acres, 
the southwest end of Lot No. 8, May 17, 1763, 
to Samuel Bigelow, of Holden. Gibbs lx)ught 
Lot No. 8, ninety-five acres, November 24, 
1759, of James Spring, of Princeton. Gibbs 
was living in Sudbury in 1759, but soon moved. 

(V) Ezra, son of William Gibbs, was born 
at Princeton, October, 1762. After the death 
of his father he had Robert Cowdin appointed 
his guardian, March 4, 1778. Children: Will- 
iam, John, Ezra and others. 

(\T) William (2), son of Ezra Gibbs, was 
born in Princeton and died at Norwich, New 
York. He settled in Norwich with his brothers 
when a young man, coming by ox team through 
the wilderness to Norwich, Chenango county. 
He married Demis Sexton, who was born in 
1800. Children : William Emerson ; Adelia, 
married George Thompson : Henry, lives at 
Princeton, Illinois: Eliza, second wife of 
George Thompson; Harlan P., lives in Minne- 
sota. 

(VII) William Emerson, son of William 
(2) Gibbs, was born at Norwich, January 31, 
1829: died while living with his son in Homer, 
New York, June 23, 1910. He was educated 
in the public schools and at Gilbertville Acad- 



emy, and for a time was in the mercantile busi- 
ness in Norwich. He owned a tannery at 
South New Berlin, New York, for several 
years. He retired with a competence twenty 
years before he died, and resided at Homer. 
New York. In politics he was a Republican, 
and he held various town offices. In religion 
he was a Presbyterian, and was superintendent 
of the Sunday school. He married, June 13, 
1858, Myra Carpenter, born at New Berlin, 
New York. May 27, 1833, daughter of Cyril 
and Lucina E. ( Edwards ) Carpenter. Chil- 
dren : I. Gratia Adelia, born April 16, 1859. 
died February 14, 1861. 2. Mary Eliza, born 
October 21, 1862 ; married Theodore L. (Jarnett. 
of Homer, and has one child, Elsie M. Garnett. 
3. Andrew William, mentioned below. 4. Ben- 
jamin C, born May 27, 1872, a traveling sales- 
man, living in Guilford, New York. 

(\TII) Andrew William, son of William 
Emerson Gibbs, was born at Guilford, Chen- 
ango county, New York. September 14, 1865. 
He was educated in the public schools of his 
native town and at Oxford Academy. He en- 
gaged in business in 1894, in partnership with 
his brother. Benjamin C. Gibbs, under the finn 
name of (^ibbs Brothers at Johnstown, New 
York, dealers in men's furnishings. After 
four years he came to Homer, New York, 
where in 1901 he entered partnership with 
D. D. Newton in the manufacture of shirts 
and woolen goods, under the firm name of 
Newton & Company. M. A. Whiting was the 
third partner in the company. This concern 
manufactures the cloth from which it makes 
shirts, and since 1910 has been making fish 
lines in another factory under the same man- 
agement. In politics he is a Republican, and 
he lias been assessor of the town of Homer. 
He is a member of the Knights of Pythias, of 
Johnstown, and of the Congregational church, 
of Homer. 

He married, November 18, 1896, Bessie E. 
Watkins, born in Cortland, New York, daugh- 
ter of .\(lelbert H. and Eve (Howe) W'atkins. 
Children: Marion Esther, born July 29, 1899: 
Marjorie Adelaide, March 19, 1901 : Alice 
W'atkins, April 22, 1906. 

Robert C. Wilson was born May 
WILSON 7. 1846, during the voyage of 

his parents to this country from 
northern Ireland. His family settled in Con- 
stable, New York, and he was educated there 
in the public schools, and engaged in farming. 



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and later in the mercantile business in that 
town. He is a prominent and public-spirited 
citizen, active in public affairs, and one of the 
best known and most popular men of the com- 
munity. In politics he is a Republican, and he 
is postmaster at Constable. He is a breeder 
of Holstein-Friesian cattle, and with his son. 
Frank R. Wilson, is a proprietor of St. Law- 
rence Valley Farms. He is an Odd Fellow. 
He married Sylvia Hastings, born September 
3, 1845, daughter of Harvey and Lucy (Dud- 
ley) Hastings, of Constable (see Hastings). 
Children : Herbert J. and Frank R. 

(II) Herbert J., son of Robert C. Wilson, 
was born at Constable, Franklin county. New 
York, March 18, 187 1. He attended the pub- 
lic schools of his native town, graduated from 
Franklin Academy in 1890, from Dartmouth 
College, with the degree of bachelor of science, 
in 1894, and from the Albany Law School in 
1897. He was admitted to the bar July 6, 
1897. In politics he is a Republican, and he 
has been active in public life and has filled 
various offices of public trust. In 1898-99 he 
was clerk of the board of supervisors of Frank- 
lin county. New York. Since 1900 he has re- 
sided and practiced his profession in Fulton, 
New York. From i(yD2 to 1906 he was city 
judge, the first to hold that office. He was 
corporation council in 1901. He is a member 
of the Sigma Chi fraternity, and of the Phi 
Beta Kappa Society, of Neatawanta Lodge of 
Odd Fellows, of Fulton, and of the Macca- 
bees. He is an attendant of the First Meth- 
odi.st Episcopal Church, and clerk of the offi- 
cial board. He married, July 6, 1899, Veda 
M. Lyon, born December 13, 1870, daughter 
of Nelson and Minnie E. Lyon, of Malone, 
New York. She was born at Springfield, Ver- 
mont. They have one child, Harvia Hastings, 
born at Fulton, December 23, 1900. 

(ID Frank R., son of Robert C. and Sylvia 
(Hastings) Wilson, was born at Constable, 
New York, January 25, 1877. He was edu- 
cated in the public schools and at Franklin 
Academy. He is a Republican in politics, and 
is assistant poi^tmaster at Constable. He is 
associated with Robert C. Wilson, his father, 
in farming and in mercantile business and 
in the breeding of Holstein-Friesian cattle, as 
proprietors of St. Lawrence \'alley Farms. He 
is ati Odd I'ellow. He married Bessie D. 
Elliot, daughter of Seymour Elliot, of Bom- 
bay, New York. No children. 



(The Hastings Line). 

The name Hastings is well known in his- 
tory, and the race to which it applies is of 
Danish origin. In the early days of the Brit- 
ish Kingdom the Danes made frequent incur- 
sions upon that part of England and Scotland 
bordering upon the North Sea. It was in one 
of these incursions that Hastings, a Danish 
chief, made himself formidable to Alfred the 
Great by landing a large body of men upon the 
coast. He took possession of a portion of 
Sussex, and the castle and seaport of Hastings 
were held by his family when William the 
Conqueror landed in England, and they held 
it from the crown for many generations. 

The first of the family to enjoy the peerage 
was Henn,', Lord Hastings, son of William de 
Hasting, Steward of Henry II. ; the steward- 
ship was hereditary. They were allied by 
marriage to the royal family of England and 
Scotland. George, third Lord Hastings, was 
in 1529 created Earl of Huntingdon. Sir Henry 
and George Hastings, grandsons of the Earl 
of Huntingdon, had sons who became Puritans 
and were obliged by persecution to leave their 
native land and find homes in the new world. 
As early as 1634 we find Thomas Hastings 
and wife had arrived on this shore, and in 
1638 John and family had followed. That 
they were brothers was a tradition in the fam- 
ily: but it has never been clearly shown, and 
it is more probable that they were cousins. 
Thomas was a descendant of the Earl of 
Huntingdon, as shown by the coat-of-arms. 

The arms of Hastings, of which there is an 
ancient painting still preserved, are quarterly : 
A black maunch-sleeve of an ancient robe, on a 
white field. The arms of France and England 
(|uartcrly : A red lion rampant, on a field of 
gold, being the ancient arms of Scotland. 
Barry of ten pieces, blue and white, with eight 
red martlets, swallows of Palestine, for de 
\'alence. The maunch in the Hastings arms 
was given to show the office of hereditary 
steward to the King of England. The arms 
of France and England denote him as one of 
the heirs of the Plantagenets by marriage with 
the Princess Ida. The arms of Scotland was 
given him as representing King David the 
Lion, by the Earl of Huntingdon, who married 
David's daughter, and was thus coheir. The 
arms of \'alence signify a series of honorable 
distinctions which the martlets indicate were 
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taken from the heiress of the Duke of \'alence 
in France. Crest: A black bull's head crown- 
ed with a ducal coronet of gold. It indicates 
determination and perseverance. Motto : "In 
J'eritafe J'ictoria" — "In Truth There is \'ic- 
tory." 

(I) Thomas Hastings, the immigrant an- 
cestor, was born in England, in 1605. Thomas, 
aged twenty-nine, and his wife Susanna, aged 
thirty-four, embarked at Ipswich, England, 
April 10, 1634, in the ship "Elizabeth," Will- 
iam Andrews, master, for New England. He 
settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, where 
he was admitted freeman May 6, 1635. He 
owned land in Dedham, 1635-36, but never 
lived there. He was selectman, 1638-43, 1650- 
71 : town clerk, 1671-77-80; deputy to general 
court, 1673, and long held the ofifice of deacon 
of the church. His wife Susanna died Febru- 
ary 2, 1650, and he married (second) Mar- 
garet, daughter of William and Martha Cheney, 
of Roxbury. She was the mother of his chil- 
dren. He owned many farms and lots. The 
west side of School street, called Hill street, 
was his residence. He died in 1685. His will 
was dated March 12, 1682-83, and proved Sep- 
tember 7, 1685. The inventory amounted to 
£421. Children: Thomas, born July i, 1652; 
John, mentioned below ; William, August 8, 
1655, drowned August, 1669: Joseph, Septem- 
ber II, 1657; Benjamin, August 9. 1659; Na- 
thaniel, September 25, 1661 ; Hepsibah, Janu- 
ary 31, 1663; Samuel, March 12, 1665. 

(II) John, son of Thomas Hastings, was 
born in Watertown, Alarch i, 1654. Fie mar- 
ried, June 18, 1679, Abigail, daughter of Lieu- 
tenant John and Abigail Hammond, of Water- 
town, born June 21, 1656, died April 7, 1718. 
In i6<)o her father's assessment was the largest 
in town, and she received from his estate what 
was in those days considerable property. John 
Hastings lived in that part of Watertown which 
in 1737 was set off as Waltham. He died 
March 28, 1718, and both he and his wife 
<vere buried in Waltham. Children : Abigail, 
married, 1699, John Warren, of Weston : John ; 
Elizabeth ; Hepsibah ; William ; Samuel, whose 
two sons were at Lexington Common, April 
19, 1775, and one of thein Isaac, among the 
volunteers at the capture of Burgoyne ; 
Thomas ; Joseph, mentioned below. 

(III) Joseph, son of John Flastings, was 
baptized July 10, 1699, and married, October 
2, 1 716, Lydia, daughter of Captain Abraham 
and Mary (Hyde) Brown. Her father and 



mother had fourteen children. Lydia died and 
Joseph Hastings married (second), January 
16, 1769, Sarah, daughter of Deacon Isaac and 
Elizabeth Stearns. The homestead where he 
lived and died was on the old Trapoli road, 
now called North street. He was selectman 
of Waltham, 1748. He died March 23, 1783. 
Children: i. Elizabeth. 2. Lydia. 3. Grace. 
4. Joseph, mentioned below. 5. Child, died in 
infancy. 6. Lucy. 7. Josiah, selectman and 
assessor at time of the revolution. 8. Jonas. 
9. Susanna. 10. Eliphalet, soldier in the 
French and Indian war, taken prisoner at Fort 
William Henry, Lake George, x\ngust, 1757: 
sent to Canada, then to France, and lodged in 
the Rochelle prison, where he remained about 
a year ; exchanged and sent to England ; joined 
expedition to Canada under General Wolfe, 
was at the taking of Quebec in 1759, and 
assisted in carrying General Wolfe, when 
mortally wounded, to the rear; he returned 
to Waltham ; volunteered at the breaking out 
of the revolution, was commissioned captain, 
and became a pensioner ; died in Framingham, 
1824, aged ninety; had eleven children. 11. 
Thankful, married Elnathan Allen. 12. Sarah. 
13. Child, died young. 14. Lois. 

(IV) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (i) Hast- 
ings, was bom June i, 1722, and married in 
Waltham, July 10, 1744, by Rev. Warham 
Williams, the former's cousin Hannah, daugh- 
ter of Ebenezer and Ruth (Phillips) Hastings, 
of Watertown. She died March 25, 1808, aged 
eighty-four. He removed from Watertown to 
Shrewsbury a few years after his marriage. 
During the latter part of his life he was very 
deaf, and when at church sat in the pulpit, 
using an ear trumpet which extended to the 
preacher's mouth. He died February i, 1805. 
Children : Hannah, Joseph, was a soldier in 
the revolution, 1777, under Captain John May- 
died 1846, was a revolutionary pensioner; 
nard ; Isaac, mentioned below ; Martha ; Tonas, 
Ezra; Ruth, married John Brocas ; Lydia, 
married Elmer, son of Colonel Job and Lucy 
Gushing, lived first in Shrewsbury, in 1787, 
removed to Stanstead, Canada, two children — 
John Prentiss, Artemas. 

(V) Isaac, son of Joseph (2) Hastings, was 
born in Shrewsbury, April 5, 175 1, and died 
September 25, 1831. He married, in 1775, 
Sarah Goddard, of Petersham, ]\Iassachusetts. 
She died November 11, 1804, and he married 
(second) Sarah Whipple, of Grafton, born 
October 19, 1773. He settled in Warwick, 



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Massachusetts. Children of first wife: i. Han- 
nah, born 1776. 2. Joel, August 2^, 1778; 
married Olive Hutchins, of Winchester. New- 
Hampshire ; had five children ; he was father 
of the late Charles Hastings, of Malone, New 
York, and grandfather of Herbert Hastings 
and Dr. C. A. Hastings, of Constable, and of 
Clara, wife of Dr. H. H. Reynolds, of Malone. 
3. Sarah, died May 15, 1827. aged forty-si.x 
years. 4. Isaac (twin), born March 29, 1783. 
died 1827. 5. Rebecca (twin). March 29, 1783: 
married Luther Wheeler, of Grafton; had 
three children. 6. Submit, married Lincoln 
Rawson, of Richmond, Massachusetts ; hail 
twelve children. 7. Hannah, married Eben- 
ezer Stearns, of \Varwick ; had five children. 
8. Lydia. 9. Caleb. 10. Joseph, mentioned 
below. II. Child, died in infancy. 12. Clarissa. 
Child of second wife: 13. Daniel, January 22. 
1807, died 1888: married Experience Leonard, 
of VVarwick- : children: Nathan, and Samuel, 
town clerk of XA'arwick. 1908. 

(VI) Joseph (3), son of Isaac Hastings, 
was born December 11, 1793, and married, 
March 27, 1817, Cynthia Hutchins, of Eden, 
Vermont, born October 2, 1798. She was 
granddaughter of James Harwood, who served 
in the revolution. The latter's great-great- 
grandson. Dr. W. H. Harwood, of Chasm 
Falls, New York, has been for forty years 
engaged in genealogical research. They set- 
tled in Constable, New York. Children: i. 
Lydia, born April 13, i8i8: died February, 
1871 ; married Aaron Stowers, January 29, 
1840; no children. 2. Harriet, July 21, 1819, 
died June 21, 1846; married, November 28, 
1839, Alfred Bassett : children: Sylvanus. 
served in the civil war, Comjjany I, from 
Malone, Joel J. Seaver, captain, wounded and 
discharged September, 18(15, died December 
30, 1882; .'\sa. also served in the war, in same 
company, killed in battle, May 3, 1863. 3. 
Harvey, mentioned below. 4. George D., Feb- 
ruary 20. 1823; died in Constable, .April i. 
1895: married. May 2, 1847, Mary Blanchard ; 
five daughters: Alta. married J. N. .\ubrcy. 
of Constable: Hattie. married C. W. Howeil, 
of Constable ; .Anna, married .-Xlbern .Aubrey, 
of Constable; Lillian, married Dr. Warren 
lirand. of Burke. New York; Georgia, married 
Asa Harmon, of Constable. 5. Clarissa, May 
23, 1825, died February 13, 1905; married 
George I'earl, of Burke; one daughter, Mary, 
married Millard Pike, of Burke. 6. Emery, 
September 30, 1827, died September i, 1858; 



married. March 22, 1853, Mary Whipple; chil- 
dren : Emery, Fanny ; he was a physician and 
settled in DeKalb, New York. 7. Isaac. May 
5, 1829. died in LaFayette, Indiana; married 
M. .Ann Wicks, of Gasport. New York. Au- 
gust 17. 1853; one daughter, Clara, who died. 
8. Sarah Maria, February 27, 183 1 ; married 
James S. Dudley, of Constable ; children : Har- 
vey J., of Malone; George K.. of Constable; 
Eva B.. married Sheridan Beebee, of Con- 
stable ; Clara V., married LeRoy Buell. of Con- 
stable. 9. Joseph. March 30, 1833, died in 
l^alermo. Kansas, February 6, 1899; married, 
in Indiana. .Alvira Fisk. of DeKalb; two chil- 
dren: Frank, and Ida, both of whom were liv- 
ings in 1908, in New Mexico; he was a physi- 
cian, and settled in Palermo. 10. Alfred, Oc- 
tober 13. 1835; married, November 2, 1857, 
Mary O. Bullock, of Moira, New A'ork ; she 
died February 6, 1900, and he married (sec- 
ond) Mrs. Louisa Babcock, of Burke; two 
children — Fred C, died April 20, 1894, aged 
thirty-five years ; Cynthia, married A. E. Bee- 
bee, of McMillan, Wisconsin. Alfred served 
in the civil war, enlisted August 23, 1864, in 
Company C, from Malone, Third New York 
Cavalry, organized at Rochester, New York ; 
was at the battle of Chapin's Farm, September 
29, 30, 1864; afterwards ill for many weeks 
at Hampton Hospital, Fortress Monroe, V'ir- 
ginia : discharged under Colonel George W. 
Lewis, June 10, 1865 ; his regiment served in 
First Brigade, Kautz's Division of Cavalry, 
.Army of the James. 11. Cynthia, September 
2, 1837; married. November 2, 1857, Willis 
Ikdlock, of Moira; settled in Wayne town- 
ship. Doniphan county. Kansas ; children ; Dr. 
Frank, of Forest City, Missouri ; Will, of 
Nodaway, Missouri ; Dr. Eugene, of South St. 
Josei)h, Missouri; Aaron, of South St. Joseph. 
Missouri; Joseph, of Nodaway; Ella, married 
G. A. Ricklefs, of Bendena, Kansas. 12. 
James M., March 30, 1840; married (first) 
Margaret Ross, of Lancaster, Canada ; she 
died in 1887, and he married (second) Elsie 
Brockway, of Bangor. 13. Polly Irene. April 
14. 1842. died December 14. 1858. 14. DeWitt 
C., December 30. 1844; married Rebecca Will- 
meth ; children : Clinton ; Ada, married E. G. 
Winzor, of Doniphan; George; Blaine; the 
latter two died in childhood ; he settled in 
Wavnc. Kansas. 

( ATI ) Harvey, son of Joseph Hastings, was 
born April 26, 1821, and died in Constable, 
October 25, 1900. He married, December 26, 



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1844, Lucy Dudley, of Constable. Child, 
Sylvia, married R. C. Wilson, of Constable 
(see Wilson). 



James Hillick was a native of 

HILLICK the north of Ireland. He came 
to this country when a young 
man, about 1820, and located at Ithaca, New 
York. .Among his children was Hugh, men- 
tioned below. 

( II ) Hugh, son of James Hillick, was born 
in 1825, and died in 1865. He resided at 
Ithaca. He married Maria Phillips, who died 
in 1871, aged about forty-two years. Chil- 
dren: I. Charles, died in 1892: was a book- 
binder at Ithaca, also served as city clerk of 
Ithaca. 2. \Villiam P., see forward. 3. James, 
a conductor, employed by the Lehigh \'alley 
railroad, resides at Seneca, New York. 

( HI ) William P., son of Hugh Hillick, was 
born December 9, 1853. He was educated in 
the public schools of Ithaca. The first two 
years of his business life he spent in Ithaca, at 
the jewelers and ojjticians trade, and later 
worked at the same trade in Syracuse. From 
1879 to 1892 he worked independently in Ful- 
ton, New York, then went to Syracuse and 
remained there until i8r)2, when he finally re- 
turned to Fulton, and has been in business in 
that town ever since. From 1894 to 1902 he 
was town clerk, was village clerk for six years, 
city chairman 1902-05. He married Mattie 
Sheridan, born in Whitby, Canada, daughter 
of Dennis and Debora (Foster) Sheridan. 
Children: William S., mentioned below. Fred- 
erick, James, Erma, Clara, P)Ianche, Sarah, 
Lucy. In politics Mr. Hillick is a Republican. 
He is a member of Hiram Lodge, No. 144, 
Free and Accepted Masons, and of the Benev- 
olent and Protective C)rder of Elks. 

( I\' ) William S.. son of William P. Hillick, 
was born at Fulton, New York, April 7, 1879. 
He attended the public schools of his native 
town and graduated from the Fulton high 
school. He studied law in the office of Piper 
& Rice, of Fulton, and was admitted to the 
bar in November, 1901. Since then he has 
been in active and successful practice in that 
town, and has advanced rapidly to a position 
of prominence at the bar of the county. In 
i(X>3-04 he was corporation counsel for the 
citv of Fulton and had charge of important 
litigations then pending. In religion Mr. Hil- 
lick is a Presbyterian. In politics he is a Re- 



publican, and is a member of the State and 
County liar associations. 

William S. Hillick married, December 28, 
1904, Katharine Nodecker, born August 6, 
1883, daughter of Peter and Jennie Nodecker, 
of Cortland, New York. They have one child : 
Joseph Dennis, born January 6, 1909. 



Albert Andriese Bradt ( also spell- 
r.RADT ed Bratt), and his brother, Arent 
•Andriese Bradt, were early set- 
tlers at Albany among the Dutch pioneers. 
Arent Bradt located at Schenectady in 1662, 
and is progenitor of most of the Bradt families 
of that city and vicinity. Albert located per- 
manently in Albany. Some of the Albany 
family were Lutherans, but most of them have 
belonged to the Dutch church. The Bradts 
were probably born in Holland, but were called 
"Normans," and occasionally "Swedes." the 
ancestry probably being French-Norman. Al- 
bert Andriese Bradt "de Noorman," as he was 
generally called, owned a farm and mill on the 
Norman's Kill, which took its name from him. 
In 1672 his son Barent succeed to the mill 
property, and in 1677 leunis Slingerland suc- 
ceeded to the lease of Albert Bardt's farm. 
.Albert died, according to Dr. O'Callaghan, June 
7, 1686, "cell 2'an de oudstc cii ccrstc iincooii- 
ders der Colonic Rciissclacrszcyck." He mar- 
ried (first) Annetje Barentse Van Rotmers, 
who died in 1662. He married again, but 
his second marriage ended unhappily ; the 
governor gave an order, October 24, 1670, 
for the separation of Albert A. Bradt and 
Geertruy \'osburgh, "because of strife and 
c'iffcrence that hath arisen between them." 
Children of first wife: Barent of Albany; Eva, 
married Antony de Hooges, and (second) 
Roelflf Swartwout, of Esopus ; Storm, alias 
Storm Albertse Vanderzee : Gissetic, married 
Ian \'an Eechelen ; Andries, mentioned below ; 
Jan, of Catskill, in 1720: Dirck, of Albany. 

(II) Andries Albertse, son of Albert An- 
driese Bradt, was called "de Sweed" and "de 
Noorman." In 1683 he owned sawmills on 
the W'ynantskie river. In 1730 he owned a 
lot of land on the east side of Pearl street, 
Albany, between Beaver and Hudson streets. 
He married Cornelia Teunise Vervey (Van 
Wie or Vernoy, otherwise spelled). He mar- 
ried (second) Wyntie Rosa, who was buried 
December 24, 1742. (Bans published Septem- 
ber 18, 1708). Children, born at Albany, with 



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dates of baptism: Annetje, December 17, 1694; 
Alaritje, August i, 1697; Effie, January 7, 
1700; Teunis, January 27, 1703; Barent, April 
7, 1706. Children of second wife: Maria, Sep- 
tember I, 1709; Hillege, June 30, 1718; Mar- 
guerita, April 3, 1720; Albert, mentioned 
below; Geertruy, May 3, 1724; Catharina, 
January 2, 1725. 

(III) Albert, son of Andries Albertse Bradt, 
was born at Albany, in 1722, baptized Febru- 
ary 28, 1722. He married there, November 
24, 1743, Anna Carel. Children, born at Al- 
bany (baptismal dates) : Andries, at Sche- 
nectady, October 7, 1744; Catharina, April 24, 
1748; Wyntie, March 31, 1751; Catarina, No- 
vember II, 1753; Jan and Hendricks, twins, 
June 12, 1757. 

(IV) Hendrick, or Henry, son of Albert 
Bradt, was born in Albany, and baptized June 
12, 1757. He was a soldier in the revolution 
in the Albany county regiment of Colonel 
Philip P. Schuyler, and his name appears on 
the list of Albany county soldiers entitled to 
land bounty. He married Maritje Arnold. 

(\') Albert, son of Henry Bradt, was born 
at Albany, June 15, 1779. He owned a men's 
furnishing store in Albany and was a deputy 
sheriff of the county. 

(VI) Hiram, son of Albert Bradt. was born 
in Albany, and died at North Hannibal, Febru- 
ary, 1904, at the advanced age of ninety-three 
years. He was educated in the public schools. 
and learned the trade of tailor. He worked 
at his trade in Albany until he removed to Ira, 
where he continued the business until he came 
to North Hannibal in 1863, when he engaged 
in farming. He was justice of the peace in 
the towns of Ira and Hannibal, New York, 
for many years, and collector of taxes of the 
town of Hannibal. In religion he was a Pres- 
byterian. He married Mary Ann Van Wie. 
Children: Albert; William J.; Edgar H.; 
Emily, married Fred Stark; Alfred P., men- 
tioned below. 

(VII) Alfred P., son of Hiram Bradt, was 
born in the town of Ira, New York, May 23, 
1851, and was educated in the public schools 
of Hannibal. He was for a time associated with 
his father in market gardening and farming, 
but was early in life attracted by the news- 
paper business, and as a boy corresponded for 
several newspapers in this section. At the age 
of twenty-two he bought the newspaper — the 
Hannibal Reveille — of his brother Albert, in 
Hannibal, and conducted it for two years. In 



1 88 1 he sold this business and came to Oswego 
Falls, now Fulton, New York, and established 
Tlie Observer, a weekly newspaper, which he 
has conducted to the present time with flatter- 
ing success. For the past eight years it has been 
vigorous in support of temperance and pro- 
hibition policies, and is the official organ of the 
Prohibition party in Oswego county. Mr. 
Bradt not only gives to the Prohibition party 
the support of his newspaper but contributes 
freely to the county, state and national com- 
mittees, and in every way in his power furthers 
the cause of temperance and total abstinence, 
and all other moveiuents for moral and polit- 
ical reform. He has been nominated twice b}' 
his party for assemblyman. He was the first 
publisher in the county to install the Mergen- 
thaler linotype machine in his printing office, 
and his paper is on the list of Select County 
\\'eeklies of the State of New York. He has 
built up a flourishing printing business and the 
circulation of the newspaper has shown a 
healthy growth. The edition is now eighteen 
hundred copies. Mr. Bradt is a member of 
Neatawanta Lodge, No. 245, of Odd Fellows, 
and of the Chamber of Commerce, of which 
he has been a director and vice-president. He 
married, in 1872, Phoebe A. Cox, born in 
Granby, New York, daughter of Martin Cox, 
of North Hannibal, New York. They have no 
children. 

Mrs. Bradt has been of material assistance 
to lieT husband in the establishment and con- 
duct of The Observer, in its earlier develop- 
ment, being a capable and efficient writer, con- 
tributing much toward placing the paper in the 
position it occupies in the journalistic world. 
She is an active member of Kayendatsyana 
Chapter, No. jj. Daughters of the .American 
Revolution, having filled the office of secretary 
and is the press reporter of the chapter. She 
gains admission to the Daughters of the Amer- 
ican Revolution through her paternal great- 
grandfather, \\'illiam Cox. Her grandfather, 
John Cox, served in the war of 1812, while her 
fatlier, Martin M. Cox, served in the civil war. 



Robert Morse, immigrant ances- 
MORSE tor, was born in England and 

came to Massachusetts. He lived 
at Boston, Newbury and Row'lcy, in that col- 
ony, and finally settled in Woodbridge or Eliz- 
abethtown. New Jersey. He married (first) 

Elizabeth . He married (second), at 

Boston, October 30, 1654, Ann Lewis. The 



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name is spelled both Morse and IMoss and in 
other ways. Children : Abraham ; James, born 
1644; Elizabeth, September 25, 1655; Robert, 
mentioned below ; Alary, February 25, 1657- 
58; Daughter, December 16, 1660; Lydia, July 
13, 1662; Sarah, April 28, 1665; Peter, of 
Elizabethtown. 

(II) Robert (2), son of Robert ( i) Morse, 
was born February i, 1656-57. He resided 
at Elizabethtown, New Jersey. Children : Rob- 
ert, Amos, Peter, Joseph, Joshua and Peter. 

(III) Joseph, son of Robert (2) Morse, 
lived near Bridgeton, New Jersey. Children : 
Joseph, born May 31, 1709. died August 25, 
1779; .\mos, born 1712, lived in Rahway ; 
David, died young. 

(V) David Morse or AIoss, believed to be a 
great-grandson of Robert (II). The history of 
Cuyler, Xew York, states that he came from 
New Jersey and settled on Lot 87, now in part 
covered by the village of Cuyler. He was a 
soldier in the revolution and died at Cuyler in 
1844, aged eighty-three years. According to 
the census of 1790 a David Morse was living 
at Warwick, Orange county. New Y'ork, and 
had in his family two sons under sixteen and 
four females (see "History of Cortland Coun- 
ty" and census of 1790). David Morse settled 
in Cuyler in 1792. He received a grant of 
six hundred acres of land from the govern- 
ment for his service in the war. Cuyler was 
then a part of Fabius in Montgomery county, 
afterward part of Solon, Onondaga county and 
later Truxton, Cortland county, and finally 
Cuyler, Cortland county. When he came the 
place was still a wilderness and without roads. 
He came in a canoe up the river and was one 
of the first settlers. He built a log cabin on 
the present site of Eugene ]\Iorse's barn and 
the family has in its possession the original 
deed dated 1790 and signed by Governor Clin- 
ton. Children, born in New Jersey: Philip. 
John, Deborah, Benjamin and Susan. Born 
in New York state : William, mentioned below ; 
David, Polly, Joseph. 

(VI) William, son of David IVIorse, was 
born in what is now Cuyler, Cortland county. 
New York, in 1793-94, died in Illinois, in 1854. 
He was a farmer in his younger days on the 
homestead, and his later years were spent in 
Illinois. He married Betsey Hills who is de- 
scended from an old Connecticut family. Chil- 
dren, born in Cuyler : Adeline, married Levi 
Tongue ; William Addison, mentioned below ; 



Warren, resides in Cuyler; Betsey, married 
William Gage and lives in Iowa. Children by 
a second wife, born in Illinois: .\Ican, Mari- 
ette, Eldorette, Ruth, .\rthur, all living in the 
west. 

(\TI) \\'illiam Addison, son of William 
Morse, was born in Cuyler, September 2, 1827, 
died April 22, 1910. He was educated in the 
public schools and followed farming on the 
homestead cleared by his grandfather. He 
took a keen interest in the affairs of his native 
town and held the office of assessor and other 
places of trust and honor. He married, De- 
cember 31, 1850. Maria Hamilton, born in 
Otsego county. New Y^ork, in 1828, 3ied at 
Cuyler in 1904, daughter of Thomas Hamilton. 
Children, born in Cuyler : Eugene, mentioned 
below : Elba, born September 5, 1833 ; married 
John Mc.\llister, of Cortland ; \\'illiam, died 
in Illinois; Ida, born June 15, 1857, married S. 
F. Brown, of Cortland. 

|\TII) Eugene, son of William .Addison 
Morse, was born in Cuyler, New York, Janu- 
ary 23, 1852, on the homestead. He received 
his early education in the public schools of his 
native town and at DeRujter Academy. He 
was a clerk in the railway mail service in 
1888-89 3nd from 1890 to 1892 was engaged in 
the grocery business. Since then he has con- 
ducted the homestead on which his great- 
grandfather settled. He has two hundred 
acres of land in the village of Cuyler and has a 
dairy of forty cows. On the spot where his 
great-grandfather erected the first log house in 
1792, he has recently built a large new barn. 
In many ways his farm is a model, scientifically 
conducted and highly productive. Mr. Morse 
is town clerk of Cuyler and has held various 
other offfces of trust and responsibility in the 
town. He is a director of the Patrons Fire 
Relief Association and a member of DeRuyter 
Lodge, No. 692, Free and Accepted Masons, 
of DeRuyter: of Cuyler Grange, No. 449, 
Patrons of Husbandry ; of DeRuyter Lodge, 
Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In relig- 
ion he is a Methodist and he is a trustee of the 
Cuyler Methodist Episcopal Church. In poli- 
tics he is a Republican. 

He married, December 17, 1878, Adella 
Thompson, of McGraw, New York, daughter 
of James C. and Mariette (Corwin) Thomp- 
son, granddaughter of Luther Thompson. Mr. 
and Mrs. Morse have no children, but have 
adopted a son, William A., born in 1907. 



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William Shattuck. the im- 
SHATTUCK migrant ancestor, was born 
in England, in 1622, and 
died in Watertown, Massachusetts, where he 
was an early settler, August 14, 1672, at the 
age of fifty. He was a proprietor of Water- 
town in 1642, and had then a homestall of one 
acre and a small lot of upland. He bought of 
Joseph Clough, tailor, and Susan, his wife, 
his house and garden, also thirty acres of up- 
land, bounded on the east by William Paine 
and E. Goffe, north by Joseph Morse, west and 
south by highway. He bought besides twenty- 
five acres of upland, three acres of swamp 
land, and one-third part of twelve acres of 
meadow. He was a weaver as well as a plant- 
er, and gave evidence of being man of prop- 
erty and good social position. His grave in 
the Watertown cemetery was marked in 1853 
by the genealogist, Lemuel Shattuck, also the 
grave of his son John. William Shattuck's 
will, dated August 3, 1672, mentioned wife 
Susanna, sons John, Philip, William, Benja- 
min and Samuel, son-in-law Samuel Church. 
The inventory included his house and land, 
farm at Stoney Brook, and four acres of pond 
meadow, altogether valued at £204. He died 
August 14, 1672. He married, 1642, Susanna 

, who married (second), November 18, 

1673, Richard Xorcross. She died December 
II, 1686. Children: Susanna, born 1643; 
Mary, August 25, 1645, married Jonathan 
Brown ; John, mentioned below ; Philip, born 
1648; Joanna, born about 1650, died April 4, 
1673, unmarried; William, 1653: Rebecca, 
1655; Abigail, 1657; Benjamin, February 28, 
1666. 

(H) John, son of William Shattuck, was 
born in Watertown, Alassachusetts, February 
II, 1647. He owned land in Groton, but it is 
not known that he ever lived there. He was a 
carpenter by trade, and lived in the middle 
district of \\'atertown, now the center village 
of \\'atertown. In 1669 he ran the mill on 
Charles river, located near where the road 
from \Vaterto\vn to Xewton Centre now 
crosses the river. He gave his life for his 
country in King Philip's war. He was a ser- 
geant in Captain Richard Beers' company of 
Watertown. They marched to the relief of 
Hadley, in western Massachusetts, but were 
diverted by a report that the Indians had at- 
tacked Northfield. On their way thither they 
were attacked by a large force of Indians and 
narrowly escaped annihilation. Out of thirty- 



six only sixteen escaped with their lives. Cap- 
tain Beers was among the slain. Shattuck was 
chosen to make the lonesome and perilous 
journey to Boston to inform the governor of 
the state of affairs and of the result of the 
skirmish. In ten days he arrived safely at 
Charlestown, but, while crossing the ferry, the 
boat, overloaded with horses and other freight, 
was upset by the waves and foundered. He 
was the only man drowned by the accident. 
He married, June 20, 1664, in his eighteenth 
year, Ruth, daughter of John and Elinor Whit- 
ney, the immigrant ancestor, and a prominent 
New I-^ngland family. She was born in Water- 
town, April 5. 1645, and married (second), 
March 6, 1677, Enoch Lawrence, son of John. 
In 1678 she with her second husband and the 
Shattuck children removed to Groton. and 
occupied John Shattuck's land there. Enoch 
Lawrence died in Groton, September 28, 1744. 
aged ninety-five years six months twenty-three 
days. Children of John Shattuck: John, born 
June 4, 1666: Ruth, June 24, 1668: U'illiam, 
mentioned below. Children of Ruth Shattuck 
Lawrence: Nathaniel, Daniel, Zachery and 
Jane. 

(Ill) William, son of John Shattuck, was 
born at Watertown, September 11, 1670, and 
died at Groton. in 1744. He resided in Gro- 
ton, a little to the south of the house built by 
his grandson, Job Shattuck, near W'attle's 
Pond. He lived in Groton with his mother 
and stepfather, Enoch Lawrence, in 1678, and 
returned to Watertown about 1688, residing 
there fourteen years. In 1691 he was select- 
man of Watertown. The town voted to pro- 
vide for his family in 1690, when he was away 
in the war, half the cost to be from the town, 
half from the county treasury, to be paid his 
uncle William Shattuck. He had a grant of 
a lot near Patch's meadow on his return from 
the service, and was given the privilege of 
cutting timber from the common land. In 
1702 he bought land in Groton and removed 
thither, but the Indian troubles soon caused 
him to consider leaving that town, and his wife 
and children actually did remove to Water- 
town in 1707, and lived in the family of John 
Barnard Jr. He deeded land to his son \\'ill- 
iam, October 21, 1716. His son John was his 
administrator. His inventory was dated June 
I, 1744, and his estate divided in 1747. He 
married (first), at Watertown, March 19, 
1688, Hannah L'nderwood, of Watertown ; 
(second), March 24, 1719, Deliverance Pease, 



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who survived him. He and his wives were 
members of the church. Children: W'ilham, 
mentioned below : Hannah, born i6go, married 
Nathaniel Blood; Daniel, born 1692; Ruth, 
1694, married Abraham Nutting; John, 1696 
(IV) William (2), son of William (i) 
Shattuck, w'as born in 1689, at Groton or 
Watertown. and died at (.jroton, August 17, 
1757. He was baptized, an adult, April 14, 
1717. He lived near Wattle's Pond, on a farm 
given to him by his father and enlarged by his 
own purchases. During his life he gave prop- 
erty to his children by the first wife, and took 
their quitclaims against his estate. His will 
was dated August 13, 1757, and proved Sep- 
tember 8 following, his son Ezekiel executor. 
He married (first), March 15, 171 1, /Abigail, 
daughter of his great-uncle, Samuel Shattuck. 
She was born in Watertown, October 17, 1687, 
joined the church December 2, 1716, and died 
about 1727. He married (second), in 1729, 
Margaret Lund, born in Merrimac, New 
Hampshire, a descendant of Thomas Lund, 
one of the earliest settlers. She died June 
13, 1764. Children, born at (Jroton : William, 
mentioned below; Abigail, born Noveml)er 11, 
1718; Jeremiah, October 2, 1721 ; Zachariah, 
March 16, 1724; Sarah, January 13, 1726. 
Children of second wife: Ezekiel, born June 
12, 1730; Margaret, July 4, 1732; Job, Febru- 
ary II, 1736. 

'( \' ) William (3 ), son of William (2) Shat- 
tuck, was born at Groton, January 25, 1712, 
and died March 13, 1761, at Hollis, New 
Hampshire, where he was a farmer and early 
settler. He was a soldier in the French and 
Indian war, and soon after his return made 
his home in Hollis. He married (first) Ruth 
, who died November 4, 1744; (sec- 
ond) Experience Spaulding. Children: Ruth, 
born February i, 1739; \\'illiam, mentioned 
below; Mary, November 4, 1743. Children 
of second wife : Nathaniel, married Eunice 
Hazen ; Experience, married, .August 13, 1772, 
Benjamin Simpson. 

(VI) William (4), son of William (3) 
Shattuck, was born at Hollis, New Hampshire, 
February 26, 1741. He appears to have lived 
in several New Hampshire towns — Amherst, 
Derryfield and Goffstown. He was a soldier 
in the revolution in 1775, in Captain Amos 
Morrill's company. Colonel John Stark's regi- 
ment, and in 1775 in Captain .\aron Kins- 
man's company, Colonel Stark's regiment ; 
probably also in Colonel Nichol's regiment in 



1777. He married, December 2. 1761, Zilpha 
Turner, who died in Derry, aged eighty years. 
Children, born in Hollis: i. Lurana, May 12, 
1762; married, December 28, 1783, David 
-Sanderson. 2. Rebecca, May 6, 1764; married, 
December 24, 1789, Michael Carter, of Dun 
stable. 3. Priscilla, born C)ctober 7, 1766; 
married Joseph Spaulding. 4. Sally, May 3, 
1770; unmarried. 5. William, mentioned 
below. 6. Lemuel, February 12, 1776. 7. 
Daniel, administrator. 

(VII) William (5), son of William (4) 
Shattuck, was born at Hollis (according to the 
town history), August 20, 1772. The history 
of the family says little about him, and states 
that he died in Canada. He married (first), 
according to the genealogy, Hannah Hardy, of 
Danville. \'ermont ; (second), December 20, 
1798, Sally Smith, born .August 18, 1776. Chil- 
dren : William, born October 19, 1799 ; Lurana, 
April 25, 1802; Daniel, December 5, 1803; 
Samuel, October 13, 1806; Smith, mentioned 
below; Luretta, November 5, 181 1. 

(\TII) Smith, son of William (5) Shat- 
tuck. was born June 17. 1809, in Canada or 
X'ermont. He married Sarah Milliman, born 
May 19, 1812. He settled first in Lysander, 
(Jnondaga county, in 1840. later in Hannibal, 
and in the town of Ira, New York, and was 
a farmer. Children : Luretta Amelia, born 
August 26, 1832; Juliet Eliza, December i, 
1833: William Henry, June 9, 1835; Sarah 
Maria, September 18, 1836; Dan Smith, men- 
tioned below ; Caroline Lurana, April 30, 1841 ; 
Nat Milliman, July 27, 1842; Desire Ann, No- 
vember 6, 1845 ; Mary Baker, May 27, 1847. 

( IX ) Dan Smith, son of Smith Shattuck, 
was born at Ira, New York, May 13, 1839, 
and died April 17, 19 10. He was educated in 
the public schools and reared on his father's 
farm. He taught school for a few years. He 
began life as a farmer in the town of Ira, 
Cayuga county ; after four years he removed 
to Rowens Corners, in the town of Granby, 
ami settled on lot No. 11, in 1864. Six years 
afterward he left this place and went to (gran- 
by, where he had a farm of two hundred and 
nine acres, lot No. 5. He married Amanda 
Osborn. born December 21, 1838, daughter of 
Leonard Osborn. 

(X) \'erner W., only child of Dan Smith 
.Shattuck, was born at Bowens Corners, New 
York, May 19, 1866, and attended the public 
schools and the Fulton high school, from 
which he was graduated in the class of 1885. 



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NEW YORK. 



After teaching school for one term he spent 
two \'ears and a half as clerk in a retail shoe 
store. Then he embarked in business as a shoe 
dealer on his own account, in partnership with 
Mr. Butts, buying" the established business of 
F. E. Goodjohn. At the end of ten years the 
firm of Butts & Shattuck was dissolved, and 
he formed a new partnership with George W. 
Morton, buying the shoe store of A. E. Nettle- 
ton, and conducting the business since then 
under the firm name of Morton & Shattuck. 
The business has been extremely prosperous. 
Mr. Shattuck has been a member of the school 
board of Oswego Falls, and an alderman of 
the city of Fulton. He is a member of the 
Methodist Episcopal church, and one of the 
stewards ; a member of Hiram Lodge, No. 144, 
Free and Accepted Masons : of Lower Oswego 
Falls Grange. Patrons of Husbandry, and of 
the Masonic Club. He owns a large farm in 
addition to his shoe business. 

He married. August 1. 1894, Clara E., daugh- 
ter of Oliver and Sarah Paine, of South Gran- 
by. New York. Children : Marion, born De- 
cember 27, 1895; Mildred, January 8, 1900; 
Oliver Dan, April 2, 1908 ; Esther Sarah, Au- 
gust 18, 1909. Mrs. Shattuck is a member of 
the Eastern Star Order (Masonic). She is 
descended from "Mayflower" stock. 



The family of Gilbert, of 
GILBERT Devonshire, England, to which 

Sir Humphrey Gilbert belong- 
ed, is believed to be the same as that of the 
pioneer in Connecticut mentioned in this ac- 
count of the family. Jonathan Gilbert, who 
settled early in Hartford, was born in England, 
in 1618, married, January 29, 1645-46, Mary, 
daughter of Elder John White, of Hartford, 
and she died there about 1650; Jonathan mar- 
ried (second) Mary Wells, daughter of Hugh; 
Jonathan was a prominent citizen, a townsman 
in 1658-64-70-74-78; deputy to the general 
court ; collector of customs and marshal of 
the colony; he died December 10, 1682. Josiali 
Gilbert, brother of Jonathan, John and prob- 
ably of William and Obadiah, all pioneers of 
Connecticut, died October 17, 1682, aged fifty; 
his first wife was Elizabeth, his second, ]\Iary 
Ward; Josiah was constable, assessor, sur- 
veyor of highways of Wethersfield ; children: 
Benjamin, Josiah, Ebenezer, Moses, Caleb and 
John. Some writers believed that William 
was the father of Josiah, John and Jonathan. 



He lived at Windsor, Connecticut, but little i- 
known of him. 

( I ) John Gilbert, the immigrant ancestor, 
brother of Jonathan and Josiah Gilbert, and 
]ierhaps son of William, was born in England, 
and settled early at Windsor, Connecticut, 
where he was admitted a freeman May 21. 
1657. The general court sold to him for £10, 
March 11, 1662-63, land lying between prop- 
erty of Captain Richard Lord and of John 
Church, "at ye landing place on the Rivulet 
both parcels being or lying in ye south meadow 
at Hartford." The court allowed him £11 in 
consideration of a horse "that dyed in the coun- 
try's service," proving that he had a military 
record. He married, May 8, 1647, Amy, 
daughter of Thomas and Dorothy (Bulkeley) 
Lord. Her father was one of the first settlers 
of Hartford. Children of John Gilbert : John, 
born January 16, 1647-48, died young; John, 
February 19, 1652-53; Elizabeth. February 12, 
1655-56; Thomas, September 14, 1658, mar- 
ried, September 27, 1681, Deborah Beaumont; 
Joseph, mentioned below ; Amy, August 3, 
1663; James; Dorothy, married Pal- 
mer. 

(II) Joseph, son of John Gilbert, was born 
at Windsor, Connecticut, April 3, 1666; mar- 
ried (first). IMay 17, 1692. Mary Grosvenor. 
who was of a distinguished English ancestry 
and one of the few having the proven right tO' 
bear arms among the colonial families. He 
married (second). May 8, 1695, Elizabeth 
Smith, born November, 1672, daughter of Jo- 
seph and Lydia (Huitt or Hewett) Smith, of 
Hartford, granddaughter of Rev. F.phraim 
Hewett. Among their children were: r>enja- 
min, born May 11. 1704. married. May 14, 
1730, Elizabeth Marshfield ; Joseph, mentioned 
below; Mary, died 1712. 

(HI) Joseph Gilbert, son of Joseph Gilbert, 
was born about 1675, and died in 1740. Ad- 
ministration was granted to his son Theodore,. 
June 17, 1750. Theodore was appointed guar- 
dian of his brother Isaiah, aged seventeen, in 
1750; of Elias, aged sixteen, in 1753; of Jo- 
seph, aged seventeen, in 1753. The estate was 
ap]3raised March 13, 1753. Wadsworth's 
Diary (page "}, as published) tells us that Jo- 
seph Jr. died October 6, 1740, and added "sick- 
ness prevails among us." The fact that he 
called him "Jr." in 1740 indicates that his 
father died after that date. The diary also- 
states that Joseph Jr. was buried October 8. 



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He was a lawyer of note in his day, admitted 
to the bar at Hartford in 1727, and within 
three years was appointed attorney for the 
crown. His estate was distributed May 25, 
1754, to these children: Theodore, mentioned 
below ; Isaiah ; Joseph ; Elias, and Lydia, who 
married Hopkins. 

(I\') Theodore, son of Joseph Gilbert, was 
born about 1725. He must have been of age 
in 1750, when appointed to administer his 
father's estate, and the probate record calls 
him the eldest. He married Mary Waters. 

(\') Theodore (2), son of Theodore (i) 
Gilbert, was born in 1751, and died at Whites- 
town, New York. He was a soldier in the 
revolution for three years, April 7, 1777, to 
April 7, 1780, and his name appears among 
the pensioners, under the act of 1818, as resid- 
ing in New York ; his service being in Con- 
necticut (p. 249, Revolutionary Rolls of Con- 
necticut). He was living at Litchfield, Litch- 
field county, Connecticut, in 1790, as shown by 
the first federal census taken in that year, 
whereby it appears that Theodore had two 
males over sixteen, one under that age, and 
five females in his family. According to the 
"History of Oneida County" he came, in 1790, 
with his family to Burning Bush Spring, in 
West Sauquoit, New York (p. 492). He mar- 
ried, in 1790. Hannah Cliapin, born 1751, died 
1818. daughter of David and Martha (Allen) 
Chapin (see Chapin). He settled at Whites- 
town, New York, and followed farming there. 
In politics he was a Whig; in religion a Pres- 
byterian. 

(\T) Titus, son of Theodore (2) Gilbert, 
was born about 1780, in Litchfield county, 
Connecticut. He married Elizabeth Andrus. 
Children: Hiram, mentioned below; Andrus; 
Grove ; William ; Titus ; Asa Shepherd, who 
married and had children : .-Xsa, Ira, Frederick 
and Martha Shepherd. 

(\TI) Hiram, son of Titus Gilbert, was 
born at Paris, Oneida county. New York. He 
was educated in the district schools, and set- 
tled when a young man at Gilberts Mills, Os- 
wego county. New York. He was a millwright 
by trade, and built the first mill in this town. 
1 ie had a flour mill and a saw mill. Afterward 
he built numerous mills in the country. He 
was a member of the Presbyterian church, at 
Bristol Hill, and one of the deacons. He died 
aged seventy-eight years. He married Lucy 
Harrington, of Sauquoit, New York. In early 
life he was a Whig, and supported abolition 



before the civil war. In later years he was a 
Republican. Children : Henry H. ; Elizabeth ; 
Lucretia; Catherine R. ; Horace N., mentioned 
below ; Frances M. ; Newell H. ; Martha L. ; 
Myrtis Emogene ; Arthur Gillispie. 

(\"III) Horace Nathaniel, son of Hiram 
(iilbert, was born at Gilbertville, now Gilberts 
Mills, New York, June 30, 1829. He attended 
the public and select schools of his native town 
until he was of age, studying for two years of 
that time in the New York Central College, 
at McGrawville, Cortland county. New York. 
He learned the trade of millwright, and during 
his minority worked with his father. In 1855 
he came to Fulton, New York, and in the fol- 
lowing year, in partnership with his brother, 
Henry H. Gilbert, built a custom flouring mill 
on the Rust Tool mill site, and they afterward 
built two other mills, owning a controlling 
interest in each of the three and operating them 
for several years. He sold his interests to 
Leonard V'an Wagenen and removed to Illi- 
nois, where he engaged in business as a mill- 
wright and builder. He erected and sold a 
dozen dwelling houses. A few years later he 
returned to Fulton, where he built himself a 
fine residence on Fourth street. He was part- 
ner for a time in the firm of Gilbert, Wolcott & 
\'an Burn, and in the firm of Gilbert. Wright 
& Smith. The mill of the former firm was 
built in 1862. The latter firm owned the flour 
mill that spans the hydraulic race. He built a 
number of houses in Fulton for investment 
purposes, and at one time had a considerable 
investment in canal boats. The mill which he, 
his brother, Henry Newell, and his brother-in- 
law, Oran Toby, bought on the canal, was 
formerly known as the Wolcott storehouse, 
and was operated to manufacture flour by cable 
power. In politics Mr. Gilbert is a staunch 
Republican, and throughout his long life has 
never voted for the ticket of any other than 
the Republican party. He has been a trustee 
of the incorporated village of Fulton, and for 
a number of years was a school trustee. He 
is a man of many interests in life, a student 
and observer, and has written much for news- 
papers. For many years he was a corre- 
spondent of the Oswego Daily Times and the 
S\mciisc Standard, and while he was in Europe 
his letters to these newspapers giving an ac- 
count of his travels were widely read. He is a 
member of the Presbyterian church. He be- 
longs to no secret societies. 

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native of Fulton, born 1857. They have one 
child, Barbara F., born October i, 1894, now 
a student in tlie Fulton high school. 

(The Chapin Line). 

This surname is variously spelled in the 
early records of England and America, Chapin, 
Chapun, Chapinne, Chalpin, and several ex- 
planations of it have been given. Rev. R. D. 
Chapin, of .Allegan, IVIichigan, reports an inter- 
view with a well-educated Swiss physician who 
said he formerly lived in France and was at 
one time much interested in philological studies, 
especially the history of names. He stated ihat 
the name Chapin was one of the oldest and 
best names in I-'rance, dating from the Carlov- 
ingian era, and going back at least to the tenth 
century, perhaps earlier. He gives this story 
as to its probable origin : In some feudal scrim- 
mage of the middle ages, one who had distin- 
guished himself received a swordcut across his 
head, laying open his helmet, or headpiece. 
For this exploit he was knighted on the field 
and dubbed Capinatus, which means "decorated 
with a hat," and his coat-of-arms was made a 
hat with a slash in it, thence the name Capi- 
natus, the [larticle of the law-Latin capi)io — 
and then, by the softening process of the 
French, made Chapin. Of course the root is 
caput, whence caj) and chapeau. The Chapin 
coat-of-arms tends to verify the story. 

(I) Deacon Samuel Chapin, the immigrant 
ancestor, was doubtless born in England, though 
the family, perhaps centuries before, came from 
France to England. Two immigrants of this 
name came to New England about the same 
time and both settled in Springfield. David 
Chapin was admitted a freeman there .\pril 5, 
1649, and was admitted an inhabitant of Bos- 
ton in 1659. He was probably son of Deacon 
Samuel Chapin, though possibly a brother. 
Deacon Samuel Chapin came from England 
to Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1656, with several 
children. He settled permanently at Spring- 
field, where he was admitted a freeman June 
2, 1641, and was elected to a town office in 
1642. The Chapins of this country are all 
descended from him, according to the best 
authorities. He was a distinguished man in 
church and state. He was deacon of the 
Springfield church, elected in 1638, and was 
employed to conduct services part of the time 
in 1656-57, when there was no minister in 
town. He was appointed commissioner to 
determine small causes October 10, 1652, and 



his commission was definitely extended by the 
general court in 1654. He married Cicely 

, who died February 8, 1682. He died 

November 11, 1675. His will, dated March 4, 
1674, proved March 24, 1676, becjueathed to 
liis wife, son Henry, and grandson, Thomas 
Gilbert. The widow's will mentions son, Henry 
Chapin, of Springfield, and Josiah Chapin, of 
liraintree: daughters Catherine, wife of Sam- 
uel Marshfield, Sarah Thomas, and Hannah 
Hitchcock; Henry Gilbert. Her son Japhet 
w as executor. Children : Japhet, mentioned 
below : Henry, died young, April 29, 1668 : 
Henry, died August 15, 1718; Catharine, died 
February 4, 1712; David, born in England, 
probably not a child of the wife Cicely ; Josiah, 
died September 10. 1726, at Braintree ; Sarah, 
died -August 5, 1684: Hannah, born December 
2, 1644, Springfield. The order of birth is not 
certain. 

(II) Japhet, son of Deacon Samuel Chapin, 
was born October 15, 1643, and died February 
20, 1712, at Chicopee. Massachusetts. He mar- 
ried (first), July 22, 1664. .Abalien or Abi- 
lanah Cooley, who died at Chicopee, Novem- 
ber 17, 1710, daughter of Benjamin Cooley. 
The gravestones of Japhet and his wife have 
been removed to the new cemetery in Spring- 
field. He married (second). May 31, 1711, 
Dorothy Root, of Enfield. She married (sec- 
ond), in 1720, Obadiah Miller, of Enfield. He 
settled first at Mil ford, Connecticut, where he 
was living November 16, 1669, when he took a 
deed from Captain John Pyncheon. March 9, 
1666, John Byncheon deeded to his father. 
Deacon Sanniel, the greater part of the land 
in the valley between the Chicopee river and 
W'illiamsett Brook. The latter piece of land 
Samuel deeded to his son Japhet, April 16, 
1673, and there the latter built his house at the 
upper end of Chicopee street, northwest of the 
house lately owned by Henry Sherman. Japhet 
was in the fight at Turner's Falls, in 1676, in 
King Philip's war. He was a volunteer, and 
his son Thomas was grantee of a large tract 
of land given to the soldiers and tlieir descend- 
ants by the general court. Cliapin, like his 
father, was of great piety, a bulwark of the 
Puritan faith. Children : Samuel, born July 
4, 1655 ; Sarah, March 16, 1662 ; Thomas, May 
10, 1671 : John, May 14, 1674; Ebenezer, June 
26, 1677; Hannah, June 21, 1679, died July 7, 
1679; Hannah, July 18, 1680, taken captive by 
the Indians and kept in Canada two years; 
David, November 16, 1682; Jonathan, Febru- 



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ary 20, 1685, died March i, 1686: Jonathan, 
September 23, 1688. 

(Ill) Ebenezer, son of Japhet Chapin, was 
born in Chicopee, June 26, 1677, and died in 
Enfield, Connecticut, December 13, 1772. He 
married, December, 1702, Ruth, daughter of 
Abel Janes, of Northampton. She died Janu- 
ary 18, 1736. They had eleven sons, six of 
whom settled on Somers Mount and had farms 
adjoining. On the homestead in Enfield si.x 
generations have lived, each Ebenezer by name, 
and five generations are buried in one lot in the 
cemetery there. Children, born at Enfield : 
Rachel, August 27, 1703; Ebenezer, September 
23, 1705: Noah, October 25, 1707: Seth, Feb- 
ruary 27, 1709: Catherine, January 4, 171 1; 
Moses, .August 24, 1712 ; .\aron, September 28, 
1714; Elias, October 22, 1716; Reuben, Sep- 
tember 3, 1718; Charles, December 26, 1720; 
David, mentioned below ; Elisha, .\pril 18, 
1725; I'hineas, June 26, 1726. 

( I\ ) David, son of Ebenezer Chapin, was 
born .\ugust 13, 1722, at Enfield, Connecticut, 
and died at New Hartford, aged forty years. 
He married Martha .Mien. Their daughter 
Hannah, born 1751, married Theodore ( iilbert 
fr, ( see Gilbert). 



James Ccile, the immigrant ances- 
COLE tor, came to this country ]jrobably 
from county Essex, England, and 
settled in Hartford, Connecticut, with the 
founders under Hooker. His name is on the 
list of original settlers on the monument at 
Hartford. His home lot was on Main street. 
He was a cooper by trade. His will was dated 
in 1652. His widow died February 20. 1678- 
79. Children : .Abigail, married Daniel Sulli- 
van ; John, mentioned below ; perhaps others. 
( H) John, son of James Cole, was born in 
England. He was admitted a freeman at Hart- 
ford, in 1655, and was a constable there in 
1657. He owned eleven lots of land, com- 
prising eighty acres. His will was dated .Au- 
gust 4, 1683. and proved March 4, 1688. Chil- 
dren : John : Job : Samuel, mentioned below ; 
Mary, born June 27, 1654: .Anne, married 

Benton • Lydia, married John Wilson : 

Nathaniel. 

(HI) Samuel, son of John Cole, was born 
in Hartford. His will was dated March 14. 
1693, ^nd he died March 16, 1693. He mar- 
ried Mary , who died in March, 1693. 

Children, born in Hartford: Samuel, 1673: 
Ichabod ; John ; Jonathan, mentioned below : 



Elizabeth, married Richard Smith ; Dorothy ; 
Hannah. 

(I\') Jonathan, son of Samuel Cole, was 
born about 1683, at Hartford. He lived in 
East Hartford and Manchester, Connecticut. 
Children : Jonathan ; Mary, married John Ken- 
dall ; Hannah ; David, mentioned below. 

( \' ) David, son of Jonathan Cole, was born 

about 1710. He married Hannah , who 

was appointed guardian of their children at 
Hartford, in 1769. The probate records state 
that he was presumably dead, not having been 
heard from for nearly seven years. Children : 
Samuel, born 1755; David, mentioned below. 

(VI) David (2), son of David (i) Cole, 
was born in Hartford, in 1756. He settled in 
the adjacent town of Glastonbury, Connecticut, 
and was a soldier in the revolution from that 
town (p. 100, History of Glastonbury), in 
1777. He appears to have left Glastonbury 
before 1790, and may have settled in New 
York state, where various others of this family 
located. 

(\TI) Nathan, son of David (2) Cole, was 
lx)rn about 1780-90, in Glastonbury, Connecti- 
cut. He married Laura Mills, of East Hart- 
ford, Connecticut. He settled at Trenton, 
Oneida county. New York. 

(\III) James (2), son of Nathan Cole, 
was born at Trenton, New York, March 9, 
1816. He was educated in the public schools. 
In 1843 he came to Fulton, New York, and en- 
gaged in the furniture trade and undertaking 
business. He married (first) Mary W. Cum- 
mings. He married (second) Mary W. Prime, 
of Huntington, Eong Island. He died May i, 
1900. Child by first wife: J. Wendell, born in 
Trenton, New York, resides in Columbus. Ohio. 
Children by second wife: Edward P., mention- 
ed below ; Harland P. ; George W. 

(IX) Edward P., son of James (2) Cole, 
was born in Trenton, Oneida county, New 
York, June 20, 185 1. He attended the public 
schools of his native town anfl Fulton, and 
Falley Seminary. He came to Fulton with his 
father's family in i860. After completing his 
erlucation he entered the employ of his father 
in the furniture store, and in 1880 was ad- 
mitted to partnership. When his father died 
he succeeded to the business. The store was 
established in 1851 and is now the largest in 
its line in the city. Mr. Cole is one of the 
leading undertakers of the city. He was cor- 
oner of the county from January i, 1889, to 
1892. He is a charter member of the Benev- 



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olent and Protective Order of Elks, and was 
formerly chaplain of the lodge; member of 
Xeahtawanta Lodge, No. 245, of Odd Fellows, 
in which he has held in succession all the offices. 
He has been district deputy grand master of 
the first district of Oswego county. He is also 
a member and is now senior warden of Hiram 
Lodge, No. 144, Free ilasons ; member of the 
Citizens Club and Pathfinders Club, an active 
member of the fire department and a generous 
patron of baseball and other athletics. He is 
a member of the New York State Embalmers 
Association and State Undertakers Associa- 
tion. In politics he is a Republican and for 
several years represented the town on the Re- 
publican county committee and has frequently 
been elected delegate to nominating conven- 
tions of his party. In religion he is a Presby- 
terian. 

He married, December 10, 1874, Cora A. 
Pollock, born Fulton, New York, daughter of 
Ira R. and Mary Pollock. Children; i. Jessie 
May, married James Lamphere. 2. James, 
associate of his father in the undertaking busi- 
ness ; married Frances Harrington, and has 
child. Charlotte. 3. Charlotte, married How- 
ard M. Morin, of Fulton, and has child. Ed- 
ward C. 



/ The Seymour family is of 

1' SEYMOUR great antiquity in England. 
The seal on the will of Thomas 
Seymour, eldest son of Richard Seymour, the 
immigrant ancestor, bears the impress of the 
wings conjoined in lure, the device of the Eng- 
lish Seymours from the time of William de St. 
Maur. of Penhow. A "Bishop's Bible," print- 
ed in 1584, in the possession of a descendant 
of Richard Seymour, has on one of the fly- 
leaves a drawing of the arms of the Seymours 
of Berr\- Pomeroy : The wings conjoined in 
lure. c|uartered with the royal arms, as granted 
by Henry VHI., and the name written below. 
"Richard Seymour, Bery Pomeroy, heytor bund 
in ye com — Devon, his Book, Hartford, in ye 
Collony of Conn, in New England, 1640." On 
another there is a memorandum relating to 
some business transaction, and the name, "John 
Scimor. Hartford, 1636." .\ great liible men- 
tioned in the inventory of the estate of John 
Seymour, of Hartford. 1713. is undoubtedly 
the same. 

( I ) Richard Seymour, the immigrant an- 
cestor, came from Chelmsford, county Essex. 



England, in 1639, to Hartford, Connecticut, 
and was one of those settlers who received 
land "by Courtesie of the town."' His home 
lot was on the east side of the road to the 
"Cow Pasture" (North Main street), and was 
bounded on the north by the "Cow Pasture'' 
itself. He was chosen chimney viewer in 1647, 
was one of the signers of the agreement for 
the planting of Norwalk, June 19, 1660, and 
was there soon afterwards with the first plant- 
ers. He was a townsman in Norwalk in 1655. 
His will was dated July 29, proved October, 
1655. The inventory, dated October 10, 1655, 
amounted to two hundred twenty-five pounds 
nine shillings. He mentions his wife Mercy, 
eldest son Thomas, "three other sons," John, 
Zachary and Richard, the last three being under 
age and left to their mother's guardianship. 
The widow Mercy married, November 25. 
1655 ( ?), John Steele, of Farmington. Chil- 
dren, born in England or Hartford: Thomas; 
John; Zachary, born 1642; Richard. 

(II) John, son of Richard Seymour, was 
born in Hartford, and doubtless went to Farm- 
ington with his mother after her marriage to 
John Steele, but in 1664 was again in Hart- 
ford. He married not long after, Mary, daugh- 
ter of John and Margaret Watson, of Hart- 
ford. He was made a freeman in 1667. He 
and his wife owned the covenant in the Sec- 
ond or South Church, February 12, 1670, 
w'hen the church was organized, and were ad- 
mitted to full communion March 31, 1678. He 
was leather sealer, 1673 ; chimney viewer, 1693. 
He died in 1713; his will was dated December 

10. 1712, and proved August 3. 1713. Chil- 
dren : John, mentioned below ; Thomas, born 
March 12, i&jg-jo; Mary, November, 1670; 
Zachary, December 22, 1673. died young; Mar- 
garet. January 17, 1674; Richard. February 

11, 1676-77; Jonathan, Jaiuiary 10, 1678, died 
young; Nathaniel. November 6. 1680, died 
young; Zachary, January 10, 1684-85. 

(III) John (2), son of John (i ) Seymour, 
was born June 12, 1668, in Hartford, and mar- 
ried, December 19. 1683, Elizabeth, daughter 
of Hon. Robert and Susanna ( Treat) Webster, 
and granddaughter of Governor John Webster. 
Her mother, Susannah Treat, was a sister of 
Governor Robert Treat. John Seymour own- 
ed a large estate, and gave to several of his 
sons farms in New Hartford. He was mod- 
erator of the meeting of the first proprietors 
of that town, held at Hartford, December, 





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1723. He died May 17, 1748, and is buried in 
the old burying-ground of the Center Church. 
Hartford. Child : John, mentioned below. 

(IV) John (3), son of John (2) Seymour, 
was born at Hartford, December 25. 1694, and 
married ( first ) Lydia, daughter of John and 
Hannah ('Arnold jj Mason, baptized August 2, 
1696. He removed to Xew Hartford about 
1750, and died there July 25, 1758. He was 
Iniried in the Town Hill burying-ground, it is 
supposed, though no stone marks the place. 
He owned a large tract of land on West Hill. 
Children : John, born at West Hartford, Au- 
gust 18. 1728: L'riah, mentioned below; prob- 
ably others. 

(V) Uriah, son of John (3) Seymour, was 
born about 1730. Hudson M. Seymour, of 
Xew Hartford, a lineal descendant, has in his 
possession two deeds of Criah Seymour, ex- 
ecuted respectively in 1757 and 1758. Uriah 
was a lieutenant in the revolution from Xew 
Hartford, on the Lexington alarm : captain on 
the Danbury alarm, in 1777 (pp. 17, 483 and 
492, "Conn. Revolutionary Rolls"). He is 
said to have held the rank of major before the 
end of the war. His son L'riah was also in the 
service. In 1790 the first federal census re- 
ports him from Litchfield, Litchfield county, 
Connecticut, as head of a family consisting of 
five males over sixteen, one under that age 
and four females. Among his children were : 
L'riah Jr., a soldier in the revolution ; Chaun- 
cey, born at Xew Hartford, December 14. 
1762, and inherited the homestead on which 
Hudson M. Seymour now lives, was justice of 
the peace, represented the town in the general 
assembly, died July 12, 1839; Constantine, wdio 
settled in Xew Haven. Oswego county, Xew 
York ; Abner, mentioned below. 

(VI) Abner, son of l'riah Seymour, was 
born in Xew Hartford, May 12, 1771. He 
married Chloe . He removed to Whites- 
town, Xew York, in the part afterward Xew 
Hartford, south of L^tica, Xew York. He was 
captain of the company which went from Xew 
Hartford to Sacketts Harbor in the war of 
1812. Children of Abner; Frederick, mention- 
ed below ; Henry, ran away from home and 
went to sea when a boy. and, though incjuiries 
were made, no word was ever received of him 
e>cept the information that the ship on which 
he sailed never returned to port : Harriet, twin 
of Henry, removed w'ith her parents from 
Hartford. Connecticut, to Trenton, New York, 
where she married Samuel Carr and both died 



shortly afterward ; Calista, married .\ngus Tib- 
bals, and lived nearly all her life in Madison, 
Connecticut, and had one child, a daughter, 
who married Thomas Scranton, a dentist, and 
had four daughters and one son ; Uriah, en- 
gaged in the foundry business, bought a tract 
of land containing several iron mines in Hast- 
ings county, Ontario, Canada, and built the 
first furnace in that county, carrying it on until 
his death, his only son Frederick dying at 
Madoc, in 1910: Elisha ; Cynthia, married 

Snyder, a farmer ; Mary, married 

Roger Olmstead, a merchant, who moved to 
Oxford county, Ontario, where he was exten- 
sively engaged in the pine lumber trade, and 
had one daughter : Horace, was connected with 
the foundry business and lived in Madoc, On- 
tario, where he married and had two children, 
the eldest, William, distinguished as a teacher 
of music and a musician of note, who died be- 
fore his father, antl a daughter who married 
Frederick Rollins, a miller in Madoc ; Andrew, 

died young; Clara, married — Haight, 

and had one son. Xone of the children are 
living ( 1911). 

(\'II) Frederick, son of Abner Seymour, 
was born in Xew Hartford, Connecticut, Sep- 
tember 25, 1799, and came in early childhood 
to Xew Hartford, Oneida county, Xew York, 
with his parents. He was educated in the 
public schools and learned the trade of molder, 
at which he worked in various iron foundries 
in \'ermont. and at Wolcott. Wayne county, 
Xew York. In 1827 he came to Fulton, Xew 
York, where, in partnership, with his brother- 
in-law, Angus Tibbals, he built the first iron 
foundry in the town. A few years later, on 
account of ill health, he withdrew from the 
business and bought a farm at X'olney, Xew 
'S'ork, on the Whitaker road, on which he lived 
until a few years before his death. He mar- 
ried Maria Gardner, of Cazenovia. Madison 
county. Xew York. Children : Lucian C. born 
February 7, 1827, mentioned below: Chloe A., 
May 6. 1829: Achsah M., October 28, 1831: 
Lindley A.. September 13, 1836; Francis A.. 
March 23, 1839; Frederick D., October 24. 
1844. The eldest daughter, now Mrs. Allan 
McLean, a widow, resides at Toronto, Canada, 
and Frederick, unmarried, resides at Fulton. 
The others are all dead. 

(VIII) Lucian C. eldest son of Frederick 
Seymour, was born at Cazenovia. Xew York, 
February 7. 1827. His early education was 
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Seminary. He embarked first in the dry goods 
business, in partnership with his uncle, D. W. 
Gardner, and afterwards the same firm built 
the St. Louis Flouring Mills, where they suc- 
ceeded in building up a large and profitable 
trade. He was a man of integrity, industry 
and superior business ability. In politics he 
was a Republican. He was vice-president of 
the First National Bank of Fulton for many 
years; president of the first Electric Light 
Company of Fulton, and a promoter and stock- 
holder of the gas company. He was a promi- 
nent member of the Presbyterian church and 
for many years a trustee. In public aflfairs he 
was always interested and assisted every worthy 
public enterprise. He served the town of Ful- 
ton as a school trustee. ]\Iany charities bene- 
fitted from his liberality, and he was known as 
a friend of the poor and unfortunate. 

He married Mary Helen Mix, the only 
daughter of Deacon Alfred Mix, of Oswego, 
New York, who died in 1894. Mr. Seymour 
died at Fulton, in 1903. Children: Nellie, de- 
ceased: Alfred, succeeded his father in the St. 
Louis Mills, and operated them until 1910, re- 
sides at the Seymour homestead, 309 Cayuga 
street, Fulton; Carrie R., resides at 108 South 
Fourth street, Fulton ; Marie, deceased. 



The name of Marsh has been 
.MARSH common in England ever since 

use of .surnames. It is undoubt- 
edly a ])lace name. Families were numerous 
in counties Norfolk, Sufifolk. Kent, York, and 
in Wiltshire and Ireland. Sir Thomas Marsh, 
who lived in ififio, bore these arms, which, with 
slight variations, were borne by many differ- 
ent families : Gules, a horse's head couped be- 
tween three crosses bottonee fitchee argent. 
.•\t least six immigrants of the name of Marsh 
came to New England. 

(I) John Marsh, the immigrant ancestor, 
was born in England, in 1618, and is said to 
have come to New England in 1635, going first 
to Cambridge. He is supposed to have gone 
with Hooker's company the next year to Hart- 
ford, where he became one of the first settlers. 
He had grants of land for himself and for 
others in 1639-40. His home lot was No. 16, 
on the north side of the stream that now runs 
through Rushnell Park, where Temple and 
Front streets now cross. He had other grants 
later, and was a proprietor of the common 
lands. He was a leading citizen of Hartford, 
one of the five higher magistrates in 1639, 



holding office until 1655, when he became 
deputy governor. After serving as governor 
in 1636 he resumed the office of magistrate, 
which he held until 1639. He removed at this 
time to Hadley, Massachusetts. He was dis- 
missed from the Hartford church July 11, 
1636, on account of church difi^erences. He 
had lot No. 34 in Hadley, and was one of the 1 
selectmen in 1673. He was one of the original I 
members of the Northampton church June 18, ' 
1661. His will was dated March 3, 1687-88, 
and proved December 4, 1688. He married 
(first) Anne, daughter of Governor John 
Webster and his wife Agnes. She died June 
9. 1662. and he married (second), October 7. 
ir)64. Hepsibah. widow of Richard Lyman, 
and daughter of Thomas Ford, of Hartford. 
John Marsh died September 28, 1688, at \\' ind- 
sor. Connecticut, probably while on a visit to 
his daughter, Hannah Loomis. Children of J 
first wife: John, born 1643; Samuel, mention- I 
ed below ; Joseph, baptized January 24, 1647 : 
Isaac, baptized July 13, 1649. died young: 
Jonathan, born September, 1649; Daniel, about 
1633; Hannah, about 1633; Grace, 1657. Chil- 
dren of second wife: Lydia, October q, 1667: 
rirace Martin, an adopted daughter, daughter 
(if John Marsh's sister, Lydia (Marsh) Mar- 
tin, she married Nathaniel Phelps. 

(II) Samuel, son of John Marsh, was born 
in Hartford, about 1643, and in 1660 removed 
with his parents to Hadlev. Massachusetts. 
He married. May 6, 1667, Mary Allison, who 
died October 13. 1726, a?ed seventy-eight. He 
lived in what was then Hadley, but afterwards 
Hatfield, and was a weaver by trade. He was 
freeman, i6go; selectman, 1695-97, 1700-05- 
06-08-09-11-13; representative. 1706, and dea- 
con the same year. He died Sentemljer 7. 
i"7?8. Children: Mary, born February 27. 
1668. died young; Samuel. Februarv it. 1670: 
John, November 6, 1672; Rachel, October 15. 
1674: Grace, January 7, 1677; Mary. May 24. 
167S: Thomas, lanuarv 10. t68o; Hannah. 
September 18, 1681 : Elizabeth. July 31, 1683; 
Ruth, June 16, 1683; Ebenezer. mentioned 
below: Sarah, mentioned in her father's will, 
on rpcnrd in Northampton. Massachusetts. 

(III) Ebenezer, son of Samuel iMarsh, was 
horn i\Iay I, 1687. in Hatfield, and died Sep- 
tember 0, 1747. He married, in 1707, Eliza- 
beth, daughter of Joseph Gillett. l>orn 1689. 
Her fatlier was born November 2, 1664, and 
settled in Hatfield, son of Joseph Gillett, of 
Simsburv, Connecticut. He married (first). 



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November 3, 1687, Esther Gull. He removed 
to West Hartford. Ebenezer Marsh was one 
of the first settlers of Sunderland, Alassachu- 
setts, about 17 14, and received there lot No. 9. 
After a few years residence he sold his land 
and removed to Montague, Massachusetts. 
Children: Elizabeth, June 4, 1710; Ebenezer 
(twin with Elizabeth), died young; Ephraim, 
June 12, 17 1 2, died August i, 17 14; Esther. 
July 15. 1714; Ebenezer. about 1716; Ephraim, 
17 18; Enos, mentioned below; Dorothy, 1723; 
Mary, 1725, died 1747; Thankful, 1728; Han- 
nah, 1733. 

(I\ ) Enos, son of Ebenezer Marsh, was 
born December 11, 1721, in Sunderlantl, and 
died in Montague, February 16, 1810. He 
married (first), in 1751, Judith Hawkes, who 
died June 9, 1776; (second), in 1778, widow 
Mary (Hawkes) Smeed, who died March 2", 
1803, sister of his first wife. He was a soldier 
in the revolution. "In appearance tall, digni- 
fied and venerable." He was a member of the 
church in Sunderland, 1749. Children of first 
wife: Enos and Judith (twins), born May 9, 
1755, both died young; Jonathan, born August 
17, 1756; Judith, August II, 1758; Enos, 
March 18. 1760; Joshua, mentioned below. 

(\') Joshua, son of Enos iMarsh, was born 
August 8, 1765, in Montague, and died Febru- 
ary I, 1855. He married (first), December 
30, 1793, Mindwell, daughter of John and 
Mindwell (Houghton) Crosbee, of Wendell, 
Massachusetts. She was born October 25, 
1769, and died August 25, 1808. He married 
(second), January 25, 1809, Abigail Clary, of 
Leverett, Massachusetts, born September 20, 
1769, died May 9, 1848. He lived in Leverett 
from 1812 to 1816. Children: Mindwell, born 
June 14, 1795; Joshua, April 25, 1797; Eliza. 
September 24, 1798, died February 5, 1800; 
John Crosbee, born July 9. 1800; Cynthia. 
March 26, 1802 ; Orsemus, mentioned below ; 
Dexter, .'\ugust 22, 1806. 

(\T) Orsemus, son of Joshua Marsh, was 
born August 21, 1804. in Montague, and died 
at Bowens Corners, Granby, Oswego county. 
New York. November 30, 1880. He married, 
November 9, 1826, Lucinda, daughter of Ches- 
ter Hawley (Zechariah, Samuel. John). She 
was born at Hadley, October 9, 1807, and died 
at Bowens Corners, April 15, 1888. He re- 
moved to the latter place towards the close of 
the year, 1830. Children: Isaac W'arner, born 
September 25, 1827, married Mary E. Signor : 
Edward Crosbee, mentioned below. 



(VII) Edward Crosbee, son of Orsemus 
Marsh, was born July 9, 1829, in Greenfield, 
Massachusetts, and died February 28, 1905. He 
married, March 25, 1851, in Ira, Cayuga coun- 
ty. New York, Martha Ann, daughter of Ben- 
jamin and Mary Ann (Belote) Clay, bom in 
Clay. Onondaga county, New York, May 15, 
1835. He was a farmer by occupation, and 
lived in Ciranby. He was assessor and justice 
of the peace there for many years. Children, 
born in Granby: Mary Olivia, born February 
3, 1855, unmarried; \'ictor Eugene, December 
16, 1856, married Alice I. Huggin ; Edward 
I'rank. November 14, 1858, a ])hysician in 
ISrooklyn. New York, married Elma T. Ran- 
dall ; liomer Preston, mentioned below ; Willis 
Baxter, May 12, 1871, died October 15, 1882. 

(VHI) Homer Preston, son of Edward 
Crosbee Alarsh, was born in Granby, New 
York, June 17, 1867. He attended the district 
school until he was sixteen, and then went to' 
Fulton Academy, from which he graduated in 
1887. The following year he taught school 
and read medicine in the office of Dr. Edward 
F. Marsh and Dr. C. M. Lee. In the autumn 
of 1888 he entered the L'niversity of the City 
of New York, and graduated from the medical 
department in 1891. He travelled on the road 
for a medical firm until October of that year, 
when he settled in Fulton, New York. He is 
to-day one of the leading physicians and sur- 
geons there. He is a member of the Fulton 
Academy of Medicine, Oswego County Med- 
ical Society, and State Medical Society. He is 
also on the stafT of the Albert Lee Memorial 
Hospital. In 1906 he was elected coroner, and 
leelected in 1909. He has been a member of 
Hiram Lodge, No. 144, Free and Accepted 
Masons, since 1893, and also of the Knights 
of Pythias. He married, July 11, 1891, Bertha 
.Agnes, daughter of J. N. Paddock. Children : 
Robert Paddock, born .\pril 25. 1893; Olive 
Lucretia, January 27, 1898; John Hawley, 
March 8, 1904: Elizabeth Crosbee, November 
I. 1909. 

The surname Burleigh is an 

BL'RLEIGH ancient English family name. 

The most common spellings 

of this name in the early records are Burleigh. 

Burley, Burly, Birle, Birley, Birdley and Burd- 

ley. No less than nineteen branches of this 

family in England had or have coats-of-arms. 

(I) Giles Burleigh, the immigrant ancestor, 

was an inhabitant of Ipswich, Massachusetts, 



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as early as 1648, and was born in England 
about 1634. He was a commoner at Ipswich 
in 1664. He was a planter, living eight years 
on what was later called Brooke street, and 
owned also division lot No. 105, situate on 
Great Hill, Hogg Island. His name was spell- 
ed Birdley, Burdley and Budly, in the Ipswich 
records, and his name as signed by mark to 
his will is given Gails Berdly. He bequeathed 
to his wife Elizabeth, called elsewhere Re- 
becca; his sons Andrew, James and John, and 
an uncle whose name is not given. Theophilus 
Wilson was executor, Deacon Knowlton and 
Jacob Foster, overseers ; Thomas Knowlton 
Sr. and Jacob Foster the witnesses. Soon after 
his death, in 1668, his widow was granted 
trees for a hundred rails and a hundred posts, 
June 13, 1668. She married (second), Febru- 
ary 23, 1669, Abraham Fitts, of Ipswich. Chil- 
dren : Andrew, born at Ipswich, September 5, 
'1657; James, mentioned below; Giles, July 13, 
1662; John, July 13, 1662, died February 2"], 
1681 (?). 

(II) James, son of Giles Burleigh, was born 
in Ipswich, February 10, 1659, and died in 
Exeter, New Hampshire, about 1721 ; married 
(first). May 25, 1685, Rebecca, daughter of 
Thomas and Susannah (Worcester) Stacy. 
She died October 21, 1686. Her mother was 
a daughter of Rev. Witham Worcester, of Sal- 
isbury, Massachusetts. His sons Joseph, Giles, 
Josiah and James made a written agreement in 
1723. Children: William, born in Ipswich, 
February 27. 1692-93, was at Newmarket in 
1746; Joseph, born April 6, 1695; Thomas, 
April 5, 1697; James, 1699; Josiah, mentioned 
below; Giles, 1703. 

(III) Josiah, son of James Burleigh, was 
born in Ipswich, in 1701, and died in New- 
market, New Hampshire, in 1756. Ik- mar- 
ried Hannah, daughter of Hon. Andrew Wig- 
gin, judge of probate, son of Andrew Wiggin 
and his wife Hannah Bradstreet. .Andrew 
Wiggin was son of Thomas Wiggin, the immi- 
grant, and came over in 163 1 as an agent for 
the proprietors of New Hampshire. Ilannah 
Bradstreet was daughter of Governor Simon 
and Ann (Dudley) Bradstreet, and grand- 
daughter of Governor Thomas Dudley. Thirty 
acres of land at Exeter was set aside for him 
by the committee in 1 718. He signed a peti- 
tion for a bridge at Newmarket in 1746. Chil- 
dren: Josiah, married Judith Tuttle, died at 
Newmarket; Thomas (see forward) : Samuel. 

(IV) Thomas, son of Josiah Burleigh, was 



born about 1730. He was an inhabitant of 
Deerfield, New Hampshire, in 1766, and was 
appointed on a committee to locate the meeting 
house. In 1775 he settled at Sandwich, New 
Hampshire, on what is now known as Burleigh 
Hill. He was a farmer by occupation. He 
married Mercy Norris. Children : Deacon 
Thomas, married (first), April 6, 1779, Han- 
iiah Etheridge, (second) Susan, daughter of 
Benjamin and Lydia (Hanson) Watson, widow 
of Colonel Lewis Wentworth, of Dover, New 
Hampshire; Mercy, married, March 5, 1784, 
Eliphalet, son of Colonel Jacob and Dolly 
(Ladd) Smith: Benjamin, born about 1755; 
Samuel, mentioned below ; Josiah, died at 
Sandwich, August 31, 1845, married, Febru- 
ary 27, 1788, Rosamund Watson, of Moulton- 
borough. New Hampshire ; Dolly. 

(V) Samuel, son of Thomas Burleigh, mar- 
ried }vlarch 7, 1785, Ruth, daughter of Joshua 
and Ruth (Carr) Prescott. born December 7, 
1767, died December 15, 1843. He died at 
Sandwich. Children : Molly, born at Sand- 
wich, August II, 1785; Sally, July, 1788; Ste- 
phen, 1791 ; Samuel Norris, August 9, 1793; 
Benjamin, 1795 ; Hannah, July 22, 1796; John, 
.August 13, 1798; Ruth, August, 1800: Mercy, 
May, 1802; Thomas, June 4, 1804: Polly, Feb- 
ruar)', 1807; Joshua Prescott, mentioned below. 

(\T) Joshua Prescott, son of Samuel Bur- 
leigh, was born August 10. 1810. and died in 
1889. He was a lumberman and farmer by 
occupation. He removed to Schroeppel, Os- 
wego county. New York, in 1854. He was a 
soldier in the civil war, in Company K, One 
Hundred and Eighty-fourth Regiment, United 
States Regular Army. He was a Baptist in 
religion, a deacon in that church, and very 
active in all church and school matters. He 
married (first) Betsey Bowker, daughter of 
David and Lydia (Greig) Silsby, born at 
Aurora, IMaine, November 19, 1819. died at 
.'^chroeppel, April 14, 1866. He married (sec- 
ond), at West Amboy, New York, October 21, 
1866, Nancy Jane Tisdale, born at Columbia, 
New York, April 27, 1824. Children of first 
wife: I. Laura .Amanda, born at Sandwich,' 
September 18, 1839: married John T. Nanus, 
of Clay, New York ; child, Nellie. 2. Horace 
Webber, January 19, 1841 : served in civil war, 
Eighteenth Maine Heavy .Artillery, was wound- 
ed and died at Cam])bell Hospital, \\'ashington, 
July 15, 1864. 3. Charles Lewis, born at 
.Aurora, Maine, June 4, 1844; served for three 
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Regiment, and was honorably discharged ; mar- 
ried Ann Gates. 4. John Henry, August i, 
1845 ; served ten months in the civil war ; mar- 
ried Mary ^McCarthy ; lived at Schroeppel. 5. 
Frances Elizabeth, January 26, t<S47: married 
Robert Parker, of Pennellville, New York. 6. 
Maria Langdon, May 29, 1849 : married Cyrus 
Pierce, and lived at Brewer. Maine: deceased. 
7. David Silsby, mentioned below. 8. Samuel 
Melvin, September 20, 1852: married .\urelia 
Foster, and lives at Corunna, Michigan. 9. 
Clarence Edwin, born at Clay, March 6, 1854, 
died February 7, 1873. 10. Ernest Erwin, 
born at Schroeppel, March 29, 1858. 11. 
r.rainard Willis, November 19, 1861. 

(\'ir) David Silsby, son of Joshua Prescott 
Durleigh, was born at Aurora, Maine, Febru- 
ary 8, 1851. He came with his parents to 
Oswego county, New York, in 1854, and was 
educated in the public schools. When thirteen 
years old he ran away from home, and for 
three summers was a driver on a canal. For 
five summers following he was steersman on 
a canal boat. At the age of twenty he took 
charge of his father's farm at Pennellville, and 
remained there for four years. In the spring 
of 1878 he removed to Phoenix and worked on 
a farm for a year. During the. summer of 
1879 he was again steersman on a canal boat. 
In the spring of 1880 he bought a freight 
packet, and ran it between Oswego and Utica 
for sixteen years. He was appointed superin- 
tendent of Section No. 2 on the Oswego canal, 
March i, 1900, and held that position for 
seven years. In 1907 he was made superin- 
tendent of the whole canal, and the latter posi- 
tion he held until April 23, 191 1. He was col- 
lector of the town of Schroeppel for one year, 
and a trustee of the village of Phoenix. He is 
a member of Calimachus Lodge, No. 369, Free 
and Accepted Masons ; Oswego River Chapter, 
No. 270, Royal Arch Masons ; Lake Ontario 
Commandery, No. 32, Knights Templar. He 
married, 1876, Flora, daughter of Robert 
Parker, of Pennellville. Children : Clarence, 
born July 6, 1877; Guy, July 7, 1878: Eva, 
July 10, 1885; Robert, July 18, 1892; Joshua, 
died at the age of two years. 



The family of Buell is very an- 
BUELL cient. and branches exist in Eng- 
land, France, Spain and Germany. 
There are some thirty-eight different ways in 
which the name is spelled. In Spain it is spell- 
ed Buil and Bueil ; in France, Bual and Buel ; 



in England, Bowelle, Bevile, Bevill and Beville ; 
in Germany, Buchal, Buhle, etc. In New Eng- 
land, l]uel, Buell and Bewell are all used. The 
coat-of-arms of the English family is : Azure, 
sowed with fieurs de lys, argent, with lion 
couchant, gules. The family of Bovilles in 
England is very ancient. Robert Beville was 
knight of the shire for Huntingdonshire in 
1410. It is supposed that William Buell, the 
American immigrant, was a descendant of this 
family. 

( I ) William Buell, the immigrant ancestor, 
was born at Chesterton, in Huntingdonshire, 
England, about 1610, and came to America 
about 1630. He settled first in Dorchester and 
lenioved to Windsor, Connecticut, about 1635- 
36, where he died November 2t,, 1681. He had 
land in the first division, in Windsor. He 
married there, November 18, 1640, Mary 
, who died September 2, 1684. Chil- 
dren, born at Windsor : Samuel, mentioned 
below: Mary, September 3, 1642; Peter, Au- 
gust 19, 1644; Hannah, January 8, 1647: Hep- 
sibah, December 11, 1649; Sarah, March 21, 
1654: Abigail, February 12, 1656. 

(II) Samuel, son of William Buell, was 
born at Windsor, September 2, 1641. He set- 
tled, in 1684, in Killingsworth, Connecticut, 
where he died, July 11, 1720. He was one of 
the founders of Killingsworth, and lived in 
that part afterwards called Clinton. He was a 
large landowner and held many positions of 
honor and trust. He married, at Windsor, 
November 13 or 18, 1662, Deborah, daughter 
of Richard Griswold, of Windsor. She was 
born June 26, 1646, died February 7, 1719. 
Children, the eldest born at Windsor, the 
others at Killingsworth : Samuel, July 20, 1663 ; 
Deborah, October 18, 1665; Hannah, Septem- 
ber 6, 1667, died young: \Iary, November 28, 
1669; John, February 17, 1671 ; Hannah, May 
4. 1674: William, mentioned below; Major 
David, February 18, 1679: Josiah, March 17, 
1681, died young; Mehitable, August 22, 1682 ; 
Peter, December 3, 1684; Benjamin, 1686. 

(III) Ensign William (2) Buell, son of 
Samuel Buell, was born at Killingsworth, Oc- 
tober 18, 1676, and died at Lebanon, Connecti- 
cut, April 7, 1763. On his tombstone he is 
called "one of the Fathers of the Town." He 
married (first), at Hartford, Connecticut, 
about 1705, Elizabeth, who died at Lebanon, De- 
cember, 1729. aged fifty-four years, daughter 
of Joseph Collins. He married (second), at 
Lebanon, April 23, 1730, Martha, who died 



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May 25. 1751, at Lebanon, aged fifty-eight. He 
married (third), at Stonington, Connecticut, 
Kovember 12, 1751, j\lrs. Jerusha Dean, of 
that town. She probably survived her hus- 
band. About 1698 he removed to Lebanon, 
where he spent the rest of his life. Children, 
born at Lebanon: William, September 5, 1706; 
Samuel, November 5, 1708: Timothy, mention- 
ed below : Abel, June 5, 17 14; Elizabeth, March 
27, 1716; Deborah, July 23. 1718: Mehitable, 
April 25, 1 72 1, died August 14. 1726. 

(IV) Timothy, son of Ensign William (2) 
Buell. was born at Lebanon, October 24, 171 1, 
and died at Hebron, Connecticut. He married, 
at Hebron, January 20, 1730, Hannah lirad- 
ford. and moved to that town, now Marl- 
borough, about 1730. Children, born at Heb- 
ron: Timothy, November 20, 1732; Elijah and 
Hannah (twins), November 9, 1735: Deborah, 
September 13, 1738; Ichabod. February 15, 
1741 ; Oliver, mentioned below : Jose])h, May 
29, 1749. 

(V) Lieutenant Oliver Buell, son of Timo- 
thy Buell, was born at Hebron, May 6, 174'), 
and died at Canaan. New York. June 6, 1790. 
He married (first), at Richmond, Massachu- 
setts, December 15, 1768. Judah Tilden, born 
April 20, 1749, died at Canaan, New York. 
November 9, 1788. He married (second). 
May 6, 1789, Sarah Dewey, born January 29, 
1750. He was a soldier in the revolution, on 
the northern frontier, and attained the rank of 
lieutenant. He moved to Richmond, Massa- 
chusetts, before the war, and after its close 
moved again to Canaan, New York. He sold 
lands in Chatham, Connecticut. February 23, 
1770, to Abigail Hale. Children, born at Rich- 
mond : Judah. October 7, 17(39, died November 
16, 17(39 ; Oliver, May 13, 1771 ; Oledine, No- 
vember 7, 1773, died January 17, 1774; Ole- 
dine, July 9, 1776; Timothy, mentioned below : 
Bradford. October 30, 1783; Elijah. Decem- 
ber 7. 1785. died March 6, 178A. 

(\T) Timothy (2), son of Lieutenant Oli- 
ver Buell, was born at Richmond, April 15, 
1779, and died there November 8, 18(35. He 
married (first), probably at Richmond. June 
21, 1798. Jane McAllister, born November 19. 
1777, died January 21. 1814. He married 
(second), August 27. 1814. Thankful Olm- 
stead, born September 9. 1784. died .April 3. 
1843. He married (third). February 27, 1844. 
Ruth A. Holmes, born May 11, 1799. Chil- 
dren of first wife, born at Richmond: Oliver 
D., January 7, 1800; Lorenzo. July 16. 1801 ; 
William Bradford, mentioned below; Sarah 



D.. January 6, 1805; Margaret ^L. August i. 
1807; Timothy T., July 7, 1810, died August 
25, 1813 : Jane ]\L, June 29, 1812. Children of 
the second wife, born at Richmond: Jane M.. 
(ictober 12. 1815; Timothy F., Augu.st 11. 
1818; Thankful. June 25, 1820; Lucy, March 
3, 1823; Mary, February 27, 1826. 

(\II) \\'illiam Bradford, son of Timothy 
(2) Buell, was born at Richmond, Massachu- 
setts, October 10. 1803. He went to Canaan 
Four Corners, New York, and thence to Caz- 
enovia, where he manufactured town clocks. 
He was a skillful blacksmith and machinist. 
He built the sash and blind factory at Caz- 
enovia and manufactured threshing machines 
and gasometer tanks. In 1856 he came to Ful- 
ton. New York, as foreman for Clark & Quafe 
machine shop, and later worked in the Ross 
machine shops. 

He married at Cazenovia, New York, Sep- 
tember 30, 1827, Elizabeth Norton, born March, 
1809, daughter of Joseph Norton, of Canaan, 
New York. Children: i. Joseph Norton, born 
at I'"ulton, September 23, 1829; died August 
24, 1838. 2. Sylvia Jane, born near Cazenovia, 
August 14, 1837; married April 17, 1856, Will- 
iam C. Stephens, at Fulton ; children : Charles 
Aubrey, born May 2. 1857: Gertrude T., De- 
cemlier 31. 1858: Alice Elizabeth. November 
i(). i8()i ; Douglas A.. February 25, 1865. died 
Se])tember 30, 1865; Mary Abby : John Buell; 
Sylvia de Forest. 3. Mar)- Elizabeth, torn near 
Cazenpvia, October 15. 1839; married, in No- 
vember, 1862, James H. Loomis, born Novem- 
ber 7, 1S40. 4. Morris I'.irney, born near Caz- 
enovia, February 9, 1842, served as a soldier in 
the civil war. 5. Albert P^rancis, mentioned 
below. 

(\TH) Albert Francis, son of William 
Bradford Buell, was born in Cazenovia, New 
York, .August 11, 1844. He attended the pub- 
lic schools and learned the trades of machinist, 
I,)lumber and steam fitter. He was in the em- 
ploy of the J. F. Pease Furnace Company, of 
Syracuse, for three years, as an expert heating 
engineer. For nine years he was in business at 
I^unkirk, New York, and in 1893 established 
a ])lumbing and steam fitting business at Hor- 
nellsville. New York. At the time of the ex- 
citement over the discovery of oil at Bradford. 
I'ennsylvania. he located and engaged in busi- 
ness there as a plumber and steam fitter. At 
Dunkirk, New York, he had charge of the 
Wrought Iron & Turn Table W'orks. He 
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engaged with his sons in the plumbing busi- 
ness. He was sanitary and pkimbing inspector 
for the city of Fulton for four years. He en- 
Hsted, August 5. 1862, for service in Company 
A. One Hundred and Tenth Regiment, New 
York \'ohuiteer Infantry, and served three 
years, or until the close of the civil war. In 
politics he is a Republican ; is a member of 
the Painted Post Lodge of Free Masons; of 
the Masonic Club, of P'ulton, and a charter 
member of the local lodge of the Knights of 
Honor. In religion Mr. Buell is a Methodist. 

He married, July 3, 1872, Catherine Bogue, 
born in Glengarry, Upper Canada. August 15, 
1852, daughter of James ISogiie. Children: 
James B., born January 7, 1874, married Ella 
Mix, two children — John A., born May 31, 
lyoi, and James B.. born January 27,, 1903; 
.\lbert Francis, mentioned below. 

(IX) Albert I'rancis (2), son of Albert 
I'rancis ( I ) Buell. was born in Dunkirk, New 
"Wirk, Alay 29. i87f). He was educated in the 
])ublic schools and graduated from the high 
school of Hornellsville, Xew York. He has 
been bookkeeper for a number of years and is 
at present in partnership with his brother, 
James B. Buell, in the plumbing and heating 
business, at F'ulton, Xew York, under the firm 
name of Buell Brothers. He is a member of 
the Knights of Columbus ; Fulton Lodge, Xo. 
830, of the Benevolent and Protective Order 
of Elks, and the Pathfinders Club. In politics 
he is a Republican. In religion Mr. Buell is a 
Catholic, a member of the Church . of the 
Immaculate Conception. 



The surname Orcliard is de- 
ORCHARD rived from the old English 

word orchard, originally wyrt- 
yard, an enclosure to grow herbs or wyrts, 
lather than fruit trees. The original progeni- 
tors of the family or families of Orchard were 
doubtless gardeners. The family seat of the 
ancient Orchards is in Devonshire and the 
coat-of-arms is described : Azure, a chevron, 
argent, between three pears, or. Crest: A 
crow, or. Other branches of the family in 
England and Scotland bear the same or similar 
armorials. The family has lived for centuries 
in western England and many of the men have 
followed mechanical trades. Descendants of 
William Orchard, of Bristol, England, are 
living in Boston. W'illiam Orchard was born 
in 1825, in Lancashire, where his parents, 
grandparents and earlier ancestors lived. Sev- 



eral of the early pioneers in this country spell- 
ed their name Archer, Archard and Orchard, 
but their descendants, as far as known, came 
to spell the name Archer, and that may have 
been the correct spelling. 

(I ) Samuel Orcharil, born in England, came 
to this country when a young man and settled 
in Xew Hamburg, Xew York, where he was 
in business as a general merchant. In later 
years he followetl farming. He married 
Amanda Woodin. Children: \"enia : Helen; 
Hambly P., mentioned below. 

(II) Hambly P., son of Samuel Orchard, 
was born at Xew Hamburg, Dutchess county, 
Xew York. He was educated in the public 
schools, Albany Xormal and Cornell L'niver- 
sity, and was professor of languages in X'alley 
Seminary and Richmond Hill, Long Island. 
In later years he was a farmer in Dutchess 
county. New York. From 1894 until 1899, 
when he died, he was an officer of the custom 
house at Xew York, In politics he was a Re- 
publican and in religion he was a Baptist. He 
married Lois A. Calkins, daughter of Dorr B. 
Calkins, of \'olney, Xew York, Children: Dr. 
Hambly S., mentioned below; Edith L., mar- 
ried Harry \'an Tassel. 

(HI) Dr. Hambly S. Orchard, D. D. S., 
son of Hambly P, Orchard, was born at 
Oyster Bay, Long Island, March 18, 1878. He 
attended the public schools and the Mount 
Pleasant ^Military Academy, at Ossinning, Xew 
York, and studied dentistry in the University 
of P^ennsylvania, graduating in the class of 
1904, He began to practice at L'tica, Xew 
York. In October, 1906, he came to Fulton, 
Xew York, where he has had office to the pres- 
ent time. He is member of Fifth District 
Dental Society, of Xew York. He is a mem- 
ber of Hiram Lodge, Xo, 144, Free and Ac- 
cepted ]\Iasons; of Fulton Chapter, Xo. 167, 
Royal Arch Masons ; of Central City Council, 
Royal and Select Masters, and of the local 
lodge of Elks. In politics he is Republican, in 
religion a Baptist. 

He married. April 11, 1906, Louise C. 
Bacon, born at Watertown, Xew York, daugh- 
ter of John and Cornelia (Maftet) Bacon, of 
l'tica. New York, Children : LeRoy Hambly, 
born December 3, 1908; Xeil E., June 20, 1910. 



Joseph Anderson was born 
AXDERSON in Auburn, New York, in 
1832. His father was a na- 
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where he married. Joseph Anderson was edu- 
cated in the pubHc schools of his native town, 
and engaged in the hardware business there 
for many years. He married, January i, 1866, 
JuHa Lance, born May 13, 1846, daughter of 
Wright Lance. Children : Louis ; James : Rich- 
ard ; Julia ; Edward M.. referred to below ; 
Adalaide, who died aged about twenty years : 
two who died in infancy. 

Dr. Edward M. Anderson, son of Joseph 
Anderson, was born in Auburn, New York, 
October 18, 1876. He attended the Auburn 
public -schools and w^as graduated from the 
high school in the class of 1895. He entered 
\\'illiams College, from which he was gradu- 
ated with the degree of bachelor of arts in 
1900. His medical degree was received in 
1904 from the L'niversity of Michigan, at Ann 
Arbor. After a year as interne in the Emer- 
gency Hospital, of Buffalo, New York, he came 
to Fulton, New York, in October, 1905, and 
has established a large and successful practice 
in that city. He is president of the Fulton 
Academy of Medicine; a member of the Os- 
wego County Medical Society, of the New 
York State Medical Society, and of the Amer- 
ican Medical Association. He is also a mem- 
ber of St. Joseph's Council, Knights of Colum- 
bus, of Fulton. In political belief he is an Inde- 
pendent. 

Dr. Anderson married, October 15, 19 10, 
Hazel R. Gardner, born March 19, 1885, daugh- 
ter of Castle H. and Nellie (Vant) Gardner. 



William Nellis, immigrant an- 
NELLLS cestor of this family, was born 

in Germany and came with the 
early Palatine settlers, landing in New York in 
1710. He settled in Schoharie, New York, 
and his son Andrew was born there in 1715, 
and died in 1779; was one of the principle 
founders of the Palatine Church, the oldest 
church in the Mohawk \'alley. .\ndrew was 
a farmer ; was confirmed by the Lutheran pas- 
tor, at Schoharie, in 1735; married Catherine 
Fox, of German Flatts ; their son Philip was 
born December i, 1746, in Fairfield, New 
York, and died in 181 8, a soldier in the revolu- 
tion, and father of Peter Phillip Nellis, to 
whom various distinguished descendants traced 
their ancestrv. In 1790 the first federal census 
shows as heads of family, all living in Mont- 
gomery county. Mohawk Valley, and mostly 
in the town of Palatine : George, Adam, Chris- 
tian, David, George, Henry, Henry W'., John 



(2), John D., Ludman, Peter F., I'hilip, Rob- 
ert, William and David Yost. 

Of the emigration of the Palatines, John 
Fo.x, the great historian of the Reformation, 
wrote: "In the meantime the Protestants of 
Heidelberg ( a city in the province of the 
Palatinate) sank into poverty, and many of 
them became so distressed as to quit their 
native country and seek an asylum in Protest- 
ant States. A great number of these coming 
into England in the time of Queen .-Xnne, were 
cordially reeeived here, and met with a most 
humane assistance, both by public and private 
donations." Three thousand of these refugees 
embarked at Leith, Scotland, in ten ships, 
early in 1710, bound for America. Seven of 
these ships arrived here safely, having buried 
four hundred and seventy of their number at 
sea. They landed at Governor's Island, June 
13, 1710. Among them were three brothers — 
William, Christian and Johannes Nellis. They 
first settled on a tract in Dutchess county, but 
in 1 712, with other Palatines, they hewed a 
road across the Catskills and came to Schoharie 
river, .\fterwards Johannes Nellis went to 
Pennsylvania and settled in the vicinity of 
Gettysburg, and in 1720 William and Christian 
Nellis settled in the Mohawk \'alley, near Pala- 
tine church. William Nellis and twenty-six 
other Palatines received a patent dated Octo- 
ber 19, 1723, designated as the Stone .Arabia 
patent, and afterward Nellis and George Klock 
procured a smaller tract, afterward known as 
the Klock and Nellis patent. On the subscrip- 
tion list for the funds to erect a church edifice 
for the "Lutheran congregation of Canajo- 
harie on the north side of the Moliawk River," 
Christian Nellis Jr. was one of the four mana- 
gers a])pointed to have charge of the church 
and funds. The date of the list is December 
30, 1768; the land was given by Hendrick W. 
Nellis, and the church was completed .\ugust 
18, 1770. On the list are the names of William 
Nellis Jr., .Andrew Xellis, Johannes Nellis and 
Henry Nellis paid for making the church spire. 

Several of the Nellis family held offices of 
profit and trust under the English crown. 
Hendrick W. Nellis's son Henry and his son 
Robert were loyalists during the revolution, 
removed to Canada and joined the British 
armv at the commencement of the revolution, 
and their property was confiscated. Children 
of William Nellis: Andrew; Ludwig ; Henry; 
lohannes ; William, mentioned below. 
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was born about 1710-20. He was a fanner at 
Palatine. Children: i. Peter I. 2. Joseph, 
born at Palatine, then Canajoharie, April 17, 
1759; died February 24, 1834; married Mary 
Lantman ; children: Joseph I., born May 23, 
1787, died September 21, 1862; Mary, born 
1792, died aged thirteen. Joseph I. Nellis was 
an officer in the war of 1812, married when he 
was eighteen years old, Magdalen, daughter of 
David Bellinger, of St. Johnsville, and had 
eight children : Charles, Benjamin J., Josiah, 
Catherine, Aaron, Stephen, Abraham, and 
Horatio, who was born at St. Johnsville, Feb- 
ruary 25, 1827, married, January 9, 1849, Kath- 
erine, daughter of Jacob and Mary (Keller) 
Sanders, of Minden, and had four children. 
3. William. 4. John I., mentioned below. 

(HI) John I., son of William (2) Nellis, 
was born in 1769, and died in 1854. He was 
a leading citizen, a Democrat in politics, and 

held various town offices. He married 

Weaver. Children : John, David, DeWitt, Sim- 
eon, Nancy and Lena. 

(IV) David, son of John I. Nellis, was born 
in Palatine, in 1800, and died in Fultonville 
in i860. He married (first) Catherine, daugh- 
ter of Peter Fox, who was a soldier in the 
revolution ; he married (second) Mrs. Orstrom. 
Children of first wife: Maria; Edward; Peter 
F., mentioned below; Alfred. 

(V) Peter F., son of David Nellis, was born 
August 19, 1831, in Palatine, and was edu- 
cated there in the district schools. W'hen a 
young man he was clerk in a store at Charles- 
ton, South Carolina, for a time. Since 1851 
he has resided at St. Johnsville. He has been 
a very successful farmer. In politics he is a 
Democrat. He married. May, 1861, Anna M., 
daughter of Peter P. and Lena (Nellis) Fox. 
She died in July, 1890. Children: Lena and 
Catherina M. 

(The Fox Line). 
(I) William Fox, the immigrant ancestor, 
settled in the town of Palatine, Montgomery 
county. New York, about 1722. He was a con- 
temporary of Peter Wagner, the progenitor of 
\\'ebster Wagner, inventor of sleeping cars, 
and state senator. Fox located a short distance 
from the Palatine church. Among his descend- 
ants, several of whom did gallant service in 
the revolution, were Captain William Fox Jr., 
Christopher P. Fox, and Christopher W. Fox, 
who were in command of the First, Second 
and Third companies of the Second (Palatine) 
Battalion, at the battle of Oriskany, in the 



revolution. Captain Christopher P. was slain 
there. Several generations were prominent in 
the town of Palatine. 

(II) Abraham Rosencrantz Fox, a descend- 
ant of the pioneer William, was born in the 
Mohawk Valley, New York. He was a farmer. 
He married Euphemia Parker, born of Scotch 
parentage. 

(HI) Abram Fox Nellis, son of Abraham 
Rosencrantz Fox, was adopted in early youth 
by Peter Fox Nellis, who was related to him 
(see Fox V). 

He was born March 8, 1871, at Palatine 
Church, ^Montgomery county. New York, and 
attended the district school at St. Johnsville, 
New York, and the Clinton Liberal Insti- 
tute. He then took a course at the East- 
man Business College, at Poughkeepsie, New 
York. He began his business career as book- 
keeper for the Lincoln Storage & Deposit Com- 
pany, of New York City. Afterward he held 
a similar position with L. F. Bristol, a dealer 
in silk and woolen goods. In 1892 he became 
a partner in the Dufify Silk Company, of Fort 
Plain, New York, incorporated in 1893, when 
Mr. Nellis became secretary and treasurer, and 
he has continued in the office of secretary to 
the present time. He is also secretary of the 
Seneca Manufacturing Company, and of the 
(lilford ]\Ianufacturing Company, both of Buf- 
falo, New York. He is a member of Atlantic 
Lodge, No. 178, Free Masons, of New York 
City: of Oswego River Chapter, No. 270, 
Royal Arch Masons ; of Lake Ontario Com- 
mandery. No. 232, Knights Templar, of Os- 
wego ; of Medea Temple, Mystic Shrine, of 
\\'atertow^n. New York. In politics he is a 
Democrat. He married, July 6, 1907, Lucy 
M. Pendergast, born in Phoenix, daughter of 
Nicholas Pendergast, of Phoenix. Children : 
Martha R., born June 16, 1908; Mary, March 
17, 1910. 

The McAllisters came from 
McAllister Argyleshlre, Scotland. The 

name is very common in 
many parishes of that country to the present 
day. In the Scotch colony in the north of 
Ireland there were also many McAllisters, and 
from the last-named locality there were three 
families of the name coming to New Hamp- 
shire, evidently closely related, and from the 
same section of LTlster province, Ireland. These 
have been traced back through their sojourn 
in Ireland and Scotland, but it is impossible 



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at present to give the ancestry earlier than the 
American settlers. 

Tlie ancestor of the Londonderry, Mew 
Hampshire, family was Angus McAllister, who 
married Margaret Boyle, and came to this 
country in the year 17 18, and settled at Lan- 
caster, Massachusetts. In 1731 he removed 
to Londonderry, New Hampshire, a Scotch- 
Irish settlement where neighbors in the old 
country and doubtless relatives were living. At 
last accounts his farm there was owned by a 
descendant, Jonathan McAllister. .Angus had 
been a soldier in the wars in Ireland, and had 
had an ear shot off in an engagement at I'enny- 
burn Hill, and was exempted from taxes on 
account of his military services. At his death 
his body was carried for six miles for burial 
on a bier supported by bearers, after the cus- 
tom of the times. On the way the funeral pro- 
cession met Thomas Wilson, an old companion 
in arms of McAllister. Wilson took off his 
hat and shouted: ".\uld Ireland forever! Well, 
Angus, they're na taking the lug (ear) aft' your 
head at I'ennyburn Hill the day, mon." Chil- 
dren of Angus: i. William, married Jennette 
Cameron, and died in 1755, aged fifty-five; 
descendants lived at Jaffray, New Ham])shire, 
and in \'ermont. 2. David, died at London- 
derry, New Hamjxshire, in 1750, aged forty- 
six years : married Eleanor \N ilson. 3. John, 
returned to Ireland, but several daughters re- 
mained in this country, and one married John 
Taggart, of Colerain, Massachusetts. 

Richard ^IcAllister, another immigrant, mar- 
ried, about 1735, in Ireland, .Ann Miller; came 
to this country in the winter of 1738-39, and 
located at Londonderry, New Hampshire ; re- 
moved soon to Bedford, New Hampshire, and 
settled on a farm a few rods west of the village, 
only four miles from the present city of Man- 
chester ; his wife died there March 12, 1776, 
in her seventy-seventh year. Children : i. Arch- 
ibald, born in Ireland, settled in Wiscasset, 
Maine. 2. John, born at sea. January 18, 1739 
(birth recorded as of Chelsea, Massachusetts), 
soldier in the French and Indian war, 1738-60, 
and in the revolution ; at the age of seventy- 
five he removed to Rochester, \'ermont, where 
he died in 1828; married Anna Steele, 3. W^ill- 
iam, born at Londonderry, July 14, 1741 : 
married Jerusha Sjjofford, and settled at Bed- 
ford. 4. Mary, .August 10, 1743. 5. Ann, No- 
vember 6, 1745. 6. Susannah, .August 20, 
1747. 7. Richard, October 20, 1749; removed 
from Bedford to Antrim in 1775, then to 



Springfield, A'ermont. 8. James, February 29, 
1752; removed to Antrim; married Sally Mc- 
Clary. 9. Benjamin, born May 31, 1754. 

John McAllister, the third immigrant, came 
from the north of Ireland and settled in New 
Boston, in 1748. He owned a large tract of 
land near Joe English Hill ; was an energetic, 
live man, strongly religious ; selectman on the 
first board in 1763. Children: Archibald, mar- 
ried Maria AIcKeen, and moved to Frances- 
town ; .Angus, of New Boston and Fryeburg, 
Maine: Daniel, lived at New Brunswick, and 
died there ; Alary, married Daniel Kelso. 

Randall McAllister, of Peterborough, New 
Hampshire, said to be of the family of .Angus, 
was wounded in the battle of Bunker Hill. 
Benjamin McAllister served in the revolution, 
from Alerrimac, New Hampshire, and xAbing- 
ton, Massachusetts ; Reuben from Princeton, 
Massachusetts ; William from Abington. and 
W'illiam from Damariscotta, Maine. 

( 1 ) Daniel McAllister, believed to be grand- 
son of .Angus, mentioned above, perhaps son 
of John, who had at least one daughter in 
Colerain, was a soldier in the revolution, from 
Hampshire county, Massachusetts, in Captain 
Lawrence Kemp's company. Alay 10 to July 
17, 1777, Colonel David Well's regiment. The 
roll is dated at Shelburne, near Colerain. In 
1780 he was slain in the service, in Captain 
Isaac Newton's company. Colonel Murray's 
regiment. According to the family tradition 
the father of Benjamin lived in Colerain. Ac- 
cording to the census of 1790, none of the name 
are reported in Massachusetts. 

(H) I'.enjamin, presumably son of Daniel 
McAllister, and doubtless descended from the 
Scotch-Irish pioneers described above, was 
born in 1774, and died at Truxton, New York, 
about 1861. He married Sally Perry. Chil- 
dren : Lois, Benjamin, Levi, Calvin, James, 
Eli, Edson and Amasa. 

(Ill) Edson, son of Benjamin McAllister, 
was born at Truxton, New York, about 1808, 
and died there about 1888. He followed farm- 
ing during the greater part of his active life 
in Truxton, but from i8fi8 to 1879, in Cuyler, 
New York. He married Mary Crissey. born 
.April 16, 1822, in Hector, New York, now 
living with her daughter at DeRuyter, New 
York. She was a daughter of .Abijah and 
Lettie (Cronk) Crissey. Children: Sarah. born 
.August 6, 1844, lives in DeRuyter. New York, 
married Ceorge Hayes; James, born March 6, 
1846, a farmer in the state of Michigan; Ben- 



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jamin, born April i8, 1847. tlied in Greeley, 
Colorado, in 1886: John C, mentioned below; 
Charles, born July 6, 1851, lives at DeRuyter. 

( I\' ) John C, son of Edson [McAllister, was 
born in Truxton, New York, October 6, 1849, 
and was educated there in the public schools. 
L'ntil i8ij9 he was engaged in farming. He 
went to Cuyler, New York, in 1868, and lived 
there until 1899, when he located at DeRuyter. 
In addition to his farm business he was a 
dealer in farm produce, and since 1899 he has 
devoted his attention mainly to buying and 
selling eggs. He was for three years in the 
egg trade at DeRuyter and since then has had 
his place of business at Cortland, New York. 
He has a large wholesale egg trade. In poli- 
tics he is a Prohibitionist. He is a member of 
the Maccabees, and of the Methodist Epis- 
copal church. He married, December 24, 1872. 
Elba Adelaide Morse, of Cuyler, Xew York, 
daughter of William A. and ^Iaria ( Hamilton ) 
Morse (see Eugene Morse). Children: Floyd 
Eugene, mentioned below ; Lettie May, born 
March 27, 1880, married, 1900, Ralph H. 
.■\mes, of Cortland, a wholesale dealer in eggs. 

|\') Floyd Eugene, son of John C. ]\Ic- 
.Allister, was born in Cuyler, Xew York. June 
2, 1878. He attended the public schools of 
Cuyler, and the DeRuyter high school, from 
which he graduated in the class of 1896, and 
the State Normal School, at Cortland. He has 
since then been associated in business with his 
father, and has been a partner since 1905, the 
firm being J. C. McAllister & Son. He is a 
member of John L. Lewis Lodge, of Odd Fel- 
lows, of Cortland, and of the Methodist Epis- 
copal church. He married, September i. 1909, 
Millicent Louise Phelps, of Cortland, daugh- 
ter of Frank A. Phelps (see Phelps). 



Thomas Newton, immigrant 
NEW'TOX ancestor, was one of the first 
five settlers of Fairfield, Con- 
necticut, in the autumn of 1639. The date and 
place of his birth are not known. In 1644-45 
he was chosen deputy to the general court. 
During the year 1650 he became involved with 
the authorities of Connecticut, and was im- 
I prisoned, but escaped and fled to Long Island. 
; June 20th of the same year, being then or 
1 lately of Fairfield, he conveyed certain prop- 
erty there. He was received by the Dutch on 
Long Island, but his surrender was demanded 
by the authorities of Connecticut, and he be- 



came the subject of negotiations between the 
commissioners of the L'nited English colonies 
and Governor Stuyvesant, which extended over 
several years. In 1655 he was a landholder in 
Middleburg, and in 1656 paid fifteen shillings, 
"the Indian Rate" of a shilling an acre there. 
He was a carpenter by trade. He died before 
May 28, 1683. He married (first) Dorothea 

, and (second), March 31, 1648, Joan, 

daughter of Richard Smith, an early settler of 
the town of Newport, Rhode Island, 1638, and 
an inhabitant of Wickford, in Narragansett, 
about 1639. He was a prominent man in his 
(lay and a friend and neighbor of Roger Will- 
iams. Children of Thomas Newton : Abigail, 
married Lodowick L'pdike : Israel ; James, men- 
tioned below ; Thomas. 

(II) James, son of Thomas Newton, spait 
his early life in Fairfield. October 11. 1683, 
he acted as attorney for his brother Israel, 
plaintiff; Robert Beachem, defendant; in an 
action of trespass. April 17, 1684, he sold 
land. In 1686 he was constable of Fairfield. 
March 18. 1689-90, he was made freeman. 
December 30, 1694, he was admitted to full 
communion, and his wife Mary, March 8, 
1694-95. Early in the next century he was in 
Kingstown, Rhode Island, and was a freeman 
there as early as July 12, 1703, on which date he 
was appointed, with twelve others, to lay out 
highways in that town. April 28. 1713, he 
signed an agreement as one of the proprietors 
of the town of Colchester, Connecticut. His 
name appears frequently on the town records 
from 1713 to 1726, as selectman and member 
of various committees. He was deputy at a 
general assembly and court of election at Hart- 
ford, May 14, 1713, and also in 17 14- 15- 16. 
He was captain of the first company or train 
band in Colchester. He married Mary, daugh- 
ter of Sergeant Richard Hubbell and his first 
wife, Elizabeth (Meigs) Hubbell. Children: 
Dorothy, born March 22, 1681 ; Alice, Febru- 
ary 28, 1686; James, April 3, 1690, mentioned 
below; Ann, April 13, 1692; Israel, March 5. 
1694: Mary, baptized April 23, ibgij; Abigail, 
March, 1703-04. 

(III) James (2), son of James ( i ) Newton. 
was born April 3, 1690, died .\ugust 4, 1756. 
He married. May 31, 1716, Susannah Wyat. 
who died January 26, 1747. Children: Doro- 
thy, born February 25, 1717-18; John, Sep- 
tember 30, 1719, mentioned below ; Israel, Feb- 
ruary 17, 1725; Thomas, August 4, 1728, died 
September 21, 1728; Dinah, February 24. 1730; 



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Leodemiah, May /, 1732; Susannah, IMarch 

15, 1735- 

(IV) John, son of James (2) Newton, was 
born September 30, 1719, died in 1807. He 
married Mary Holbrook, of Lebanon, Con- 
necticut, December 2^, 1756. Children: John. 
April 8, 1758: James; Abel, mentioned below; 
Aniasa; Mary; Mark. 

(V) Ab€l, son of John Newton, was born 
at Groton, Connecticut, February 28, 1774, 
died April 21, 1855, in Pharsalia, New York. He 
came to New York state about 1802, and locat- 
ed first at Preston, New York, and afterward in 
Pharsalia. He was one of the first settlers in 
this section and his brother Mark came with 
him. He married Patience Allen, born at 
Groton, September 14, 1775, died November 3, 
1845, daughter of Captain Samuel Allen, who 
was a soldier in the revolution. Children: 
Denison, married Cornelia Gray; Miles, men- 
tioned below ; Abel A., married Maria Beards- 
/ey; Hannah, married RoswellLord; Marjorie, 
married A. M. Barlow ; Polly ; Cyrena ; Clar- 
issa. 

(VI) Miles, son of Abel Newton, was born 
in Pharsalia, Chenango, New York, April 19, 
1813, died February 19, 1886. He was edu- 
cated in the public schools. He was a success- 
ful farmer and owned a sawmill and a grist- 
mill. In politics he was a Democrat and for 
some years was justice of the peace. He was 
a member of Freewill Baptist Church, and 
gave liberally of his means to various church 
and charitable purposes. He died in South 
Otselic, within six miles of the place of his 
birth. He married (first), January 13, 1839, 
Lois Crumb, born September 26. 1817, died 
November i, 1854, daughter of Phineas and 
Lois Crumb. He married (second) Desire 
Huddleston. Children by first wife: i. Phebe 
Esther, born December 30, 1839; married 
(first) Montezuma Chase, who died while in 
service in civil war; (second) Leander S. Law, 
of Preston, New York ; children : Bertie and 
Adon Law. 2. Betsey Ann, born July 7, 1841, 
died .September 22, 1849. 3- Morell AI., men- 
tioned below. 4. Fayette Crumb, born October 
10, 1848, died October 1, 1849. 5. Elsie Louise, 
born May 19, 1851 ; married Elijah Wildman, 
of Syracuse, formerly a partner with Morell 
M. Newton in the woolen business ; children : 
Egbert L. and N. Ray Wildman. 6. Devaul- 
son Doud, mentioned below. 

(VII) Morell Miles, son of Miles Newton, 
was born May 19, 1845, died March 27, 1897. 



He was educated in the public schools of his 
native town and at the Norwich Academy. 
Afterward he taught school for a number of 
years in Pitcher and Otselic, in Chenango 
county, and then entered the employ of George 
L. Crandall, of Pitcher, in his woolen mill. 
After two years he was admitted to partner- 
ship and the firm became Crandall & New- 
ton. Afterward Air. Crandall's interests were 
bought by Mr. Newton and his brother-in-law, 
Elijah Wildman. afterward of Syracuse, and 
for a year and a half the firm was Newton & 
Wildman. Mr. Wildman was succeeded in the 
firm by Addison Taylor, of Pitcher. After 
the death of Mr. Taylor, Mr. Newton con- 
tinued the business alone until May, 1882, 
when it was destroyed by fire. He then moved 
to Homer, in Cortland county, where he again 
established himself as a woolen manufacturer 
on his own account. After three years he sold 
a half interest to his brother, D. D. Newton, 
and from that time until he died the brothers 
continued in partnership. The business was 
mainly the manufacture of shirting and grew 
to large proportions. About a hundred hands 
were employed. Mr. Newton's death was due 
to an accident in his mill. He was caught in 
a shafting while inspecting machinery. In 
many ways he was a model citizen, earnest, 
public spirited and ambitious. His industry 
greatly benefited the town in which it was locat- 
ed and he himself was ever ready to cooperate 
in good works. For many years he was presi- 
dent of the Cortland County Sabbath School 
Association and he was a prominent member 
of the Baptist church, of Homer. In politics 
he was a Republican, and he served the district 
faithfully in the board of education. He mar- 
ried Christiana A. Lewis, November 28, 1868. 
daughter of John L. and Augusta M. (Cran- 
dall) Lewis, of Pitcher. They had one son, 
Lynn L., who was educated at Homer Acad- 
emy, died in 1906. 

(VII) Devaulson Doud, son of Miles New- 
ton, was born in Pharsalia, Chenango county. 
New York, February 6, 1853.. He was edu- 
cated in the public schools of his native town, 
learned the trade of carpenter, and for twelve 
years was a carpenter and builder in Chenango 
county. In 1885 he came to Homer and was 
admitted to partnership by his brother, Morell 
Miles Newton. In addition to the making of 
woolen cloth the firm also manufactured shirts 
from the goods. After the death of his brother, 
Mr. Newton continued the business alone until 



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1901, when he admitted to partnership Andrew 
\V. Gibbs, Merton A. W'liiting and I^Iyron M. 
Perkins, and since then the firm has been New- 
ton & Company. In 1910 the manufacture of 
fish lines was undertaken by Xewton & Com- 
pany, and lias become an important and suc- 
cessful venture. In May, 191 1, the business 
was incorporated under the firm name of New- 
ton Line Company, Mr. Newton the president. 

Mr. Newton has taken an active part in pub- 
lic life. For eleven years he was school trus- 
tee and for several years was trustee of the 
incorporated village of Homer. He is a director 
in the Homer National Bank and a member 
of the Library Association. In politics he is an 
Independent, in religion a Congregationalist. 

He married, December 25, 1879, Mary Cline, 
of Smithville, New York, daughter of Samuel 
and Betsey (Loomis) Cline, of Smithville. 
Children: i. Jesse Cline, born January 13, 
1881 ; married, September 26, 1900, Katherine 
Crampton, of Homer, New York ; child, Alary 
Janet, born February 6, 1902. 2. Dan Devaul- 
son, born January 26, 1885, married Hazel 
Towner ; one child, Devaulson D., born April 
28, 191 1. 3. Bessie, September 12, 1889. 



Dr. George Warden Smith, immi- 
SMITH grant ancestor, was born in Eng- 
land, and came to the province of 
Connecticut before the revolution, in which he 
served as surgeon. He was taken prisoner 
and confined on a British prison ship, and 
while a prisoner he exchanged his silver knee 
buckles for a prescription for a salve. He 
was an able and distinguished physician in his 
day. He married Lucinda Crippen. They 
had a son George C, mentioned below. 

(II) George C, son of Dr. George Warden 
Smith, was born in England, or Connecticut, 
April II, 1780. died in West Burlington, Otsego 
county. New York. November 20, 1829. He 
settled in Otsego county when a young man. 
He married Betsey Newman, born December 
10, 1789, died October 26, 1868, in Otsego 
county, daughter of Abraham Newman, who 
served in the revolutionary war under General 
Gates at Saratoga, under General Washing- 
ton at battle of Monmouth, New Jersey, and 
at siege of Yorktown. Children : Abraham 
Nevvman, born January 7, 1810; Lucinda Crip- 
pen, April 7, 1812, died February 12, 1885; 
Martha Ritta, April 4, 1814, died November 
5, 1889; Welcome W., March 8, 1816, died 
February 22, 1901 ; W'illis Potter, August 6, 



1820. died December 25, 1906; Moses Gage, 
mentioned below ; Cornelia Betsey. 

(III) Moses Gage, son of George C. Smith, 
was born in West Burlington, Otsego county. 
New York, March 19, 1823, died in McGraw, 
New York, May 8, 1889. His father died 
when he was a boy of seven and he came to 
Homer, New York, to live when he was about 
nine years old. He made his home with an 
uncle and attended the public schools there. 
He also learned the trade of tailor at Homer, 
and followed it for several years as apprentice 
and journeyman. He removed to McGraw 
and was postmaster there from i860 to 1872. 
In politics he was a Republican. He married 
Polly Betsey Doud, of McGrawville, New 
York, daughter of Reuben Griffin and Betsey 
(McGraw) Doud. Children: George Henry, 
mentioned below ; Kittie M., born September 
4, 1861, married Dr. F. W. Higgins. 

(IV) Dr. George Henry Smith, son of 
Moses Gage Smith, was born in McGraw, 
Cortland county, New York, July 24, 1852 
He attended the public schools at McGraw 
until sixteen years of age and then became a 
student of dentistry in the office of Hyatt & 
Holden. Cortland. In 1874 he opened an office 
in McGraw and practiced dentistry there two 
years, had an office for two years at Norwich, 
New York, in 1878 entered partnership with 
Dr. F. O. Hyatt, in Cortland, which firm con- 
tinued for ten years. Dr. Hyatt then retired 
and since then Dr. Smith has continued alone. 
He has followed his profession in his present 
offices for thirty-five years and the business is 
the oldest of all the dental offices of Cortland 
county. He is a member of the board of di- 
rectors of the Hatch Library, of Cortland, and 
its secretary; member of the Science Club, of 
Cortland ; clerk of the trustees of the Presby- 
terian church. In politics he is a Democrat. 
He married, December 7, i88o, Mary A. Bou- 
ton, of Marathon, New York, born June 29, 
1 85 1, daughter of Nathaniel and Julia Eliza 
(Longworth) Bouton (see Bouton VII). The)^ 
have one son, Frank Hyatt, born February 6, 
1889. married, in Dunkirk, 'New York, July 7, 
191 1, Helen Marie Shaler, of Dunkirk, New 
York ; they reside in Cortland, New York. 

(The Bouton LineV 

(VI) Nathaniel (2) Bouton, son of Na- 
thaniel (i) Bouton (q. v.), was born in Pound- 
ridge, Westchester county, New York, in 1778, 
died in Virgil, New York, January 4, 1847. 



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He married (first), March 22, 1801, Rachel 
Stevens; (second) Lydia Stevens, sister of his 
first wife. He settled at ^'irgil, Cortland coun- 
t\-. He was the original projector of the Erie 
railroad, and with his son Nathan was the 
author of the first article published in relation 
to the construction of the railroad. In relig- 
ion he was a Congregationalist, and in politics 
was an ardent Abolitionist, and he was one of 
the first workers in the temperance movement 
in \'irgil. Children, born at \"irgil : Xathan, 
July 27, 1802: James, 1803; Lewis and Will- 
iam, twins, Eebruary 26, 1805; Rachel, 1807; 
David, November 2-]. 1808; Milly, April 13, 
1810: Nathaniel, mentioned below: Joseph, 
March 23, 1817. 

(VH) Nathaniel (3), son of Nathaniel (2) 
Bouton, was born at \'irgil. New York, May 
28, 1813, died there February 2, 1886. He 
moved at the age of nineteen to Marathon, 
New York, and was justice of the peace of 
that town for more than twenty years. He 
was gifted musically and for about forty years 
was leader of various church choirs in the 
town. He was active in the anti-slavery and 
temperance movements and in other moral re- 
forms. He gave of his means freely to vari- 
ous charities and benevolences. He married 
Julia Eliza Longworth. Children : Julia Eliza, 
born January 28, 1838, married, May 17. 185(1, 
Dr. F"armington Hyatt : Charles Henry, born 
August 22, 1840, married Harriet Benjamin; 
Jane Maria, July 13, 1842, married (first) 
Robert Purvis, (second) ]Marvin McFall ; 
.Amanda Gertrude, August 9, 1844, married 
Orson H. Smith: Eleanor Carley, July 25. 
1847, niarried (first) Sanford L. Baum, (sec- 
ond) Donald McKellar, of Killawog; Mary 
Ann, June 29, 1851, married Dr. George Henry 
Smith (see Smith IV). 



Elisha Doubledav, a native 
DOlT,LEDAY of Yorkshire, 'England, 

came to Boston, ]\Iassa- 
chusetts, with his family in 1676. His widow 
.Ann lived in Pioston until 1711, the year of her 
death, when she came to the adjoining town of 
Charlestown, now a part of Boston. She was 
duly "Warned" to depart, after the custom of 
the times. She bought property in Boston in 
1691. He must have died soon after coming 
hither. Administration was granted on her 
estate to her son Elisha, December 30, 171 1. 
The inventory covering the personal estate 
amounted to fifteen pounds and was dated 



December 27, 171 1. Children: Abigail, men- 
tioned in the administrator's account ; Elisha. 
mentioned below ; Elijah, a shipwright, owned 
land in Charlestown and is named in various 
deeds in 1731-32. 

(II) Elisha (2), son of Elisha (i) Double- 
day, was born about 1670, probably in the old 
country, and was baptized, an adult, at Charles- 
town, July 15, 171 1. His wife IMary was ad- 
mitted to the Charlestown Church, April 18, 
1703. He died in 1715, in the prime of life, 
leaving a large family of young children. The 
inventory of his estate is dated December 23, 
1 71 5, and amounted to thirty-two pounds. 
Samuel Scott, of Cambridge, was surety on 
the bond of his widow, who was appointed ad- 
ministratrix. Children, bom at Charlestown : 
Elisha, August 18, 1693, died young; Mary, 
July 12, 1695; Anne, November 22, 1696; 
William, October 17, 1699; Jonathan, January 
5, 1701-02; Jonathan, December 10, 1703, was 
a soldier in the old French war and two wills 
are on file, one dated August 15, 1746, and 
proved July 11, 1747; Nathaniel, March 27, 
1706: Mary, baptized February 5, 1709-10; 
Elizabeth, September 28, 171 1; Elisha, men- 
tioned below. i 

( III) Elisha (3), son of EHsha (2) Double- 
day, was born in Charlestown, January 30, 
1 713- 14, and was baptized there the following 
day. He married (first), in Boston, 1736, 
Margaret .Adams, born 1717. daughter of Jo- 
seph and Rebecca ( Cutler) Adams, of Cam- 
bridge. Her parents were married January 
18, 1710-IT, and her mother died January 12, 
1717-18. Her father married (second), June 
26, 1718, Rachel Allen, who died in 1775. Jo- 
seph Adams, father of Joseph Adams, married, 
at Cambridge, February 21, 1687-88, Margaret 
Fames, who married (second), in 1703, Daniel 
Dean. John Adams, father of Joseph .Adams 
Sr., was born in England, in 1621 ; his father, 
Henry .Adams, was the immigrant ancestor, 
from whom President John Adams, President 
John Ouincy Adams, Governor Samuel .Adams 
and other noted men are descended. 

Elisha Doubledav settled at Lebanon, Con- 
necticut, where the births of most of his twen- 
tv-five children are recorded. His first wife 
died there May 22, 1749, and he married (sec- 
ond), October 2, 1749. Hannah Bailey, aged 
eighteen, who died November 17, 1774. He 
married (third). February 26, 1775, Mary 
Law, aged twenty-eight years. Seven of his 
sons and one grandson fought in the revolu- 



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tion and he appears to have served for a short 
time in the First Connecticut Regiment, under 
Captain Walter Hyde, of Lebanon, in an inde- 
pendent company, in September, 1776 (vol. 
viii, p. 149, "Conn. Hist. Society"). 

W'c find mention of Elisha Doubleday at 
Lebanon, in the accounts of Thomas Xew- 
comb (1735-39). He was a soldier in the 
French and Indian war (vol. x, pp. 141, 341 
and 344, "Conn. Hist. Society"). He was in 
the Ninth Company, Captain .\zel Fitch, in 

1739, and in the same company. Colonel Ciles 
\\"olcott's regiment, in 1761 : antl in the Tenth 
Company, Captain Fitch, March 31 to Decem- 
ber 7, 1762; also in Captain Pearce's company 
in 1763. 

Children, by first wife, born at Lebanon: 
Joseph, December 27, 1737, soldier in revolu- 
tion as was also Joscj^h Jr.; Elisha, April 15, 

1740, died .\ugiist 6, 1796, soldier in revolu- 
tion; Margaret, March 7, 1741, died young; 
Nathaniel, December 29, 1743, died yoimg; 
,\mmi, October 17, 1744, died young; Ammi. 
June 13, 1746, died young; Benoni, May 20, 
1749, died young. Children by second wife: 
Jesse, July 14, 1750; .Asahel, March 31, 1752, 
soldier in revolution: Margaret, July 29, 1754; 
Abner, February 3, 1757, soldier in revolution; 
Ammi, .\pril 17, 1759, soldier in revolution; 
Seth, August 15, 1761, soldier in revolution; 
Hannah, July 16, 1763; Mary, March 8, 1765, 
died young; Lydia, February 26, 1766, died 
young; Lois, June 29, 1769; Lydia, September 
14. 1771 ; Silas, November 15, 1774. Children 
by third wife: Silas, June 22, 1776; Mary, 
July 28, 1778; .Anna, August 8, 1780; Sally. 
September 5, 1782; Daniel, mentioned below; 
Enos, August 12, 1787, who was fifty years 
younger than his eldest brother. 

(IV) Daniel, son of Elisha (3) Doubleday, 
was born at Lebanon, Connecticut, .August 5, 
1784, died in Scott, New York, about 1874. 
He is buried in Homer, New York. He came to 
New York state when about twenty-one years 
old. coming up the Tioughnioga river in a boat 
and locating in the town of Scott among the 
pioneers. He cleared land and cultivated a 
large farm on which he lived the remainder of 
his days, a well-to-do and useful citizen. He 
married. May 12, 1818. Lydia Brown, who 
died about 1873, aged eighty years, daughter 

of James and (Wyman) Brown. Her 

father was a soldier in the revolution. Chil- 
dren, born at Scott: John W., May 4, 1819, 
<lied .AugMst 31, 1867, married Amelia Pratt; 



Alvin L., June 20, 1820, died in infancy ; Amos 
Wyman, December 6, 1821, died August 18, 
1845; Daniel Henry, mentioned below; Betsey 
( Elizabeth), September 29, 1829, married Ste- 
phen Delos Perkins ; Lydia L., August 24, 
1833, died in infancy. 

(\') Daniel Henry, son of Daniel Double- 
day, was born in Scott, New York, August 
II, 1823, died March i, 1902, at Cortland, 
New York. He was educated in the public 
schools of Scott and in his youth worked on 
liis father's farm. Sometime in the late forties 
he purchased a farm adjoining his father's, 
which he resided upon until 1861, when he 
sold and came to Homer, New York, pur- 
chased a farm which he conducted several 
years and then sold and removed to the village 
of Homer, where he hatl a meat market for 
several years. About 1870 he settled in Cort- 
land, New York, and lived there until he died. 
He was for a few years a partner in the firm 
of Fitzgerald, Gee & Company,, of Cortland, 
manufacturers of wagons. Afterward he was 
in partnership with his son in the furniture 
business, under the firm name of D. H. Double- 
day & Son. In his later years he retired from 
active business. In politics he was a Repub- 
lican. He was one of the founders of the 
First Congregational Church, in Cortland, and 
at the time of his death was a deacon. He 
married. February 6, 1847, Fidelia Higley. of 
Fayetteville, Onondaga county. New York, 
born in 1824, died December 15, 1891, daugh- 
ter of Levi Jason and Hejisibah Higley. Her 
father was born in Simsbury, Connecticut, in 
1795, died in Fayetteville, New York, in 1856. 
Children of Daniel Henry and Fidelia Double- 
day : I. .Adelaide, born January i, 1848, died 
March 20, 1905 ; married William Hunt, and 
had a daughter Mildred, who lives with her 
uncle, Frank J. Doubleday. 2. Frank John, 
mentioned below. 3. Ernest Henry, mention- 
ed below. 4. Clara, born July 13, 1862: mar- 
ried Mark Stanton, a merchant in Oregon, 
Illinois; children: Donald and Beulah. 5. Will- 
iam .Albert, October 26, 1867, lives in Syracuse, 
New York ; married Jessie, daughter of Ed- 
ward Black, and has a son, Edgar Frank. 

(\'I) Frank John, son of Daniel Henry 
Doubleday. was born in Scott, Cortland coun- 
ty. New A'ork, September 28, 1850. He attend- 
ed the public schools of his native town and 
Homer Academy, at Homer. .After leaving 
school he was employed in the wagon factory 
of Fitzgerald, Gee & Company, at Cortland, 



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in which his father was a partner, and repre- 
sented his father's interest in the business. A 
year later he entered into partnership with his 
father in the furniture and undertaking busi- 
ness in Cortland, under the firm name of D. H. 
Doubleday & Son. From 1875 to 1895 he was 
engaged in the real estate business in Cortland. 
During this time he bought a large tract of 
land in the northerly part of the village, open- 
ed a street through it, developed the section 
and sold the house lots into which he cut the 
property. In 1895 he and W. G. McKinney, 
of Cortland, bought the business of D. F. 
Wallace & Company, dealers in books and sta- 
tionery, at Cortland. This business was estab- 
lished in 1870, by the firm of Mahan& Wallace, 
and at first consisted of a stationery and mus- 
ical instrument store. After the death of the 
senior partner a few years later, the musical 
department was given up and Mr. Wallace con- 
ducted the stationery business alone until 1890. 
when Willianj G. McKinney and O. C. Smith 
became his partners, under the firm name of 
D. F. Wallace & Company. Since the business 
came into the hands of the present firm, an 
art department has been added and the sta- 
tionery and book business increased. The firm 
has the only book bindery in this section and 
does a consitlerable business in that line. In 
addition to the retail business the firm has a 
large jobbing trade in books, stationery, wall 
paper and window shades, keeping several 
traveling salesmen on the road constantly. In 
one year the firm sold nearly two million rolls 
of wall paper. In politics Mr. Doubleday is a 
Republican, and he has been active in years 
past in local affairs. In 1895-97 he was an 
alderman of the city from the fourth ward, 
and a trustee of the incorporated village before 
Cortland became a city. For twenty-one ysars 
he was superintendent of the Sunday school 
of the First Congregational Church, of Cort- 
land, of which he is a member and of which 
he has been a trustee several years and is now 
a deacon. 

He married. June 17, 1874. Elizabeth Staf- 
ford, of Cortlandville, New York, daughter of 
Arnold and Ruby ( Underwood ) Stafford. 
They have one son. Ralph Stafford, born Au- 
gust II, 1890, a graduate of the Central High 
School, in the class of 1909, president of his 
class, now a stuflent in Syracuse University. 
Mrs. Elizabeth (Stafford) Doubleday has been 
twice regent of Tioughnioga Chapter, Daugh- 
ters of the American Revolution, of Cortland, 



and gains her admission to the order through 
her maternal great-grandfather, Nathan Wood, 
and on the paternal side from Oliver Hopkins. 
She assisted in celebrating the one hundredth 
anniversary of Cortland county. 

(\T) Ernest Henry, son of Daniel Henry 
Doubleday, was born in Scott, Cortland county, 
New York. April 5. 1852. He was educated in 
the town schools and at Homer Academy. He is 
a painter and decorator by trade, and for many 
years dealt extensively in real estate. He 
lived in Cortland until recently, and built many 
houses there. At present he lives in Homer, 
New York. In religion he is a Congregational- 
ist, and a member of that church in Cortland. 
He married, November 26, 1873, Esther, 
daughter of Elisha and Sally (Ives) Salisbury. 
Children : Edna N., born March 9, 1879, mar- 
ried William H. Burnham, of Cortland ; Claude 
Henry, September 21, 1884, died February 5, 
1891 ; Harold Lawrence, January 23, 1893. 



Walter Palmer, immigrant an- 
PALMER cestor, was a citizen of Charles- 
town, Massachusetts, as early as 
1634, and May 14 of that year was made free- 
man of that town. There is a tradition that he 
came from Nottinghamshire, England, and that 
Abraham Palmer, also of Charlestown, and a 
freeman at the same time, was his brother. 
He owned considerable real estate there, and 
received land in the first division in 1637, and 
again in the division of 1643. He was among 
those who met to prepare for the new settle- 
ment at Seacuncke, afterwards Rehoboth, 
Massachusetts, and settled there. At this time 
he gave the value of his estate as four hun- 
dred and nineteen pounds. He was deputy to 
the general court from Rehoboth, and in 1653 
removed to what is now Stonington, Con- 
necticut. He bought land from Governor 
Haynes on the east bank of the Wequetequoc 
river. His whole tract of land contained about 
twelve hundred acres. His will was dated 
May 19, 1657, and proved May il, 1662. He 
died in Stonington, November 19, 1661. He 
married (first), in England, Ann ; (sec- 
ond) Rebecca Short, a member of Rev. John 
Eliot's church, in Roxbury. Children of first 
wife: Grace; John, died unmarried; William, 
died unmarried ; Jonas : Elizabeth. Children 
of second wife: Hannah, born June 16, 1634; 
Elihu, January 24, 1636; Nehemiah, November 
27. 1637; Moses, April 6, 1640; Benjamin. 



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May 30, 1642; Gershom, mentioned below; 
Rebecca. 

(II) Gershom, son of Walter Palmer, was 
baptized in Charlestown. June 5, 1684, he re- 
ceived from his brothers, Nehemiah, Moses 
and Benjamin, five hundred acres of land in 
Stonington. as part of their parents' estate. 
May 3, 1693, there was laid out to Lieutenant 
Gershom Palmer first, fifty acres, then one 
hundred acres, and again, fifty acres. Novem- 
ber 20, 171 1, there was laid out to him four 
hundred acres of land in the Purchase of Catta- 
peset. In this deed he is called "Deacon." 
Most of this property he distributed to his sons 
before he died. He married (first), in Ston- 
ington, November 28, 1767, Ann, daughter of 
Captain George and Ann (Borodel) Denison. 
Her mother, .\nn (Borodel) Denison, was 
from a fine old English family, and from her 
Mrs. Palmer inherited such stately and elegant 
manners that she was commonly called "Lady 
Ann." She was born May 20, 1649, died in 
Stonington, 1694. He married (second) Mrs. 
Elizabeth Mason, widow of Major Samuel 
Mason, of Stonington. Her maiden name was 
Peck, and she was from the Rehoboth family 
of that name. Gershom Palmer died Septem- 
ber 27, 1718. Children of first wife: Alercy, 
born 1669 ; Gershom, baptized September 2, 
1677 ; Ichabod, baptized September 2, 1677 ; 
William, mentioned below ; George, baptized 
May 29, 1680; Rebecca, baptized 1682, died 
young; Ann, baptized May 20, 1682; Walter, 
baptized June 7, 1685; Elihn, baptized May 6. 
1688, died young; Mary, baptized June 8, 
1690; Rebecca, baptized July i, 1694. 

(III) William, son of Deacon Gershom Pal- 
mer, was baptized April 25, 1678. He received 
by deed from his father. May 9, 1716, land at 
Puckhunganuck, which on his death was to 
go to his three sons, William, Elihu and Wait. 
He was living in 1728, when he gave rights in 
two parcels of land to the three sons mention- 
ed above. He married, January 10, 1701-02, 
in Stonington, Grace, daughter of Ephraim and 
Hannah (.\very) Minor, born in Stonington, 
September, 1683. They lived in Tangwonk 
and removed later to Punghungguenuch Hill, 
in North Stonington. Children : Grace, bap- 
tized June 27, 1703; W'illiam, born March i, 
1705 : Elihu, baptized December 6, 1706 ; Wait, 
mentioned below. 

(IV) Elder Wait Palmer, son of William 
Palmer, was born and baptized in Stonington, 
May 27, 171 1. He lived on Pendleton Hill, in 



Stonington, and was active in church interests 
there. .April 10, 1772, he sold to his son Wait 
the farm where he lived, on condition that the 
latter give to him and his wife one-half the 
profits yearly during their lives. He married, 
1727, Mary, daughter of Ebenezer and Ann 
(Pendleton) Brown, born November 28, 1703. 
Children : Wait, mentioned below ; Amos, Au- 
gust 27, 1729; Israel, January 16, 1730; Isaac, 
September 15, 1732; Mary, Alay 4, 1735; Con- 
tent, January 27, 1736-37; Ebenezer, January 
21, 1738-39; Elihu, March 10, 1741. 

(V) Wait (2), son of Elder Wait (i) Pal- 
mer, was born in Stonington, May 5, 1728, died 
October 18, 1785. He married, April 4, 1751. 
Mary Safford, of Coventry, Connecticut, died 
in Stonington, October 19. 1785. Children, 
born in Stonington: Wait, .August 2, 1753; 
Edith, January 7, 1756; Stuckley, January 23, 
1758; Charles, June 25, 1760; Asa, September 
7, 1763; Rowland, mentioned below; Mary, 
August 24, 1770. 

(VI) Rowland, son of Wait (2) Palmer, 
was born in Stonington, October 31, 1766. He 
lemoved from Pendleton Hill to Otsego, New 
York, in 1793. He married (first), in Ston- 
ington, January i, 1792, Sabra, daughter of 
Dr. Joseph and his second vi'ife, Mrs. Eliza- 
beth (Stewart) Palmer, born in Stonington, 
April 25, 1767, died July, 1850. Billings and 
Polly Coats sold for twenty-two pounds, Feb- 
ruary I, 1793. their share in the estate of their 
late father. Wait Palmer Jr., to Rowland Pal- 
mer. He died in Lafayette, New York, .April 

29, 1856. Children : Lucretia, born October 
24, 1792; Avery F., February i, 1795; Water- 
man, August 30, 1798; Betsey, June 3, 1802; 
Prentice, September 22. 1804; Ransom, March 

30, 1807; Orrin D., March 29, 181 1. Avery 
F. Palmer (p. 974, "History of Onondaga 
County") came with his father Rowland to 
Lafayette in 1815; married Sarah, daughter 
of Captain Richard Bailey; his son, Avery R., 
lived at Lafayette. Rowland Palmer married 
(second) Martha Cole. Children: Rowland; 
.Abel ; Nathaniel ; Ebenezer, mentioned below. 

(\'II) Ebenezer, son of Rowland Palmer, 
was born in Onondaga county. New York, 
about 1810-15. He married Cole. Chil- 
dren: Horatio, mentioned below: .Alfonso; La- 
vina, married Charles Teall ; Letitia, married 
John Whipple. 

(\'III) Horatio, son of Ebenezer Palmer, 
was born in Granby, Oswego county. New 
York. He was educated there in the public 



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schools and followed farming. He was one 
of the leading citizens of the town. In religion 
he was a Methodist. He married Harriet 
Cornwall. Children: Mary E. : George B.. 
mentioned below ; Seymour A. : Charles E. 

(IX) George B., son of Horatio Palmer, 
was born in Granby, March 12, 1864, and was 
educated there in the public schools. He en- 
gaged in farming for a number of years. In 
1893 he became a produce and commission 
merchant and shipped large quantities of pota- 
toes and other produce to Xew York markets. 
Since March, 1905, 'he has made his home at 
Fulton, New York, and has been in the flour, 
feed, grain and produce business there. He 
is also a dealer in livestock. In politics he is 
a Democrat. He was elected an alderman of 
the city in 1909, and has been president of the 
city council since January, 1910. He is a 
prominent member of the Methodist church, 
of Fulton. He has been a member of the Pat- 
rons of Husbandry for twenty-five years, and 
is now affiliated with P'ulton Grange. He is 
also a member of the Maccabees and the Be- 
nevolent and Protective Order of Elks. 

He married, March 7, 1887, Cora A., daugh- 
ter of John C. and Arvilla Fuller. Children : 
Wava Fay, born August 31, 1890, died Au- 
gust 25, 1910: Neva ]May, November 30, 1891, 
married Raymond Lyboldt, July 9, 191 1 ; Har- 
low Horatio, May 6, 1897; Harold Raymond. 
December 13. 1900. 



Rev. John Robinson, the lead- 
ROBINSON er of the Pilgrims and pastor 

of the flock in Holland, was 
born in one of the midland counties of Eng- 
land, in 1575. He entered Corpus Christi Col- 
lege, Cambridge University, in 1592, and re- 
ceived a fellowship there in 1598, resigning it 
in 1604. He was a Puritan and a powerful 
supporter of the Puritan movement. He began 
his career in the ministry in Norwich, Norfolk- 
shire, England. In 1606 the church at Scrooby, 
Nottinghamshire, on the borders of Yorkshire 
and Lincolnshire, was formed and he became 
its teacher, with Richard Clifton, pastor. The 
congregation moved bodily to Holland in 1607- 
08, under Mr. Robinson, and worshiped in a 
house he bought there. He intended to follow 
the Pilgrims to Plymouth but died at Leyden 
during the prevalence of the plague, February 
19, 1625. He is generally called the "Father 
of Congregationalism." He married Bridget 
White. Children : James or John ; P>ridget, 



married, at Leyden, May 26, 1629, John Gryn- 
wich ; Isaac, mentioned below ; ^lercy ; Fear ; 
Jacob. 

(II) Isaac, son of Rev. John Robinson, 
came to New England in 163 1, and settled at 
Plymouth. In 1636 he went to Scituate and 
in 1639 to Barnstable, Massachusetts. About 
1663 lie removed to Falmouth and in 1673 to 
Tisbury on Martha's \'ineyard, where he re- 
sided until November, 1701. He then return- 
ed to I'.arnstable. He was a member of the 
Barnstable church for almost seventy years. 
He died in 1704, aged ninety- four. He mar- 
ried (first) Margaret Hanford, of Scituate, 
June 27, 1636. She died June 13. 1649, ^n^ 

iie married (second) Mary . Children 

of first wife, born at Scituate: Susanna, bap- 
tized January 21, 1638, died young. Born at 
I'larnstable : John, baptized April 5, 1640 : 
Isaac, baptized August 7, 1642 ; Fear, baptized 
January 26, 1644-45; ^lercy, baptized July 4, 
1647: Daughter, June 6, 1649. Children by 
second wife: Israel, baptized in Barnstable, 
October 5, 1651 ; Jacob, baptized May 15. 
1653 : Peter : Thomas. 

(III) John (2), son of Isaac Robinson, was 
baptized at Barnstable, April 5, 1640. He 
lived at Falmouth from 1665 to April, 1714, 
when he removed to Connecticut. He was _ 
deputy from Falmouth to the colony court, ■ 
1689-90-gi.. He married. May. 1667, Eliza- ■ 
beth Weeks. Children : John, born ^Iarch 20. 
1668 ; Isaac, January 30, i66g : Timothy, Oc- 
tober 30, 1671 ; Abigail, March 20, 1674: Fear. 
June 16, 1676; Joseph ; Mary. March 31, 1679: 
Son, December 12, 1683; Daughter, May i, 
168—. 

(V) Isaiah, son or grandson of John (2) 
Robinson, if the family tradition is correct, re- 
moved from Barnstable county to Connecticut. 

( \'I ) Noah, son of Isaiah Robinson, was 
born as early as 1750. He lived in Danbury. 
Connecticut, and was a shoemaker by trade. 
He was a soldier in the revolution. He mar- 
ried Mary Foote, born June 19, 1751, daugh- 
ter of John and Deborah (Hoyt) P^oote (see 
Foote \ ). They moved to Hubbardton, \'er- 
mont. He died at Trumansburg, New York. 
Children : .\mos, Lewis, Jeremiah, Noah, 
Rachel and Mary. 

(\TI) .-\mos, son of Noah Robinson, was 
born in 1787, in Putnam county; died in Tru- 
mansburg, New York, about 1885, aged ninety- 
eight years. He was one of the pioneers of 
the town of Trumansburg, Tompkins county, 




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New York, where he bought fifty acres of land 
in 1817. and cleared a farm. Previously he 
lived in Putnam county, New York. At one 
time he kept a hotel at Trumansburg. He 
married (first) Rhoda Wixom, who died in 
1854, aged fifty-six years. He married (sec- 
ond) Theodosia Neal (Shepherd) Fletcher. 
Children, all by first wife: George, L'rsula, 
Doane and Amarintha. 

( Vni) George, son of Amos Robinson, was 
born in Putnam county, New York, near IVIill- 
town, March 31, 1816; died in Homer, New 
York, January 7, 1900. He received a com- 
mon school education in Trumansburg. whither 
he came with his parents when he was a year 
old. He followed farming in that town most 
of his active years and retired only two years 
before he died. These last two years he spent 
in Homer. He was a member of the Uaptist 
church. He married Cynthia Pease, of Tru- 
mansburg, born in 1804, died in ^[arch, 1890, 
daughter of Simeon and Cynthia ( Markham ) 
Pease. Her father came from Enfield, Con- 
necticut. Her mother was a daughter of Isaac 
Markham, of Hartford, Connecticut, a soldier 
in the revolution, who took part in the battle 
of Bunker Hill. Children of George and Cyn- 
thia Robinson: i. John Hopkins, mentioned 
below. 2. Harriet, born July 30, 1843 • uiarried 
T. H. King and lives in Trumansburg; chil- 
dren : Elizabeth Edwards, born August 5, 1866 ; 
Alice Cynthia, February 2, 1869; Herbert P., 
April 17, 1872; Florence, May 5, 1874; .\sa 
Carleton, June 24, 1877; Turtullus Harrison, 
October 15, 1882. Children of Herbert P. 
King: Donald Ely, born March 20, 1906, and 
Marion. April 23, 191 1 ; child of Asa Carleton 
King: Dorothy, born .\ugust 11, 1909: child 
of Turtullus Harrison King: Helen E., born 
in November, 1908. 3. Scott, born September 
27, 1846, died May 30, 1895: a merchant at 
Cortland ; married Mary Smith ; children : 
Lewis, Charles, Harriet, Augusta, Ida, James 
and Eve. 4. Mary, born September 13, 1850: 
married D. G. Clark, of Trumansburg. 5. 
George, born May 30, 1853; lives at Homer, 
New York. 6. Fred, born March 27, 1857 ; 
photographer at Ithaca, New York ; married 
Clara Burr. 7. Anna, born March 25, 1861, 
died November 16, 1899. 8. Emily, born July 
21, 1863; married (first) N. A. Bates, (sec- 
ond) Charles Hinman, of Homer. 

(IX) Dr. John Hopkins Robinson, son of 
George Robinson, was born in Trumansburg, 
New York, February 2, 1842. He was educated 



in the district schools of his native town and at 
Trumansburg .\cadeiny. He taught school for 
a time and followed farming when a young 
man. He began the study of medicine in the 
office of Dr. I. E. Hill, of Trumansburg, and 
afterward under the instruction of Dr. John J. 
Fleckwager. In 1882 he began to practice 
medicine at Homer, New York, and he has 
continued there to the present time. He is a 
member of the County ^leclical Society and of 
the New York State Medical Society and the 
American Medical .\ssociation. In religion he 
is a Universalist. He married, in 1877, .Anna 
W. (ialluii, daughter of Ezra and Ann ( Bates) 
Gallup. Her father was a professor in Col- 
gate University for many years and a Baptist 
minister. Children: i. Anna, born August, 
1878, lives at home with her father. 2. George, 
born September 10, 1883, train director of the 
New York Central & Hudson River Railroad 
Company, at Utica, New York ; married, Sep- 
tember 25, 1905, Ada Riebeunacht, and has 
one daughter, Elizabeth, born August 22, 1906. 

(The Foote Line). 

( I ) Nathaniel Foote, immigrant ancestor, 
was born about 1593. He came probably from 
Shalford, Colchester, England, and settled in 
Watertown, Massachusetts. He took the free- 
man's oath in 1633. He removed to Wethers- 
field, Connecticut, where he was one of the 
first settlers. In 1640 he had a home lot of 
ten acres on the east side of Broad street. He 
was a farmer. He was deputy to the general 
court in 1644. He married, in England, about 
161 5, Elizabeth, sister of John Dewing, a first 
settler of \\'ethersfield. She was born about 
1595, and married (second) Thomas Welles. 
Nathaniel Foote died in 1644. Children : Eliz- 
abeth, born about 1616; Nathaniel, born about 
1620, mentioned below: Mary, 1623: Robert, 
1627: Frances, 1629; Sarah, 1632; Rebecca, 

1634- 

(II) .Vathaniel (2), son of Nathaniel (i) 
Foote, was born about 1620, in England, and 
married, 1646, Elizabeth, daughter of Lieuten- 
ant Samuel Smith. He lived in Wethersfield, 
Connecticut, and Hadley, Massachusetts. He 
died in 1655, and his wife married (second) 
William Gull, of Wethersfield, and Hatfield, 
Massachusetts. Children : Nathaniel, born 
January 10, if'47; Samuel, May i, 1649; Dan- 
iel, 1652, mentioned below ; Elizabeth, 1654. 

(III) Daniel, son of Nathaniel (2) Foote, 
was born in 1652, and married (first) Sarah 



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-, (second) Mary 



— . He lived in 
Stratford, Connecticut. Children : John, born 
June 17, 1680, mentioned below ; Daniel, Janu- 
ary 10, 1682; Hannah, February 13, 1684; 
Jehiel, March 17, 1687; Peter, died 1753, un- 
married. 

(IV) John, son of Daniel Foote, was born 
June 17, 1680, and married, July 13, 1715, 
Sarah Prindle. He lived in Newton, Con- 
necticut. Children: Sarah, October 30. 1716; 
Elizabeth, May 14, 1718; Nathan, October 24, 
1719: John, November 29, 1721, mentioned 
below; Phebe, 1723; Peter, 1725; Hannah, 
1727. 

(V) John (2), son of John (i) Foote, was 
born November 29, 1721, and married, 1750, 
Deborah Hoyt, who died August 6, 1777. He 
died July 28, 1791. Children: Mary, born 
June 19, 1751, married Noah Robinson (see 
Robinson VI); Deborah. August 22, 1753; 
Sarah, May 9, 1755; IMindwell, January, 1758; 
John, April 2, 1761 ; Lucy, 1763; David, May 
28, 1765; Enoch, May 2, 1770. 



It is supposed that the name 
CORWIN Corwin comes from the village 
of Corvinus. in Wallachia, Fru- 
ley, on the Danube river, so named by one of 
the Greek emperors, out of respect to Marcus 
Valerius Corvinus, a Roman consul, and most 
worthy man. It is now common in Austria 
and Germany. Some writers claim that the 
celebrated warrior, John Hunyadi Corvinus, 
commander in the great battle of "Belgrade," 
1456. was from this village, and that his son, 
Matthias Corvinus. the still more celebrated 
king of" Hungary, was the ancestor of the 
American immigrant. Matthias Corwin. 

(I) Matthias Corwin, the immigrant ances- 
tor, was born in England between 1590 and 
1600. and was in Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 
1634. He removed to New Haven, and later to 
Southold. Connecticut. His wife was Mar- 
garet , and they iiad three children : 

John ; Martha ; Theophilus, mentioned below. 

(II) Theophilus. son of Matthias Corwin, 
was born in or before 1634, died before 1692. 

He married Mary . In 1655 he had 

lands at Southold, Long Island, and also at 
Aquebogue. In 1686 he had four males and 
three females in his family. Children : Daniel, 
meiitiimcd below: Theophilus: David; Mary; 
Mehetnble ; P.ethia ; Phebe. 

(III) Daniel, son of Theophilus Corwin, 
was born between 1660 and 1670, died before 



1 7 19. He married Mary, daughter of Simon 
and Mary Ramsay, before 1698. She survived 
him. In 1703, he received a deed from The- 
ophilus, his brother, for land at Aquebogtie. 
Children : Daniel, mentioned below ; Henry ; 
Simeon. 

(IV) Daniel (2), son of Daniel (i) Cor- 
win, was born about 1690, died September 7, 
1747. The name of his first wife is unknown. 
He married (second) Elizabeth Cleaves, in 
January, 1722-23. An Elizabeth Corwin, widow 
of Daniel, died March 30, 1774, according to 
the Aquebogue records. He is named as a 
freeholder of Southold, Long Island, in 1737. 
His will mentions three grandchildren, Ed- 
ward, Separate and Mehetable Armstrong, and 
the following children : Nathan ; Pelatiah ; 
Mary; Michal (feminine name) ; Lucas; Jede- 
diah ; Silas, mentioned below ; John ; Daniel ; 
Edward ; and another daughter who married 
Armstrong. 

(V) Silas, son of Daniel (2) Corwin, was 
born on Long Island, in 1731, died IMarch i, 
1806. He married, January 13, 1753, Eliza- 
beth Halleck, born in September, 1731, died 
February 12, 1831. Both he and his wife 
were buried at Jamesport, Long Island. His 
wife's mother's name is supposed to have 
been Booth. In 1775 he signed an agreement 
to support congress. In 1776 his name occurs 
on census list. No. 94. and at that time he had 
in his family three males, one female over six- 
teen, and five children under sixteen. Chil- 
dren : Silas : .\zubah ; Ezra, mentioned below ; 
Mary ; Peter ; Jabez ; Elizabeth ; Ebenezer ; 
Daniel ; Elizabeth. 

(\T) Ezra, son of Silas Corwin, was born 
September 27, 1759, baptized October 14, 
1759, at Mattituck. Long Island. He died 
.April 24. 1840. He married (first) Dorothy 
Tuthill. born September, 1760, died December 
15, 1795. He married (second) Hannah Cook, 
born January 30, 1772, died April 23, 1841. 
He united with the church at Aquebogue, No- 
vember 16. 1783. He settled in Orange county. 
New York, as a farmer, and bought land claims 
from revolutionary soldiers. Later, he settled 
in Cortland county, near Blodgett Mills. Here 
he cleared an extensive tract of land, about 
three hundred acres, and built a log house. 
Children : Baldwin : Ebenezer ; Orsamus or 
Erasmus; Polydore P>.. mentioned below ; Dor- 
othy F. ; Mary ; Samuel ; Cortlandt E. ; Julia N. 

(VI) Polydore B., son of Ezra Corwin, was 
born March 30, 1801, at Ipswich, Long Island. 



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When a young child, his father removed to the 
Cortland region, and he was brought up on the 
home farm. Eventually he fell heir to one- 
third of this farm. In 1826 he built a tavern 
on the site of the old log house which his 
father had built, and became highly successful. 
Besides his tavern business he cultivated three 
hundred acres of land. After some years he 
sold his farming interests and removed to 
New York City. Here he served on the police 
force and carried on a grocery store. In 1854 
he removed again to the village of Cortland, 
and began business there as a builder and con- 
tractor. He had already had much experience 
in this line at Blodgett Mills. He married 
(first), February 12, 1824, Sarah Thompson, 
born May 11, 1803. He married (second) 
Phebe Kendall, May 14, 1842. She was born 
April 23, 1819. He married (third) Catharine, 
daughter of Henry H. Palmatier, of Cobleskill, 
New York, born October 6. 1819. Children of 
the first wife: Almeron ; De Forest; Ezra: 
Theresa ; Sarah R. Children of the second 
wife: Isabelle; Marion. Children of the third 
wife: Harriet; Dudley G., mentioned below; 
Philistia. 

(\TI) Dudley Gregory, son of Polydore B. 
Corwin, was born at Charleston. Montgomery 
county. New York, November i, 1849. He 
attended the public schools of his native town. 
When fifteen years old he began to learn the 
trade of carpenter, and at the age of twenty- 
one he was a skillful journeyman. A few 
years later he began to take contracts and since 
then he has been a builder and contractor with 
headquarters in Cortland. For many years he 
has been the leading contractor of the city and 
has probably built more residences, business 
buildings and factories than any two other 
builders of this section. He erected the Squires 
Ellock, the Keator Block, the First National 
Bank building, the Second National Bank 
building, the manufacturing building of the 
Cortland Wagon Works, at Cortland, another 
at Brantford, Ontario, Canada, and a third, 
at Eighty-first and Wallace streets, Chicago; 
the Top and Rail factory; the E. H. Brewer 
factory; the Miller Block and many others. 
He is a skillful architect and has prepared the 
plans for many houses and buildings that he 
has erected. On his own account he has erect- 
ed many dwelling houses in the city and has 
large holdings in Cortland real estate. In poli- 
tics he is a Republican, and in religion a Pres- 
byterian. 



He married (first), in 1874, Mary A. Ste- 
vens, who died in 1887, aged thirty-eight years, 
daughter of Wilbur Stevens, of Freetown. He 
married (second), July 3, 1888, Antoinette B. 
Briggs, daughter of Samuel Briggs, a farmer 
of Trumansburg, New York. Children by 
first wife: i. Wilbur E., born July 25, 1876, 
died August 19, 1893. 2. Jennie L., March 
31, 1881 ; married John Lewis Clark, of (Ireen- 
port, and had Evelyn Clark. 3. Charles D., 
July 18, 1884, instructor in mechanical draw- 
ing, electrical and civil engineering at Sibley 
College, Cornell ; married, December 29, 1909, 
Mary Agnes Lyon ; had daughter, Elizabeth 
Marie. 4. Merton Polydore, December 15, 
1886, student in Amherst College, class of 
1911. Child of second wife: 5. Mary Cath- 
erine, June 21, 1889; married Irving C. 
Mathews, a chemist in Newark, New Jersey. 



Thomas Stafford, the immi- 
STAFFORD- grant ancestor, was born at 
Warwickshire, England, in 
1605 ; died at Warwick, Rhode Island, in 1677. 
He is said to have come to Plymouth, Massa- 
chusetts, in 1626, and to have built there the 
first gristmill operated by water power in this 
country. His name is on the list of inhabitants 
admitted to Newport, Rhode Island, after May 
20, 1638, and he soon received a grant of land 
tiiere, seventeen acres, and was mentioned as 
in the employ of Nicholas Easton. He was 
witness to the will of John Walker, of Ports- 
mouth, March 18, 1647. He was received as 
a townsman of Warwick, June 7, 1657, hav- 
ing bought a house of Christopher Unthank. 
He bought another house and land of LTnthank, 
IVIarch i, 1653. In 1655 he was a freeman of 
the colony. He bought a house and land in 
Warwick of Thomas Lawton, of Portsmouth, 
.\pril 16, 1657. In 1662 he was granted a lot 
in the division of Potawomut, and also one in 
the division of Toscunk. In 1673 he was a 
deputy to the general assembly. His will, dated 
November 4, 1677, and proved April zj, 1678, 
bequeathed to his wife Elizabeth, and children. 

He married Elizabeth , who died after 

1677. Children : Thomas, died January 26, 
1723; Samuel, born in 1636, died March 20, 
1718; Hannah, married Luke Bromley; Sarah, 
married Amos Wescott ; Joseph, mentioned 
below : Deborah, married, June 9, 1670, Amos 
Wescott. 

(II) Joseph, son of Thomas Stafford, was 
born at Warwick, Rhode Island, March 21, 



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1648, died after 1697. He was apprenticed, 
April II, 1661, to Thomas Smith, of Pawtiixet, 
Rhode Island, to learn the tailor's trade. In 
1678 he was a freeman. His wife's will was 
dated January 5, 1727, and proved June 28, 
1731, bequeathing to children. 

He married Sarah Holden, born in Febru- 
ary, 1658, died in 1731, daughter of Randall 
and Frances (Dungan) Holden. Children: 
Stukeley, a well-to-do and prominent citizen 
of Warwick ; Joseph, mentioned below ; John, 
a captain, died 1753; Frances, married Benja- 
min Congdon ; Elizabeth, married William 
Clark and Israel Arnold ; Mary, married Pasco 
Whitford : Sarah, married Joseph Smith ; Mar- 
garet, married Place. 

(Ill) Colonel Joseph (2) Stafford, son of 
Joseph (i) Stafford, was born about 1690. 
He was a blacksmith by trade and prominent 
in public and military life. He was deputy to 
the general assembly 1730-35, 1737, 1739, 1742- 
44 and 1746. In 1739 he was major and after- 
ward colonel. He married (first) Susanna 
Gorton, born June 4, 1694, died August 29, 
1734, daughter of Samuel and Susanna (Bur- 
ton) Gorton. He married (second) Margaret 
Havens, widow of William Havens, daugh- 
ter of Alexander and Elizabeth ( Wightman ) 
Huling. Children, born at Warwick : Mercy, 
June 2, 1717; Joseph, mentioned below; Sus- 
anna, .August 15, 1721 ; Susanna, March 10, 

1723-, 

(I\ ) Joseph (3), son of Colonel Joseph 
(2) StalTord, was born January 16, 1718-ig. 
He was a captain, according to the vital rec- 
ords. He settled at East Greenwich, Rhode 
Island, and married there. May 2~/, 173'), Re- 
becca Arnold, daughter of Captain William 
Arnold. Children, born at East Greenwich : 
Susanna, July i, 1740; Sarah, December 8, 
1741 ; Deliverance, June 15, 1743; Thomas, 
August 21, 1744; Joseph, December 3, 1745; 
Arnold, mentioned below ; Margaret, January 
9, 1751- 

(V) Arnold, son of Joseph (3) Stafford, 
was born at East Greenwich, Rhode Island, 
February 22, 1746, married there. December 
2, 1776, Phebc Sprague, daughter of Rowland 
Sprague, of a jirominent Rhode Island family. 
.'Xccording to the census of 1774, his father or 
brother Joseph and a James Stafford were 
heads of families in East Greenwich. In 1790, 
according to the first federal census, Joseph 
Stafford, his brother, was of Coventry, near 
•Greenwich, and had three males over sixteen. 



three under that age and four females in his 
family. John Stafford also had a family in 
1790, at Coventry. Arnold was married and 
had a family at East Greenwich. 

(V'l) Joseph (4), son of Arnold Stafford, 
was born in Coventry, East Greenwich, or 
vicinity about 1784, died at Virgil, New York, 
Pebruary 24, i860. He came to New York 
state in 1800, and settled in Otsego county. 
Afterward he moved to Virgil, New Y'ork, 
where he spent most of his active years, a 
farmer by occupation. 

He married Susan Hopkins, born about 1788, 
died in 1872, daughter of Oliver Hopkins, born 
in 1756, died in 1839, a soldier in the revolu- 
tion, descendant of Stephen Hopkins, who 
came in the "Mayflower." Oliver Hopkins 
married Susanna Bennett. Children of Joseph 
and Susan Arnold : Laura ; .\rnold, mentioned 
below ; Gardner ; Hopkins ; Oliver ; Lovina ; 
Horace; Josiah, and Miles. 

(VII) Arnold (2), son of Joseph (4) Staf- 
ford, was born in Burlington, Otsego county. 
New Y^ork, July 11, 1808, died in Cortland, 
.\'ew York, June 27, 1872. He came to the 
town of \lrgil with his parents, and was edu- 
cated there. He came to Cortland in 1854, 
and lived there the rest of his days. He was 
prominent in financial affairs, and held various 
positions of trust and honor. He was trustee 
of the incorporated village of Cortland and 
was the first member of the local board of the 
State Normal School in Cortland, and presi- 
dent of the board. In religion he was a Sleth- 
odist, and in politics a Republican. 

He married, December 25, 1834, Ruby Under- 
wood, who was born in Burlington, Otsego 
county. New York, September 15, 181 1, died 
in Cortland, June 30, 1892, daughter of Van- 
der and Jerusha (Wood) Underwood, of Bur- 
lington, New York. Jerusha Wood was a 
daughter of Nathan Wood, of Mansfield, Con- 
necticut, a soldier in the revolution. Children 
of .Arnold and Ruby Stafford: i. Ruby, born 
in \ irgil. married George Conable, and had 
two daughters, Lena and Nellie Lorilla Con- 
able. 2. Eli, born in \'irgil, a retired farmer 
of Cortland ; married Mary Richardson Odell, 
and has an adopted daughter, Cora, who mar- 
ried Melton Rowell. of Ithaca, New York. 3. 
Laurilla, born in \ irgil, married Harvey Pen- 
dleton, of Cortland. New Y'ork; daughter Hat- 
tie, married N. Jay Peck, of Cortland. 4. 
Rose Anna, born in \'irgil, married Henry O. 
Candee, and had one son, Herbert Candee, of 



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Ploll)', .\cu V(.irk. 5. Edgar A., ni(-'nti(jiicd 
below. 6. Elizabetli Helen, born in Cortland, 
married I'rank J. Doubleday (see Doubleday 
YI). 

(VllI) Edgar Arnold, son of Arnold (2) 
Stafford, was born in Cortland, New York, 
July 17, 1850. He was etlucated there in the 
public schools, and for several years after 
leaving school he followed fanning. He lived 
at Ijlodgetts Mills one year, and for eighteen 
years was engaged in farming in Truxton. 
During the folk)wing nine years he was chieHy 
occupied in dealing in livestock in Truxton, 
and for a year and a half conducted a meat 
market. In 1900 he came to Cortland and for 
tile past six years has conducted a meat market 
there, having a large and growing business, 
i le has been a justice of the peace. In politics 
lie is a Republican. 

He married, .March 28, 1872, hVancelia h^llen 
Merchant, of Cuyler, Xew York, daughter of 
Henry S. and Elizabeth ( Petrie) Merchant. 
They have one son : .\rthur E. Stafford, born 
in Truxton, .Vovembcr 2(), 1882, educated in 
the ])ublic schools of Truxton, now in partner- 
ship with his father, under the firm name of 
E. .\. Stafl'ord & Son ; he married .\lta McKee, 
of Cortland. 



.'\ndrcw .Albright, the imnii- 
.\ LI') RICH IT grant ancestor, was born 
.April 2, 1718, at Zellar, in 
Thuringia, (.Germany. He learned the trade of 
gmi-maker, and in 1 741 was armorer of a regj- 
nient that servetl in Silesia and Bohemia in the 
war of the .Austrian Succession. In 1750 he 
came with a company of Moravian pioneers tt) 
Northampton county, Pennsylvania, and fol- 
lowed his trade of gun-making in this country. 
He was instructor of arms for a time at Naz- 
areth Hall, and in 1766 presided over the Sun 
Inn, at Bethlehem, I'ennsylvania. In 1771 he 
removed to Lititz, and during the revolution he 
was eniployetl in making guns for the govern- 
ment. He died April 19, 1802. The names of 
two sons are given : .Andrew, born February 
28. 1770, and John Henry, August 5, 1772, at 
Bethlehem. 

Jacob .Albright, who served in the revolution 
from Sussex county. New Jersey, may have 
JHcn another son. EHsha Albright was living 
at Pawling, Dutchess county. New York, in 
1790. according to the lirst federal census, and 
had in his family three males under sixteen 
and four females. 



(II) One of the sons of Andrew married 
and settled in Belvidere, New Jersey, anil had 
children : Elisha, mentioned below ; Rosanna, 
married John Ilials; .'\ndrew. 

(HI) "Elisha Albright, of the third genera- 
tion, was born in Belvidere, New Jersey, Feb- 
ruary 28, 1796, and died in Dryilen. Tomp- 
kins county, New York, in April, 1871. He 
came to Drydcn, New Y'ork, when Tonij)kins 
county was still largely a wilderness, cleared 
his farm and made a homestead. He was 
enttrprising. well-to-do and intluential, self- 
educated and in the best sense, self-made, a 
natural mechanic and a constant reader a."'' 
student. He made plows, sleighs, grain cradl 
boots and shoes, and knew many trades weli. 
He married in New Jersey, Elizabeth Sniith,^ 
who was born November 30, 1799, died Se])- 
teniber 21, 1880. She was of Dutch ancestry. 
Chikiren, excepting the eldest, born in Dry- 
den: I. Jacob, born in Belvidere, New Jersey, 
September 4, 1819. 2. Ann Maria, February 
3, 1821 ; married J. M. Eacy. 3. Aaron, Janu- 
ary 17, 1823. 4. Rosanna, .\ugust id, 1823. 
S. Elizabeth. July 23, 1827; married (first) 
(jeorge A. Hamilton; (secontl) Luther Voor- 
liees ; she was a noted physician in New Y'ork 
City. 6 Samantha, Alarch 2, 1829; married 
Jones M. Cantine. 7. Andrew, June 23. 1831, 
lived in Newark, N^.M^£rsey, a man of great 
prominence and wealth, an niventor of note, 
patented the process for making hard rubber 
finish for harness trimmings ; donated a mag- 
nificent fountain to Dryden, his native town. 
8. EIniiua, mentioned below. 9. HaTison, 
mentioned below. 10. John Wesley, January 
~'J' '831;- II- George, mentioned below. 

(I\') Elniina, daughter of Elisha -Albright, 
was born in Dryden. New Y'ork, April 16, 
1833; married, in 1872, William Lord, born in 
Pitclier, Chenango county. New Y'ork, in 1825, 
a son of Isaiah and Elizabeth (Kenyan) Lord. 
Mr. Lord is a successful farmer an 
most of his life in McGraw, in t 
Cortlandville, and has been a truste 
dent of the incorporated village c 
He retains the ownership of his f; 
for several years he has reside<l ' 
and is retired from active busim 
tics he is a Prohibitionist, in rehg 
odist. Mr. and Mrs. Lord have m 

(lY) Harrison, son f>f Elisha .Alb-_^i-rr^\-~„ 
!)orn in Dryden. New York, April 16, 183; 
He atteiii'ed the [lubiic schools and resided ii 
Dryden when a young man, removing after 



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ward to McLean. In 1895 he built at Cortland, 
New York, a handsome residence on Tomp- 
kins street and since then has resided there, 
being retired from active affairs. His princi- 
'pal vocation has been farming, but for seven- 
teen years he was in the egg and commission 
business. He is a member of Cortlandville 
Lodge of I'^ree Masons. In politics he is an 
Indeijendent. in religion liberal. 

He married, January 15, 1858, Panielia 
I lolden, born July 20, 1837, died Alay 30, 1903, 
daughter of Walter Holden, of Harford, New 
York. They had one child : Louise, born .April 
''6, :S6o, died in 1895 ; married Lester Mallory, 

d had a daughter : Elizabeth Louise Mal- 
.ory, born March 7, 1893, now living with her 
grandfather. Miss Mallory is a stuilent at 
Syracuse University. 

(IV) George, son of Elisha Albright, was 
born in Dryden, New York, January 29, 1839. 
He was educateil in the public schools of his 
native town. In his boyhood he followed farm- 
ing on the homestead and in the course of time 
succeeded to the management of the farm. 
.\fter his mother died he removed to New 
York City, and had charge of the affairs of 
his sister Elizabeth. After a period of twenty 
years he returned to the iiomestead, and since 
then has followed farming on a large scale. 
He raises large crop'; of wheat and oats and 
has a model dairy. He has never married. 



(irannison Thomsrm lived 
T11()M.S()N near Norwich in Chenango 
county. New York. He mar- 
ried and had <-hildren : ClrannLson, William, 
and .Ambrose M., see forward. 

(II) Ambrose M., son of Crannison Thorn- 
sun, was born in Chenango county, New York, 
and was a cooper, manufacturing barrels, in 
.iddition to tending his farm. Soon after 1840 
he settle' in the town of Granby, New York, 
1 a farm on tiie one hundred acres 
nd which lie had bought. He mar- 
a M. Colwell, who died May 8, 
Iren: Marvin A., mentioned below; 
iry, married John Draper, 
■vin A., son of .Ambrose M. Thom- 
n in Granby, New York, July i, 
ttended the district schools of his 
1 and the Falley Seminary, and 
..icr i.,-^ A school for six winters, working on 
farm in the summers, p'oi.- four years after- 
,vard, he was engaged in the lumber business. 
'n 1886 he came to Oswego Falls, New York, 



and l""ebruary i, 1893, 1^^ ^"^ Orin Henderson 
organized a coal and lumber business under 
the name of Henderson & Thomson, which 
later was organized as a corporation, known 
as the Henderson & Thomson Company, with 
Mr. Henderson as president and Mr. Thomson 
as treasurer. Mr. Thomson is also financially 
interested in the Fulton Livery Company, al- 
though he has continued to conduct his large 
farm in the meantime. He is a member of the 
Oswego County Agricultural Society, and of 
Hiram Lodge, No. 144, PVee and Accei)ted 
Masons. In politics he is a Democrat. He 
was supervisor of the town of Granby, Os- 
wego county. New A'ork, in 1887-88, and for 
a number uf years was justice of the peace 
in the town of Hannibal, New York. In relig- 
ion he is a member of the Methodist Church. 
He married (first), June 30, 1873, Alice A. 
Hyde, who was Ixirn in Granby, September, 
1851, and died May 8, 1908. He married 
(second), April 18, 1910, Ina Hannum, who 
was the daughter of Warren and Mary Han- 
num. 



This surname is derived 
CHITTENDEN from the corrupt British 

and Welsh word cliy, 
meaning "house," and tane, "lower," and din 
or dun, "hill," the lower house on the hill. The 
name is quite common in England and the 
spelling, which has been greatly varied, is al- 
mcist always Chittenden at the present time. 
Only two families of the name were early im- 
migrants to America. Thomas Chittenden, a 
linen weaver, came with his son Isaac frimi 
Wapping, in county Kent, and settled in .Scitu- 
ate, .Massachusetts, where his descendants are 
still found. It is not known whether he was re- 
lated to William Cliittenden, mentioned below. 
(I) William Chittenden, immigrant ances- 
tor, came from the jiarish of Cranbrook, Kent, 
England, and is believed to have been the son 
of Robert Chittenden. In the record of baptisms 
in the jiarish of Marden, near Cranbrook, there 
is an entry of William, son of Robert, March, 
1594. He was an original settler of Guilford, 
Connecticut, and one of the si.x persons select- 
ed to purchase the lands there from the native 
owners. He was also one of the four magis- 
trates who received "full [xnver and authority 
to act, order and dispatch all matters respect- 
ing the publick weale and ci\ile government of 
the plantation until a church is gathered amonge 
us." He was the chief military man of the 



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antation, and bore the title of lieutenant, 
'age says that he had been a soldier in the 
,'lish army in the Netherlands, in the Thirty 

jars war, and had received the rank of major. 

.' was a magistrate and deputy to the general 
'rt until his death. His lands in Guilford 

nprised about one hundred acres, most of 
■hich is still in possession of a descendant. 
Ae married, in England, Joanna, daughter of 
Dr. Edmund and Joanna Sheaffe. of Cran- 
hrook, Kent. She survived him, and married 
(second), as his second wife, Abraham Crut- 
tenden, of Guilford. She died there August 
16, 1668. Her mother, Joanna Sheafte, emi- 
grated with the family from England, and died 
in Guilford, August i, 1659. William Chitten- 
den died in February, 1660-61. Children: 
Thomas, married Joanna Jordan: Elizabeth, 
married Thomas \\'right : Nathaniel, married 

■^•it^ih ; John, mentioned below; Mary, 

maTied John Leete; Hannah, born November 
.5, 1649, died 1650 (Guilford records) ; Jo- 
seph (twin), April 14, 1652, died June 22, 
■ 1652: Hannah (twin), .'\pril 14, 1652, died 
/September 13, 1674: Deborah. December 12, 
' 1653. 

(Hi Sergeant John Chittenden, son of ^^ ill- 
iam Chittenden, married. December 12. 1665, 
Hannah, daughter of John Fletcher, of Mil- 
ford. Connecticut. He died in (juilford. April. 
171O. Children: John, born October 19. 1666; 
Elizabeth, January 26, 1670; Joseph, March 
26, 1672, mentioned below; Gideon, September 
2^. 1678. died 1679: Abel, May 14, 1681 : 
L}dia, March 30. 1684. 

( 111) Joseph, son of Sergeant John Chitten- 
den, was born IMarch 26, 1672. He married, 
August 26, 1692. Mar\-. born April, 1671, died 
January 14. 1742, daughter of Nathaniel and 
Mary Kimberly. of New Haven. He lived in 
Guilford, and died September 11. 1727. Chil- 
dren : Deborah, bc)rn January- 28. 1604 ; Pa- 
tience. January 19. 1696: Gideon. February 
3. 1^198. mentioned below; Daniel, March 15, 
i7('o: Joseph, January 25, 1702; Thankful, 
Jaiiuar}- 2/. 1704. 

(I\') Gideon, son of Joseph Chittenden, 
\v. - born February 3. 1698. He married, 
Maich 21, 1721. Abigail, born April 19. 1701, 
daughter of Samuel and Abigail (Wetmore) 
Bishop, of Guilford. He removed to New 
Milford. Connecticut, in 1762. He was living 
May 29. 1781. Children: Abraham, born Feb- 
ruary 16, 1723; Millicent, April 5, 1725; Abi- 



gail, March 17, 1727; Prudence, October 14, 
1729; Giles, December 8, 1731, mentioned 
below; Miles, June 15, 1734; Ruth, May 15, 
1737; Stephen, May 9, 1739: Catharine, May 

9. 1747- 

(\') Giles, son of Gideon Chittenden, was 
born December 8, 1731. He married Temper- 
ance, born March i, 1732, daughter of Eben- 
ezer and Mehitable (Chittenden) 'Bishop. He 
removed to New Milford, where he died about 
1812. Children: Loraina, married Daniel 
Camp ; Temperance, baptized June or July, 
1766; Giles, mentioned below. 

(\'I) Giles (2), son of Giles {1 ) Chitten- 
den, was baptized in infancy, June or July, 
1766, in New Milford, died there in 1800, in 
the prime of life. He married Lavinia (Todd) 
(BaKhvin), a widow, who had a son, Israel 
Baldwin, by her previous marriage, with whom 
she lived after the death of Mr. Chittenden. 
Mr. Baldwin's home was at Greene. Chenango 
county, New York, where he had a general 
store. She died in 1843. The only child of 
Giles and Lavinia Chittenden was posthumous. 
Giles, mentioned below. 

(\'H) Giles (3). son of Giles (2) Chitten- 
den, was born after the death of his father, at 
New Milford, Connecticut, November 21, 1800. 
He resided with his mother in his native town 
and at Chatham, New York, ujitil he was ten 
years old. In 18 10 they removed to Ihulson, 
New York, and he was placed in charge of a 
Quaker family there and became a student in 
the Hudson Academy, while his mother made 
her home with her son, Israel Baldwin, in 
Greene, New York. After four years in Hud- 
son at the academy, he joined his mother at 
Greene and entered the employ of his step- 
brother, Mr. Baldwin, as clerk in the store. 
Two years later he was placed in charge of 
a store at Norwich, owned by a merchant of 
Greene, but at the end of the year he left to 
accept a position as teller in the Chenango 
Bank, of Norwich. Three years later he re- 
signed his position in the bank and engaged 
in business for himself, when he was but 
twenty years old. He started with his small 
savings and some borrowed capital with a store 
in Norwich and he was soon free of debt with 
a flourishing trade. In 1824, just before the 
Erie canal was completed, he accepted an ad- 
vantageous oiTer for his business. In a short 
time, however, he left that town and establish- 
ed a home for himself anrl mother in Homer, 



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Xew York, ami again engage<l in business as 
a dry gocxls and general merchant. This busi- 
ness proved very successful and he continued 
in active business until 1837 when he was 
obliged by ill health to retire. Mis success was 
doubtless due to his systematic methods and 
his personal honor and uprightness. He kept 
in touch with every detail of his business and 
with his books, always knowing just how his 
business stood. Though he believed thorough- 
ly in economy and e.xact business methods, he 
was generous in charity, but quiet and modest 
in his manner. His devotion for many years 
to his invalid mother and his love and solici- 
tude for his family were characteristic. In 
public affairs he was always interested and 
cheerfully bore his share of the work and ex- 
pense of every movement intended for the 
public welfare. In early life a W'liig. he joined 
the Republican party in its infancy and sup- 
ported it loyally. He was for sixteen years 
justice of the peace and a faithful and capable 
magistrate and town officer. It is said that he 
was so zealous in his efforts to prevent litiga- 
tion and effect settlements of cases out of court 
that a lawyer once said that he would be glad 
when S(|uire Chittenden was out of office, for 
the lawyers were starving to death. He served 
the town for three years in the board of super- 
visors of the county and exerted a large influ- 
ence in that body. He was a director of the 
Norwich Rank, while living at Norwich, and 
was trustee of the Homer .\cademy from 1853 
to 1873. He died May 5, 1885. He was an 
active member of the Baptist church congre- 
gation. He left a competence, invested wisely 
in real estate. 

He married (first). June 8, 1836, Samantha 
McW'horter. of Cincinnatus, New York, born 
July 28, 181 1, died November 9, 1839, daugh- 
ter of Dr. John and Catherine (Young) ^Ic- 
W'horter : her father was elected several 
terms to the state assembly of New York; he 
was one of the first settlers at Cincinnatus. 
He married (second), December 23, 1840, 
Mary .\nn McW'horter. sister of his first wife, 
born .\ugust 6. 1817. died June 21, 1846. He 
married (third) Mrs. Dlivia Penny Munson, 
a widow, who died in March. 1893, ageil eighty- 
three years. By the first wife he had a daugh- 
ter Lavinia'S. ; by the second a son who died 
in infancy, and a daughter, Catherine. The 
daughters reside in the old home at Homer 
and are well known and highly respected in the 
community. 



Perhaps all the colonial far 

BENJAMIN ilies of Benjamin are 
scended from John Bei 
min, born 1598, in England, who came to Bt 
ton in the ship "Lion," sailing September i 
1632, with wife .\bigail. two children, r 
his brother Richard who removed to Sou^ 
old. Long Island, in 1663, with his wife Ar, 
and daughter Ann. In 1664 Richard Benja 
inin was made a freeman in Connecticut. His 
descendants have been prominent in New York, 
especially in Queens county. John Benjami". 
settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, an 1 later 
in W'atertown. He was of good family and 
well-to-do. 

The New York families are largely descended 
from Richaril Benjamin. In the census of 1790 
we find three named Richard Benjamin as heads 
of families. Richard Benjamin, of Minisink, 
Orange county, had four males over sixteen, two 
under si.vteen and two females in his familv. In 
the same town a widow Hannah had two sons 
under sixteen and five females. In Warwick, 
an(?ther town in Orange county, a Richard 
Benjamin had three sons untler sixteen and 
three females, and at Southold, Long Island, 
the third Richard had three males over six- 
teen and one female in h's family. And also 
in Sinithuld there was a William Benjamin 
having tv.o males over sixteen and three fe- i 
males in his family. 

( I) Richard Benjamin. ])robahIy one of the 
Richards described above, was born in 1769. 
died in Durham. Greene county. New York, 
where he settled early in life. He married 
Laura Mudge. born September 9, 1791, died 
in .Allston, South Carolina, November 14, 1871. 
daughter of .\braham Mudge ("see Mudge \'). 
Children: i. Stillwell, born in Durham, Greene 
county. New York, C^ctober 11, 1826, died in 
Cortland. New York, Niivember 7, 1008; was 
an extensive manufacturer and dealer in monu- 
mental works, in Cortland : married. Septrm- 
ber 30, 1850, Harriet .A. Eggleston. of Cc-rt- 
land : children : Jennie, born Decetuber 4, 1S58, 
died September 20. 1878; si5n died in infancy; 
Louise Cerepta, married Nelson H. Waters. 
2. Laura .Ann. born July 2S. 1829; mar' ed 
Martin Chapin and lives in Allston, Siuth 
Carolina. 3. John Wesley, mentioned below, 
a. M)r,nham Page, born October 29, 1834, died 
in California in 1849. 

ill) John Wesley, son of Richard Benja- 
min, wa'^ born in Durham, Greene county. New 
York, December 2;^, 1832, died in Chicago, 



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Illinois, June 13. 1882. He came to Cortland 
county, New York, in 1845, with his mother 
and brothers and sisters. He worked at farm- 
ing at first and later in the marble business, 
manufacturing monument and gravestones in 
Cortland, in partnership with his elder brother, 
Stilhvell Benjamin, from the establishment of 
the business in 1854 to the time of his death. 
He died in Chicago while away on a business 
trip. He served through the civil war, enlist- 
ing in 1861 in Company E, One Hundred and 
Fifty-seventh New York Regiment of \'olun- 
teer Infantry, as a private and by force of 
merit rose to the rank of second lieutenant. 
He was again promoted to a captaincy, but re- 
signed before he was commissioned. He took 
part in many important battles and was wound- 
ed in the battle of Gettysburg. He was a char- 
ter member of X'esta Lodge. Odd Fellows, of 
Cortland. He was a member of the Congre- 
gational church. He married Sarah J. Gager, 
born in Cortland county, daughter of Dwight 
H. Gager, born at New London, Connecticut, 
and Hannah (.\llen) Gager. Children: i. Jo- 
sephine, married E. P. \\"right, of Cortland, 
and had Denjamin E.. Ivan N. and Ira Wright. 
2. Julia, died young. 3. Jessie, married Will- 
iam H. McCray. of \Vashington. D. C, and 
had one child, Harriet. 4. Page W ., mention- 
ed below. 5. Sadie, married Howard Tuthill. 
of Detroit, ^lichigan. 

(Ill) Page Wesley, son of John Wesley 
Benjamin, was born in Cortland, New '*>"ork, 
March 25. 1878. He was educated in the 
public schools of his native town. For four 
years he was clerk in the department store of 
Palmer Brothers, of Cortland. He then learn- 
ed the carpenter's trade and followed it for 
seven years, working in Washington, D. C, 
in Syracuse and Binghamton, New York. In 
1907 he entered the employ of the Prudential 
Life Insurance Company and since then has 
been with tliat company. He has been a mem- 
ber of \'esta Lodge, Odd Fellows, of Cortland, 
since he came of age. He is an active member 
of the Baptist church and president of the 
Baracca class. In politics he is a Republican. 
He married, September, 1900, Ina A. Wilkins, 
of Cayuga county. New York, daughter of 
Robert C. and Harriet A. (Johnson) Wilkins. 
They have one son, Wesley Robert, born May 
27, 1906. 

(The Mudge Line). 

The family of Mudge is of ancient English 
origin, and is found on record as earlv as the 



close of the fourteenth century It was origin- 
ally written Mugge, the letter '"g " being pro- 
nounced soft. The family bore arms : Argent, 
a chevron between three cockatrices, sable. 
Branches of the family lived in the counties of 
Debonshire, Somerset, Wilts, Kent, Middlesex, 
Dorset, Norfolk, and in the city of London. 

( I ) Jarvis Mudge. immigrant ancestor, was 
born in England, and came to this country 
about 1638. He was in Boston, Massachusetts, 
in that year, and, in 1640, in Hartford. Con- 
necticut, where he had six acres set off to 
him. In 1644 he settled in Wethersfield, the 
town next adjoining, and. in 1649, removed to 
i'etiuot. now New London. That same year lit 
married Rebecca Elsen. or Elsing, widow oi 
Abraham Elsen, of Wethersfield. He died in the 
early part of the year 1653, in New London, 
and his widow afterwards lived in Wethers- 
field. Children: Alicah, born in New London, 
1650, mentioned below; Moses, New London, 
in 1652. married Mary . 

( II ) Micah, son of Jarvis Mudge. was born 
in New London, in 1650: died in Hebron, Con- 
necticut, in the early part of January, 1724. 
.After his father's death he removed with his 
mother to Wethersfield. The first public rec- 
ord of him appears on the town books of 
Northampton, Massachusetts, where he mar- 
ried, September 23. 1670. Mary, daughter of 
George and Susanna Ale.xander. born October 
20. 1648, died in the early part of the year 1728. 
Her father, George Alexander, was one of 
the original proprietors of Northampton, 1654. 
Here Micah Mudge lived for a time after his 
marriage, and acted as surveyor. He appears 
to have been an original proprietor of North- 
field. Massachusetts. The settlement of this 
town was attended with great difliculties with 
the Indians, who burnt the village and drove 
oft' the settlers in 1675. He returned, with 
others, afterwards. 1682, and became an actual 
settler there. He removed to Lebanon, Con- 
necticut, and was one of the early settlers of 
that town prior to 1(398. He served as a sur- 
veyor there, and assisted in laying out the 
town. He was one of the nine persons who 
organized the First Congregational Church, in 
Lebanon. November 27, 1700. In 1702 the 
nanre of Mary, his wife, appears on the church 
records. December 22. 1704. he was chosen 
keeper of a public house, or tavern. Some 
time before September. 1717, he. with his 
family, removed to Hebron, Massachusetts. 
Here also he served as a surveyor, and, with 



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his sons, owned a mill on his home lot, which 
was situated upon the road to Colchester. He 
lived there until his death, in 1724. Children: 
Mary, born August 8, 167 1 ; Elizabeth, Octo- 
ber 10, 1673; Sarah, married John i'almer ; 
Moses, married Elizabeth : Abigail, mar- 
ried William Phelps: Ebenezer, born February 
26, 1683, mentioned below: Thankful, 1685; 
Susanna: Martha, married Isaac Tilden. 

(Ill) Ebenezer, son of Micah Mudge, was 
born in Xorthampton, Massachusetts, Febru- 
ary 26. 1683; died in Sharon, Connecticut. 
April 21, 1758. He was a farmer, millwright 
and surveyor, and settled in early life in Leb- 
anon, Connecticut. In 171 1 his father gave 
him a tract of land for a home lot there. After- 
wards, 1714, he sold his home lot, and, before 
17 1 7, or in that year, removed to Hebron. He 
bought and sold land in the latter town, under 
several ilates, until 1735, when he removed to 
Colchester, Connecticut. Two years later, in 
1737, he removed to S'.iaron, and settled there 
as one of the original proprietors. He served 
in various town otiices, and owned and built 
the first sawmill, gristmill and iron works. He 
married, January 13. 1708-09, .Abigail, daugh- 
ter of Thomas and Alary Skinner, born Febru- 
ary 17, 1691, in Maiden, Massachusetts, died 
in New Lebanon. She joined the church, in 
East Haddam, March 28, 1708. Children: 
Ebenezer. born October 23, 1709 ; Mary. March 
30, 171 1 ; Abigail. October 28. 1712: Elizabeth, 
July 31, 1714: Samuel, May 4. 1716: Micah, 
.March 6, 1718; Alartha, October 4, 1720; Jo- 
seph, May 28, 1722: Jarvis, 1723; Deborah, 
married Oliver Tryon ; Abraham, born June 
16. 1728, mentioned below; Sarah, married 
Josiah Skinner. 

(TV) .Abraham, son of Ebenezer Mudge, 
was born in Hebron, June 16, 1728; died in 
Florida, Xew York, .Ajiril 30, 1804. He re- 
moved to Sharon with his father, when about 
ten years old, and lived there until after he 
married. He was a farmer and millwright by 
occupation, and was engaged, with hi.s father 
and brothers, in the iron works, saw and grist- 
mill. The last record of him in Sharon is 
under date of February 3. 1768, at which time 
he sold land in .Sharon. He then removed to 
X'ew Concord \illage, town of Canaan. New 
York, then a part of what was called King's 
District. In 1795, when the town of Chatham 
was taken from Canaan, he became a resident 
of the latter town. Thence he removed to 
Florida, where lie died. He married (first), 



January 26, 1753, at Sharon, .\nna Gray, born 
.November 18, 1729, died in Chatiiam X'illage, 
June 22, 1776. He married (second), June 
'''. ^177^ widow Sarah Rex ford, of Chat- 
ham, died January 25, 1825. During the 
revolution he was one of the committee of 
safety, in Canaan, and took an active part. 
Children of first wife, the first si.x born in 
Sharon, the last in Canaan: Abraham, Novem- 
ber 3, 1753, mentioned below ; Anna, March 
24. 1756; Dinah, September 6, 1759; Ebenezer, 
October 10, 1761; Sibyl, February 19, 1765; 
Jonathan, July 13, 1767; Lois, October 14, 1770. 
(V) Abraham (2), son of Abraham (i) 
Mudge, was born in Sharon, November 3, 
1753, died in Bainbridge, Chenango county. 
New York, June 27, 1833. He was a mill- 
wright and miller by occupation, and owned a 
saw and grist mill, in Chatham, New Y'ork. 
Here he lived until after the birth of his second 
child, when he removed to Florida, Mont- 
gomery county, New Y'ork, where four more 
of his children were born. He owned mills 
also in this town, and was a trader in partner- 
ship with Cumings. Through the latter 

he lost most of his money and was obliged to 
seek work in another t<jwn. He worked for a 
time in a gristmill, in the town of Otsego, and, 
in three years, had built mills on Oaks Creek, 
in that town, and purchased a farm. Again, 
through the wrong doing of others, he became 
homeless and removed to Sherburne. Chenango 
county, where he built a mill on the Chenango 
river, and became prosperous. After several 
years residence there he sold out, but, on ac- 
count of the destruction of the mills by a 
freshet, failed to receive payment for them, 
and was left without property in his old age. 
He then anpliefl for and received a pension 
for his services in the revolution, and removed 
to Bainbridge, where he died. He served 
through most of the war, and rose to the rank 
of sergeant. He enlisted when living in New 
Lebanon, then in Massachusetts, and drew his 
pension from that state. He married. ^^lay 3, 
1779. Phebc, daughter of Benjamin and Eliza- 
beth \'alentine, born in Hempstead, Long Isl- 
and, .\pril 3, 1759, died in Nassau, New Y'ork, 
.August 27, 1839. Children, the first two born 
in Chatham, the next four in P'lorida : Pliebe, 
November 16. 1780: Charlotte. November 12, 
1783; .Anna, September 10, 1786; Isaac, June 
4, 1788; Gray, March 21, 1790: Laura. .Sep- 
tember 9. 1791, married Richard Benjamin 
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The name of Cummings in 
CUMMIXGS various spellings is of com- 
mon occurrence in Great 
Britain. While the prevailing tradition among 
families descended from Isaac Cummings, of 
Ipswich and Topsfield, Massachusetts, is that 
he was of Scottish descent, this is, according 
to present belief, extremely doubtful. The 
name appears early in France under the form 
of Comyns. On this side of the Atlantic there 
have been settled several families of the name, 
among whom there appears to be no line of 
kinship. In 1903 the number of descendants 
of Isaac Cummings, of Ipswich and Topsfield. 
was said to be at least ten thousand, an esti- 
mate which is probably below the actual num- 
ber. 

(I) Isaac Cummings, immigrant, was the 
first of the name who emigrated from Eng- 
land and settled in this country. In a deposi- 
tion made by him in March, 1666, he gave his 
age as sixty-five years, showing his birth to 
have been about 1601. His will was made May 
8, and probated May 22, 1677. The spelling 
of the name has been various in this country, 
but Cummings appears to be the standard 
form. We take no note of the numerous 
traditions tracing the connection back to a 
Scottish clan which flourished from 1080 to 
1330, also to 1093, to the times of Malcolm 
III., also the name as taken from the town of 
Comines in France. These are treated in full 
in the different genealogies which have been 
published upon the subject of the family. In 
1639 Isaac Cummings owned a house and lot 
in Ipswich village, and also possessed land 
lying partly in Ipswich and partly in Topsfield. 
He was made a freeman in 1642, and at differ- 
ent periods bought more or less land. He was 
called Goodman, was chosen grand juryman 
in 1675. was moderator of the town meeting 
in 1676, and deacon of the church in Topsfield 
for many years. When he arrived in this coun- 
try he was, for a brief period, an inhabitant 
of W'atertown. No mention remains of the 
name of his wife, and she was not living when 
his will was made. Children : John, born about 
1630, mentioned below: Isaac, about 1633: 
Elizabeth, died July 9, 1679. married, April 2, 
i66i, John Jewett : Ann, died June 29, 1689, 
married, October 8, 1669, John Pease. 

(II) John, son of Isaac Cummings, was 
born about 1630, died December 7, 1700. He 
married Sarah, daughter of Ensign Thomas 
and Alice (French) Hewlett, of Ipswich. He 



received by his father's will the homestead 
consisting of forty acres, with houses, barns, 
orchards and fences, in Ipswich, and in 1680 
sold the same to Edward Xealand (Kneeland). 
About 1658 he removed to Boxford, and was 
made freeman in 1673. Both he and his wife 
were members of the church in Topsfield, and 
December 7, 1685, were dismissed to the church 
which was just being formed in Dunstable. 
He removed to the latter place about 1680, and 
was one of the first settlers there. He was 
selectman in 1682, and a member of the church 
in 1684. His wife died December 7, 1700. 
Children: John, born 1657, in Boxford, men- 
tioned below ; Thomas, October 6, 1658 ; Na- 
thaniel, September 10, 1659: Sarah, January 
27. 1661 : Abraham: Isaac, died November 2, 
1688: Ebenezer, died November 2, 1688: the 
two latter killed by Indians: William (twin), 
born August 5, 1671, died March 30, 1672; 
Eleazer (twin), August 5, 1671 ; Benjamin, 
February 23, 1673 ; Samuel, December 28, 
1677. 

(III) John (2), son of John (i) Cum- 
mings, was born in Boxford, 1657. He mar- 
ried, September 13, 1680, Elizabeth, daughter 
of Samuel and Hannah (Brackett) Kinsley, 
born in BrAintree, November 22, 1657. She 
was called "Goody" Cummings. He lived first 
in Dunstable, and later in Nashua, where Mrs. 
Cummings was killed by the Indians, July 3, 
1706. He also was wounded but managed to 
escape to a swamp, where he ranained over 
night, and then to "Farwell Block-house." 
Children: John, born July 7, 1682; Samuel, 
October 6, 1684: Elizabeth, January 3, 1687; 
Hannah, May 20, ifxjo, in Groton : Ebenezer, 
September 17, 1695. in \\'oburn, killed by In- 
dians, September 3, 1724; Anna. September 
14, 1698: Lydia, March 24. 1701, died April, 
1701 : William, April 24, 1702. 

(IV) Deacon John (3) Cummings, son of 
John (2) Cummings. was born July 7. 1682, 
died April 27, 1759. He was an original mem- 
ber of the church at Westford, and first deacon, 
December 3, 1727. He was moderator of the 
first town meeting and chosen one of the select- 
men. He was also town clerk in 1736. He 
married, October 3, 1703, Elizabeth, daughter 
of Pelatiah and Ruth Adams, of Chelmsford, 
born April 26, 1680, died April 30, 1739. Chil- 
dren: Elizabeth, born August 29, 1706: Mary, 
July 3, 1708; John, June i, 1710: William, 
July 27, 1712, mentioned below: Thomas, Au- 
gust I, 1714: Abigail, 1716; Samuel, Septem- 



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ber i6, 17 18; Ephraim, November 30, 1720; 
Bridget, November 15, 1722. 

(V) Deacon William Ciimmings, son of 
Deacon John (3) Cummings, was born in 
Westford, July 27, 1712, died September 9, 
1758. He married Lucy Colburn, intentions 
published July 12. 1734. He removed from 
Groton. Massachusetts, and was in West Dun- 
stable in 1744, and deacon of the church in 
Hollis, Xew Hampshire, in 1745. In 1755 he 
was ensign in the French war, in the company 
of Captain Powers. All his sons were soldiers 
in the revolution. Children : Ebenezer, born 
April 17, 1735; Lucy, April 18. 1737; Brid- 
get, September 16, 1739; William, born in 
Groton, October 12, 1741 ; Elizabeth, January 
II, 1743-44; Philip, November 26. 1745, men- 
tioned below : Rebecca, born in Groton, May 
II, 1748; Joshua, baptized in Hollis, February 
20, 1757, died same day. 

(VI) Philip, son of Deacon William Cum- 
mings, was born in Groton, Massachusetts, 
November 26, 1745, died March 26, 1826. He 
married Mary McCaster, born November 15, 
1751, died October 2, 1815. He was a soldier 
in the revolution. He lived in Hollis. Chil- 
dren: Philip, born October i, 1770; Thomas, 
August 7, 1772, (lied January 5, 1773 ; Edward, 
November 17, 1774, mentioned below; Caleb 
(twin), October 16. 1776; Joshua (twin), Oc- 
tober 16, 1776; Polly, November 12, 1778; 
Lucy, October 24, 1780; Rebecca, July 15, 
1783; Leonard, Julv 9, 1785: William, April 
7, 1788. died May 5, 1788; William, April 18, 
1789; Betsey. July 28, 1791. 

(Vin Edward, son of Philip Cummings. 
was born November 17, 1774, died in Preble, 
New York, July 6, 1846. He married (first) 
Sally Farar, who died October 12, 1826. He 
married (second), August 19, 1829, Abigail 
Egbertson. who died July 14. 1846. He set- 
tled first in the town of Winfield. New York, 
and in 1804 removed to Preble, then in the 
midst of a wilderness, and cleared land for a 
home. His first dwelling there was a log cabin. 
Children: Polly, born October 7, 1802; Silas. 
August 7, 1804. mentioned below ; Harriet, 
February 18, 1807; Sally, March 19, 1809; 
Celona, August 10, 181 1; William, July 31. 
1813; Che.ster, July 31, 1815; Edward, No- 
vember 8. 1818; Harvey, March 17. 1820; Lu- 
cinda. January 21, 1824. 

(\'ni) Silas, son of Edward Cummings, 
was born in Winfield, New York, August 7, 
1804, died in IVeble. September 4. 1875. He 



married (first) Jane Duncan. January 2fi. 
1830, who died June 25, 1832. He married 
(second), November 8, 1832, Amanda Tag- 
gart, who died June 5, 1841. He married 
( third ) Emily Hobart, February 23, 1842. She 
died April 6, 1893. Child of first wife: Eliza- 
beth Jane, born November 22, 1831. Children 
of second wife: Samuel Edward, born March 
22, 1834; Mary Eliza, September 20, 1835: 
Daniel Aliller, January 30, 1838, mentioned 
below ; John Newton, September 20, 1839, died 
September 2Ti, I839; Harlan Page, September 
10, 1840. Children of third wife: Ann Au- 
gusta, born August 12, 1844; Francina Celona. 
August 9. 1846: Homer, January 23, 1849; 
Emily Hobart, February 12, 1851, died June 
28, 1852; Joseph Hobart, January 27. 1856. 

( IX) Daniel Miller, son of Silas Cunmiings. 
was born January 30, 1838, in Preble, New 
York. He was educated in the district schools 
of his native town, and lived there until he 
was twenty-three years old. He then removed 
to Homer, New York, and has lived there 
and in Little York, in the town of Homer, ever 
since. He has always been a farmer by occu- 
pation, and although at present retired from 
active life has large farming interests. In 
politics he is a Republican and held the office 
of assessor for eight years. In religion he is a 
Baptist. He is a member of the local Grange. 
He married (first), February 7, 1861, Sarah 
Climena, born September 4, 1838, died Febru- 
ary 18, 1900, daughter of Orrin and Ruth 
Eliza (Capronl Pratt. He married (second), 
February 26, 1903, Mary, daughter of Joshua 
and Rebecca A. (West) Weight. Children of 
first wife: Alary Louise, born April 20, 1862, 
married. March 18, 1903, Albert Tuckerman, 
child, Mildred C, born November 18, 1905, 
died November 3. 1907; Melvin H., June 4, 
1864. died .Vugust 30, 1867; Orrin P., October 
26, 1868, graduate of Cornell University, 1899. 
electrician in New York, married, June 16, 
1900. Gertrude Kellogg, of Homer. 



Rev. William Spanswick 
SPAXSWICK was a clergyman of the 

Methodist Episcopal de- 
nomination in England, where he was born, 
and where he lived all his life. 

(II) Charles, son of Rev. William Spans- 
wick, was born in London, England, in 1845. 
He received a good education in England, and 
when a young man came to this country. He 
married (first) Margaret, who died in 1882, 



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aged twenty-eight, who was the daughter of 
Henry W. and Eliza \\'att. Henry W. Watt 
was a linen manufacturer in Scotland. He 
married (secontl) Mary Jane Chambers, a 
native of Belfast, Ireland. Children, by first 
wife: William H., mentioned below, and Eliza- 
beth, born December 5, 1879. Of the second 
marriage of Charles Spanswick, one child lived 
to maturity, Ethel, who became a trained nurse. 

(Ill) William H., son of Charles Spans- 
wick, was born at Cohoes, New York, January 
II, 1874, and was educated there in the com- 
mon and high schools and at the Troy Busi- 
ness College. For a time also he attended the 
night schools. He began to work at the age 
of fourteen, as ofifice boy in the employ of the 
knitting mills at Cohoes, and worked after- 
ward in all departments, thoroughly mastering 
the details of the business, then for two years 
was a traveling salesman. At the age of twen- 
ty-four he was appointed superintendent of a 
mill at Kingston, New Y'ork, and though the 
mill had never been on a paying basis, he soon 
made a profitable industry. Afterward he 
was superintendent of various other mills in 
New Y'ork state. In 1906 he came to Fulton, 
New York, as manager of J. S. Dodd's River- 
side Knitting Mill, and after his employer died 
he organized the corporation under the name 
of the Monarch Knitting Mills Company to 
continue the business, and has since been presi- 
dent of the company and general manager. He 
is also president of the William H. Spanswick 
Manufacturing Company and of the Textile 
Exchange. He is one of the most active, ener- 
getic ancl influential manufacturers of the city 
of Fulton. In politics Mr. Spanswick is an 
Independent, He is a member of Hiram 
Lodge, No. 144, Free and Accepted Masons : 
of Neahtawanta Lodge, No. 245, Independent 
Order of Odd Fellows, and of the Fulton 
Chamber of Commerce. In religion he is 
McthcKlist. 

^\'illiam H. Spanswick married, June 28, 
IQ07. Katliryn J. Dewitt, born in Hastings, 
Oswego county. New Y'ork, daughter of C. V. 
Dewitt ; no children. 



Dr. Albert L. Morgan, son of 
MORGAN James F. Alorgan, was born 

September 14, 1845. '" Chester 
county, Pennsylvania. He attended the public 
schools and studied medicine in the medical 
school of the L'niversity of Michigan, from 



which he was graduated with the degree of 
M. D., in the class of 1873. 

He began to practice medicine at Odell. Illi- 
nois, then moved to Dexter, New York, an 1 
succeeded in winning a large practice. He 
enlisted in Company I, Fifty-third Illinois 
Regiment of Volunteer Infantry, and served 
two years in the civil war. He is a member of 
the Jefferson County ^ledical Society, the New 
York State Medical Society and the American 
Medical Association. He belongs to Brown- 
ville Lodge, No. 53, Free Masons ; to the Inde- 
pendent Order of Foresters of America, and 
other organizations, including the Julius Broad- 
bent Post, Grand Army of the Republic. 

He married, March 26, 1874, Anna R., born 
January 17, 185 1, daughter of George W. and 
Mary A. Peirce, of Ottawa, Illinois. Children : 
I. James Franklin, born January 9, 1875, at 
Odell, Illinois. He received his education at 
the Dexter high school and high school of 
Watertown, being graduated from the latter in 
1895. .\fter teaching for two years he entered 
the St. Lawrence L'niversity, Canton, New 
York, being graduated in 1901 ; professor of 
mathematics and science at Titusville, Pennsyl- 
vania ; chemist at the state experimental sta- 
tion at Kingston, Rliode Island. 2. William C, 
mentioned lielow. 3. Grace Louise, born Sep- 
tember 14, 1880, at Lisbon Center, New Y'ork; 
was graduated from the Dexter high school in 
1900, and from the School of Art of Potsdam 
Normal and Crane Institute of Music, also of 
Potsdam, New York, in 1905: was successful 
supervisor of music and drawing in the schools 
of New Y'ork, West Mrginia and Connecticut. 
She married, June 26, 191 1, George L. Smith, 
of Winsted, Connecticut. 

William Clark, son of Dr. Albert L. Morgan, 
was born at Lisbon Center, St. Lawrence coun- 
ty. New York, September 17, 1877. He re- 
ceived his early education in the public schools 
of Dexter, New Y'ork. After a course in the 
Business College, of Watertown, New Y'ork. 
he entered the Philadelphia College of Horol- 
ogy and Optics, from which he was graduated 
in the class of 1899. He began to practice his 
profession at Cassopolis, Michigan. From that 
place he went to Gabon, Ohio, where he was 
employed for one year and then to W^ater- 
town. New Y'ork. where he worked for five 
years and a half. In September, igo6, he came 
to Fulton, New Y'ork, and established himself 
in the jewelry and optical business, in which 
he has been verv successful. He is a member 



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of the New York State Retail Jewelry Asso- 
ciation and secretary of the Central New York 
Optometrical Society. He is a niemher of 
W'atertown Lodge, No. 49, Free Masons: of 
Fulton Chapter, No. 167, Royal Arch Masons, 
and of the Elks. 

He married, January i, 1901, Lois Whit- 
ford, daughter of Albert and Frances Coates. 
Children: Muriel Kathryn, born October 21, 
1902: Hilda Leona, born June 7, 1905. 



The surname Garrett is com- 
GARRETT mon in England, though often 

spelled Garrad. There is a 
family tradition that the family is of French 
origin. Daniel Garrett was an inhabitant of 
Hartford, Connecticut, as early as 1640, and 
he had a son Daniel, born 1647, who was prison 
keeper at Hartford for many years. The next 
of the name appearing in this country was Jo- 
seph Garrett, who Savage says was son or 
grandson of Daniel, and who lived in Hartford 
in 1693, ^^'■^ had, it is believed, a son Francis. 
Francis Garrett was born before 1700, and 
died June 24, 1731. He settled in Goshen, 
Connecticut, and married, March 19, 1723, 
Sarah (Mills) Tuller, born 1696, died 1797, 
in her hundred and first year, widow of Sam- 
uel Tuller and daughter of John and Sarah 
(Pettibone) Mills, of Windsor. His will was 
dated June 23, 1731, and proved February i. 
1731-32. His widow married (third), 1745, 
Captain Joseph Woodford. Children: Sarah, 
born January 22, 1723-24 ; Susanna, October 2, 
1725; Major John, August 15, 1727, was an 
officer in the French and Indian war, and in 
the revolution, he was slain at the Wyoming 
massacre in 1778, and left a son John who 
lived at Southbury, Connecticut : Francis, Oc- 
tober 4, 1729: Anna, September 15, 1731 (post- 
humous). In the census of 1790, three John 
Garretts are given in Connecticut — John, of 
Southbury, mentioned above ; John, of Bran- 
ford, and John, of Bristol. Another John 
Garrett was living in Coxsackie, Albany coun- 
ty, New York, together with a Simeon who 
was also reported there as head of a family. 
(I) Ephraim Garrett, a descendant of the 
family described above, was doubtless a son 
of John or Simeon Garrett, who came from 
Connecticut and settled at Coxsackie, Albany 
county. New York. Ephraim lived at Coey- 
mans, or Greenville, Albany county. New 
York. He married Hannah Miller, of Green- 
ville. 



( II ) John W., son of Ephraim Garrett, was 
born December 11, 1810, at Coeymans, Albany 
county. New York, near Indian Fields. He 
married, June 14, 1834, Rebecca Allen, who 
was born in the town of Scotland, Albany 
county, June 22, 1812. and died February 19, 
1882. He moved with his father to Lysander, 
Onondaga county. New York, and followed 
farming there. His three eldest children were 
born at Coeymans, the others at Lysander. 

(III) Thomas, son of John W. Garrett, was 
born in 1845, ^^ Lysander, a mile and a half 
east of Little Utica, New York, and died Sep- 
tember 5, 1898. He settled at Ira, Cayuga 
county, New^ York. He married, March 22, 
1868, Lovisa Blakeman. Children: Lewis E., 
mentioned below ; Guy, born March 28, 1875, 
proprietor of livery stable at Fulton : Fred, 
born June 10, 1882. 

(IV) Lewis E., son of Thomas Garrett, was 
born in the town of Ira, Cayuga county. New 
York, July 20, 1869. He received his early 
education in the public schools. During his 
boyhood he worked on his father's farm and 
afterward for a time was engaged in dealing 
in horses in partnership with his brother Guy. 
In u)03 the brothers came to Fulton and open- 
ed a livery stable on First street. Their business 
prospered and after a few years they moved 
to the present location on Cayuga street. The 
firm has built up an extensive business in addi- 
tion to the livery stable, dealing in horses and 
carriages. Mr. Garrett is a member of the 
lienevolent and Protective Order of Elks; 
the Modern W'oodmen of America and the 
American Mechanics. In politics he is Repub- 
lican : in religion a Methodist. 

He married, January 17, 191 1, May Parker, 
born at Pulaski, New York, daughter of Frank 
Parker, of Syracuse, New York. They have 
no children. 



The surname Salisbury, 
SALISBURY spelled also Salesbury, Sal- 

usbury, Saulsbury and Sals- 
Iniry. and various other ways, is of great an- 
tiquity in England and Wales. The name was 
derived either from the city of Salisbury, coun- 
ty Wilts. England, or from Salzburg, a town 
in Bavaria. Sir Robert Salisbury says: "My 
own family came over with William the Con- 
(|ueror. Adam de Saltzburgh, who attended 
him, was a younger son of the house of Ba- 
varia, and took the name of the town he then 
lived in, the present seat of the archbishop of 



NEW YORK. 



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Saltzburgli. Upon their residence in England, 
the family Anglified the name into Salsbury, 
Salesbury and Salusbury. As soon as the 
Conqueror's descendants got a sufficient foot- 
ing in Wales, my ancestors had a grant of the 
Lordship of Llewenny, in the county of Den- 
bigh, and were governors of Denbigh Castle 
for many generations. They were the first 
sheriffs and first members of Parliament for 
the county of Denbigh." 

The English grant of land to Adam was in 
Lancashire, on the banks of the river Ribble, 
where he built a house, now in ruins, called 
Salusbury Hall. The coat-of-arms of the Sal- 
isbury family in England is the same as that 
emblazoned over the gates of Salzburg: Gules, 
a lion rampant, argent, ducally crowned, or, 
between three crescents of the last. The fam- 
ily motto: "Sat est prostrassc Iconi." The 
Welsh or English ancestry of the American 
immigrants has not been definitely established, 
but there is reason to believe that the names 
Nicholas and Humphrey are derived from 
intermarriage with the Himi]>hrey-Nicholas 
family. We know that in 1669, John Salis- 
bury, of Erbistock, county Salop, descended in 
the seventh generation from the elder Thomas 
Salisbury, of Llewenny, Wales, married Kath- 
erine Nicholas, daughter of Humphrey Nich- 
olas, of Llacthbwlch, county ^Montgomery. The 
mother of Nicholas Salisbury, the American 
immigrant, may have been also of this Nich- 
olas family. These peculiar and unusual names 
point strongly to this section of the family as 
the progenitors in the old country. 

Something of the Saxon history of the fam- 
ily may be of interest. Henry Guelph, father 
of Adam de Saltzburgh, was in 1020 A. D. 
made Duke of Bavaria, by Emperor Conrad, 
the Second. We are told that Adam came 
with William, Duke of Normandy, not as a 
subject but as a soldier of fortune, but he 
fought in the battle of Hastings, and, like the 
feudal captains of the Norman duke, was re- 
warded with lands. His grant was in Rich- 
monshire, as stated above. Surnames had not 
then come into use, but within a century, came 
into fashion in Normandy, and later in Eng- 
land, but the place name dc Saltzburg, origin- 
ally not meant to be adopted by members of 
the family not hailing from that place, came 
in a few generations to be an inherited sur- 
name, just as nicknames and patronymics be- 
came surnames. In 1102 Alexander, son of 
Adam de Saltzburg, had succeeded to his pos- 



sessions, and he died in 1163, leaving the estate 
in Lancashire to his eldest son Alexander, and 
an estate in Cheshire to his son Henry. 

No more careful work has been published 
than the "Salisbury Genealogies" of one branch 
of the .\merican family. That work shows 
that the English or Welsh ancestry has not 
been definitely worked out. Some matter, pur- 
porting to be family history of the first genera- 
tion in other publications, is entirely erroneous 
as to dates, names, localities and facts. There 
was no Thomas Salisbury at Cranston, Rhode 
Island. To make clear some of the family 
history that has been given incorrectly, both 
the pioneers. Nicholas and William, are men- 
tioned below. 

Nicholas Salisbury, the first of the family 
in this country, left few traces of his residence 
here. He was in Sudbur}-, Massachusetts, as 
early as 168=;, then aged forty-eight years, in- 
dicating that he was born in 1637. His wife 
Elizabeth died February 17, 1687-88, aged 
fifty-three years, fixing her date of birth as 
1635. ( See Whitmore's "Copps Hill Epitaphs," 
Myman's "Charlestown," Savage's "Genealog- 
ical Dictionary," and many other authorities 
which prove that no Salisbury came to New- 
England at the time stated in the traditional 
account). Children: i. Nicholas, married, in 
Boston, November 29, 1709, or 1710, .\nn Far- 
rise, or Ferris. 2. John, born about 1665, tax- 
payer of Boston in 1689; his wife Annabel 
died September 7, 1694, and he married (sec- 
ond) (intention dated September 25, 1695) 
Bridget Williams, who married (second), July 
6, 1708, Nathaniel Goodwin, Rev. Cotton Math- 
er officiating ; John was a mariner and died in 
1702, his widow administering his estate; chil- 
dren of first wife: i. John, born January 5, 
1690, died December 15, 1704; ii. Nicholas, 
August 20. 1694; iii. James (twin), August 20, 
1694: children of second wife: iv. Nicholas, 
October 28. 1697, ancestor of Hon. Stephen 
Salisbury, late of Worcester. Massachusetts, 
and many leading Boston families, and his de- 
scendants are given in great detail in the "Sal- 
isbury Genealogies and Memorials." a work of 
many volumes, by Edward E. Salisbury, and 
his sister; v. Benjamin, November 7, 1699, 
died March 15, 1770; vi. Humphrey, married, 
in Boston, Mary Alillborn. Possibly other chil- 
dren. 

(I) William Salisbury, doubtless a brother 
of Nicholas Salisbury, was ancestor of the 
Swansea and Rehoboth families named Salis- 



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bury, and of practically all the Rhode Island 
families named Salisbury. He was born about 
1635, and settled first at Dorchester, Massa- 
chusetts, now part of Boston, about 1659. He 
was killed in King Philip's war in 1675, and 
his estate was administered in Suffolk county. 
His widow Abigail married, June 9, 1676, John 
Williston, of Milton. William Salisbury and 
others deeded land at Milton, July 17, 1664, 
for the minister's house, but, in 1671, was at 
Swansea, the first of the name there. Qiil- 
dren, born in Boston: i. William, August 14, 
1659; married Hannah : he admin- 
istered his father's estate at Milton ; settled 
with his brother Samuel in Swansea and Re- 
hoboth, and between 1685 and 1704 had seven 
children recorded at Swansea. 2. Susanna, born 
April 27, 1662. Children born at Milton (Dor- 
chester) : 3. Hannah, May 18, 1665. died June 
29, 1665. 4. Samuel, mentioned below. 5. Cor- 
nelius, October 7, 1668, ancestor of many 
Rhode Island families. 6. Hannah, .\pr'\\ 20, 
1671. 7. Joseph, May 5, 1675. lived in Rhode 
Island. 

(II) Samuel, son of Nicholas Salisbury, 
was born May 17, 1666, and settled at Reho- 
both, Massachusetts. From Rehoboth and 
Swansea. Massachusetts, the family of Sam- 
uel and his brothers spread to various sections 
of Rhode Island. He married (first) Mary 

, who died at Rehoboth, August 21, 

i6g8. He married (second), at Rehoboth, 
October 28, 1699, Jemima Martin. Child of 
first wife: Samuel, born August 15, 1698. 
Children by second wife, all born at Rehoboth : 
Jemima, September 23, 1700; Joanna, Febru- 
ary 17, 1701-02; Ebenezer, January 10, 1703- 
04: Joseph, January 17, 1705-06; Martin, men- 
tioned below; Caleb, June 25, 1710; Nathan, 
Augu.st 5, 1712, resided at Rehoboth; Nathan- 
iel, December 3, 1714, died June 19, 1713; 
Aaron, January 26, 1716-17. 

(III) Martin, son of Samuel Salisbury, was 
born at Rehoboth, Massachusetts, July 4, 1708. 
He lived at Warwick and Cranston, Rhode 

Island. He married Pierce. In 1790, 

according to the census, he was living at War- 
wick, and had in his family three females. His 
son Nathan had two sons under sixteen, and 
one female over sixteen, according to the same 
census. Peleg had two sons over sixteen and 
two under that age. Children : Peleg, lived at 
Cranston, and riiarried Mary Sweet, was known 
as the "big man of Warwick" ; Martin ; Job, 
of Warren; Mial, married, December 9, 1764, 



at Warwick, Ruth Greene, and lived at Charles- 
town, Rhode Island, in 1774; Nathan, men- 
tioned below ; Rebecca ; Phcelse. 

(I\') Nathan, son of Martin Salisbury, was 
born December i, 1751. He married. May 16, 
1 77 1, Abigail Stone, who was born October 
19, 1753. He removed from Warwick, Rhode 
Island, to Cranston. Rhode Island, married 
and resided there until 1795, when he removed 
to Providence, Rhode Island. In March, 1803, 
he removed to Harford, Cortland county. New 
York, where he purchased a farm and remain- 
ed until 1806, when he made his home in Caz- 
enovia, Madison county. New York. In March, 
1807, he came with his family to Homer, then 
in Onondaga county. New York. He pur- 
chased land and built a log cabin on lot No. 5, 
located on Cold Brook, and his family went to 
live there in the fall of the year, and he lived 
there tlie rest of his life. His wife Abigail 
died December 14, 1836. She was a daughter 
of Deacon Joseph Stone, of Cranston, Rhode 
Island, a descendant of Hugh Stone, "the 
stolen boy." Her mother was a descendant of 
Chad Brown, who was also progenitor of the 
founder of Brown University. Nathan Salis- 
bury' died at Scott, Cortland county. New 
York, May 4, 181 7. He was a soldier in the 
revolution in Rhode Island, and was lieutenant 
under Captain Burgess of the company which 
from Warwick Neck fired into, captured and 
burned the British schooner "Cask" in 1772. 
Children, all born at Cranston: i. Waitee, De- 
cember 19, 1772, married Joseph Budlong. 2. 

Sally, February 18, 1776, married 

Rhodes. 3. John, March 30, 1778, went to 
Indiana. 4. Joseph Martin, June 24, 1780, 
followed the sea and died on the home voyage 
from China. 5. Anna, April i, 1782. 6. Mary 
Lucinda, March 28, 1785, married Benjamin 
Congdon. 7. Ambrose, June 5, 1789. 8. Cyn- 
thia, August 13, 1 791, married Medad Morgan. 
of Scott. 9. Nathan, mentioned below. 10. 
Phebe, February 28, 1796. 

(V) Nathan (2), son of Nathan (i) Salis- 
bury, was born at Cranston, Rhode Island, 
October 10, 1793, died in Scott, Cortland coun- 
ty, July 16, 1887. He received his first school- 
ing in Providence, whence he removed with his 
parents in 1803, and came to New York state. 
At the time the family settled at Cold Brook, 
but half a dozen pioneers who had recently 
erected their log cabins, were living in the ad- 
jacent slopes of the valley, and the stillness of 
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and other wild animals. Deer and other game 
were abundant, and the cool streams were 
swarming with trout. In 181 3 he was baptized 
by Rev. .\lfrcd Bennett and received into the 
Baptist church at Homer, and subsequently 
he changed his membership to the Bajjtist 
church of Scott, where a large and flourishing 
church had existed for many years. He was 
always interested in the welfare of the young, 
and devoted much time to organizing and con- 
ducting Sabbath and singing schools. In 181 5 
he inirchased a farm on Lot Xo. 95 in Scott, 
and this place was known afterward for many 
years as "Evergreen Terrace," the Salisbury 
homestead. At that time, however, it was in 
the wilderness, and, under the guiding hand 
of Mr. Salisbury, the land was cleared, graded 
and terraced, and it became one of the most 
]3ictures(|ue spots in this section. At one time 
the original log house, the first frame dwell- 
ing, and the present beautiful house were all 
standing and made a remarkable object lesson, 
showing the growth in comfort and prosperity 
in a few generations. The broad acres were 
cleared and yielded abundant harvests. For 
many years Mr. Salisbury devoted himself 
especially to breeding cattle and sheep. He 
was studious and made a specialty of geology. 
In the old house his collection of rocks, fossils 
and minerals is still preserved, excellent evi- 
dence of his extensive knowledge and untiring 
industry. During his long life, he held many 
positions of trust and honor and enjoyed the 
respect of all who knew him. 

He married, June 21. 1818, Lucretia A. Bab- 
cock, born at Blandford, Massachusetts, Sep- 
tember 30, 1792, died at Scott, Xew York. 
March 4, 1881, daughter of James and Mary 
(Gibbs) Babcock. Her parents came from 
Blandford to Scott, in May, 181 5. Their chil- 
dren : Justin, Justus, James Henry, Samuel, 
John, Lucretia A., mentioned above ; Mary, 
and Matilda Babcock. Children of Nathan 
and Lucretia A. ( Babcock) Salisbury : .\manda, 
married Cyrus Kellogg; Charles B., deceased; 
Dr. James Henry, a noted physician of Cleve- 
land, Ohio, and New York City; Milton L., 
deceased; Burdette J., mentioned below ; Char- 
lotte A., died January 16, 1898, aged sixty- 
seven, married John Ellis ; William Wallace, 
mentioned below ; Nathan, died March 1 1 . 
1900. aged sixty-three. 

(VI) Burdette J., son of Nathan (2) Salis- 
bury, was born in Scott, Cortland county, Oc- 
tober 30, 1828; died in Littleyork, town of 



Homer, New York, August 29, 1905. He re- 
ceived his early education in the public schools 
of his native town and at Homer Academy, 
and he assisted his father in the work of the 
farm at "Evergreen Terrace," until he was 
thirt)' years old, when in partnership with his 
brother Milton, he bought a farm on the main 
road in the town of Scott, and together they 
conducted the farm for a number of years. 
For many years he manufactured wooden shoe 
pegs, which were used by all shoemakers at 
that time, having a factory at Littleyork, on 
Littleyork lake, but, in 1878, he retired from 
this business and afterward devoted himself 
mainly to farming. He dealt in livestock, and, 
during the civil war especially, had a large and 
flourishing business. In 1866 he bought a farm 
at Littleyork and removed thither in 1867, 
living there the rest of his life. He owned 
about a hundred and thirty acres of land in 
Littleyork, and a farm in Cayuga county. He 
had a fine herd of Holstein cattle and was suc- 
cessful in all branches of agriculture. He was 
a member of Littleyork Grange, Patrons of 
Husbandry. In politics he was a Democrat 
and held various offices of trust and honor. 

He married, in 1862, Elmira L. Ellsworth, 
born in Venice, Cayuga county. New York, in 
1835, daughter of Daniel and Elmira (Wheat) 
Ellsworth. Children : Orlando B., born Janu- 
ary 5, 1864, a druggist in New York City, 
graduate of the College of Pharmacy of New 
York ; Frank Nathan, mentioned below. 

(VII) Frank Nathan, son of Burdette J. 
Salisbury, was born in Scott, Cortland county, 
March 23, 1866. He came to Littleyork to 
live when he was but one year old, and he was 
eduated there in the public schools and at 
Homer Academy. Except for two years when 
he was in the mercantile business at Littleyork, 
he has followed farming all his life, and is one 
of the most prominent and successful farmers 
of this section. For many years he has also 
dealt in farm produce, shipping many carloads 
of potatoes and cabbages to the city markets. 
His dairy is also noteworthy. He conducts 
the farm that his father bought at Littleyork, 
in 1866. In politics he is a Democrat. 

He married, in 1888, Jennie B. .Squires, born 
in Preble, New York, October 30, 1864, daugh- 
ter of Richard and Mary (Aldrich) Squires. 
Mr. and Mrs. Salisbury have no children. 

fVI) William Wallace, son of Nathan (2) 
Salisbury, was born in the town of Scott, Cort- 
land county, February 15, 1834. He received 



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his early education in the district schools in 
Scott, and at Homer Academy. He studied 
law in the office of Davis & Leach, in Syracuse, 
in the office of Willett & Hawley, of Albany, 
and the Albany Law School. In 1857 he was 
admitted to the bar and directly afterward he 
began to practice in Albany. After three years 
as a lawyer he returned to the homestead at 
Scott and worked for four years. During the 
next four years he conducted a farm which 
he bought in Homer, and also conducted an 
insurance business. During his later years he 
has lived with his son, William Wallace, in 
Preble, and assists him in managing his grain 
business. He has been a prominent member 
of the Patrons of Husbandry and has organ- 
ized, in Cortland county, nine subordinate 
granges. Patrons of Husbandry. In politics 
he is a Democrat. 

He married, October 15, i860, Alargaret 
Lloyd Rice, born in Albany, New York, De- 
cember 29. 1832, died November 27, 1906, 
daughter of Joseph T. Rice, who was the first 
jeweler of Albany, and the only one for some 
years. Her mother was Jane (Cummings) 
Rice, who was born in Strathshire, Scotland. 
Children of William Wallace and Margaret 
L. (Rice) Salisbury: i. James Rice, born Sep- 
tember 3, 1 861, a farmer in Scott, New York. 
2. Elizabeth Davidson, May 16, 1863, married 
A. B. Rust, of Weedsport, New York, an in- 
surance broker, and had children : John Wal- 
lace, Jessie Gilbert, Bessie, Neil, William, Ger- 
trude and Florence Rust. 3. William Wallace, 
mentioned below. 

(VII) William Wallace (2), son of Will- 
iam Wallace ( i ) Salisbury, was born in Scott, 
Cortland county. May 27, 1865. He was edu- 
cated in the public schools of his native town 
and followed farming there until he was of 
age. At that time he went into business as a 
dealer in produce, grain and feed in Homer, 
New York, and remained there until 1900, 
when he came to Preble, New York. Lender 
the firm name of Sali.sbury & Porter, he has 
been since then in the same line of business at 
Preble. His partner is Fred D. Porter. While in 
Homer, Mr. Salisbury was an active member of 
the fire department for seven years, and was 
assistant chief for two years, chief of the fire 
department for three years. He is a member 
of Preble Lodge, No. 164, Odd Fellows, and of 
Zenanna Lodge of Rebekah, No. 178, of Preble. 
In politics he is a Democrat and for four years 
he was town clerk. At the present time he is 



justice of the peace and as magistrate and 
member of the town board, has done excellent 
public service. In religion he is a Presbyterian. 
He married. December 12, 1886, Agnes 
Hobart, of Homer, New York, born Decem- 
ber 12, 1870, daughter of Jeremiah and Maria 
(Rainey) Hobart. Children: i. Harry C, 
born August 11, 1887, at present with Knapp 
Brothers, merchants of Preble, New York : 
married, August 6, 1910, Florence Dubois, a 
daughter of Curtis W. Dubois, of Preble. 2. 
Grace M.. November 12, 1889; married, March 
iv 191 1. Tames Nye, a farmer of Preble, New 
York. 



The coat-of-arms of the Pad- 
P.A.DDOCK dock family represented a pel- 
ican plucking her breast to 
feed her young, in honor of one of them who, 
before the emigration to this country, saved an 
English garrison at the imminent hazard of his 
own life. 

According to tradition, the Paddock family 
is of Welsh extraction. There is a direct tra- 
dition that several of the name emigrated to 
America together. One of them was Robert ; 
another may have been Mary, who married 
Thomas Roberts. March 2-. 1650 ; and another 
Deborah, who died unmarried, in Yarmouth. 
August 17, 1732, within about one month of 
ninety-three years. 

(I) Robert, the first of the name of whom 
we have any knowledge, lived in Plymouth as 
early as 1634, and probably still earlier. There 
is the following entry in the Old Colony Rec- 
ords in 1638: 

".■\t a Court of Assistants held the fourth day of 
June in the fourteenth year of the reign of our 
Sovereign Lord Charles by the grace of God King 
of England, Scotland, France and Ireland Defender 
of the faith etc." 

"Robert Paddock of Du.xbarrow. 

"oweth the King etc. 10 lb. 
The condition that if the above bounden Robert Pad- 
dock shall frame, prefer or cause to be framed and 
preferred a bill of indictment at the ne.xt general 
Court holden for this (Commonwealth) against Will- 
iam C for the suspicion of the breaking of his 
house and taking out "****" nut of a chest 

therein the " x" and give evidence thereunto 

at will to the grand jury as to the pitty that your 
etc." "Released."' 

At the foot of the same page is the follow- 



" Robert Paddock is eranted the garden place next to 
Thomas Willet wh William Paddy should have had. 
This grant is remitted. John Croome." 



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In 1641. December 31st, there is the follow- 
ing entries : 

"At a Town meeting held the last day of Decem- 
her in the * * * * year of his ma. etc." "Robert 
Paddock is granted foure acres of upland where he 
desired about K Dingle." 

In 1646, October 20th: 

"Att the third session of the general Court begun 
the first Tuesday in June holden the 20th of October 
in ye twenty-secondth year of the reigne." 

"Whereas Robte Paddock complains to this Court 
for, and desires to have an account of what is due 
unto (him) by the last will and testament of Wm. 
Palmer, deceased, the Court desires Mr. Thomas 
Prence cited to come and give in an account or send 
it unto the Guvnor yt so what is due unto ye said 
Paddock may be satisfied unto him according to the 
tenor of ye said will as soone as with conveniency 
he may and that before this winter yf he canne." 

Among the "Presentments of the Grand in- 
(|uest" in 1648, is the following, June 4th: 

"Robert Paddock of Plymouth and William Clark 
of Duxbury were both presented June the 4th for 
being drunk and both cleared by the paiment of their 
fine." 

He died in Plymmitli, July 25, 1650 (years 
not over sixty-seven). His wife's name was 
Mary. Their children were : Robert, born in 
1634; Zacliariah, born March 20, 1636; Mary, 
born March 10, 1638; Allice, born March 7, 
1640; John, born April i, 1643; and one other, 
probably Susanna. After her husband's death, 
Mary sold, December 3, 1630, her "house gar- 
den plot and shop, situate in Plymouth, in the 
South Street," and "3 acres of upland lying in 
the Newfield," to Stephen Wood, smith of P., 
for 9 lb. 10 sh., on the condition that she was 
to dwell there till the first of the next March. 

1. Robert. 

2. Zachariah. 

3. Mary, married William Palmer. He was 
Ixirn July 27, 1634. 

4. Allice, married Zachariah, son of Samuel 
Eddy, May 7, 1663, and left a large family. 

5. John, was put out at an early age, to be 
brought up, to Thomas Willet of Plymouth, as 
appears from the following indenture in the 
Old Colony Records : 

"1650 Nov. the 29th. Whereas Robert Paddock 
of Plymouth : lately deceased, did on his death bed 
give and dispose of his son John Paddock aged about 
five years unto Captaine Tho. Willet to bee att his 
disposing and under his guidance as his own child: 
These presents doe therefore witness That Mary 
Paddock the wife of the said Robert Paddock doth 



condesend unto and allow of the said acte of her 
husband in the disposing of her said son John to 
Captaine Willet as aforesaid: In witness of the 
premises shee the said Mary hath hereunto sett her 
hand and given way to have this present writing 
entered upon publick Record. 

"Witness hereunto "Mary Paddock's M Mark. 

"Nathaniel Morton Clarke." 

He was one of the first settlers of Swansey ; 
signed the articles of agreement between this 
man Willet and the church, \(ihf). He married 
Anna Jones, of Swansey, November 21, 1673. 
They had a son, who with his father witnessed 
the division deed between the Eddys, 1706. 

6. Susanna, married (being then of Dart- 
mouth), November 10 or 12, 1665. John Eddy, 
of Taunton, son of Samuel. She died March 
14, 1670, leaving two children. 

(II) Zachariah. lived in Yarmouth. In 1680, 
July 7th, the court granted him fifty acres of 
the Tata ]Manuck"s thousand acres, "at or 
about Saconett, from the lands of Mamane- 
witt." In the rates in Yarmouth made after 
the war against the Indians, for defraying the 
expenses of it, January 22, 1675, and July 11, 
1676, he was taxed 3 sh. 6 d. He was sur- 
veyor in town in i6g6, and petty juryman in 
1697. His children were: Ichabod, bom Feb- 
ruary 2, 1661 ; Zachariah, born "about" the 
middle of April, 1664: Elizabeth, born Au- 
gust I, 1666; John, born May 5, 1669; Robert, 
born January 17. 1670; Joseph, born Septem- 
ber 12, 1774: Nathaniel, born Septetnber 22. 
1677; Judah, born September 15, 1681. 

(HI) Zachariah, lived in Yarmouth, born 
April, 1664. He was twice married. His first 
wife was Bethiah, who died March 7, 1707-08; 
the second, Mary Thacher, of Yarmouth, 
whom he married July 29, 1708. He made his 
will April 5, 1718. By that he gave his wife 
Mary the household furniture, £10 in money, 
the eastern end of the house, the horse "which 
she brought with her," a cow, ten sheep, one 
swine, etc., and made provision that she should 
be thus supplied during life. His brothers, 
Joseph Hall and Judah Paddock, with his son 
Zacheriah, were appointed his executors and 
guardians to his sons John and David. His 
estate was large and various. The inventory 
contains "a negro man" valued at £50. He 
di»d April 8, 1 71 8. His children by Bethiah 
were: Deborah, born April 2, 1685: Ichabod, 
born June i. 1687: Elizabeth, born February 
II, ifx)o: Zachariah, born November 10, 1692; 
James, born December 24, 1694: Peter, born 



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May 27, 1697; Bethiah, born May 25. 1699; 
Mary, born July 10, 1701 ; John, born May 21. 
1703; David, born August 12. 1705; Priscilla. 
born February 29, 1707-08; and by Alary: 
Hannah, born "about the middle of August." 
1709, and Anthony, born February 3, 171 1. 
Some of the family carried on the whaling 
business. 

(IV) Zachariah. burn November 10, 1692. 
He joined the Second Church, of Yarmouth. 
September 15, 1728. He married, June 15. 
T718. Elizabeth Howes, daughter of Joseph. 
She was born February 25, 1694, and was ad- 
mitted to the church, May 5, 1728. He was 
one, of the executors of his father's will and 
guardians of his brothers John and David. 
By his wife. Elizabeth Howes, he had the fol- 
lowing children: Zachariah, born February 17. 
1719; Elizabeth, born September 14. 1720; 
Silas, born March 29, 1724; Philip, born Sep- 
tember 19, 1725; Deborah, born October i, 
1727; Bethiah, born January 22, 1729-30; Re- 
becca, born December i, 1731. By his father's 
will he took the eastern part of the farm. 

(V) Zachariah. born February 17, 1719-20, 
lived in Mansfield, Connecticut, and there mar- 
ried Deborah Freeman, in 1744. They had the 
following children ; Ruth, born August 8, 
1745; Zachariah, born July 4, 1747; Edmond, 
born December 24, 1749; Pierce, settled in 
Dorset; Henry, born November 10, 175 1 ; Job, 
born before 1754; Thomas, born 1755; also 
Peter, Levi, and two other children whose 
date of birth is imknown. 

(\'I) Henry, born November 10, 1751. in 
Beekman. Dutchess county. New York, died 
in Vienna, Oneida county. New York. August 
12, 1835, aged eighty-three years nine months 
two days. He is buried with his wife in the 
cemetery at McConnellsville, New York (near 
Camden). He was married, in 1774. to Mary 
(Polly) Shears, who died January 27. 1837. 
aged eighty-two years. He served fifteen 
months in the revolutionary war. They had 
the following children : William, born' near 
New City, Washington county, New York, 
died February 4, 1873; John, born March 27, 
1778, died March 27, 1846, aged sixty-seven 
years ten months, buried at McConnellsville, 
Oneida county (near Camden) ; also six sisters, 
names unknown. 

(VH) William, born Februarv i ^, 1784. 
<lied at Sodus Point. He married Deborali 



Fenton, of Broadalbin, New York, May 11, 
1806, who was born February 17, 1789, and 
diefl at Wolcott. New York, February 3, 1863 ; 
she was the daughter of Roswell Fenton and 
Deborah Freeman, and was descended from one 
of the early colonial governors of Connecti- 
cut. Was also aunt of Hon. Reuben E. Fen- 
ton. governor of the state of New York. They 
had the following children : Jacob Fenton, born 
Alarch 7, 1807; Henry, born February 20, 
1810, at \'ienna, New York; Roxa Lane, born 
at \ienna. New York, June 20, 1808: Will- 
iam Riley, born April 24. 1812; Levi, born 
February 26, 1818; Alanson G.. born March 
13, 1822 ; George \\'., born December 10, 1823 ; 
Olive R., born at Vienna, New York, March 
10. 1826; Caroline AL. born July 31, 1833; 
Emeline D.. born at Huron. New York. Sep- 
tember 24. 1835. 

(VIH) Jacob Fenton. born at \'ienna. 
Oneida county. New York. March 7, 1807, died 
January 28, 1889: married, April 3, 1828. 
Polly Gibbons, third daughter of Warren and 
Mehitable Gibbons, at \'ienna. New York. She 
was born November i, 1810, and died Janu- 
ary 6, 1884, at Wolcott, New York. He lived 
the early part of his life at \"ienna. New York, 
and moved his family to the town of Huron. 
New York, in 1836, where he lived five years, 
then removing to the town of Wolcott, on the 
farm on Port Bay street, known as the Benja- 
min Brown farm. A few years later he re- 
moved to the village of \\'olcott, where he re- 
sided at the time of his death. His children 
were: Maria Myrtie born October 4. 1829; 
William Warren, born June 6. 1832; Roxa 
Lane, born August 4, 1834; Julia Z., born Oc- 
tober 12, 1836; Walter W., born September 
9, 1841 ; George, born August 8, 1844, died 
June 29, 1848; Linas A., born July 20, 1845: 
George H.. born April 22, 1849. 

(IX) William Warren, born at \'ienna. 
New York, June 6, 1832; died at \\'olcott. 
New York, November 24, 1903 ; married to 
Mary A. Lester, at Lyons, New York, P'ebru- 
ary 12, 1856. She was a daughter of Hiram 
Lester and Sally Cady. He was engaged in 
the hardware business in Wolcott, New York, 
for over forty years ; a member of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal church, and a Republican in 
politics. His children were as follows: i. 
Iliram Lester, born June 8. i860. 2. \\'alter, 
bom March 14, i8(>2, died February 24, 1863. 
3. William Herbert, born December 19, 1865, 



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baptized August 5, 1866; married Carrie B. 
Cornwell, of W'olcott, Xew York, September 
14, 1887; children: Laura L., born April 25, 
1889; Ralph Cornwell, born Seiiteniber 28. 
1891. 4. Mary Mabel, bom June 16, 1870, 
baptized March 3, 1872; married Edward T. 
Brown, an attorney, November 6, upi. 5. 
Bessie Tifft, born February 17, 1877, baptized 
September 2, 1877: marrieel Justin Oakley 
Reynolds, a civil engineer, October 10, 1906: 
child, Justin Oakley, born October 7, 1907. 

(X) Hiram Lester Paddock, son of Will- 
iam W. Paddock, was born in the town of 
Wolcott, Xew York, June 8, i860. He was 
educated in the public schools of his native 
town and at Cazenovia Seminary. At the age 
of twenty years he became a clerk in the bank- 
ing house of Roe, Ellis & Pomeroy, at Wol- 
cott. In 1884 he entered the employ of the 
wholesale hardware firm of Hamilton & 
Mathews, of Rochester, Xew York, and two 
years later embarked in the paper manufactur- 
ing business as vice-president of the Lakeside 
Paper Company. Skaneateles, Xew York. In 
1896 he removed to Fulton, Xew York, and be- 
came the treasurer of the Oswego Falls Pulp 
& Paper Company, of which in 1906 he was 
elected president. He is also president of the 
Skaneateles Paper Company; president of the 
Oswego County Independent Telephone Com- 
pany, and of the P'ulton Hospital Association, 
and vice-president of the Albert Lindley Lee 
Memorial Hospital. He is a director of the 
Citizens Xational Rank, of Fulton ; member 
of the Citizens Club ; member of the Path- 
finder Boat Club, Pleasant Point Club, Os- 
wego Country Club: member and trustee of 
the First Methodist Episcopal Church, of Ful- 
ton, and in 1904 was a delegate to the General 
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
held at Los .\ngeles, California. \\'hen Ful- 
ton was incorporated as a city, he was on the 
first board of public works, and he has always 
taken a keen interest and performed his full 
share in supporting measures to promote the 
welfare of the city and community. In poli- 
tics he is a Republiaan. 

He married, June 17, iSSfS, Marv L. \\'eeks, 
born May 13, 1862, daugliter of Forrest G. 
Weeks, a paper manufacturer of Skaneateles, 
New York, who was born at Draycott, Somer- 
setshire, England, August 2, 1832, died at 
Syracuse, New York. June 6, 1906. They 
have one child, Mae Emogene, born at Skane- 
ateles, New York, August 4, 1890. 



The surname Atvvater belongs 
ATW.VTER to a large class of early Eng- 
lish family names where the 
personal name of a man qualified for identifi- 
cation by a description of his home-on-the-hill. 
at-the-wood. etc., became fi.xed as a surname 
on his descendants. Atwood and Atwater are 
survivals of the original forms, while most of 
the surnames and few generations later, drop- 
])ed the preposition, as the similar preposition 
was dropped from another large class of names. 
The earliest mention of the name .Atwater 
found in England ajjpears in the chartulary of 
the Cathedral Church of Canterbury, Gode- 
fried ateWater of Eylvarton in the parish of 
.Stone, near Faversham, county Kent, before 
A. D.. 1257. In the history of Kent, publish- 
ed in 1659, it is said of the Atwater family: 
"Their original from which they primitively 
issued was from about Ospringe." Stone and 
Ospringe are contiguous parishes. Between 
the years 1620 and 1700, the name is found 
on the probate records of London, only in the 
counties of Kent and Wilts, and the cities of 
London and Reading. The old coat-of-arms 
of .Atwater: Sable on a fesse wavy argent be- 
tween three swans of the second two bars 
wavy azure. The .American family has been 
traced to Royton, in Lenham, Kent. 

(I) Thomas .Atwater, the first of the name 
in England to whom the .American family has 
been traced, was of Royton, in Lenham, coun- 
ty Kent. His will was proved October 5, 
1484, and mentioned wife Elinor, Robert At- 
water Jr. and John Atwater, not stating rela- 
tionship to testator. He held properties, Brome- 
croft and Chotccroft, in Boughton Malherbe, 
Langderfield, and other property in Lenham. 
His wife. Elinor, survived him, and her will 
was proved May 16, 1497. 

(II) John, son of Thomas .Atwater, was of 
Royton, in Lenham. His will was proved July 
14, 1 501, and mentioned wife Maryan, sons 
Robert and John, daughters Florence .Spyce 
and Thomasyn Turner, also grandchildren and 
god-children : property at Royton in Lenham. 

(III) Robert, son of John .Atwater, is call- 
ed "the elder" of Royton. His will was proved 
December 22, 1522. and mentioned sons John 
and Thomas, brother John and his children, 
sisters Florence and Thomasyn, Alice, wife of 
son John. His properties were Langderfield, 
Parkfields, Little Scotland, and land in Len- 
ham. called Grant's Gate. 

(IV) Thomas (2), son of Robert Atwater, 



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was of Royton. His will was proved Decem- 
ber I, 1547, and mentioned wife Johan, sons 
Thomas, Christopher, Edward and William, 
and daughter Alice. His properties were 
Grant's Gate, and twenty-two pieces including 
Parkfields, in Royton, Bromfield, Bromecroft, 
and Randalls, in Boughton Malherbe. 

(V) Christopher, son of Thomas (2) At- 
water, was also of Royton. His will was 
proved April 6, 1573, and mentioned wife 
Maryan, sons David, Matthew, George and 
John, and daughter Joane. brothers Thomas 
and Wyllyam, and "Adam Water, my brother's 
sone." His properties were lands and tene- 
ments in Lenham and Boughton Malherbe, 
Parkfields, Randalls and Bromfield. 

(\T) John (2), son of Christopher At- 
water, died without a will. Administration on 
his estate was granted to his son Joshua, at the 
request of his widow Susan, November 29, 
1636. He and his daughter Ann and sons 
Joshua and David are mentioned in the wills 
of his brothers, David and George, the will of 
David conveying to him Parkfields, Lenham 
and Randalls in Boughton Malherbe during 
his life, and after his decease, "unto David 
Attwater, his sonne and to his heirs for- 
ever." 

(\'n) David, son of John (2) Atwater, 
and immigrant ancestor, was baptized in Len- 
ham Church, October 8, 161 5. By the will of 
his LTncle David, he became entitled to the 
place "called the \'yne, with all the appur- 
tenances, in Lenham," and by the same will 
upon the death of his father, to the lands call- 
ed Parkfields, in Lenham. and of Randalls, in 
Boughton Malherbe, and by the will of his 
Uncle George, upon the death of his Aunt Ann, 
to the lands and dwelling houses at Grant's 
Gate, in Royton. He and his brother came to 
this country in 1637-38, and were among the 
seven pioneers who first visited New Haven, 
and, under the greatest privations, spent the 
winter there, 1638. David is credited with 
being the first signer of the planters' agree- 
ment. He became a proprietor of land at a 
later date than most of the early settlers of 
New Haven, and is supposed to have received 
his whole allotment, except a town lot, in the 
third division. His farm was situated between 
East Rock and Quinnipiack river, and has 
remained in iwssession of his descendants to 
this day. According to the town records of 
1646-47 he was assigned in that year the third 



seat front of the pulpit, together with John Nash 
and Thomas Yale, father of Eli Yale, founder 
of Yale College. One of the two brothers, 
spoken of only as Mr. Atwater, was one of 
the first selectmen, 1651. In 1654, when the 
witchcraft mania raged in Connecticut, "there 
was a determined elYort on the part of New 
Haven's leading citizen.s — the Atwaters, Lam- 
bertons and even Mr. Hooke, the colleague of 
Davenport — to hound to death for witchcraft 
a woman whose sharp tongue rendered her 
obnoxious and therefore suspicious to her ac- 
cjuaintances. Elsewhere such notable persons 
might have secured the doom of the unfor- 
tunate object of their enmity, but Eaton and 
Davenport were uninfluenced and Mrs. God- 
man, the suspected individual, died peacefully 
in her bed some years afterwards." In 1665 
Joshua Atwater removed to Boston, and, at 
that time, conveyed to David his house and 
lands in New Haven. This sale did not cover, 
however, a lot situated at the southeast corner 
of Yale quadrangle, which Joshua sold to Will- 
iam Tuttle, and the latter to the Widow Hester 
Coster. On this lot, called the "Coster Lot," 
was built the first Yale building, and, in 1889, 
Osborn Hall, and, in 1894, Vanderbilt Hall. 
David Atwater married Damaris, daughter of 
Thomas Sayre, of Southampton, Long Island. 
Her father was a native of Bedfordshire, Eng- 
land, and came to Southampton in May or 
June, 1640. In 1638 he and his son Job had 
each sixty acres of land allotted to them in 
Lynn, Massachusetts. By his will, dated Sep- 
tember 16, 1669, he bequeathed to his daughter, 
Damaris Atwater, forty shillings. She died 
.April 7, 1691. David died October 5, 1692. 
Children: Mercy, born February 29, 1647; 
Damaris, November 12, 1648; David, July 13, 
1650; Joshua, January 11, 1652: John. Novem- 
ber I, 1654; Jonathan, July (12, 1656; Abigail, 
March 3, 1660; Mary, March 31, 1662; Sam- 
uel, September 17, 1664, mentioned below; 
Ebenezer, January 13, 1666. 

(\'III) Samuel, son of David Atwater, was 
born September 17, 1664, in New Haven, and 
cultivated a portion of tlig land which had be- 
longed to his father. He married, July 7, 169 1, 
Sarah, daughter of John Ailing, who died Sep- 
tember 26, 1742. He died September 17, 1742. 
Children: Samuel, born July 14, 1693; Daniel, 
September 29, 1694, mentioned below : Sarah, 
January 21, 1699, died July 2, 1699; Damaris, 
May 21, 1700; Caleb, October 16, 1702; Ste- 



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plicn, December 5, 1705 ; John, November 28, 
1707, died April 29, 1709; John, August 4, 
1709, died December 20, 1709; Mabel, married, 
1738, Isaac Beecher. 

(IN) Daniel, son of Samuel Atwater, was 
born September 29, 1694, died April 30, 1765. 
He married, July 23, 1716, Abigail Tuttle, who 
died January 9, 1769. Administration given to 
Widow Abigail, who refused same. Children: 
Samuel, born June i, 1718, mentioned below; 
Sarah, September 12, 1719; John, March 14, 
1721 ; Abigail, August 8, 1722: Mary, Decem- 
ber 22, 1723 ; Ann, June 4, 1725 ; Damaris, De- 
cember 30, 1727; Daniel, July 8, 1730; Abel. 
June 23, 1734, died April 2, 1744. 

(N) Samuel (2), son of Daniel Atwater, 
was born June i, 1718, and lived in Hamden, 
Connecticut. He married, December 26, 1744. 
Sarah Hall, who died March 11, 1797, aged 
seventy-two. He was called "Captain." In 
T758 Alt. Carmel became a separate parish, 
and, at the first meeting held in the matter, 
January 31, 1758, Samuel Atwater was chosen 
clerk, and sworn, with Daniel Bradley, as mod- 
erator. At a meeting of the town of Hamden, 
in ojiposition to secession. May 6, 1788, he was 
chosen moderator. He died May 9, 1793. Oiil- 
dren : Abel, born April 15, 1746; Susanna, 
April 15, 1748, died January 7, 1752; Abigail, 
November 17, 1749: Samuel, January 20, 1751, 
died July i, 1753 : Stephen, December 29, 1752 ; 
Samuel, September 23, 1754; Timothy, May 6, 
1756 : John, December 24, 1757 : Caleb, Decem- 
ber 28, 1759, mentioned below; Richard New- 
man, May 3, 1762, married Sarah , born 

October 31, 1765; Susannah, December 29, 
1766. 

(XI) Caleb, son of Samuel (2) Atwater, 
was born December 28, 1759. He removed to 
Genoa, Cayuga county. New York. He was a 
soldier in the revolution, July 25, 1779, to Janu- 
ary 5, 1780, in the Second Regiment, Connecti- 
cut Line, Colonel Charles Webb. He married 
Thankful Cotter. Children : Jason ; Jeremiah : 
Jesse, died unmarried; Betsey, married Alfred 
Hart; Abby; Lucetta; John G., mentioned 
below. 

(XII) John G., son of Caleb Atwater, was 
born September, 1784; married Cecelia Gif- 
ford. He lived in Genoa, New York. Chil- 
dren : Alonzo E., born April 6, 1805, mention- 
ed below; Emily. January 7, 181 1, died Feb- 
ruary 6, 1868; John G., April 21, 1813. 

(XIII) Alonzo E., son of John G. Atwater, 
was born in Genoa, New York, April 6, 1805. 



He married, November 24, 1825, Tamer L. 
Benjamin, born August 11, 1804. 

(XIV) Norman B., son of Alonzo E. At- 
water, was born in Genoa, New York, August 
1 1, 1830, died May 15, 1886. He was educated 
in the public schools of his native town, and 
for many years was a merchant, dealing in 
hay, grain and country produce. He was post- 
master and station agent of the railroad, At- 
water Station being named for him. He also 
conducted a farm. He married Phebe Tomp- 
kins, who now resides ( 191 1 ) at Atwater, New 
York. Children ; Mary Emeline, born May 
24, 1853, married George Cheesman ; Norman 
Jason, mentioned below ; Willis Walter, born 
A])ril 30, 1859; Elizabeth Tamer, born Sep- 
tember 14, 1867, married James Ira Young. 

(XV) Norman Jason, son of Norman B. 
Atwater, was born at Genoa, June 16, 1855. 
He was educated in the district school at At- 
water Station, in Genoa, and succeeded to the 
homestead of his father. He has always fol- 
lowed farming. He is a member of Five Cor- 
ners Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, and of 
the Genoa Methodist Episcopal Church. In 
politics he is a Republican. He married, in 
1878, Lucy Young, of Genoa, daughter of 
Hiram and Ruth (Chipman) Young. Chil- 
dren : Ralph W.. mentioned below ; Ruth, mar- 
ried Charles Lewis, of Auburn, New York, 
child — Erma Lewis ; Phebe, married William 
Bunnell, of Genoa, children— Donald and Ray- 
mond Bunnell ; Esther ; Gladys ; Evelyn ; Char- 
lotte. 

(XVI) Dr. Ralph W. Atwater, son of Nor- 
man Jason Atwater, was born in Genoa, .Au- 
gust I, 1881. He attended the public schools 
there, and graduated from the Ithaca high 
school, and from Cornell University, and Med- 
ical College of New York. Since 1904 he has 
been practicing medicine at Marathon, New 
York. He is a member of the County and 
State Medical societies, and of the American 
Medical Association; of Marathon Lodge, No. 
438, Free and Accepted Masons ; of Marathon 
Lodge, No. 167, Odd Fellows. He is a mem- 
ber of Greek Letter Society (Medical College), 
N. V. Sigma, N. U. T. A. U. Chapter of Cor- 
nell LTniversity, New York City. He married, 
August 20, 1902, Charlotte Johnson, of Wind- 
ham, Bradford county, Pennsylvania, born Au- 
gust 6, 1882, daughter of Fred D. and Leila J. 
(Wolcott) Johnson. Children: Eula, born Oc- 
tober 18, 1905; Ralph Willis, May 12, 1907; 
Carl Frederick, September 4, 1910. 



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The surname Merrill was An- 
MERRILL glicized from the French name 
Dc Merle. Alerle signifies a 
blackbird, and its original bearer is said to have 
derived it from the figure of a blackbird dis- 
played at his door. The ancient seat of the 
De Merls in France was at Place de Dombes, 
in Avergne. The English Merrills are for the 
most part descended from a follower of Will- 
iam the Conqueror. Their coat-of-arms is de- 
scribed : Or, a barrulet between three peacocks 
erased, proper. Crest : A peacock's head erased, 
proper. The immigrant ancestor of the Mer- 
rills of ]\Iassachusetts, Xew Hampshire and 
Maine was Nathaniel, mentioned below, de- 
scended from a French Huguenot, who fled 
to England at the time of the massacre of St. 
Bartholomew in 1552, and settled at Salisbury, 
Wiltshire, England. 

(I) Kathaniel Merrill and his brother John 
came from Salisbury to ]\Iassachusetts about 
1636. John Merrill settled at Ipswich before 
1636, removed to Newbury in 1638, died there, 
September 12, 1673, leaving no male issue of 
his name. Hence all of the early families 
known are traced to Nathaniel Merrill, who 
was a proprietor of Newbury in 1638. He 
had a wife Susanna, presumed to be the sister 
of Gregory Willerton. He died at Newbury, 
March 16, 1654-55. His will was proved March 

27. 1655, bequeathing to wife Susanna, chil- 
dren Susanna, Nathaniel, John, .Abraham, Dan- 
iel and .\bel. His brother John was one of the 
overseers. His widow Susanna married Ste- 
phen Jordan. Children: Nathaniel, born 1638: 
John: Abraham: Susanna, married John Bur- 
bank; Daniel, born .\ugust 20, 1642; .Abel, 
mentioned below\ 

(H) .Abel, son of Nathaniel Merrill, was 
born at Newbury, February 20, 1644. He mar- 
ried there, February 10, 1671. Children, born 
at New'bury : .\bel, mentioned below ; Susanna, 
November 14, 1673; Nathan, April 3, 1676: 
Thomas, January i, 1679; Joseph, July 12, 
1681 ; Nathaniel, February 6, 1684: Priscilla, 
Julv 13, 1686: lames, January 27, 1689. 

('HI) Deacon Abel (2) Merrill, son of Abel 
(1) Merrill, was born at Newbury, December 

28, 1671 ; died there, February 6, 1759 (grave- 
stone). He married, at Newbury, June 19, 
1694, .Abigail Stevens, wdio died May 2, 1757, 
in her eighty-fourth year (gravestone). Chil- 
dren, born at Newbury: Samuel, September 13. 
1695 ; Abel, mentioned below ; .Abigail, Janu- 
ary 22, 1699-1700; Thomas, July 29, 1702; 



Matthew, December 3, 1704; John, January 
25, 1706; Nathaniel, March i, 1712. 

(IV) Abel (3), son of Deacon .Abel (2) 
Merrill, was born at Newbury, March 20, 

1697-98. He married (first) Ruth , 

and probably (second) Sarah . Chil- 
dren of .Abel and Ruth Merrill, born at New- 
bury : .Abel, mentioned below ; Sarah, May 7, 
1727: Esther, March 16, 1729: Stephen, June 
10, 1731 ; Jonathan, June 2, 1733; John. .Au- 
gust 15, 1737: Joshua, May 27, 1739: Caleb, 
February 11, 1741 ; Ruth, baptized Alarch 23, 
1745-46. He seems to have had .Ann, Mary 
and Christopher by a second w-ife, Sarah. 

(V) Abel (4), son of Abel (3) Merrill, was 
born at Newbury, September 12, 1722. He 
left Newbury about 1753. He married Sarah 

. Children : Mary, baptized in the F'ourth 

Church, now the Second Church, of West 
Newbury: Nathaniel, baptized March 11, 1744. 
died young probably ; Nathaniel, mentione<l 
below. 

(\T) Nathaniel, son of Abel (4) Merrill, 
was born at Newbury, April, 1753. He settled 
in Shelburne, Massachusetts, and was a soldier 
in the revolution from that town, a private in 
Captain .Agrippa Wells's company. Colonel Asa 
W'hitcomb's regiment, in September. 1775; also 
in the same comj^any. Colonel Samuel Brewer's 
regiment, September, 1777, in the Ticonderoga 
campaign of 1777. He married, at Shelburne, 
in 1786, .Anna Long, born in 1766. died in 
Truxton, New^ York, in 1836. They went to 
New^ York in 1804-05, and located near Balls- 
ton Springs. Children: Rufus, Nathaniel, Sim- 
eon, Baldwin, Lewis Long, Asa. .Ann .Alvira 
and Mary. , 

(VII) Lewis Long, son of Nathaniel Mer- I 
rill, was born January 24, 1804, in Madison 
county. New York, near Oneida Castle or 
Community, and he died on Long Island, at 
the home of his daughter, in December. 1890. 
Before the era of railroads he drove a stage 
coach, carrying the mails, when only sixteen 
years old, on part of the route from Buffalo to 
Albany, driving from Chittenango to Syracuse 
and eastward toward .Albany. Later in life he 
lemoved to Truxton, New A'ork, where he con- 
ducted a hotel and a stage route, carrying the 
mails from I'tica to Ithaca, before the railroad 
was built. In 1840, after the railroad came, 
he sold his business and engaged in farming at 
Truxton, where he remained until about 1851, 
when he removetl to Homer, New York, and 
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he died. His last years were spent in the home 
of his daughter on Long Island. He inarrieil, 
February 18, 1829, Lucy Matthews, born near 
Bennington, May 18, 1809, died on Long Island, 
November 19, 1896, daughter of Major John 
and Polly (Green) Matthews. The battle of 
Bennington was fought, during the revolution, 
on ground owned by her father. Children : 
Augustus Spencer, mentioned below ; Frances 
Miriam, born July 7, 1834, died January i, 
1899, married (first) Richard Carmen, (sec- 
ond ) Pierre Badetty. 

(\'IH) Augustus Spencer, son of Lewis 
Long Merrill, was born in Truxton, New York. 
March 16, 1830. He was educated in the 
common schools, and, in his younger days, 
followed fanning for his occupation. In 185 1 
he removed to Homer and engaged in the 
livery stable business, having the contract to 
carry the mails for the government between 
the trains and the postofifice. In the early days 
of the railroad there would be some days when 
the trains would fail to get through, and he 
would have to carry the mails over the road to 
Syracuse. For several years he has been re- 
tired, making his home in Homer \illage. In 
politics he is a Republican, and is a member of 
the Congregational church. He married, No- 
vember I, 1859, Sarah Pierce, born in Homer, 
January 12, 1839. daughter of Daniel and 
Sarah ( Sharp ) Pierce. Her father was born 
in Homer, in 1807, son of Elijah Pierce, of 
Primfield, Massachusetts. The Pierces came 
to Homer, New York, in 1805. Sarah Sharp 
was born in Connecticut, and died in Homer. 
Children of .Augustus S. and Sarah Merrill : 
Frances C, born September 29, i860; Charles 
R., mentioned below; Kate, July 11, 1865, died 
June 18, 1871 ; Lewis P., June 25, 1870, mar- 
ried Florence Mourin, he is engaged in the 
feed business in Homer; John Sharp, July 11, 
1872; Pierre B., January 25, 1880, graduate of 
Homer .Academy, also College of Pharmacy of 
Buffalo, conducting drug business in Delhi. 
New York. 

(IX) Charles R., son of Augustus Spencer 
Merrill, was born in Homer, March i, 1863. 
He attended the public schools of his native 
town and the Homer Academy. He followed 
farming until he was nineteen years old, and 
was then clerk in the dry goods store of Kings- 
bury & Daniels, in Homer, for ten years. In 
1892 he embarked in business on his own ac- 
count, as a dealer in men's furnishing goods 
and clothing, and success attended his venture 



from the beginning. He carries an extensive 
and varied stock of men's clothing from such 
well-known manufacturers as the Herschberg 
Company, of Rochester ; Stern & Company, of 
Rochester ; Clere Clothing Company, of Syra- 
cuse ; J. Wener Company and the \\'olcoff 
Company, of New York City. He makes a 
specialty of the tailoring trade, making suits 
to order. His store is at 14 South Main street. 
Homer. He has a line of men's furnishings, 
hats, trunks and traveling bags second to none 
in the county. Mr. Merrill has been no less 
active in social and public life. He is treasurer 
of the Homer board of trade, and was treas- 
urer of the old home week committee for a 
time : is a member of the board of education 
and of the board of health of Homer. In poli- 
tics he is a Republican, and he has been one 
of the most active and influential men of his 
party, delegate to the state convention which 
nominated Governor Hughes, and to various 
other nominating conventions of his party, also 
a member of the Republican county committee. 
He is a prominent member and treasurer of the 
Congregational church and its Sunday school. 
He belongs also to Homer Lodge, Free and 
.Accepted Masons. 

He married, June 19, 1890, Alice C. Daniels, 
of Homer, New York, born in X'esper, daugh- 
ter of George D. and Ellen (Hobart) Daniels. 
Children: (ieorge Augustus, born September 
13, 1893; Frances Elizabeth. February 23, 
1909, died December 8, 1909. 



The surname Freer was spelled 
FREER Frere until comparatively recent 

times and sometimes De Frere in 
earlier records, we are told. Frere is an ancient 
French family name, meaning brother in Eng- 
lish. All of the Frere and Freer families, dat- 
ing back to colonial times, are descended from 
the pioneer mentioned below. 

(I) Hugo Freer, or Frere, was one of the 
last of the French Huguenots to settle at Kings- 
ton. From time to time the French settlers 
had been coming to Kingston. As early as 1665 
Simon and .Andre LeFevre located there, com- 
ing from Alanheim. in the Palatinate, whither 
they went from France. In 1673 Jean Has- 
brouck and others came. Anthony Crispell, 
the first of the Huguenots, afterward at New 
Paltz. came with his father-in-law, Matthew 
Blanchan, in the ship "Gilded Otter," arriving 
at New York, in June, 1660, and proceeded to 
Esopos, New York. Louis DuBois, another 



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son-in-law of Blanclian, came in 1661, and 
settled with Blanchan and Crispell at Hurley. 
Hugo Freer and his wife, Mary Hays, with 
their three children. Hugo, Abraham and Isaac, 
came in 1676. The French settlers at Hurley 
and Kingston received from Governor Andros 
a grant of land for a town of their own, in 
1677. comprising the Paltz patent, occupying 
all the present town of Loyd, about two-thirds 
of New Paltz, one-third of Esopus and one- 
fourth of Rosendale, as now bounded. There 
were twelve of these original French grantees, 
but not all of the French removed from Hurley 
and Kingston, and, in the course of a few gen- 
erations, the Dutch, French and English be- 
came, by association and iiUermarriage, thor- 
oughly assimilated. In the papers that have 
been preserved by descendants of these French 
settlers there are more in the French language 
among the descendants of Hugo Freer than of 
any other of the patentees of this tract, and 
this fact is taken to indicate that he had not 
been very long absent from his native country 
when he came to New Paltz. When the church 
was organized at New Paltz, in 1683, Hugo 
Freer was chosen deacon, and, in 1690, he was 
elder of the cluirch. Most of the other settlers 
at New Paltz were related by marriage, but 
neither Hugo Freer nor any of his children 
married New Paltz people. A greater part of 
the first three generations of Freers married 
and settled outside the bounds of the New 
Paltz patent, going to Kingston, to Dutchess 
county and elsewhere, though the name lias 
been common also at New Paltz. During the first 
century after the settlement there was perhaps 
no family that furnished a larger proportion 
of eminent men than the descendants of Hugo 
Freer, the ])atentee. The Freers of colonial 
days had means, and piety as well. The Bon- 
tecoe h'reers, cultivating the lowlands on the 
Walkill, in the great bend of the stream, above 
Dashville Falls, would walk barefoot five miles 
to church at New Paltz, in summer, putting on 
their shoes when near the village. When the 
new stone church at New Paltz was erected, 
in 1772, the Freer family contributed more 
than one-fourth of the whole amount needed, 
and two of the name served on the building 
committee. Tradition states that one year the 
Freers i)aid the whole amotuit of the quitrcnt 
due from the New Paltz settlers to the colonial 
government, and in return received two hun- 
dred acres of land at Mud Hook, near the 
nortliwest corner of the New Paltz patent. 



.\ picture of the old F"reer homestead, a typical 
French structure of stone, is published in the 
"New Paltz History," p. 348. It is the north- 
ernmost of the old stone houses on Huguenot 
street. At last accounts it was still occupied 
as a residence, in a good state of repair, and 
not much changed from the time of its build- 
ing, except that the great beams have been cut 
down, and there is no longer a great fireplace. 
The house is forty feet in length and thirty- 
five in widtii, including a small frame addition 
in the rear. 

Hugo Freer married (first) Mary Hays, and 
(second) Jannitje Wibau. Children: i. Hugo, 
married, in 1690, Mary LeRoy : in 1715 he and 
his sons, Hugo. Isaac and Simon, obtained a 
patent for twelve hundred acres of land near 
the Paltz patent, and here Isaac settled, and 
his descendants have owned the land to the 
present time; children of Hugo: i. Hugo, born 
in 1691, married Bridget Terpening ; ii. Isaac. 
1693, married Mary Deyo, daughter of Pierre, 
the patentee : iii. Jonah, married, in 1727, Cath- 
arine Stokhard. a native of Germany ; iv. Simon, 
married, in 1720, Mariten Wamboon. 2. Abra- 
ham, mentioned below. 3. Isaac, born in 1672, 
died .August 9. 1690. 4. Jacob, baptized June 
9, 1(179: married, in September, 1705, .Vntje 
\'an \\'egen, of Marbletown ; owned land and 
probably lived at Bontecoe ; children : Jannetje, 
born 1706; Sarah, 1709: Hugo, 1711; Hend- 
rick, 1712; .Abraham and Isaac, twins, 1714: 
Jacob, 1717 ; Marritje and Annctje, twins, 1719 ; 
Antjen, 1721 : Jacob, 1723; David, 1726; Cor- 
nelius, 1729. 5. Jean, .April 16, 1682: mar- 
ried Rebecca Wagener, about 1707; resided at 
Kingston; children: Sara, born in 1708; Ger- 
rit, 171 1 ; Jannitje, 1714; Marytje, 1716; Jacob, 
1719; Rebecca, 1726, thus showing the adop- 
tion of Dutch names in the French families in 
the third generation. 6. Mary, married Lewis 
\'eille, and lived at Schenectady, New York. 
7. Sarah, married Tenuis Clausen Van Volgen, 
of Schenectady. 

(II) Abraham, son of Hugo Freer, or Frere, 
was born as early as 1670. In 1705 he resided 
in Bontecoe, south of the present schoolhousc, 
opposite the piece of lowland called the "Half 
Moon." .Abraham's name appears in the list 
of those who built the first stone church in 
1720. In the list of freeholders, in 1728, his 
name does not appear. He probalily moved 
away, as, in 1723, we find he has trans ferretl 
his two seats in the church to his brother, Hugo 
Freer. He married, in 1694, Aagien Titesort. 




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The list of births of his children is taken from 
the "New Paltz History." Some of them were 
baptized in the Kingston church, and it is possi- 
ble that these should be given as dates of bap- 
tism, not of birth, though there would be but a 
difference of a few days. Children: I. Hugo 
Abraham, married, in 1720, Marytje DeWitt, 
at Kingston. 2. Maeltje, born May 5, 1696, 
at New Paltz. 3. Abraham, father of Colonel 
John Freer, October 31, 1697; married, in 
1720, Janitje DeGraff. 4. Solomon, mentioned 
below. 5. W'illem, January 14, 1700; married, 
in 1729, Maryanette \'an Kuykendall, of Mini- 
sink. 6. Jelena, January 16, 1704. 7. Fhillipus, 
August 16, 1706. 8. Sara, October 12, 1707. 
y.'Naritje. September 11,1709. 10. Jacomyntje, 
November 4, 1711. 11. Aagien, April 11, 1714. 
12. Johanna, November 13, 1715. 13. Cat- 
ryntjen, January 11, 1719. 

( HI ) Solomon, son of Abraham Freer, was 
baptized in the Kingston church, October 23, 
1698. Moses Ouentin and Rachel Hasbrouck 
were sponsors. In the Kingston church rec- 
ords his name is sometimes spelled Zalomon. 
He married, September 22, 1721, Klaartjc 
W'estvall. He livetl at Minisink, New York. 
All his children, as given below, were baptized 
in the Dutch church, at Kingston, New York. 
Solomon Freer was on the list of those who 
signed the "Association Test," at the beginning 
of the revolution, and the history of Kingston 
shows that the house and barn of Solomon and 
the houses and barns of Jon's. (Johannes), 
Abm. (Abraham) and Anthony, his sons evi- 
dently, were destroyed by the British, in the 
burning of Kingston, in 1777. Of the tract of 
five thousand acres of land given by Robert R. 
Livingston, to reimburse the patriots who lost 
their property, we find that the heirs of Solo- 
mon Freer received lot 5, class 8. Children, 
according to Dutch church records at Kings- 
ton: Aagien, baptized July 29, 1722; Johannes, 
January 26, 1724: Mary, October 10, 1725; 
Petrus, August 20. 1727: Annatjen, October 
3, 1729; Johannes, November 19, 1732: An- 
thony, mentioned below : Rachel, December 19. 
1736; Abraham and Jacob, twins, December 
24, 1738: Samuel, mentioned below: Sarah. 
November 6. 1743. 

(I\") Anthony, son of Solomon Freer, was 
baptized at Kingston, November 3, 1734, in 
the old Dutch church, and Anthony Slegt and 
Neeltjen Bogart were sponsors (No. 4696). 
In 1790. according to the first federal census, 
he was living at Rochester, Dutchess county 



(not the present Rochester, in western New 
York), and had three males over sixteen and 
two females in his family, besides owning two 
slaves. No other Freers were at that time in 
Rochester. With his brother Samuel, mentioned 
below, he was surety on a bond of administra- 
tion for his nephew, Samuel S. Freer, in 1787. 
He was trustee of the Kingston schools in 
1788. His father, himself and brothers Jo- 
hannes, Abraham, Jacob and Samuel signed 
the "Association Test" in Kingston. Gerrit 
and Jan, the only others of the Freer family to 
sign, may have been nephews. His house was 
burned during the revolution, as mentioned 
above, and he was one of the grantees of the 
Livingston land, in class 8, receiving lot 5. He 
was lieutenant in Captain John Hardenburg's 
company, and first lieutenant of Captain Bo- 
gardus' company, from Ulster county, in the 
revolution, in 1776. 

He married, October 30, 1761, Yannecke 
Low, daughter of Johannes and Abbtjen Low. 
Child: John (Johannes), see forward, baptized 
in the Kingston church, March 16, 1769, with 
the mother's parents for sponsors (7S77-P- 359- 
Domine Cock, Conferentie ). After the Dutch 
fashion he appears to have used his father's 
name for a middle name. 

(IV) Samuel, son of Solomon Freer and 
brother of Anthony, was baptized at Kingston, 
January 24, 1742: Samuel Wels and Maryjen 
Osterhout, sponsers (p. 258). He was trustee 
of the Kingston school, 1794-95, 1798-99 and 
1805. He signed the "Association Test" in 
1775. He married Sarah Roosa. In 1790, at 
Kingston, the census shows Jacob and his son 
Garret, John and his son Garret as heads of 
families : also Samuel with three sons under 
sixteen and five females and two slaves. Sam- 
uel Freer became famous as a newspaper edi- 
tor. In 1792 William Copp started The Fann- 
ers' Register, but soon abandoned it. Shortly 
afterward, with Samuel Freer, he began to 
publish The Rising Star. Copp soon withdrew 
and Freer continued the paper. Freer was 
considered rich as fortunes went in those days, 
and he had one ambitious son, Samuel S. Freer, 
who was destined to be L'lster county's first 
editor of importance. In 1798 Samuel Freer 
and his son, Samuel S. Freer, established the 
Ulster County Gacette, which continued until 
1822. The elder Freer died a few years after 
the paper was established, and the son carried 
on the enterprise until he had exhausted the 
family fortune and retired to die in poverty. 



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It is hardly necessary to remark, writes a local 
historian, that men did not enter the newspaper 
business in those days to make money. Their motives 
were a mixture of that strange vanity which yearns 
to see its thoughts in print, and of that nobler emo- 
tion which leads men to abandon hope of material 
prosperity in order to advocate the political and re- 
ligious principles they hold dear. The Gazette was 
from the first to last an organ of the Federalist 
party. The younger Freer was one of the most 
vigorous writers of his day, and so vigorous that he 
was fined upon one occasion for expressing his in- 
most sentiments regarding the Supreme Court. 

Alexander Hamilton was his lawyer. The 
first of the week he used to spend in getting 
out his pajier, the remainder of the week in 
distributing it himself through Ulster county 
and vicinity, traveling on horseback and stop- 
ping whenever he had a chance to argue with 
anti-Federalists. 

In spite of his being so bellicose politically, he 
was extremely agreeable in business matters, as is 
shown by the fact that he delivered the out-of-town 
circulation of his rival, the Plebccan, along with his 
own, until both papers hired a post-rider in common. 

The Ulster County Gazette, containing an 
account of the death of Washington, was re- 
produced years afterward in New York City, 
and many of these copies, preserved in all 
parts of the country, have been supposed to be 
originals. Children of Samuel and Sarah Freer : 
Samuel S., born about 1765 ; Jannetjen, baptized 
March 23, 1775 (pp. 41-42) ; Claertje. Febru- 
ary 10, 1777; Petru.s, December 9. 1781 : An- 
thony, April 17, 1785 (named for his brother, 
who, with his wife, was sponsors). 

(V) John Anthony (Johannes), son of .An- 
thony Freer, was born in Rochester, New 
York, March 2, 1769, baptized in Kingston, 
March 16, 1769, as stated above. He died in 
Cortland, New York, March 15, 1826. He 
started, with his wife and three children, No- 
vember I. 1802, for what was then Homer, 
New York, in Onondaga county, traveling 
through Kingston, Albany, Utica and Pompey 
Hill. Their household goods were loaded on 
a cart and they were accompanied by a hired 
man. Reaching Homer, November 13th, they 
located on lot 74. Snow had fallen and the 
family found shelter at the house of N. Knapp 
and remained there tmtil their log cabin was 
built. After the family was settled Air. Freer 
returned to Rochester for the remainder of 
his goods. Heavy snowstorms, however, pre- 
vented him from rctiu-ning to his new home 
tmtil Christmas, and, in the meantime, his fam- 



ily would have suffered but for the assistance 
of neighbors. He worked hard and cleared 
what proved to be an excellent farm, and, in 
the course of time, became a well-to-do farmer. 
He and his wife were two of the six charter 
members of the Presbyterian church, organ- 
ized in Cortland, April 16, 1825. The site of 
his log house is now the athletic field of the A 
State Normal School, at Cortland. f 

He married, January 15, 1794. Rachel De- " 
Ptiy, of Rochester, New York, born I'ebruary 
15, 1775, died February 17, 1852, daughter of 
Joseph and Mary DePuy. Children : Maria, 
born December 7, 1795, married Lyman Mal- 
lery. she died March 28, 1845; -Anthony, Au- 
gust 21, 1797. died September 12, 1871 : Joseph 
DePuy. February 3. 1800, died June 14, 1800; 
Elias, January 29, 1802, died April 2, 1803: 
Joseph DePuy, September 17, 1803. died June 
13, 1850; Jane Low, August 2, 1805, died 
March 12, 1883; Rachel Catherine, July 15, 
1807, died January 27, 1891 ; John James, 
mentioned below : Sarah Rebecca, January 30, 
1812, died May 12, 1899, married James \\'. 
Sturtevant ; Stephen Decatur, mentioned below. 

(\'I) John James, son of John Anthony 
( Johannes ) Freer, was born in Cortland, New- 
York, November 11, 1809, died October 30, 
1884. He was educated in the district schools 
of his native town. For ten years he resided 
on the homestead and conducted the farm. 
.\fter farming for a few years at Solon, Cort- 
landville and Harford he removed to Cortland, 
where he was employed by A. S. & D. Freer, 
general merchants, transporting goods from 
I5inghamton, New York, and Scranton, Penn- 
sylvania, before the railroad was built. In 
partnership with his son. Watts S. Freer, he 
had a grocery business at Blodgetts Mills, and 
he built the store occupied later by J. Hubbard, 
in that town. After he retired from business 
he made his home, until he died, with his 
son. Watts S. He was a tnan of strong and 
vigorous physique and enjoyed uniformly good 
health. He was enterprising and persevering 
in business, and always successful in his under- 
takings. In politics he was a Democrat, and he 
served the town of Harford as supervisor. He 
was an active member of the Presbyterian 
church. 

He married (firsC) Alice Mary Whitney, 
born September 3, 1820, died July 24, 1851, 
daughter of James Whitney. He married (sec- 
ond) Sarah ( Metzger) Tarbell, of Freetown, 
New York, born in 1816, died in 1903, daugh- 




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ter of Jonas Metzger, and widow of Simon 
Tarbell. Children by first wife: i. John A., 
mentioned below. 2. \\'atts S., born October 
31, 1843, died in 1905, proprietor of the Hig- 
gins Hotel, at Higginsville, Cortlandville, New 
York: manufacturer of cider and vinegar: 
married Mary .\. Tarbell, daughter of Simon 
and Sarah ( Metzger ) Tarbell, granddaughter 
of Daniel Tarbell. 3. Francis D., of X'irgil. 
New York. 4. Henry DePny, of Taughannock, 
New York. 5. Child, died in infancy. Chil- 
dren by second wife : 6. Alice J., married Henry 
Hall, of \'irgil. 7. Charles D., born 1855, died 
1857. 8. Joseph D., January 8. 1857, lives at 
Cortland. <>. Ella N., married Frank Burt, of 
Blodgetts Mills. 10. DeWitt J., born in 1877, 
died in 1879. 

(\II) John Anthony, son of John James 
Freer, was born in Solon, New York, Decem- 
ber 27. 1840. He left his native town when 
very young, and removed, with his parents, to 
Cortland and Harford, where he attended the 
public schools in winter. In summer he work- 
ed on his father's farm. He lived in Harford 
from 1855 to 1857, and then returned to Cort- 
land to work in the store of his uncle, .\nthony 
Freer, attending school at the same time. In 
1862 he was one of the fifteen students of 
Cortlandville Academy to enlist in the civil 
war. He joined Company M, Tenth New 
York Cavalry, and served to the close of the 
war, being mustered out in June, 1865. His 
regiment was in the Army of the Potomac and 
took part in thirty-seven different engagements 
where artillery was used. It was under fire 
over one hundred times. He was wounded at 
.\ldie, X'irginia, and at the battle of tlettys- 
burg, and was on the picket line when Lee sur- 
rendered. He took part in the great military 
parade and review in Washington, in 1865, at 
the close of the war. At the time of his dis- 
charge he was regimental commissary sergeant. 
His discharge was dated June 25. 1865. He 
immediately returned to Cortland, and. in July. 
1863, bought thirty horses and mules, in part- 
nership with his uncle, Stephen Decatur Freer. 
He was employed as clerk in the hardware 
store of Chamberlain & Renton, in Cortland, 
for seven years. In 1 87 1 he went west and 
bought a ranch in Woodston, Owl Creek town- 
ship, Kansas. In 1883 he returned to New- 
York state and conducted a fruit farm at 
Ithaca for a year. In 1884-85 he was in 
partnership with H. M. Kellogg, in the hard- 
ware business in Cortland ; in 1887 he went 



to Ithaca and was associated with his brother, 
Henry DePuy Freer, in the hotel business 
until 1897. In the spring of 1898 he went 
west again and spent a year in Colorado. Since 
1899 he has been in the employ of Wickwire 
Brothers, in their factory at Cortland. In poli- 
tics he is a Republican. He was a trustee of 
the township, bridge commissioner and a jus- 
tice of the peace while living in Kansas. He 
has traveled extensively and has been in no 
less than thirty-seven of the states of the 
Union. He is a member of the order of Free 
and Accepted Masons, and of Grover Post, 
No. 98, Grand .\rmy of the Republic, of which 
he has been junior and senior commander. 

He married, in June, 1867, Mary E. (War- 
ren) Hyde, born at Schenectady, New York, 
November, 1836, daughter of Rev. Ira D. 
Warren, born in Albany, New York, a Meth- 
odist minister, and of Eliza (Caldwell) War- 
ren. By her first husband, Asher Hyde, she 
had: Ida, Hattie, Ira and Mary (twins); the 
daughter, Mary Hyde, married W. H. Lewis, 
and had three children : Ethel, Hattie and Doro- 
thy. Children of Mr. and Mrs. I^Veer: i. Burr 
B., born in Cortland, March 20, 1871, general 
agent of the Oil City Tubular Boiler Works, 
with offices in New York City : married Delia 
Smith, and has a daughter Kathryn. 2. James 
Sturtevant, born in Chanute. Kansas, March 
17, 1877, president and general manager of the 
Electric Engraving Company: married I'.orgia 
Wang, of Chicago, and has a daughter Eleanor. 

(\'I) Stephen Decatur, son of John An- 
thony (Johannes) Freer, was born in Cortland. 
New York, August 18, 181 5, died July 14, 
1887. He attended school, as a boy, at the "Four 
Corners," one mile south of the village, and, 
for one year, was a student in the high school. 
At the age of seventeen he became clerk in the 
postoffice then kept by Canfield Marsh, and 
was afterward apprenticed to learn the trade 
of hat-finishing. In 1834 he became clerk in the 
store of General Randall, located on the south- 
we.st corner of Main and Tompkins streets. 
In 1837 he entered the employ of his brother 
Anthony, in the foundry business, and. in 1838, 
was admitted to partnership, under the firm 
name of A. & S. D. Freer, and the firm con- 
ducted a foundry and a large hardware store 
until 1861. The hardware store was sold to 
Chamberlain & Benton. In the meantime Ste- 
phen D. Freer had engaged in the coal busi- 
ness, at the time of the opening of the S. B. & 
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that business until 1865. He became a partner 
in the firm of Sears, Freer & Cottrell, organ- 
ized in 1864, manufacturing flaxseed oil in the 
old paper mill. In 1873 he resumed the coal 
business and continued in it the remainder of 
his life. This last venture was a decided suc- 
cess. In 1874 he purchased the large frame 
building, then at the corner of Railroad street 
and the S. B. & N. Y. railroad, where he con- 
tinued in business until 1883. In August, 1883, 
he moved to the new buildings, just completed 
by him, on Pendleton street, opposite the Cort- 
land Wagon Company's works. These build- 
ings were at that time and are still reckoned as 
the finest in this section. 

He was one of the strongest and most influ- 
ential business men of the county. As chief 
officer of the County Agricultural Society he 
was responsible, in a large measure, for the 
purchase of the grounds and erection of the 
temporary buildings in 1858. He was at the 
head of the society again in 1862 and 1863. 
For many years he was a prominent member 
of the Presbyterian church. He married, in 

1841, Sarah Maria DePuy, of Accord, Ulster 
county. New York, daughter of Joseph DePuy. 
She died ]\Iarch 26, 1898. Children : Stephen 
DePuy, mentioned below; Joseph D.,born Feb- 
ruary 28, 1845; Mary E., June 7, 1847: Will- 
iam C, June 2, 1849. 

(VII) Stephen DePuy, son of Stephen De- 
catur Freer, was born in Cortland, July 25. 

1842. He attended the public schools of his 
native town and Berkshire Academy, at Owego, 
New York, and Troy Polytechnic School, grad- 
uating from the civil engineering course. He 
became a skillful machinist in the meantime. 
For several years he was employed in the 
works of the Yale & Towne Lock Company, of 
Stamford, Connecticut, and afterward in a 
machine sho]> at Middletown, Orange county. 
New York. Within the past few years he has 
been in the employ of \\ickwire Brothers, in 
their factory at Cortland. He was third assist- 
ant engineer at the Middletown State Insane 
Hospital, and, for a time, was a marine engi- 
neer on a Long Island soiuid steamboat. In 
politics he is a Democrat, and he has repre- 
sented his party as delegate to various nomi- 
nating conventions, and as inspector of elec- 
tions. He is a member of John L. Lewis 
Lodge of Odd Fellows, of Cortland ; of Elon 
Encam]iment, and the Canton. He is a mem- 
ber (if the Presbyterian church. 

He married, January 21, 1870, Julia M. 



Buckingham, of Riverhead, Long Island, born 
1848, died April 29, 1880, aged thirty-two years, 
daughter of George and Catherine (Adams) 
P>uckingham. Children: i. George B., men- 
tioned below. 2. Antoinette, born in 1872, died 
in infancy. 3. Robert Ross, mentioned below. 
4. Maria, 1875, died in infancy. 5. Harriette 
K., July 29, 1878; married Charles Keeler, of 
New York City. 6. John Anthony, April 16, 
1880, died in infancy. 

( \"III ) George Buckingham, son of Stephen 
DePuy Freer, was born in Cortland, New 
York, December 8, 1870, educated in the public 
schools there, and at the State Normal School, 
of Cortland. He was employed for several 
years by the Cortland Carriage Goods Com- 
pany. He learned the machinist's trade and 
also that of printer. For the past six years he 
has been in the advertising department of the 
Cortland Daily Standard. In politics he is a 
Republican, and he has held the office of in- 
spector of elections in Cortland, and taken a 
prominent part in the affairs of his party. He 
is a member of Cortlandville Lodge, No. 470, 
Free and Accepted Masons. He is an active 
member of the Baptist church, the Sunday 
school of which, for several years, he was 
secretary, and of which he is at present assist- 
ant secretary. 

He married. .April 8, 1893. Ida J. Bush, of 
Slaterville, Tompkins county. New York, born 
August 22, 1875, daughter of Benjamin and 
Charity M. (^lonroe) Bush, granddaughter 
of Solomon Bush, who was a hotelkceper in 
Slaterville, in the early days of the town. They 
have one son: I'aul Sturtevant, born June 13. 
1894. 

( VHI ) Robert Ross, son of Ste])hen DePuy 
Freer, was born September 30, 1874. in Cort- 
land. New York. He attended the State Nor- 
mal School until lacking one term of gradu- 
ating. 1893, and from that year until 1896 
studied art at the National Academy of De- 
sign, New York City. He engaged in general 
accounting work for three years ; was with 
Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company, as head 
I if office force, remaining four years: was 
supervisor of the home offices of National 
Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio, one 
year; from 1904 to 1906 was engaged in factory 
systematizing in Connecticut; in 1906 went 
with Miller & Franklin Company ( Business 
Economists), of Boston, and, in 1909, became 
their district manager, with ]ieadc[uarters in 
Cincinnati, Ohio. In 191 1 he engaged in busi- 




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ness under his own name, in the profession 
of scientific management, covering production 
engineering, cost accounting, factory organiza- 
tion and systematizing. Fie married, July 24, 
1897. Jane Bell, daughter of John and Martha 
(Coulter) Xeill, of Brooklyn. Children: Ruth 
DePuy, born P'ebruary 2, 1903. in New York 
City, and Robert Decatur, born January 16, 
1906. in Bridgeport, Connecticut. 



William Gould was born in 1687, 
GOULD died February 23, 1723. In 1717 

he moved to New Alilford, Con- 
necticut. He is regarded as the founder of 
that branch of the Gould family now repre- 
sented at Binghamton, New York, being the 
first ancestor of whom they have any record. 
He married (first). November 28, 1706. Abi- 
gail Desbrow, who died in 1714; (second), in 
1717, Mary Atkin. Chiklren by first wife: 
William Annis ; Job, see forward. By second 
wife: Samuel. Abigail, Mary. 

(II) Job, son of William and Abigail (Des- 
brow) Gould, was born in Milford, Connecti- 
cut, in 171 1, died February 27. 1795. In i7r)0 
he removed to Sharon, Connecticut, and bought 
a farm near Arnenise Union, New York, but 
finding that the title was not good he took in- 
stead a farm on Sharon Mountain. He mar- 
ried, in 1735, Sarah Prindle, and their children 
were : Abigail ; Rachel ; Job. see forward : Will- 
iam : Sarah : David, born November, 1747, died 
.\pril 19. 1824. married Mary Brewster ; Annis. 

(III) Job (2). son of Job (i) and Sarah 
(Prindle) Gould, was born in 1738, died April 

19' 1795- He married Ruth , born 1733, 

died 1803. They were the parents of one child : 
Lyman, see forward. The following epitaph 
was inscribed on the tomb of Job Gould Jr. : 

Sacred to the inemorv of Job Gould, Jr., who died 
.■\pril 19, 1795. aged 57. 

O. painful thought, yet we must know 
The grave's the place where all must go. 
If dear, good, wise and just they be, 
Yet death's their lot as here we see. 

(IV) Lyman, son of Job (2) and Ruth 
Gould, was born December 23, 1764, died in 
West Troy, New York, April 22, 1831. He 
married Sally, daughter of David ancl Sarah 
(Day) Downs. David Downs was born in 
New Haven, Connecticut, in 1737; died in 
Sharon, Connecticut, December 13, 1813. He 
served in the revolutionary army, as captain in 



the regiment commanded by Colonel Charles 
Burrall. in 177'^). He was taken prisoner, May 
19, 1776, at the afl:'air of the Cedars, Canada. 
The regiment having been raised on continental 
basis to serve in the Northern Department, 
imder General Schuyler, for the year 1776, its 
term expired January Ty, 1777. It reenforced 
the troops besieging Quebec, under Arnold and 
Wooster, and, after the retreat from that posi- 
tion, in April. 1776, was stationed at Ticon- 
deroga and in the vicinity, where the men 
suffered severely from smallpox. Two com- 
panies of the regiment, commanded respec- 
tively by Captains Downs and Stevens, were 
engaged in the affair of the Cedars, forty miles 
above Montreal, and Captain Downs, as men- 
tioned above, was captured with Captain Ste- 
vens and nearly all the men of their respective 
com]:)anies. Captain Downs was magistrate of 
his town, and, for thirteen sessions, was a 
member of the continental legislature. Sarah 
Day. wife of Captain Downs, was descended 
from Robert Day, who was born about 1604. 
in England, and. in 1634, sailed from Ipswich, 
with his wife Mary, in the ship "Elizabeth." 
He settled in Newtown, now Cambridge, Mas- 
sachusetts. Shortly afterward his wife died 
and he married (second) Editha Stebbins, sis- 
ter of Deacon Edward Stebbins, of Hartford. 
His son. Thomas (i) Day, married. October 
27. 1659. Sarah Cooper, and they were the 
parents of a son. Thomas (2), born March 2},, 
1662. He had a son, Thomas (3), born Octo- 
ber 26, 1689. first of Colchester, Connecticut, 
later of Sharon. Connecticut, who married, for 
his second wife. Mary Wells. They had a 
daughter Sarah, who became the wife of David 
Downs, as mentioned above. 

(V) John Henry, son of Lyman and Sally 
(Downs) Gould, was born in Sharon, Connec- 
ticut, November 13, 1810, died June 4. 1879, 
at Delhi, New York. At the age of seventeen 
he removed to Kingston. New York, and be- 
came clerk to the firm of Smith & Gould, mer- 
chants of that place, remaining until 1830. In 
that year he formed a partnership with his 
brother, the Hon. Herman Day Gould, who 
afterward represented the district in congress. 
John Henry Gould was, for a long time, one of 
the chief merchants in Delhi. In consequence 
of failing health he was advised to live as 
much as possible in the open air, and therefore 
retired from mercantile business, securing con- 
tracts with the government for mail routes. 



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These he sub-let to others. He was a public- 
spirited citizen, serving as colonel in the state 
militia. His honesty was never questioned, 
and he ever maintained a character, in all re- 
spects, absolutely unimpeachable. He married, 
1838, Mary Hassam, daughter of Solon and 
Mary (Hassam) Lovell, who were married 
January 18, 181 5 (see Hassam I\'). Solon 
Lovell was the son of John and Martha (Corey) 
Lovell. In 1775, when the (ireen Mountain 
Boys marched to Ticonderoga, under Colonel 
Ethan Allen, John Lovell went with them, as 
captain of a company. He also went with 
Colonel Allen to Manchester, Massachusetts, 
and to Bennington, Vermont, in 1777. As a 
member of Captain Simond's company of Rock- 
ingham (\ermont) men he participated in the 
battle of Guilford Courthouse, March 15, 1781. 
John Henry and Mary Hassam (Lovell) Gould 
were the parents of the following children: i. 
John Henry. 2. Sarah Ann, born February 
14, 1840, died March 8, 1861. 3. Herman 
Hassam, born January 13, 1843. '^'^'^' April 2. 
1908. 4. Mary Lovell, married (first) Samuel 
A. Fitch, M. D. ; (second) Thomas \\'ebster 
Browne; removed to Binghamton, 1888; she is 
a charter member of Colony 13, Society of 
New England Women. 5. Lvman, born May 
7. 1848, died April 9, 1878. 6. Lillian Ann E., 
see forward. 

( VI ) Lillian Ann E., daughter of John Henry 
and Mary Hassam (Lovell) Gould, was born 
at Delhi, New York, educated at Delaware 
Academy and Elmira College, and moved to 
Binghamton, New York, in 1888. .She is a 
member of the First Presbyterian Church, 
and an original member of Tuscarora Chap- 
ter, Daughters of the American Revolution, 
national number 10695, chapter number 29. 
In May, 1902, she caused to be placed on the 
south wall of the Broome county courthouse a 
bronze memorial tablet to the soldiers and 
sailors of the American revolution, which was 
unveiled May 16, of that year. In 1902-03 she 
was a student at the Corcoran School of Art, 
Washington, District of Columbia, and, in 1906, 
graduated in a course of nature study at Cor- 
nell Cniversity. For many years she has been 
chairman of the nature study department of 
the Monday Afternoon Club, of Binghamton. 
Miss Gould has, among other family relics, a 
mahogany dresser, with swell front, inlaid with 
satin wood, and a large mirror, with gilt frame, 
once owned by her great-grandfather, Stephen 
Hassam ; also a banjo clock, made by him. 



(The Hassam Line). 
Hassam is a corruption of the English sur- 
name Horsham. In the unsettled orthography 
of the early records in this country, it appears 
not only in its proper form "Horsham" but in 
twenty other ways, namely : Horshom, Har- 
shom, Horsom, Hassum, Hessam, Horsome. 
Horsum, Hashom. 

(I) \\'illiam Hassam, progenitor of one 
branch of this numerous family, settled, prob- 
ably about the middle of the seventeenth cen- 
tury, in Manchester, Massachusetts, in that 
part of the town called Newport, where he had 
several grants of land. The first was in April. 
1684. and the second in 1690. The first grant 
fell short, and, in 1704, a third was made to 
supply the deficiency. \\'illiam Hassam is fre- 
quently mentioned in the town records, hi> 
name appearing in no fewer than thirteen dif- 
ferent modes of spelling. In 1693 he was con- 
stable, in 1696 surveyor of highways, and he 
held other town and public offices. He mar- 
ried, in Marblehead, December 4. 1684, Sarah, 
daughter of Samuel Allen, of Manchester, and 
died in that town about 1735. 

(II) Samuel, son of William and Sarah 
(Allen) Hassam, married, October 24, 1727, 
Sarah, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Dawes. 
Children, born in Boston: i. Samuel, see for- 
ward. 2. Sarah, born July 15, 1731. Mrs. 
Hassam survived her husband, and married, 
about 1738, .\ndrew Burgher. She <lied before 

I759- 

(III) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (i) and 
Sarah (Dawes) Hassam, was born May 15. 
1729, in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1759 he 
served under General Amherst, during the 
campaign in Canada. He married (first), May 
22, 1 75 1, in Boston, Hannah .Simpson. She 
died about 1769, and he married (second). 
March 20, 1774, in Boston, Mary Finney. Chil- 
dren, all by first wife: i. Samuel, died unmar- 
ried during the revolutionary war. 2. Josiah. 
was a sea captain ; went south and was of 
Baltimore about 1802-03. 3- Stephen, see for- 
ward. 4. Jonathan, born alwut 1764, died 
March 2<), 1845. During the siege of Boston, 
when permission was given to the inhabitants 
to leave the town, Mr. Hassam went, with his 
family, to (irafton, ^Massachusetts, where he 
and his wife died before 1790, jierhaps in 1777 
or 1778. 

( IV) Stephen, son of Samuel ( 2 ) and Han- 
nah (Sim]5son) Hassam, was born alx>ut 1761. 
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was between the ages of ten and fifteen when 
the battle of lUmker Hill was fought. He 
witnessed the conflict from the steeple of a 
church, at the North End, and carried water 
to the soldiers of the Copps Hill battery. He 
served in the revolutionary war, displaying 
both courage and {)atriotism. He went, with 
his family, to Grafton, afterward removing 
to Worcester, where he learned the trade of 
clock-making. A very- beautiful specimen of 
the so-called "banjo" clock, made by him, 
is now in the possession of his great-grand- 
daughter. Miss Lillian A. E. Gould, of Bing- 
hanitnn. New York, and a clock, made by him, 
is in the tower of the AI. E. Church, in Spring- 
field, Yermont. He afterward went to Charles- 
town, New Hampshire, where the remainder 
of his life was spent. He married ( first ), Sep- 
tember 27, 1787, at Charlestown. Theodosia, 
born in 1769, died in Charlestown, ?ilarch 6, 
1 84 1, daughter of John and Susannah Hast- 
ings (see Willard family). Children, all born 
in Charlestown, New Hampshire: i. Elizabeth, 
born ?^Iay, 1790, died in Delhi, New York; 
married, about 181 5, in Charlestown, James 
Plumb, of Middletown, Connecticut. 2. Mary, 
born December 19, 1791, died in Delhi, New 
York, February 4, 1867; married, in Charles- 
town, 1815, Solon Lovell, of Rockingham, Yer- 
mont : had two children : i. Hassam Ovid, mar- 
ried (first). May 20, 1832, Rebecca Mallory, 
who died April 2, 1859, they had a son, John 
Russell, born October 2, 1857; he married 
(second) Mary Fuller, December 16, 1864. 
they had one child, Frederick Hassam, born 
October 3, 1865, he married Jessie Chidsey 
and resides in California ; ii. Alary Hassam, 
born February 12, 1820, died December 12, 
1883, married John Henry Gould (see Gould 
\'). 3. John Hastings, born 1792, died in 
Raleigh, North Carolina, about 1822; he mar- 
ried, in Raleigh, Margaret Nichols, and had 
one child, who died in infancy. 4. Aliranda, 
married, in Charlestown, Guy Ely, of that 
town, and died in Delhi, New York, February 
15, 1856. 5. Stephen Danforth, see forward. 
Stephen Hassam married (second), in Spring- 
field, \'ermont, August 19. 1841, Lucy A. 
Miller, of that town. They had children : 6. 
John Ferdinand, born about 1843, *''^'' '" 
Washington, District of Columbia, Jirly 31, 
1863: he served as a private in Company F>, 
Fourteenth New Hampshire \''olunteers, dur- 
ing the civil war. 7. Flora J., born October 5, 
1844, died in Springfield, \^erniont, February 



9, 1868; she married, in that town, March 14, 
i8C)0, Charles Burnham. 8. Winfield Scott, 
born September 19, 1847, ''^ Claremont, New 
Hampshire, died May, 1907 ; was in seven 
hard-fought battles in civil war, and mustered 
out before seventeen years old. 9. Carrie 
F'hcebe, born September 19, 1849; married, in 
Springfield, \'ermont, August 15, 1868, Eugene 
A. Randall ; she is a member of the Daughters 
of the .American Revolution. 10. Emily, born 
August, 1851, died 1855. Stephen Hassam 
died in Charlestown, New Hampshire, Febru- 
ary 4, 1861, aged about one hundred years. 

(\') Stephen Danforth, son of Stephen and 
Theodosia (Hastings) Hassam, was born May 
14, 1797. died December 29, 1851. He married, 
in Charlestown, New Hampshire, October 24, 
1822, Mary, daughter of Roswell Hunt. Chil- 
dren, all born in Charlestown: I. John Hast- 
ings, born August 12, 1823, died March 21, 
1835. 2. Frederick Fitch, see forward. 3. 
George Avery, born August 20, 1832; married, 
in Alanchester, New Hampshire, November 2, 
1854, Leonora Babb. 4. Roswell Hunt, born 
February t6, 1845. 

(\'I ) Frederick Fitch, son of Stephen Dan- 
forth and Mary (Hunt) Hassam, was born 
October 6, 1825. He married, in New York 
City, January 7, 1851, Rosa Delia, daughter of 
Peleg and Mary Hathorne, of Bangor. Maine. 
Children, all born in Dorchester, Massachu- 
setts: I. Rosa, born March 29, 1852, died 
March 19, 1855. 2. Lilv, born November 28, 
1854. 3. FredVrick, October 8. 1859. 4. Mary, 
.\ugust29, 1861. 5. Norval, May 17, 1866. 

(The Willard Line). 

(I) Richard Willard, the earliest recorded 
ancestor of the American branch of the family, 
died at Horsmondon, Kent, England, in 1616, 

(H) Simon, son of Richard Willard, was 
baptized .April 7, 1605. and, in 1634, emigrated 
to New h-ngland. During King Philip's war 
he commanded a troop of horse, with the rank 
of major. He was then living in Lancaster, 
Massachusetts, and, when that place was de- 
stroyed by the Indians, he moved to Salem, 
where he passed the remainder of his life. He 
married (first) Mary Sharpe : (second) Eliza- 
beth Dunster: (third) Mary Dunster. He was 
the father of two sons, one of whom was 
Simon, see forward. 

(HI) Simon (2), son of Simon (i) Will- 
ard, made his home at Still River. He had the 
following sons : Moses, see forward ; Henry. 



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Hezekiah, John, Joseph, Josiah, Samuel, Jona- 
than, James. 

(IV) Moses, son of Simon (2) Willard, 
was a clock-maker, and laid the foundation of 
the fame of the family as manufacturers of 
time pieces. He was the inventor of the 
"banjo" and "lyre" clocks. 

(V) Susannah, daughter of Moses Willard, 
was born in 1730, in Boston, Massachusetts, 
and, at the age of seventeen, became the wife 
of James Johnson. Two years after their 
marriage they removed to Charlestown, New 
Hampshire, making their home at the fort, 
until the prospect of peace between Great 
Britain and France allayed their fears of the 
Indians (who were allies of the French), and 
Mr. Johnson deemed it safe to remove to a 
farm, which he owned, distant about one hun- 
dred rods from the fort, which was then the 
uppermost settlement on the Connecticut river. 
For a few years all was peace and harmony, 
but, early in 1754, another rupture seemed 
imminent between England and France. How- 
ever, as immediate war was not threatened, 
Mr. Johnson ventured to make a trading tour 
of Connecticut. During his absence fearful 
rumors of Indian hostilities reached the fam- 
ily at the farm, but, on August 24, their anxiety 
was relieved by the safe return of Mr. John- 
son, and, by the news which he brought, that 
a war was expected in the following spring, 
but that no immediate danger was anticipated. 
For a few days they lived in a state of happy 
security, or fancied security, but, in the early 
morning of August 30, they were aroused by a 
band of hostile Indians, who carried them away 
captive. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, their three 
children and Mrs. Johnson's sister Miriam. 

After a toilsome march they halted for the 
night, and, in the morning, a daughter was 
born to Mrs. Johnson, and was appropriately 
named Captive. The hardships and privations 
of a nine days" journey brought them to Lake 
Champlain, where they found canoes in readi- 
ness. Mrs. Johnson speaks of this arrival as 
one of the haiipicst hours of her life, knowing, 
as she did. that a sail of twelve hours would 
bring them to a settlement of civilized French- 
men. After a night on the water they landed, 
and the Indians executed the war dance, after 
which they reembarked, and, about noon, ar- 
rived at Crown Point. There they were taken 
to the residence of the French commander, by 
whom they were treated with all possible kind- 
ness. On the fourtli day they were again de- 



livered to the Indians and taken to the water- 
side, where they embarked for a three days' 
journey to St. Johns, where they again experi- 
enced the kindness of the French. They finally 
arrived at St. Francis, where the Indians be- 
longed. All the prisoners, with the exception 
of Mrs. Johnson, her son, six years old, and 
her infant daughter, were taken to Montreal, 
where they were bought by the French. .\t 
the end of two months a letter was received 
from Mr. Johnson requesting the Indians to 
take his wife to Montreal, as he had made 
arrangements for her purchase. On their ar- 
rival at that city Mrs. Johnson found that her 
fellow-prisoners, with the exception of her eld- 
est daughter, were kindly treated by their pur- 
chasers. The day after her arrival Mr. John- 
son was released on parole, in order that he 
might go to New England and raise money for 
the redemption of his family. Mrs. Johnson, 
during his absence, was purchased by Monsieur 
Duquesne, who received her into his family to 
await the return of her husband. Mr. John- 
son received from Governor Shirley, of ^Iassa- 
chusetts, ten pounds, with which to defray ex- 
penses, and from Governor Winthrop, of New 
Hampshire, one hundred and fifty pounds, for 
the redemption of the prisoners. He had pro- 
ceeded as far as \\'orcester, on his return to 
Montreal, when a letter was received from 
Governor Shirley forbidding him to go further, 
the French having invaded King George's terri- 
tories, the frontiers of New Hampshire and 
New York. Not until five months had passed 
could he obtain from Governor Winthrop per- 
mission to proceed to Montreal privately, and, 
meanwhile, the French, thinking he had de- 
signedly broken his parole, would have nothing 
to do with his wife, obliging her and her sister 
to support themselves by the use of the needle. 
Mr. Johnson, on his arrival, was thrown into 
prison, and, after a time, was taken, with his 
wife and two youngest children, to Quebec, 
where, for three years, they endured all the 
horrors of a most cruel imprisonment. They 
were finally permitted to take passage on a 
vessel bound for England, for the exchange of 
prisoners. Two weeks after their arrival they 
embarked for America, and. after a voyage of 
seven weeks, arrived safely in New England. 
Mrs. Johnson says, in the account which she 
has written of her captivity : 

I had the extreme felicity of finding myself, 
sister and two children on my native shore. Mr. 
Johnson was not released until six months later, 



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January, 1758, and joined his family at Charlestown. 
Sylvanus, my son. was restored to me the following 
year, but had forgotten the English language, spoke 
a little French, but was perfect in Indian. My daugh- 
ter Susannah still remained in Canada, being treated 
with the greatest kindness by the three sisters who 
adopted her. 

In 1799 a monument was erected to the 
memory of Mrs. Johnson, with this inscription : 

This is near the spot where the Indians encamped 
the night after they took Mr. Johnson and family, 
August 30, 1754, and Mrs. Johnson was delivered 
of her child, half a mile up the hook. 

When troubles near the Lord is kind. 
He hears the captives cry; 
He can subdue the savage mind. 
And learn it sympathy. 

Another monument was erected, at a httle 
distance, with this inscription : 

If mothers e'er should wander here. 
They'll drop a sympathetic tear, 
For her who in the howling wild 
Was safe delivered of a child. 

Mrs. Johnson wrote instances of longevity 
in her family, which were truly wonderful. 
My aged mother, before her death, could say 
to me, arise, daughter, and go to thy daughter, 
for thy daughter's daughter has a daughter, a 
command which few mothers can make and 
be obeyed. 

Mrs. Johnson survived her husband and 
married (second) John Hastings. Their daugh- 
ter Theodosia became the wife of Stephen 
Hassam (see Hassam IV). Mrs. Hastings 
died in her eighty-first year, having been the 
mother of fourteen children. 



William Stilson, or Stillson, the 
STILSOX iininigrant ancestor of all the 

early colonial families of this 
name, was bom in Herefordshire, England, 
and settled at Charlestown, Massachusetts. He 
was a yeoman. He and his wife Elizabeth 
were admitted to the church at Charlestown, 
March 22, 1633. He was admitted a freeinan, 
June II, 1633, and was a proprietor of the 
town in 1635, and a town officer. He was 
ordained deacon October 16, 1659. He de- 
posed, December 28, 1658, that he was aged 
fifty-eight years. His wife Elizabeth died Feb- 
ruary' 16, 1669-70. He married (second), Au- 
gust 22, 1670, Mary Norton. He died April 
II, 1691, aged ninety. 

(II) \'incent, son of Williain Stilson, was 



born doubtless in Hereford, England, near the 
border of Wales, and settled in Milford, Con- 
necticut, in 1646. He lived at Alarblehead, 
Massachusetts, 1668-74, and died at Milford, 
in 1690. The land records, in the town clerk's 
office, Milford, show a transfer from \ incent 
Stilson to George Clark, January 18, 1686. 
The will of \'incent Stilson, dated September 
17, 1687, tnentions his wife and children: \'in- 
cent, who settled in Newtown, Connecticut, be- 
fore 1731 : James; Hugh; Charles; Moses, 
mentioned below; Agnes Hawkins, wife of 
George Barlow (Barley or Bailey). 

(III) Moses, son of Mncent Stilson, was 
born in 1676, and removed to Newtown, in 1720, 
where he died in 1760, aged eighty-four years. 
He and his wife were received into the fellow- 
ship of the church. May 27, 1753. by letter, 
signed by J. Judson, pastor. He married Char- 
ity Gridley, of Boston, who was admitted to 
the church May 9, 1708. 

(IV) Moses (2), son of Moses (i) Stilson, 
was born in 1705, and died in 1777. He was 
appointed ensign of the first company of the 
train band in New Milford, 1775. He married 
Mary Bennett, born 1708, died 1766. Chil- 
dren: John, born April 26, 1732, died aged 
five years ; Anah, born July 26, 1734, died aged 
three years; Enoch, bom April 27, 1736, mar- 
ried Freelove , October 31, 1754, who 

died in 1776; Anah, bom July 26, 1738, mar- 
ried Cyrenus Ruggles, died 1778; Charity, born 
May 31, 1740, married Edmund Clark; John, 
born October 16, 1742, died ]\[arch 29, 1821, 
married Hannah Trowbridge, who died March 

25, 1795, aged fifty-four; Riverius, bom July 

26, 1744, was a deacon many years, married 
Anne Baldwin, 1767, died 1802, lived on Stilson 
Hill ; Nathan, mentioned below ; Abiah. born 
February 8, 1751. married Hezekiah Tread- 
well; Philo, born June 4, 1754, married Mary 
liennett. died December 12, 1787. 

(\') Nathan, son of Moses (2) Stilson, was 
born at ]\Iilford or Newtown, October 14, 1746. 
and died May 26, 1826. He lived at New 
Milford. Connecticut, and married Elizabeth 
Stewart, born July 13. 1751, died July 26, 
1820. Children, born at New Alilford : Cyrenus, 
born 1771, died December 28. 1845, married 
Sarah Baldwin, who died March 31, 1844; 
Moses, 1774. married Charlotte Foster, died 
October 2, 1839; Sally, 1776, died April 8, 
1841. married Zadock Noble; Lucinda, 1779. 
died March 4, 1861, married Amnion Bostwick, 
of West Meredith ; William, 1783, died May 



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4, 1862, married Aft'a Ward; \athan. men- 
tioned below. According to the first federal 
census Nathan, of New Milford, had in his 
family two sons over sixteen, four under that 
age and two females. Truman, Riveriiis and 
John also had families there. 

(VI) Nathan (2), son of Nathan (i) Stil- 
son, was born in New Milford, March 24, 
1785. He removed to West Meredith, New 
York, where he died March 15, 1858. He 
married Sophia Ford. Children: Madison, born 
at West Meredith, May 8, 181 1, died September 

15, 1877, married (first) Harriet Beach, mar- 
ried (.second) Anna Church, born 1829: Ansyl 
Ford, mentioned below ; Lucinda, or Lucy. 
June 15, 1815, married (first) a Mr. Seeley, 
(second) Dr. Seward Smith, who lived in 
Hartvvick, Otsego county. New York, died 
January 7, 1864; Miranda Bostwick, January 

16, 181 7, married James Fisher, of W'indsor, 
New York, December 25, 1839, died January 
12, 1886; John, July 25, 1819. died February 

17, 1889, married (first) Christina Fisher, De- 
cember 22, 1 841, and she died January 31. 
1850, married (second), January 14, 1861. 
Eleanor J. Swart, and she died September i . 
1872, married (third) Harriett McKinnon : 
Philo, September 27, 1827, died August 4, 
1848. aged twenty-one years. 

(VH) Ansyl Ford, son of Nathan (2) Stil- 
son, was born in West Meredith, September 
30, 1813, and died February 12, 1857. He 
married (first), December 30, 1835, Susan 
Dewey, born October 16, 1813, died December 
24, 1841 ; (second) Lucia Ford. He was a 
merchant at Meredith. Children of first wife: 
I. Lyman, born October 2, 1837, died January 
19, 1838. 2. Edward, mentioned below. 3. 
Laura Maria, born in Franklin, New York, 
November 17, 1841 ; married, October 3, 1863, 
De Ver Ford, and lived in .Algona, Iowa, and 
Cortland, New York. Children of second wife : 
I. Arthur Clark, born February 3, 1845: mar- 
ried, September 3, 1867, Addie Russell Scaton, 
and their children were : Edward Seaton, born 
January 3, 1870; Helena, June 13, 1875. 2. 
Sophia Ellen, born September 2t,, 1846; mar- 
ried Dr. Byron Pierce, of Coopers Plains. New 
York. 3. Lucy. July i, 1849. died March 4. 
1864. 4. Alice Margaret, October 26, 1853: 
married (first) Clement Gould, who died JaiVu- 
ary 17, 1895, (second) Albert Wheeler, who 
died .August 4, 1910. 

(\'in) Edward, son of An.syl Ford Stil.son. 
was bom in Franklin, New York, July 21. 1839, 



and died October 23, i8f)8. He was a tin- 
smith by trade, and was a hardware mer- 
chant at Franklin. He married, September 18, 
1861, Mary C. Wickwire, born February 13, 
1841. died October 11, 1900, daughter of Ray- 
mond Wickwire (see Wickwire). Children: 
Arthur Ford and Edward, both mentioned 
below. 

(IX) Arthur Ford, son of Edward Stilson, 
was born at Franklin, Delaware county. New 
York, December 9, 1864. He attended the 
public schools, the State Normal School, and 
Eastman's Business College, at Poughkeepsie. 
He is superintendent of the plant of Wickwire 
Brothers, and has worked for this concern 
since he graduated from school. He has been 
active in public affairs. He was a member of 
the board of education for nine years, presi- 
dent for six years, and president of the incor- 
porated village. L'nder iiis administration the 
main street was paved, and other public im- 
provements carried on. He is a director of the 
.Second National Bank of Cortland. In relig- 
ion he is a Presbyterian, and is a trustee of the 
church. In politics he is a Republican. He mar- 
ried, January 22, 1890. Carrie Louise, daugh- 
ter of Henry F. and Caroline ( Putnam ) Ben- 
ton, of Cortland ; she uses for her name, 
Louisa B. Children : Raymond Putnam, born 
October 16, 1892, died December 22, 1893; 
Chester Benton, fanuarv 16. 1896. 

( IX) Edward"(2). son of Edward ( i) Stil- 
son, was born in Cortland, March 9, 1867. He 
was educated in the public schools of his na- 
tive town, and at the State Normal School, at 
Cortland. He has been em]:)loyed all his active 
life in the plant of Wickwire Brothers, and is 
at present treasurer of the corporation. In 
religion he is a Presbyterian, and in politics a 
Republican. He married, March 4, 1891, Mar- 
tha, born in Moravia, New York, June 12, 1871, 
daughter of Frank W. and Georgia (Petrie) 
Collins. Children, born at Cortland : Georgia 
Jennette, July 22, 1892; Mary Wickwire, July 
15, 1894; Laura Ford, November 15, 1895; 
Edward, November 18, 1899. 



John Greenman. immigrant 
CiRFENMAN ancestor of all the colonial 
families of Greenman, was 
horn in England. Lie was admitted an in- 
habitant of Newport, and his name is on the 
list dated May 20, 1638. He soon died, or left 
the colony, as nothing more appears about him 
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father of tlie tliiec tianicd David. Edward 
and Content, but says he may have been an 
elder brother. Chiklren : i. Daviil, was a free- 
man at Xewport, in 1655, and appears to have 
left no descendants. 2. Edward, mentioned 
below. 3. Content, born 1636, died March 27, 
1666; married Walter Clarke, son of Jeremiah 
and Frances (Latham) Clarke. 

(II) Edward, son of John Greenman, set- 
tled in Xew]K)rt, Rhode Island, where he died 

about 1688. He married Mary . He 

was a wheelwright, and he and his brother 
David sold to John Green twenty-two acres of 
land, near the village called Green End, on the 
highway from Portsmouth to Xewport, Febru- 
ary 20, 1647. He was a freeman in 1655; 
commissioner in 1657; had a quarter share of 
land in Westerly assigned to him September 
9, 1661 ; was deputy to the general assembly, 
1668-69-70-82; juror in 1671, and grand jury 
foreman in 1688. Children: i. Edward, born 
1663, died 1749, lived at Kingston and Giarles- 
town, Rhode Island ; was deputy, assistant, 
speaker of the house of deputies. 2. John, 
born 1666, died September 30, 1727, leaving 
Eunice, Jerusha and Leah. 3. William, men- 
tioned below. 4. Thomas, born 1669, died 
1728; married Alary Weeden : was a tailor by 
trade, at South Kingston ; children : Sylvanus, 
another son and two daughters, who were not 
mentioned by name in his will. 5. Mary, mar- 
ried, March 8. 1706, Adam Casey, born about 
1667, died April, 1765. 

(III) William, son of Edward Greenman, 
was of Kingston, Westerly and Xewport, Rhode 
Island. He married Ann Clarke, born 1675, 
daughter of Jeremiah and Ann ( Audley ) Clarke. 
He and wife .\nn sold land at Westerly, March 
2, 1706, and he was one of the grantees of the 
church property of the Second Baptist Church, 
Xew]iort, January 2;*,. 1707. Children: Ann, 
William, Jeremiah, James, Elisha, Mary, Eliz- 
abeth and Amey. 

( \' ) Benjamin Greenman, grandson of Will- 
iam (III) or Thomas Greenman (HI), was 
born about 1730. He married, at South Kings- 
ton, Rhode Island, January 2t,, 1755, Ruth Shef- 
field (by Samuel Tefft, justice of the peace). 
Deborah, presumably his sister, married, at 
South Kingston, Xovember 15, 1753. In the 
census of 1790 we find as heads of families, in 
Rhode Island, only Gideon ( 2) , of South Kings- 
ton ; James, of Portsmouth ; Jeremiah, of Provi- 
dence; John (3), of South Kingston; Silas 
(3), of South and Xorth Kingston, and Will- 



iam, of Xewport. We find no record of the 
family at all at New Shoreham, otlierwise 
called I'.lock Island, and it is not likely that 
any of them made a permanent home there. 
A branch of the family located at Stonington, 
Connecticut, and a few families of the name 
were in Connecticut as early as 1790. 

( \'I ) Benjamin (2), son of Benjamin (1) 
Greenman, was born in Rhode Island, at New 
Slioreham, or Block Island, according to fam- 
ily records, March 9, 1757, died September 
19, 1841, at Middletown, Rensselaer county, 
Xew York. He taught school in his younger 
days ; was a farmer and practiced law in a 
small way in his later years. He married 
Lydia Brown, born in Lyme, Connecticut, Oc- 
tober 2Tf. 1760, died March 28, 1835. Chil- 
dren: I. Benjamin Jr., born at Lyme, Decem- 
ber 30, 1783, died March 16, 1793. 2. William, 
born February 27, 1786, at Xassau, Rensselaer 
county. 3. Homer B., mentioned below. 4. 
Lester, born October 26, 1789. 5. Lydia, Sep- 
tember 3, 1791, married Bateman. 6. 

Abigail, August 27, 1793, married Cross. 

7. Russell D., September 14, 1795. 8. Sub- 
mittance, born June 10, 1797. 9. Amanda, 

twin of Submittance, married Doty. 

10. Elizabeth, August 9, 1799, married 

Casey. 11. Electa, February 5, 1802, married 
Turner, of Elmira. Xew York. 12. 



Elmira, Ixirn April 12, 1804. married 

Benjamin. 

(V'll) Homer Benjamin, son of Benjamin 
( 2 ) Greenman, was born at Stephentown, Rens- 
selaer county. New York, January 21, 1788, 
died in Cortlandville, Cortland county. New 
York, Xovember 10, 1872. He came with his 
brothers, Lester and William, to the town of 
Solon, Cortland county, soon after the year 
1800, and cleared a farm, built a house of logs 
and became a prosperous farmer. For some 
years he was a justice of the peace. In relig- 
ion he was a Presbyterian and trustee of the 
society, and member of the building committee, 
in charge of erecting the Presbyterian church, 
at McGrawville. He married (first) Rachel 
Waterbury, born January 21, 1791, at Xassau, 
Rensselaer county, Xew York. She died Feb- 
ruary 20, 1839, and he married (second) 

Spoor, widow, who had six children by her 
first husband. Children of first wife: I. Ben- 
jamin, mentioned below. 2. David W., Xo- 
vember 28, 1812, died March 19, 1857. 3. 
Laura, born October 23, 1S14, died November 
9, 1873: married Lyman Jones. 4. Sophia, 



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bom February 13, 1816, died April 10. 1894; 
married Byington Graves. 5. Elmira, born 
April 22, 1818; married Raymond Wickwire. 
6. Homer L., born April 2, 1820, died Decem- 
ber 28, 1856. 7. John M., born December 5, 
182 1, died November 19, 1866 (q. v.). 8. 
Julia, February 29, 1824. died July 24, 1876; 
married Orson A. Kinney. 9. Fanny, born 
March 13, 1826, died July 31, 1830. 10. Henry, 
April 16, 1828, died July 31, 1830. 11. Harvey 
Herbert, September 17, 1832, died June 2, 
1888 (q. v.). 12. Charles D., February 11, 
1834. died June 25, 1897 (q. v.). 

(VHI) Captain Benjamin (3) Greenman, 
son of Homer Benjamin Greenman, was born 
in Solon, New York, July 5, 181 1, died in the 
town of Cortlandville, New York, March 23, 
1883. He attended the district schools, but 
comparatively little, and, during his boyhood 
and until he was married, he worked on his 
father's farm. Afterward he bought timber 
land, adjoining the homestead, and cleared a 
farm for himself. He built a log house at 
first. The country was still partly wild, bears 
and deer were numerous and wild game plenti- 
ful. Even the Indians were still living in the 
vicinity. From time to time he added to his 
holdings, until he had a farm of one hundred 
and twenty-five acres. With the help of his 
son he erected all the buildings on the farm 
with his own hands. He continued in active 
life until 1866, when he left the homestead 
and spent his last years in Cortlandville. He 
was observing, well balanced, of sound judg- 
ment and broad general information, and was 
deemed an expert in estimating the value of 
stock and real estate. In politics he was a 
Whig, until the party went to pieces, and after- 
ward a Republican. For two temis he was 
county superintendent of the poor. He fur- 
nished timber for the building of the Presby- 
terian church, at McGrawville, of which he 
was a member and trustee. He was captain of 
a company in the state militia. He married 
Lucy Ann Graves, of Chazy, New Y'ork, born 
in 1 8 19, died in March, 1871, daughter of 
Rufus Graves. Children: i. Lucy Ann Ostran- 
der (adopted), born at Spofford, New York, 
1837- 2. Henry Benjamin, mentioned below. 
3. Mary Jane, born May 23. 1841 : married Al- 
fred Atkins. 4. Laura Lavinia, born April 27, 
1846, died March 18. 1898; married Wesley 
Walker. 5. Lucian M., born 1849, died 1864. 
6. Frank R., born 1859, died May 5, 1905. 

(IX) Henry Benjamin, son of Captain 



Benjamin (3) Greenman, was born in Solon. 
Cortland county, New York, April i, 1839, and 
was educated in the public schools there, and at 
the New York Central College, at McGrawville, 
which he attended for two terms. While a 
student he worked on the farm in summer. 
He taught various district schools in the vicin- 
ity. In 1859 he entered the State Normal 
School, at Albany, and afterward taught school 
at Stephentown, Rensselaer county, the same 
school which his grandfather had taught. He 
taught school also in Union Springs, Cayuga 
county, and, while living in that town, he en- 
listed, in the fall of 1862, in Battery B, Third 
New York Light Artillery. He served in the 
L'nion army until his company was mustered 
out, July 13, 1865, after the close of the war. 
During the entire period of his enlistment he 
was in active service, and took part in many 
engagements, among which were the battles 
of Kinston, North Carolina, Whitehall and 
Goldsborough. He was on duty at St. Helena 
Island from February to April, in 1863; was 
at Charleston Harbor, April 7 ; at Seabrook 
Island, June 18; Morris Island, July 10, and 
afterward under fire from Fort Sumter and 
the other forts, while stationed on Morris 
Island. His was the first regiment to reach 
Charleston after the evacuation, and it fired 
the salute in honor of the fall of Petersburg. 
He was promoted to the rank of corporal, and 
was acting sergeant for a time. 

Returning home after the war he soon locat- 
ed at McGrawville, where he bought a boot 
and shoe store. After three years he sold out. 
and, for two years, followed farming, having 
an excellent dair\', with fifty cows. From 187 1 
to 1873 he was traveling salesman for an Al- 
bany house. During the next nine years he 
was traveling for cof?ee and spice concerns of 
Albany, New York, six years of which he was 
with \Valter McCuen and three years with 
Boardman Brothers. He took charge of the 
farm of Dr. I. D. Warner, at McGrawville, in 
1882. and engaged in business extensively, buy- 
ing and selling produce, baling and selling hay. 
.Afterward he was in business on his own ac- 
coimt, dealing in hay and baling hay, etc. Since 
1888 he has been an inspector of wire cloth, in 
the employ of the Wickwire Brothers, of Cort- 
land. He is a member of the Presbyterian 
church, and has been a deacon since 1898. He 
is a member of Grover Post, Grand Army of 
the Republic, of Cortland, and was its quarter- 
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for twelve years its adjutant ; commander in 
1900, and sergeant-major at the present time. 
and member of the Memorial Day committee. 
In politics he is a Republican, and has served 
on the board of health of Cortland. 

He married, March 25, 1862, Catherine Mc- 
Graw, born at McGravvville, New York, July 
27, 1841, daughter of Marcus and Louisa 
(Eaton) McGraw. Children: i. Lucian M.. 
born July 8, 1866, died December 12, 1870. 2. 
Anna Louise, June i, 1869, died December 13. 
189 1. 3. Emina, born October 26, 1870, dietl 
in infancy. 4. Herbert Nason, born July 20. 
1872, died May 10, 1873. 5. Harry Benjamin, 
mentioned below. 6. Ruth E., born March 3. 
1880, died August 27, 1880. 

( IX ) Harry Benjamin, son of Henry Ben- 
jamin Greenman, was born in Albany, New- 
York, .August I, 1877. He attended the public 
schools, the State Normal School, at Cortland, 
and the College of Pharmacy, in Albany. He 
is in the drug trade in Rochester. New York. 
He married, September 3, 1902, Perle ^I. Blair. 
of Cortland, and has one son, Roger Benjamin, 
born .\i)ril 29. 1905. 

(\'III ) John M. Greenman. 

GREENM.\N son of Homer Benjamin 
Greenman, was born in Cort- 
landville, Cortland county. New York, Decem- 
ber 5, 1821, died at Cortland, November 19. 
1866. He was educated in the public schools, 
and followed farming until two years before 
his death. He had established a very promis- 
ing business as a general merchant, when his 
life was cut short before he reached the age 
of forty-five years. He married Hannah H.. 
daughter of Judge James Cowan. She spent 
her later years in the family of her son. Judge 
Cowan came to this country when a boy of 
seven years, with his parents, and settled in 
Delaware county. New York, afterward, in 
1848. coming to Cortland county, and locating 
between the towns of McGraw^ville and Cort- 
land, where Judge Cowan lived the remainder 
of his life, a successful farmer, owning two 
hundred and fifty-five acres of land; he was a 
soldier in the war of"i8i2, and for his services 
received a valuable grant of western land, to 
which, however, he gave little attention : he 
was active in politics, and was judge of the 
surrogate's court ; he married a sister of the 
father of Judge Maynard, of Delaware count}-, 
and they had nine children. 

(IX) W. J., son of John M. Greenman. 



was born in the town of Cortlandville, Decem- 
ber 13, 1858. He received his education in the 
[niblic schools, and at the State Normal School, 
at Cortland. His first experience in business 
was as traveling salesman for a clothing house. 
During the first term of President Cleveland 
he was deputy postmaster of Cortland, but re- 
signed this office to engage in business as treas- 
urer and vice-president of the Cortland Door 
& Window Screen Company, incorporated in 

1885. Harvey H. Greenman, his uncle, was 
the first president of the concern, and Ernest 
M. Hulbert was secretary. Mr. Greenman 
succeeded his uncle as president, in 1887, and 
has continued at the head of the company, and 
its general manager, to the present time. Ed- 
ward Keator was elected treasurer ; Ernest M. 
Hulbert, secretary, and Theodore H. Wick- 
wire, vice-president. The company has grown 
steadily and finds a market for its product in 
all parts of this country and in Canada. To the 
energy, resourcefulness and business ability of 
the president the success of the company is 
due in large measure. It is one of the most 
prosperous and substantial industries of the 
town. Mr. Greenman is treasurer of the Little 
York Ice Company, secretary of the Cortland 
County .Agricultural Society, and served thir- 
teen years on the board of education, two years 
of which he was president, retiring from 
that office February 15, 191 1, For five years 
he served on the board of water commissioners, 
as the treasurer of the Cortland Water Com- 
pany (an independent company). This com- 
pany w'as purchased by the city April, 1910. 
He was also secretary of the Central Associa- 
tion of Agricultural Societies of the State of 
New York, and member of the executive com- 
mittee of the sixth judicial district, and one of 
the directors of the Second National Bank of 
Cortland, New York, for a number of years, 
and represented the New Y'ork State Associa- 
tion of County Agricultural Societies. In poli- 
tics Mr. Greenman is a Democrat, and he has 
been chairman of the Democratic county com- 
mittee. 

He married. April 3. 1882, Mary White, of 
Jersey City, New Jersey. Mr. and Mrs. Green- 
man are active in social and church circles, and 
have a host of friends in the community in 
which they have lived. Children : Elizabeth 
C. born January 26, 1883: John H., June i. 

1886. married, April 12, 1909, Theodora Aber, 
of Bath, New York: Marion, .\ugust 16. 
1899. 



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( \' 1 1 1 ) Charles Uelos. young- 
( iKEEX.MAX est child of Homer Benjamin 
(q. V.) and Rachel ( W'ater- 
hury) Gr enman.was born February 1 1, 1 834, in 
Solon, and died in McGrawville, June 25, 1897. 
He was reared on the paternal farm, attending 
the common schools and assisting in the labors 
of the homestead. He learned the car|)enter 
trade, and, when a young man, settled in AIc- 
lirawville, where most of his life was spent. 
In 1879 he built a sawmill there, and was 
actively engaged in the lumber business there- 
after, until his retirement from active life. He 
was much interested in political matters; was 
much in the public service, and was highway 
commissioner of the town of Cortlandvillc for 
several years. He was a member of the village 
board, was president of the school board, and 
served on the committee which managed the 
construction of the schoolhouse, at McGraw. 
He was a steadfast Republican ; was a member 
of the Presbyterian church, and active in all 
the work of that society. He married, Octo- 
ber 29, 1S56. Juliette McGraw, born Ajiril 25, 
1835. died July 2(1. 1905, daughter of William 
and Sally ( Barnum ) McClraw. Children : De- 
witt Charles and I lerbert Ray, both mentioned 
below. 

(IX) Dewitt Charles, elder son of Charles 
Delos and Juliette ( McCjraw ) (ireenman, was 
horn May 2^. 1863, in McGrawville, and edu- 
cated in the schools of his native village. He 
engaged in teaching school, and remained with 
his father several years, working upon the 
farm and in the sawmill. In 1886 he settled 
in Cortland, where he has since made his home. 
I fere he engaged with the Wickwire Brothers, 
as shipping clerk, and has continuously filled 
that position to the present. He is a member 
of the Presbyterian congregation, an exemplary 
citizen and widely esteemed in the community. 
He married, January 7, 1886, Mary B. \'an 
liuskirk. of Xorth Lansing, Tompkins coun- 
ty, Xew York, daughter of Calvin and Susan 
(Townley) \'an Buskirk, the former family 
came from Coxsackie, New York, to I^ansing. 
Calvin Van Buskirk was a native of Virgil, 
Cortland county. Mr. and Mrs. Greenman 
have a son, Arthur Dewitt, fjorn .August 8, 
1 89 1, in Cortland. 

(IX) fferf)ert Ray, younger son of Charles 
Delos and Juliette (AIcGraw) Greenman, was 
born September 7. 1873, in McGraw, and edu- 
cated in the schools of his native village. He 
owns and operates a sawmill in McGraw, estab- 



lished by iiis father, in 1879, and, in addition 
to tfie fumbering and manufacturing interests, 
he is extensively engaged in farming. He is 
the owner of two fiundred acres of fand in 
Solon, upon part of which the first Greenman 
settled, in 1807. Mr. Greenman is an earnest 
Republican, and is a member of the board of 
village trustees at McGraw (1911), a position 
which he also filled in 1907. He is a member 
of the local lotlge of the Independent Order of 
Odd Fellows, and of the Presbyterian church, 
and is regarded as a useful citizen, upright and 
respected. He married, September 2^. 1896, 
.Ann Adelia Suter, of Danville, Pennsylvania, 
daughter of John Henry and Jemima (Taylor) 
Suter. John Henry Suter was born in Switzer- 
land, came to America as a young man and 
served as a Union soldier in the civil war. Mr. 
and Mrs. Greenman have a daughter and son — 
Dorothy, born July 8, 1899, and Leslie Suter. 
March 22, 1907. 



(\'III) Harvey Herbert 
GRf':FXM.\X Greenman, fifth son of 

Homer Benjamin (q. v.) 
and Rachael ( W'aterbury ) (rireenman, was born 
Sejnember 17, 1832, in South Solon, and died in 
fiis home, on Greenbush street, Cortland. June 
2, 1888. fiis earfy education was obtained in 
the district school, near his home, and at the 
old Cnion School, in McGrawville, where he 
i>ecanie proficient in the English branches, then 
taught, and especially in penmanship, which 
he taught, for several terms, to classes in his 
home county and adjoining counties. He had 
an especial gift for music, and, under the in- 
struction of Henry Huntly, an early teacher 
in tlie section, he became a ready reader of 
music, and, for many years, was tenor of the 
Presbyterian church choir, at McGrawville. 
He took up the study of dental surgery with 
Dr. D. C. AIc(7iraw, and practiced this from 
1853 to i860, in that town, and then removed 
to \\'hitewater, Wisconsin, where he continued 
to practice until 1879. In the latter year he 
removed to Cortland, and, being of an ingen- 
ious turn of mind, excelled as a fine worker 
on gold and rubber. As an operating dentist 
he ranked among the first. \Vhile in White- 
water he was a member of the firm of Green- 
man, McGraw & Day, who conducted a large 
nursery for several years. For seventeen years 
he was chorister of the Congregational church 
choir there, and, for a period of five years, 
taught music in the State Xormal School, l^pon 




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his return to Cortland he became associatetl 
with his nephews, the W'ickwire Brothers, and 
so continued in the manufacturing business 
until the spring of 1887. He then founded the 
Cortland Door & Window Screen Company. 
which w-as made a stock company in the fall 
of that year, with Mr. Greenman as president. 
He was the inventor of valuable machinery 
used in the construction of screens, and. through 
his skill and wise management, the business 
increased and became one of the large manu- 
facturing interests of Cortland. For two years 
he was president of the State Fair .Vssociation. 
As a lover of good horses he was instrumental 
in developing some fine specimens of horse 
flesh, in both Whitewater and Cortland. For 
seven years he was ten(.)r of the Presbyterian 
church choir, of Cortland, and served as a 
member of the board of village trustees. Mr. 
( Ireenman was a man of high moral character, 
gentlemanly in deportment, ])ossessed of prac- 
tical ideas and good common sense, with am- 
bition greater than his strength, resolute in all 
his work and resigned when the call came to 
summon him from this earth. He was highly 
esteemed by the best people in both \\'hite- 
water and Cortland, and was ever active in any 
mnvemcnt calculated to im])rove the moral and 
material welfare of the comnnmity. 

He married. May 27, 1855, Elizabeth M.. 
daughter of John and ^linerva (Graves) Mc- 
Graw. and granddaughter of Samuel McGraw. 
who settled in the town of Cortlandville. in 
1803 (see McGraw II). ?klrs. Greenman was 
born Xovember 5. 1836. in McGrawville. and 
survives her husband. She resides in Cortland. 
(The McGraw Line). 

( H ) John, fifth son of Samuel (q. v. ) and 
Elizabeth ( Whitcomb) McGraw, was born May 
30, 1804, at Blodgetts Mills, died June 2/. 
184S. at McCjrawville. He married Minerva 
(iraves. born August 15. 1804. died Xovember 
II, 1882, daughter of .Aslier and Elizabeth 
(Spellman) Graves. Children : Minerva, born 
I'^bruary 10. 1825. married Hiram C. Blod- 
gctt. died May 6, 1906: Charlotte. .August 12. 
1827, married James Sanderson, died October 
7, 1907: Martin, July 28. 1829, died May 31. 
1862: Sally, December 26, 1831, married Leroy 
Palmer; Elizabeth 'SI., Xovember 5, 1836. be- 
came the wife of Harvey Herbert Greenman, 
of Cortland (see Greenman VH) ; Henry, men- 
tioned below. 

(HI) Henry, youngest child of John and 



Minerva (^ Graves) McGraw, was born March 
30. 1839. at McGraw, died April 20, 1909, at 
Whitewater, Wisconsin. When fifteen years 
of age he removed to Whitewater, and there 
made his home until his death. I'or many 
years he was engaged in the nursery business, 
as a member of the firm of Greenman, Mc- 
Graw & Day. He w-as an industrious and 
highl)- respected citizen, widely known and 
esteemed ; he was somewhat active in politics, 
being a Re])ublican in principle, and served 
several years as assessor of the town of White- 
water, and also served as a clerk to the Wis- 
consin legislature. In 1880 he was appointed 
by President .Vrthur as i^ostmaster of White- 
water, and lield that position seven }ears. He 
married, in December, i8(kj, Sarah, daughter 
of \Villiam DeWolf, a pioneer citizen of Wal- 
worth county, Wisconsin, many years the lead- 
ing hardware dealer of Whitewater, and a 
manufacturer of woven wire screen. Chil- 
dren: William, mentioned below: Elizabeth, 
became the wife of Charles W. Tratt. and has 
two sons, Francis and Elliott ; Arthur ; Retta. 
(I\') William, eldest' son of Henry and 
Sarah (DeWolf) McGraw, was born July 4, 
1 87 1, in Whitewater, where his early years 
Vvere s]ient. He accom])anied his uncle, I larvey 
H. Greenman, to Cortland, before attaining 
manhood, and there engaged in business, being 
now a member of the firm of McGraw' & 
Elliott, which ojierates drug stores in Cortland 
and McGraw. He married, in 1902, Bessie 
Benedict, of Cortland, daughter of Byron A. 
and .\nna T. ?5enedict. of that town. Mr. and 
Mrs. McGraw have a son. Harvey Benedict. 
1): rn June 20, 1904. 



This is one of the earlv Xew 
WlLl.LAMS Jersey families. Ralph Hor- 

ton \\'illiams, the subject of 
the present sketch, was born October 18, 1863, 
at P>loomfield, Xew Jersey. He was the son of 
John Kline Williams, who was born on "The 
Ridge," near Whitehouse, Xew Jersey, wdiose 
father, John Williams, was a farmer near 
Whitehouse, Xew Jersey, although probably 
born on "The Ridge." which he left when a 
voung man, moving to Whitehouse, and dying 
at eiglity-five years of age. The grandmother 
of John Kline Williams and mother of John 

Williams was Lorretta . who lived to be 

(^ne hundred and seven years of age. John 
Williams married Fannv Hcirton. who was in 



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the direct line from Barnabas Horton, the first 
settler of the name in this country, who locat- 
ed at Southhold, Long Island, 1684. Mr. and 
Mrs. John Horton Williams were the parents 
of four children : George, Jason, Samuel and 
John Kline. The mother of these children 
died at eighty-five years of age. They were 
members of the Reformed church, at White- 
house. 

John Kline W'illiams was reared and edu- 
cated in the schools at "The Ridge," and, in 
early life, he learned the painter's trade, which 
he followed for a time. He then moved to 
Brooklyn, where he was engaged, for some 
years, in the insurance business, after which 
he took a position as a traveling salesman for 
a concern dealing in groceries and bakers' sup- 
plies, which he held up to his death, October 
19, 1909, at seventy-eight years of age. He 
removed from Brooklyn to Bloomfield, New 
Jersey, where he made his home for the last 
twenty-five years of his life, and where he 
took an active part in the affairs of the Pres- 
byterian church, of which he was an elder for 
a number of years. He was also interested in 
the Sunday school, in which he taught a class 
of young men for over twenty years and up to 
within a few months of his death. He was a 
man of deep religious convictions and a great 
student of the Bible. His long years of serv- 
ice in the church are remembered with a great 
amount of pleasure by its various members and 
by the young men who sat under his teachings 
for more than a quarter of a century and 
who were deeply attached to him. He mar- 
ried, December 5, 1859, Jennie Conover, born 
in I'hickcmin, Somerset county. New Jersey, 
daughter of Rulitf V. Conover, who was born 
in Philadelphia. He was the son of Jeremiah 
Conover, who was born in New Brunswick, 
New Jersey, where his fathei" was an early 
pioneer. Jeremiah Conover, the grandfather 
of Jennie Conover, was a shoemaker and shoe 
dealer in Pluckemin, where he spent most of 
his life, but died at the home of a daughter in 
Jersey City, at eighty-five years of age. He 
married ^largaret Voorhes. They had three 
children: Rulift' V., Garrett and Catherine. 
The mother of these children died in Jersey 
City, at eighty-five years of age. Mrs. John 
Kline Williams was reared and educated in 
Pluckemin, where she made her home until her 
marriage. She is the mother of four children : 
Ral])b Horton, mentioned in the next para- 
gra])h : Susie Conover, born July i, 1866, died 



May 29, 1887; Frederick Ballard, born in 
Brooklyn, October 21, 1871, educated in Mont- 
clair and Bloomfield public schools, and com- 
ing to New York began the study of painting, 
in which he has been eminently successful, 
being to-day one of the leading artists of the 
United States, a member of the National Acad- 
emy of Art. He married, October 16, 1901, 
Marion Duncan. They have two children : 
Duncan and Frederick Ballard Jr. Mrs. John 
Kline Williams has also taken an active inter- 
est in the afl:'airs of the Presbyterian church, 
and was, for many years, a teacher. She is a 
woman of a rare degree of intelligence, having 
been a great reader, and being thoroughly 
versed upon all the topics of the day, in which 
she takes an active interest. 

Ralph Horton Williams, mentioned above, 
was educated in Brooklyn, New Y'ork, after 
which he entered a grocery store at Montclair, 
New Jersey, where he remained for ten years, 
mastering all the details of the grocery busi- 
ness. He then accepted a position with the 
firm of Wood & Selleck, of New York City, 
wholesale confectioners and dealers in bakers" 
supplies, which position he still holds. He 
married, December 16, 1896, Lulu Alberta 
Legg (see Legg VHl). Children: Olive Es- 
telle, born September 21, 1897; Robert Hor- 
ton, June 13, 1905. Mr. and Mrs. Williams, 
after their marriage, settled in Glen Ridge, 
New Jersey, resided there eighteen months, and 
since then have been residents of Binghamton. 
New York. Both are members of the Methodist 
Episcopal church, of that city, and Mr. Will- 
iams is a trustee. In politics he is a Repub- 
lican ; he is a member of Otseningo Lodge. 
Free Masons, of the Binghamton Club, also a 
number of fishing clubs, in which sport he 
takes great pleasure and spends his leisure time. 
He was formerly a member of the Press Club, 
of Binghamton. 

(The Legg Line). 
(I) John Legg, ancestor of this family, was 
born in England, 1612. The name is also 
spelled Ligg, Ledg and Legge. John Legg 
came to New England, May 3, 1631, in the 
fleet with Winthrop, in the employ of Mr. 
Humphrey, at Lynn, ^Massachusetts. He was 
made a freeman, IMay 6, 1635, and was a pro- 
prietor at Marblehead. in 1649. His wife Eliz- 
abeth was born in 1608. John Legg died in 
1674, and his will was proved July 2, 1674. 
He bequeathed to his wife Elizabeth, and chil- 



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(Iren, Samuel, John and Daniel. Children: 
John Jr., born 1645, died October 18, 1718; 
Samuel, mentioned below ; Daniel, born about 
1650. 

(II) Samuel, son of John Legg, was born 
lirobably in Lynn, in 1647. Me was a mariner, 
lie settled in Boston, and his wife Deliverance 
joined the Second Church there. Her younger 
children were baptized there, February 16, 
1692. Children, born in Boston: Samuel, 
March 16, 1669; Synella, September 2, 1672; 
John, March i, 1673, died young; Patience, 
August 29, 1676; Isabella, or Sybella, 1678, 
baptized February, 1692, aged fourteen : Dan- 
iel, born 1682, baptized February, 1692, aged 
ten years ; John, mentioned below : Daniel. 

(III) John (2), son of Samuel Legg, was 
born in Boston, January 6, 1(183, and baptized 
I'ehriiary, 1692, aged nine years. He settled 
in Mendon, Massachusetts, about 1735, and 
bought his first land, February 6, 1735-36, of 
Daniel White, adjoining land of Benjamin 
W'heelock, John Ilayward and Abraham Sta- 
ples. He bought ten acres more of Eleazer 
Daniels and Thomas White, adjoining laud of 
Thomas Thayer. Under the date, February 
9, 1735-36, he had land bought of Philip Lesure 
and of "his father," Thoiuas Thayer ( prob- 
ably his wife's father). He had, December 9, 
1742, seven acres of land formerly granted to 
Thomas .San ford, 'as well as various other 
lots. He was on a committee, of which Cap- 
tain Thomas Thayer was chairman, to build 
a schoolhouse, in 1751. He was on an im- 
portant committee to fix the line between the 
towns of Alendon and Uxbridge, in 1753-54. 
He was a selectman in 1738 and 1743, and held 
various other positions of trust and honor 
there. His will was dated .\pril 7, 1760, and 
proved March 26, 1761. It mentioned the 
eight children, who were very likely born in 
.Mendon. Children, order of birth unknown: 
John, married. May 3, 1747, Patience Thayer; 
Thomas : Margaret ; Jemima ; Abigail ; Will- 
iam, born alx)ut 1720-30, died before his father : 
.\aron, twin, mentioned below, and Stephen, 
twin. 

( IV ) Aaron, son of John Legg, was born 
about 1735, died in 1799. He was a soldier 
in the revolution, a private in Captain John 
.Mbee's company, the first IMendon company, 
and marched on the Lexington call, April 19, 
1775, to Roxbury. He made his will June 19, 
1799. He married Hannah Bacon. Children, 



named in will : Closes, Reuben ; Joel, mentioned 
below ; Nathan, and Lydia. 

(V) Joel, son of Aaron Legg, was born 
May 28, 1757, in Mendon, Massachusetts, ac- 
cording to the enlistment rolls of the conti- 
nental army. He was five feet ten inches tall, 
of dark coiuplexion, light brown hair, grey 
eyes. He served almost continuously from 
the Lexington call until 1781. He enlisted as 
a private in Captain Samuel Warren's com- 
pany. Colonel Joseph Read's regiment ( Twen- 
tieth), May 2, 1775, and served three months 
seven days. He was in Cajjtain Isaac Martin's 
company. Colonel Josiah \\'hitney's regiment, 
under General Spence. at Rhode Island, from 
May 4, 1776. to July 4, 1776. He was in Cap- 
tain Peter Penniman's company. Colonel Job 
Cushing's regiment, from August 14. 1777, to 
November 14, 1777. He was in Captain Nel- 
son's company. Colonel Wood's regiment, mus- 
tered with nine months' men for the conti- 
nental army, by Thomas Newhall, muster mas- 
ter of Worcester county, in 1778. He was at 
Fishkill-on-IIudson, June 7, 1778, in Captain 
Cragin's company. Colonel Ezra Wood's regi- 
ment. In 1779 he was in Captain Joseph 
McNall's company, Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel 
Pierce's regiment, at Tiverton, Rhode Island, 
from May 17, 1779, to July 5, 1779. He en- 
listed again for nine months, with Seth Wash- 
burn, superintendent for Worcester county, 
.August 4, 1779, and joined Captain Cragin's 
company. Colonel Tyler's regiment. He was 
transferred to Captain Bradford's company. 
Colonel Bailey's regiment (Second), August 
6, 1779, and discharged May 6, 1780, at end 
of his enlistment. He was corporal in Captain 
Philip Ammidon's company, Colonel Dean's 
regiment, in Rhode Island, March 4, 1781 ; dis- 
charged March 18, 1781. About 1834 he deed- 
ed his home farm to his son, Peter Legg, for 
.$1,700. It is in the eastern part of LTxbridge, 
consisting of eighty-four acres and thirty-six 
rods. He bought the place of .Abijah and 
(George Willard, in 181 4. He married Sarah 

, born May 10, 1763, died February 22, 

1844. He died Alay 7, 1845. Children : Jacob, 
bom December 7, 1781, died July 21, 1808; 
Judson, August If, 1783, died" September 4, 
1803; Stephen. July, 1785, died March 28, 
1786; Stephen, April 30, 1787, died October 
8, 1813; Leonard, mentioned below; Peter. 
May II. 1791. died March 2, 1869; I^ton. 
June II, 1794, died .August i, 1861 ; Sarah, 



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September 14, 1796, died February 22, 1828: 
Elmina. April 9, 1799, died July 31, 1834; 
Jacob, June 10, 1801, died August 23, 1830: 
Abigail, May 8, 1803, died December 8, 1839; 
Judson, June 2"], i8of), died October 11, 1828: 
"Margery Ann. December 22, i8ckj, died De- 
cember 8, 1828. 

(\'I) Leonard, son of Joel Legg, was born 
in L'xbridge, ^ilassachusetts, August 28, 1789. 
died April 10, 1887, in Speedsville, Tompkins 
county. New York, where he was one of the 
pioneer settlers. He was a farmer. He mar- 
ried (first), June 27, 1827, Esther Chidsey, 
horn November 4, 1805, died March 28, 1843. 
He married (second) Eunice Nason, January 
17, 1844. She was born August 4, 1793, died 
January 11, 1878. Children, by first wife: i. 
Judson, born June 18, 1828, died August 31. 
1 87 1 ; married, October 27, 1852, Sabra E. 
Clark. 2. Lucia A., September 2-j, 1829, died 
December 18, 1863; married W. J. Williams. 
3. Sarah A., October 24, 1831, died February 
15, 191 1 : married, February 14, 1859, Epi- 
netus Howe. 4. Oliver P., September i, 1833, 
died 1898: married, February 15, 1854, Har- 
riet M. Noxon. 5. Martha L., ]\Iay 10, 1835. 
died March i, 1890; married E. S. Williams. 
6. Martin L., mentioned below. 7. Lucius H., 
born November 22, 1840. died May 11, 1841. 
8. Julia E.. twin of Lucius H., died October 
14, 1841. 

(VH) Martin Luther, son of Leonard and 
Esther (Chidsey) Legg, was born at Speeds- 
ville, New York, May 24, 1837. He was edu- 
cated in the district schools of Speedsville. He 
was a farmer for a while, and then went into 
the carriage manufacturing business. He is 
making his home at Candor, New Y'ork. He 
is a member of Speedsville Lodge, Free Masons. 
In religion he is a Methodist, and was, for 
many years, superintendent of the Methodist 
Episcopal Sunday school. He married, Octo- 
ber 15, 1857, Olive Legg, daughter of Lyman 
and Patience (Scott) Legg. Children: i. Fred- 
erick, born April 2, 1859, at Speedsville; mar- 
ried. August 17, 1880, Minnie Cronk,of Ithaca, 
New York ; children : Ethel, deceased ; Arlene ; 
Frederick, and Layton. 2. Hettie E., born 
July 22, 1864; married, February 27, 1889, 
James H. P>all ; children: Nellie E. ; William; 
James H. Jr.. deceased ; Lester, deceased ; Em- 
erson ; Howard, deceased ; Emily N. 3. Nellie 
E., born November 7, 1868; married Eugene 
Price ; children : Raljili and Ethel. 4. Lulu Al- 
berta, mentioned below. 



(\'HI) Lulu Alberta, daughter of Martin 
Luther and Olive (Legg) Legg, was born 
February 17, 1872. She married, December 
16, 1896, Ralph Horton \\illiams (see Will- 
iams). 

The name \\'inchcll is, with- 
WINCHELL out doubt, of early Saxon 
origin, and may have been 
derived from Winchelsea, England, an an- 
cient town of much importance in the time of 
the Romans and still preserving Saxon ruins. 
"Wincel," in Saxon, signifies "an angle," and 
"ea," "running water," an illusion, perhaps, to 
an angle in the river Rother, at the mouth of 
which tlie town of Winchelsea was situated. 
The earliest mention of Winchell, as a proper 
name, is February 13, 1293, when Robert Win- 
chelsey was elected archbishop of Canterbury. 
To him was addressed the celebrated Bull of 
Pope Boniface \ IIL, dated June 27, 1299, in 
which the latter asserted his own claim to the 
throne of Scotland, with which Edward L was 
then at war, and over which he asserted royal 
authority. The coat-of-arms of the Winchell 
family is thus described : Argent, three eagles" 
wings, sable. 

{ I ) Robert Winchell, immigrant ancestor, 
was born probably in the south of England, 
and was in Dorchester, Massachusetts, as early 
as 1634. He received a home lot there, Janu- 
ary 4, 1635, and was freeman of the colony of 
Massachusetts Bay, May 6, 1635, but removed 
late in the fall of the same year, with others, 
from Dorchester to Windsor, Connecticut. His 
third child, Phebe, was baptized at Windsor, 
March 29, 1638. He received a home lot there. 
December 23, 1640, and other parcels of land 
at later dates. He was on the jury August i. 
1640, and June, 1646. January 18, 1659-60, he 
was enumerated among the householders of 
Windsor, and was rated six shillings for a seat 
in the church, for himself and his wife. He 
died January 21, 1669, and his wife, July 10, 
1665. Chikiren : Nathaniel, mentioned below: 
Jonathan, born at Dorchester before 1633; 
Pliebe, Windsor, baptized March 29, 1638; 
Mary, Windsor, baptized September 5, 1641, 
died before 1668; David, Windsor, baptized 
October 22, 1643 ; Joseph, Windsor, baptized 
April 3, 1643. died before 1668; Martha, Wind- 
sor, baptized June 18, 1648, died July 12, 1633 ; 
Benjamin, Windsor, baptized July 11, 1652, 
buried June 24. 1656. 

(H) Nathaniel, son of Robert Winchell, 



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was born probably in England before 1635, 
and came to Dorchester with his parents. His 
name occurs frequently in the old Windsor 
land records, in connection with various land 
transactions. He died at Windsor, March 8, 
ifxjij. He married, April 8, 16(14, Sarah, daugh- 
ter of Thomas I'orter, of Farmington, Con- 
necticut, born in 1646, died at Windsor, Octo- 
ber 7, 1725. She married (second) Jo.seph 
Judd, June 3, 17 13. She was admitted to 
the \\'indsor church, August, 1671. Children, 
born at Windsor : Nathaniel, August 7, 1665 : 
Thomas, ]\Iay 25, i6()y; Sarah, December 26, 
1674; Stephen, August 1^, 1677: |ohn. 1680; 
Mary, 1683. 

(HI) Stephen, son of Nathaniel W'inchell, 
was born at Windsor, .\ugust 13, 1677. He 
married, March 10, 1698, Abigail Marshfield. 
She was doubtless descended from Thomas 
Marshfield, who came from Exeter, England, 
to Dorchester, 1630, and later to Windsor, 
whence he removed in 1(143. He is supposed 
to have been the father of Samuel Marshfield, 
one of the ])roprietoPR of W'estfield, who died 
at Springfield, 1692. June 13, 171 1, he is call- 
ed "late of Windsor, now resident of Sims- 
bury." He died before 1728. Children, born 
at Windsor ; .Stephen, November 20, 1698, men- 
tioned below: Thomas, .April 2, 1700; Caleb, 
December f>, 1701 ; Dorothy. October 2, 1703: 
Robert, May 28. 1705: Martin, December 2^, 
1708. 

(I\') Stephen (2), son of Stephen (i) 
Winchell, was born at Windsor, November 20, 
ifKjS, and married, about 1744, Mary Rouse, 
of Nine Partners. Dutchess county. New York, 
born 1705. Her father was one of the "(Ireat 
Nine Partners." Stejihen lived first in Sims- 
bury, where he was assigned, January 3, 1732- 
^^, a lot of thirty acres. March 14, 1734. he 
received land from the town of Torrington, 
Connecticut, and, on the same date, with his 
four brothers, divided the hundred-acre lot, 
beciueathed to them by their father, and situated 
at Turkey Hills, in Simsbury. May 31, 1743, 
he sold land in Windsor, and after that appears 
no more in Connecticut. It is probable that 
about this time he settled on the estate of the 
"Great Nine I'artners," in Dutchess county, 
New York. He died in Diitchess county. Chil- 
dren, born at Nine Partners: Lemuel, 1745; 
James, ]\Iarch 18, 1753: John, married Rachel 
Averv : Rebecca, married Asa Bishop. 

(\') James, son of Stephen (2) Winchell, 
was born on the "Great Nine Partners" patent. 



Dutchess county, New \'ork, .March 18, 1753. 
He married Mary Ferguson, born .March 29, 
1761, died June 17, 1839. She was aunt to 
Bishop Elijah Hedding, and possessed some 
poetical talent. James Winchell removed from 
Dutchess county, in 1772, to Lister county. 
He was a soldier and non-commissioned officer 
in the revolution, and, after much delay, suc- 
ceeded in securing a pension. He died at Olive. 
Ulster county, Alay 4, 1840. Children, born 
at Olive: Alary, Alay 13, 1779: Ruth, July 22. 
1782; Henry, September 9. 1784, mentioned 
below ; Lewis, married Billichy Ladieu ; James. 
July 7, 1790; Stephen, married Jane North: 
Rebecca, born P'ebruary i, 1795: Elijah, 1797: 
John, March 27, 1800. 

(\'l) Henry, son of James W'incliell, was 
born at Olive, Ulster county. New York, Sep- 
tember 9, 1784. He w^as a farmer and also 
conducted a sawmill and gristmill in Olive. 
He married Rebecca Ladieu. He died at Olive 
Bridge. Ulster county, Alay 27, i860. Chil- 
dren : Abram : Alary, married Boice : 

Josiah, married Phebe Boice: Katherine, mar- 
ried .-\ntony Shurter : Stephen, married Re- 
becca Alerrihew ; William, 1820, mentioned 
below ; Hannah, married Cornelius Bishop, her 

second cousin: .Aaron, married Brown. 

daughter of Lemuel Brown. 

(ATI) William, son of Henry Winchell, was 
born in Olive, Ulster county. New ^'ork, No- 
vember 28, 1820, died in Caroline Center. 
Tompkins county, January 6, 1882. He had a 
common school education in his native town. 
In 1865 he removed to Tomjikins county, where 
he followed farming the remainder of his active 
life. In early life he was a ^^ big, and later a 
Republican. In religion he was a Alethodist. 
active in the church, and, for many years, 
superintendent of the Sunday school. He mar- 
ried (first) Julia I'.arton, born in Greene coun- 
ty. New A'ork, June 22, 1825, died in Wells, 
A'ermont, at the home of her daughter. Airs. 
E. R. Pember, July 22, 1910. She was daugh- 
ter of Pliny Barton. Children: i. Carrie, born 
November 2, 1846: married Emmett R. Pem- 
ber, farmer and hmiberman. Wells, A'ermont. 
2. Alfred H., mentioned below. 3. Henry P.. 
born October 11, 1853, farmer in Caroline, 
Tompkins county. New York. 4. Wesley Bar- 
ton, Ijorn Alay 22, 1858, druggist in Brooklyn. 
New York. 5. Ernest A., born January 20, 
1 86 1, commercial traveler, living at Fayette- 
ville. New York. 6. Alay C, born .\ugust 5. 
1865. died November i, 1874. 



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(VIII) Alfred H., son of William Winchell, 
was born in Ulster county, New York, Feb- 
ruary 26, 1850, and educated in the district 
schools of Ulster and Tompkins counties. Dur- 
ing his boyhood he worked at farming. At the 
age of fifteen he came to Tompkins county, 
with the family, and, in 1875, came to Cort- 
land, where he has lived since then. His busi- 
ness has been that of a dealer in live stock, buy- 
ing, selling and slaughtering cattle. He mar- 
ried, April 2, 1 87 1, Mary Ella Finch, born 
at Dryden, New York, September 13, 1845, 
daughter of Bryan Finch, who was born in 
Dutchess county. New York, April 23, 1814, 
died December i, 1852: married Alary Thorne, 
who was born September 24, 18 18, died De- 
cember 5, 1893. Children of Alfred H. and 
Mary Ella (Finch) Winchell: i. Bryant Col- 
lins, mentioned below. 2. Edith May, born 
July 8, 1876; married Mark A. Thompson, of 
Syracuse, New York ; their son, Edward Mar- 
cus, was born November 7, 1909. 3. Annie 
E., May 2, 1879; married G. Henry Garrison, 
of Cortland. 4. Cora Louise, born Febn.iary 
10, 1883. 5. Lewis William, born February i, 
1886; married Freclericka Dawson, of Syra- 
cuse. 

(IX) Bryant Collins, son of Alfred H. Win- 
chell, was born at Harford, Cortland county, 
New York, March 23, 1872. and came, when 
he was three years old, with his parents to 
Cortland, where he attended the public schools 
and the State Normal School. In 1889 he be- 
came general manager of the Cortland Beef 
Company, and has continued in that position 
to the present time. He is a director of the 
Cortland National Bank and of the Cortland 
board of trade, member of the board of water 
commissioners of the town. A prominent Free 
Mason, he belongs to the Cortlandville Lodge ; 
Cortland Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Royal 
and Select Masters ; Cortland Commandery, 
Knights Templar ; Central City Consistory, of 
Syracuse ; Katurah Temple, Alystic Shrine, of 
Binghamton, and he has taken the thirty-second 
degree in Masonry, lie married, March, 1891, 
Harriet Tracy, daughter of George W. Wey- 
nant, of Geneva, New York. They have one 
child. Carl Alfred, born January 3. 1892. 



Moses Crosley, immigrant an- 

CRC)SLEY ceslor, was born in France 

about 1782, died in Allegany 

county. New York, about 1858. He came to 

America with his two brothers, Elijah and 



Francis, and settled in New Jersey. At the 
time of the war of 1812 the two latter returned 
to England, where both became wealthy in the 
manufacture of carpets and rugs. Francis 
was knighted and known as Sir Francis. His 
son John became a well-known carpet manu- 
facturer, and made what is known as the Cros- 
ley rug. Moses Crosley removed from New 
Jersey to New York, and spent the greater 
part of his life in the latter state, in Allegany 
county, near the line between that county and 
Steuben county. He was a weaver by trade, 
and continued that occupation after coming to 
America. He also carried on a farm. He 
served in the war of 1812, and was honor- 
ably discharged. He married Catherine Ayer, 
of New Jersey, of the same family as J. C. 
Ayer, of Lowell, Massachusetts, of Ayer's Sar- 
saparilla fame. Children : James A., Edmund 
D., Moses, Amasa J., Nathan, Richard, Mary 
Ann, another daughter married Pal- 
mer. 

(II) James Ayer, son of Moses Crosley. 
was born in New Jersey, February 18, 1808. 
died in Scott, New York, August 20, 1890. 
He came to New Y^ork, with his parents, when 
a child, and spent the greater part of his life 
in Scott. He was a farmer by occupation. In 
politics he was a strong Abolitionist. He mar- 
ried, August 4, 1832, Paulina, born in Scott, 
May 3, 1813, died May 20, 1874, daughter of 
John and Lina (Burdick) Barber. Children: 
Maria A., born June i, 1833. married Clark 
H. Sweet, died in Kansas : Edmund D., men- 
tioned below; Francelia. February 28, 1844, 
died young; Amelia F., born March 13, 1850, 
married Ambrose Sweet, died in Kansas. 

( III ) Edmund D., son of James Ayer Cros- 
ley, was born in Scott, December 11. 1835, died 
March 22, 191 1. He was educatetl in the dis- 
trict schools and at Homer Academy. As a 
young man he carried on a farm and studied 
law, in his leisure moments, in the office of 
Judge Duell. He was admitted to the bar, 
November 21, 1879, and practiced his pro- 
fession in Homer, Scott and Syracuse. Part 
of this time he ccintinued with Judge Duell. 
Owing to ill health he was obliged to abandon 
the practice of law in 1894, and, at that time, 
took up the cultivation of ginseng. He was 
one of the first in the state to set out a gin- 
seng garden, and was very successful with it. 
He had also large farming interests in Tully, 
Homer and Scott. In 1902 he removed from 
Scott and purchased a comfortable home, on 



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Cayuga street. Homer, where his death oc- 
curred. In pohtics he was a Repubhcan. and. 
for twenty-five years, was actively identified 
with the political afifairs of the county. He 
took a prominent part in the Fremont cam- 
paign, in 1856. At one time he served as 
supervisor in Scott. He was a soldier in the 
civil war; enlisted December 25, 1863, in Bat- 
tery H, Sixteenth New York Heavy Artillery, 
and served for two years ; discharged for dis- 
ability January 30, 1865; was stationed at 
Fort Pocahontas. X'irginia, and was largely in 
skirmish duty. 

He was possessed of a strong and vigorous 
intellect, was particularly firm in his decisions 
as regards right and wrong, was possessed of a 
warm and generous heart, and his sympathies 
were favorable to those who were in need. He 
has been particularly interested in the Chil- 
dren's Home, in Cortland, and has given very 
material aid to that institution, not only of his 
means, but. when special days have been set 
apart as donation days for the home, he has 
several times made a personal canvass of the 
village in its interests. In the summer of 1910 
lie conceived the idea of placing a public drink- 
ing fountain at the corner of the park, as a 
gift to the village from himself and Airs. Cros- 
ley. He stated to one of our local ministers, 
that he considered it would be of more benefit 
to the community generally than all of the 
temperance addresses which might be delivered 
from his pulpit. In the early autumn he said 
to a Standard reporter, that he had ordered 
the fountain some time before, but that its 
coming had been long delayed. He felt very 
an.vious to have it placed in position before 
cold weather came on. because he was here 
then, but what might happen before the com- 
ing of spring no one could conjecture. After 
many weeks of watching and waiting the foun- 
t.iin arrived and was installed at the corner of 
.Main and Cayuga streets, under his direct 
supervision, where it will remain in the years 
to come, as a monument to his memory. Many 
a thirsty traveler will stop and quench his thirst 
and will remember, with feeling of heartfelt 
gratitude, the donor, by whose generosity the 
fountain was established. 

He married, Mav 16, 1858, IMary, daughter 
nf Eri and Mar)' (Catrell) Pickett. Chil- 
dren: Mvron H., born June 4. 1850. mentioned 
below; Fred Ayer, February 14, 1861, married 
Emma Cottrell, of Scott, children — Mary S.. 



married Eadie Churchill; Dorr E., Ralph C, 
Orris J. 

( I\' ) Myron Henry, son of Edmund D. 
Crosley, was born in Scott, June 4, 1859. He 
was educated in the district schools and at 
Homer Academy. Pie taught school for three 
winters afterwards, and, in 1884, in company 
with his father and brother, built the Cortland 
Overall Factory, and ran it for about a year. 
During this time he traveled on .the road and 
sold the product of the factory. Later he sold 
out, and, together with his brother, carried on 
a large farming business in Scott. They raised 
a large quantity of hops, and kept a large 
dairy. In 1888 he removed to Tru.xton, where 
he lived for sixteen years, twelve of which he 
spent on a farm and the last four in the village 
proper, where he bought and sold livestock. In 
1902 he enterefl the emjiloy of the D. N. Os- 
born Company, anil remained with them for 
four years, during which time he sold farm 
machinery. When they sold out to the Inter- 
national Harvester Company he went with the 
latter firm, and has remained with them since. 
He has the control and supervision of five 
counties in Central New York for the sale of 
their goods. In 1904 he removed to Cortland, 
New York, and has made his home there since. 
He has served on the board of assessors in 
the town of Scott. He is a member of Cort- 
landville Lodge, No. 470, Free and Accepted 
Masons. 

He married (first), 1877. Frances Gertrude, 
daughter of Almeron and Persis (Heaton) 
liarber, of Aloravia. She died September, 
1885, and he married (second), 1886, May M.. 
(laughter of Henry Clinton and Clemena J. 
( Ingersoll ) Rabcock, of Scott. Child of first 
wife : Carl E., born September 20, 1878, runs an 
express business between Cortland and Homer ; 
married M. Gertrude McDermott : one child, 
Frances, born March, 1906. 



P>enjamin Brown was born in 
BROWN East Hartford, Connecticut, in 
1767, and died in Cuyler, New 
York, October 9, 1857. aged ninety vears. He 
came to Cuyler, Cortland county. New York, 
in 1795. ^"d settled near Keeney's Settlement, 
where he remained the rest of his life, and 
followed farming. He bought a tract of un- 
cleared government land, and, in the course of 
time, transformed it into a productive farm. 
He was a member of the Baptist church, and 



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one of the prime movers in building its house 
of worship at Keeney's Settlement. For many 
years he was deacon of that church. He mar- 
ried, in Connecticut, in 1783, Dorinda Web- 
ster, of the same family as Governor Webster, 
of Connecticut. She was born in 1767, and 
died July 25, 1853, ^ged eighty-four years. 
Children : Seabury, mentioned below ; Abner ; 
Hiram ; Achsah ; Edmund, born September. 
1799; Alvin, December 2, 1803; W'esley, .\pril 
21, 1805. 

(II) Seabury, son of Benjamin Brown, was 
born in East Hartford, Connecticut, in 1787. 
and came to Cuyler, New York, with his par- 
ents, in 1795. He was educated in the district 
schools, and followed farming in Cuyler. He 
owned three hundred acres of the best land of 
the town, and was especially successful with 
his dairy. He died there July 8, 1854, aged 
si.xty-seven years. He married Polly Fox, who 
died March 16, 1838, aged forty-seven years. 
Children, born at Cuyler : Dorinda, married 
Alvah Risley, of Truxton, New York; Elmira, 
married Thomas Keeney ; Benjamin: (Jdin, 
married Sallie Leonard; Jane, married James 
F. Andrews ; Zelia, married Hiram Whitmarsh ; 
Irene, married Israel Bogardus. 

(III) Iienjamin, son of Seabury Brown, 
was born in Cuyler, New York, May 12, 1814, 
and died in Cazenovia, New York, June 7. 
1878, though he spent all his active years in 
his native town. He was educated in the public 
schools, and early in life engaged in farming, 
and, at the time of his death, owned some three 
hundred acres of land. In religion he was a 
Methodist, and in politics a Republican. He 
married Sarah Bogardus, born in Cuyler, No- 
vember II, 1816, died April 14, 1897, daughter 
of Stephen and Sarah (Trip]-)) Bogardus. Her 
father was born March 17, 1781, and died Feb- 
ruary 13, 1866; her mother, Sarah Tri])]), was 
bom April 19, 1779, and died January 16, 
1864. Lewis Bogardus, father of Stephen, 
was born October 9, 1738, and died January 
12, 1808; his wife Anna died August 12, 1795. 
The Bogardus family came from Columbia 
county, New York, and were among the early 
settlers of Cuyler. Children, born in Cuyler : 
I. Child, died in infancy. 2. Byron, born Feb- 
ruary 6, 1839, died September 13, 1842. 3. 
Stephen B., born March 2, 1840, died July 28, 
1879; married Dora Risley; children: Fannie, 
Byron, Blanche, Ethel, Myrtie, Phebe. 4. Phebe 
P., born November 19, 1841, died October 27, 
1870; married H. P. .Andrews; children: Bur- 



nett B., Myrtie and Halina. 5. Celestia J., 
born October 28, 1843, died October 20, 1869. 
6. .\nna L., born September 19, 1845, '^''cd 
December 21, 1906. 7. Norman B., born Janu- 
ary 7, 1848, died February 21, 1883; married 
Laura E. Tobyne. 8. William H., born Au- 
gust 10, 1849, died August 14, 1881 ; married 
Clara Fifield, and has a daughter Mabel. 9. 
Israel D., born June 29. 1852, died July 13. 
1904: married Hattie .\. Smith, of W'oodstock. 
10. Seabury F., mentioned below. 11. Alice 
F., Iiorn .August 4, 1856, died October 7, 1902 : 
married Howard W. Keeney, of Cuyler. 

( W) Seabury F.. son of Benjamin Brown. 
w;is born in Cuyler, New York, March 5, 1854. 
He received his education in the jjublic schools 
of his native town and at Cazenovia Seminary. 
For a few years he taught school. In 1877 he 
went west, and resided, for five years, in the 
town of Bonus, Boone county, Illinois, where 
he was engaged in farming. In 1882 he re- 
turned to Cuyler. New York, and embarked 
in Inisiness, in partnership with his brother 
Israel, under the firm name of Brown Brothers, 
in the feed and grain business. The firm had 
a gristmill anrl sawmill and built up a flourish- 
ing trade. In 1893 they added hardware to 
their stock in trade. The business continued 
until 1897. Mr. Brown was appointed post- 
master, in 1898, and served a term of four 
years, .\fterward he entered the employ of 
the Prudential Insurance Company, at Newark, 
New Jersey, and continued with this corpora- 
tion until loio, when he retired from active 
business. Since then he has made his home in 
Cortland, New York. He is a member of De- 
Ruyter Lodge, No. 692, Free Masons ; of the 
Junior Order of L^nited American Mechanics, 
of New Jersev. In politics he is a Republican. 

He married. February 21. 1878. Ida M. 
.Morse, of Cuyler, born June 13, 1857, daugh- 
ter of William .\. Alorse (see Morse). Chil- 
dren of Mr. and Mrs. Brown: Sarah AL, born 
June 29. 1884; Florence D., .August 30, 1890. 



Mrs. Emilv T. ( Hodge) 
(^.RCMMOND Crummond'. of Bingham- 

ton, descends from the Hol- 
land familv of Race, and the English family of 
Hodge. The first Race to appear in Central 
New A'ork was Derrick, son of Nicholas Race, 
born June 24, 1770, died June 17, 1837. He is 
said to have come to the town of Greene, 
Chenango county, from Egremont, Massachu- 
setts, in 1794. The name Race is given in 




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Chamber's "Early Germans of New Jersey," 
as having been originally spelled Rees, but pro- 
nounced Race. Jacob Race is mentioned as 
early as 1656. and the presumption is strong 
that the family is from Holland and a part of 
the earliest Dutch emigration. All biographers 
of the Rees family claim they were of Welsh 
ancestry. Many of the name served in the 
revolution from New York, both as Rees and 
Race, and other varied forms of si)elling. 

( 1 ) Derrick Race was a surveyor, and, on 
coming to Xew York state, settled in Greene, 
Chenango county, on a farm two miles from 
the village of Greene, later owned and occu- 
]jied by his son, Derrick (2), known as the 
Race farm, where he died. He was a very 
religious man and one of the active, influential 
members of the Episcopal church. He mar- 
ried Hannah Smith, born July 2. 1770, died 
January 7, i86t. Children: i. Xicliolas, died 
A])ril 24, 1873, aged seventy-nine years. 2. 
William B., married a Miss Tillotson. and at the 
age of eighty- four years was living in the town 
of Oxford, Chenango county. 3. Lucretia, 
married Erastus Tremaine. 4. Abigail, mar- 
ried William Race. 5. (ieorge T., married 
Hannah Bates, and died June 2, 1850, aged 
forty-nine years. 6. Derrick (2), married 
Catherine Sholes, and had the homestead farm. 
7. Samuel S.. of further mention. 8. Christina, 
married Erastus Brown. 9. Charles T., mar- 
ried Melissa W heeler. 10. Stephen A., mar- 
ried Lucy Ann Gray. 

(H) Samuel Smith, fifth son of Derrick 
and Hannah (Smith) Race, was born on the 
Race homestead, in Greene. Chenango county, 
Xew York, in 1804, died July 31, 1877. lie 
followed the occupation of a farmer all his 
active years, and was a member of the Baptist 
church. He married, about 1828, Crana Vose. 
born 1806. daughter of Henry and Urana 
( Barlow ) \'ose. Henry \'ose was a sea cap- 
tain, and, during the revolution, his vessel 
carried arms and supplies for the continental 
troops. Children: i. Emily T., born October 
22, 1830, died 1856; married Hial Hodge. 2. 
Henry Derrick, born November 24, 1832; mar- 
ried Ann Maria Moore. 3. Ann Eliza, of fur- 
ther mention. 4. Charlotte Lucretia, born June 
19, 1840. 5. Ethan Clark, born Xovember 17. 
1842: luarried Martha Sholes; child. Ernest. 
6. Harriet Elizabeth, born May 17. 1845; mar- 
ried Peter Wheeler; child, Emily. 

(HI) Ann Eliza, daughter of Samuel Smith 
and L^rana (Vose) Race, was born October 8. 



1835. dieil .\pril 16. 191 1. She married Hial 
Hodge (second wife). Children: i. Emily T., 
of further mention. 2. Hial Cecelia, married 
William Colan Willis: she died .Kpril 13, 1908. 

(1\') Emily T., daughter of Hial and Ann 
Eliza (Race) Hodge, was born in Greene. 
Chenango county, Xew York. She married 
Ered W., son of Nathaniel and Harriet ( Bar- 
rows) Grummond. He was born September 
14. 1854, at Kattleville, town of Chenango. 
Broome county. New York ; died at Bingham- 
ton, New York. April 27, 1902. When but 
five years of age, upon the death of his mother. 
he was sent to live with his grandparents, at 
McDonough, Chenango county, where he re- 
mained until 1863, when he removed to liing- 
liamton and secured his education in the public 
schools. Of industrious and exemplary habits 
he early laid the foundation, broad and deep, 
upon which he built a model and successful 
career in business, social and masonic life. He 
began his business life as traveling salesman 
for Charles Butler, cigar and tobacco manu- 
facturer, covering the territory known as south- 
ern New York and northern Pennsylvania, at 
a time when the horse and wagon was the 
method of travel. .So successful was he in 
this enterpirise that the then large firm of 
Westcott & Kent eagerly received his services, 
and he enjoyed the distinction of being the first 
trading salesman to leave Binghamton with 
cigars for the wholesale trade. Cpon the dis- 
solution of that firm he remained with the 
junior partner until he was taken in as a mem- 
ber of the firm of Westcott. Son & Company. 
He remained with theiu until 1886, when, in 
company with John Hull Jr. and Charles A. 
Hull, he formed the copartnership of Hull. 
(^Iruiumond & Company, with whom he con- 
tinued until his death. 

He received the degree of Master Mason in 
Otseningo Lodge, Xo. 433. Xovember 21, 1889. 
at the city of Binghamton. Xew York, and. 
September 9. 1890, was made a Royal Arch 
Mason in Binghamton, Chapter No. 139. At 
Ithaca, New York, he was made a Royal and 
Select Master, April 29, 1892. in Ithaca Coun- 
cil, Xo. 21. On September 30. 1890. Malte 
Commandery. Xo. 21. of the city of Bingham- 
ton, Xew York, made him a Knight Templar. 
He received the degrees in the Scottish Rite. 
February 20. 1 89 1, in Otseningo Bodies \'alley. 
of Binghamton, New York, and later had con- 
ferred upon him the thirty-third degree, the 
highest in the gift of the order. At Buffalo. 



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New York, September i8, 1895, he was cre- 
ated a sovereign grand inspector general, this 
office being held only by thirty-third degree 
men. He held the office of venerable junior 
grand warder of Otseningo Lodge of Perfec- 
tion, Valley of Binghamton, during the years 
of 1893 and 1894, and, January 4, 1895, was 
elected thrice potent grand master, by dispen- 
sation from Illustrious John Hodge, thirty- 
third degree, deputy for the state of New 
York, and was continuously reelected to that 
office until his illness compelled him to give 
up his active work. He also held the office of 
illustrious minister of state and grand orator 
of Otseningo Consistory, \'alley of Bingham- 
ton, during the years 1893 to i8cj7. But it was 
as thrice potent grand master that the Scottish 
Rite, in the \^alley of Binghamton, profited 
most by his valuable services, bringing to that 
office the same abundant enthusiasm and true 
energy that characterized his rapid and suc- 
cessful rise in business. He entered u])on the 
discharge of the duties of that office with such 
resolute determination, yet courteous and aff- 
able consideration for all, that the impetus then 
given has grown and fostered, extending to all 
branches of the Rite, until the Otseningo bodies 
stand second to none. 

(The Hodge Line). 
Hial Hodge was a direct descendant, in male 
line, from John Hodge, of Windsor, and Suf- 
field, Connecticut. He was of English birth 
and ancestry, coming to .America prior to 1666, 
as in that year he married : died in Lyme, Con- 
necticut, between the years 1692 and 1694. In 
1663 he was a resident of Middlesex county. 
Connecticut, where he held several parcels of 
land. In 1666 he visited Windsor, where he 
married and returned, with his young wife, to 
his home in the then called "Hammanasset 
Wilderness" ( Killingworth), where they re- 
mained until 1670, then moved to Windsor, 
where his wife's parents were living and own- 
ed a large tract of land, a good portion of 
which is now the town of Windsor Locks, 
eighty acres of which they gave their daugh- 
ter and son-in-law. John Hodge is named as 
one of the first grantors of the town of Suf- 
field, which adjoined Windsor, on the north. 
He was living in Sufficld as late as 1683, and, 
in 1 688 and in 1691, paid personal taxes in ' 
Lyme, where he was no doubt living at the 
time. He married, .'\ugust 12, 1666, Susanna, 
born September 3, 1646, daughter of Henry 



Denslow, who was killed by the Indians in 
Windsor, Connecticut, April 4, 1676. Henry 
Denslow was born in England, 161 5, came to 
.America in 1630, son of Nicholas Denslow. 
John and Susanna Hodge were the parents of 
eleven children. 

(II) Thomas, son of John and Susanna 
(Denslow) Hodge, was born February 13, 
1673, died May 2, 1712. He settled in New 
Haven or vicinity earlier than June 25, 1694, 
as he made a purchase of land on that date. 
He married Judith , and reared a fam- 
ily of nine children. 

(III) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (i ) and 
Judith Hodge, was born March 28, 1701, died 
in or near New Haven, Connecticut, 1754. He 

married Alary , who, October 12, 1735, 

is named as a communicant of the First Epis- 
copal Church, in West Haven. They were the 
parents of six children. 

(IV) David, son of Thomas (2) and Mary 
Hodge, was a minor in July, 1768, when he 
had the court appoint him a guardian. He 
served in the revolutionary war, and, March 
22, 1819, was placed on the pension roll. He 
was then a resident of Litchfield county, Con- 
necticut, and from the roll of that county was 
transferred to the pension roll of Chenango 
county, New A'ork, where he died. He mar- 
ried .Amy Webster, who had land deeded her 
in 1793. 

(V) David (2), son of David (i) and .Amy 
( Webster) Hodge, was born in Connecticut. 
He removed to New A'ork state, with his par- 
ents, and settled in Chenango county. He 
married Lydia Brown. Children: i. Alarvin, 
died young. 2. Roxanny, born 1819: married 
David Niven. 3. Emma, born 1822: married 
Samuel Citiford. 4. Hial, of whom further. 
5. Richard, married Cornelia Smith. 6. Alta, 
born 1 83 1 : married Frank Cunningham. 

(\T) Hial, son of David (2) and Lydia 
(Brown) Hodge, was born in 1829, died in 
Binghamton, 1883. He was educated in Ox- 
ford Academy, and, for several years, was en- 
gaged in the jewelry business. Later he studied 
dentistry, with his brother. Dr. Richard I lodge, 
and became a practicing flentist of the town 
of (jreene, Chenango county. New York. Later 
he removed to Binghamton, where, for thirty 
years, he was one of the leading dentists of 
that city, and, at his death, was the oldest mem- 
ber of his profession in the city. He was well 
and favorably known in Binghamton where so 
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identified with many of the city's interests ; 
was a member of the Masonic Order, affihated 
with Otseningo Lodge and Malta Command- 
ery. He married (first) Emily T. Race, who 
died 1856; married (second) Ann Eliza Race, 
born October 8, 1835. Children: i. Emily T., 
married Fred W. Grummond. 2. Hial Cecelia, 
married William Colan Willis. 



V'alentine has been a pcr- 
X'ALENTINE sonal name from time im- 
memorial, and its original 
meaning was strong, robust, powerful. V'alen- 
tinus was a learned and eloquent Alexandrian, 
born A. D. 140. St. Valentine was a presbyter 
or bishop, who flourished about the middle of 
the third century and suffered martyrdom in 
the year 270. Three Roman emperors were 
named \'alentinian. The name, with slight 
variations, is found in France, Spain, Ger- 
many and Holland, as well as England. The 
name has been used as a surname from the 
very beginning also, and some of the French 
and Dutch branches may have taken their 
name from the town of \'alentine. in the de- 
partment of Haute Garonne, France. Benja- 
min \'alentine, the progenitor of the New 
York and Westchester coimty families, was 
doubtless born in Holland, but is said to have 
served in the French army. John \'alentine. 
of Boston, was admitted a freeman in 1673. 
and from him a numerous family, in New 
England, is descended. It is not unlikely that 
both Boston and Long Island Valentines are 
descended from the \'alentines of Lancashire. 
England. Richard \'alentine, of Lancashire, 
made his will in 1520. married Anne Hop- 
wood, and bequeathed his estate to his son 
Thomas, who in turn bequeathed it to his son 
Richard in 1550. Richard \'alentine. of Ben- 
cliffe, sixth in descent from the first Richard, 
baptized June 16, 1675, was high sheriff of 
Lancashire. be(|ueathed to his kinsman, Thomas 
\'alentine Clark, of Franckford. county Sligo. 
and the latter, in 1773, devised to Samuel 
Valentine, of Boston, Massachusetts. 

(I) Richard Valentine, immigrant ancestor, 
was of English birth anil ancestry. He was 
born about 1620, and, it is believed, that he is 
a descendant of Richard \'alentine, of the par- 
ish of Eccles, Lancashire, England, from whom 
the New England \'alentines are also descend- 
ed. Other English settlers at Hempstead, Long 
Island, where he located, came from Lanca- 



shire. Richard yalentine had a share in the 
first division of land at Hempstead, in 1646, 
and later owned land at Merrick, in company 
with Richard Cornell. He was one of the five 
townsmen in 1659, an overseer in 1676, and 
constable in 1679. He married soon after 

coming to this country, probably Sarah . 

There is a tradition in the family that his orig- 
inal farm comprised six hundred acres. He 
died in 1684, intestate, apparently having divid- 
ed his land by deed, for, in the tax list of 1685. 
we find the widow of Richard X'alentine as- 
sessed for forty acres ; his sons, Ephraim for 
forty acres, Obadiah for forty- four, William 
forty, and Richard, seventy-one acres. It was 
the custom to give the eldest son a double por- 
tion. In February, 1679, Jonah \'alentine, of 
Hempstead, petitioned the governor for a grant 
of one hundred acres of land. The records 
show fairly positive proof of the English origin 
of the \'alentines. He was complained of. be- 
fore the Dutch governor-general and council 
of New Netherlands, July 7, 1674. for refus- 
ing to put in execution a judgment against one. 
Jeremy Wood, and for uttering these seditious 
w'ords : "Is it in the name of the King of Eng- 
land? For I will do nothing in the name of 
the I'rince or of the States of Holland."' No 
record of punishment follows, however. Rich- 
ard \'alentine bought five acres of meadow of 
Thomas Ellison, March 14, 1658. Children : 
1. Richard Jr., mentioned below. 2. Obadiah. 
died 1743. "leaving a will; has many descend- 
ants. 3. William. 4. Ephraim, dieil 1729, 
leaving a will and bequeathing to wife Rachel 
and children Richard. William. Ichabod. Eph- 
raim and Phebe. 5. Jonah, mentioned above. 
6. Deborah, married, 1674, William P""oster. 
In a valuation of Hempstead, October 11, 
1683, just before his death, Richard Sr. is 
given as the owner of thirty-four acres of land, 
six oxen, eight cows, three colts, etc. 

(II) Richard (2), son of Richard (i) Val- 
entine, was born in Hempstead, Long Island, 
about 1646, and was doubtless the eldest son. 
In 1702 he was one of a grand jury raised espe- 
cially to indict Samuel Bownes, an itinerant 
Quaker preacher, who came into that region, 
but instead of doing so the jury indorsed the 
paper "Ignoramus,"' and returned it to the 
judge, utterly refusing to have anything to 
do with such dirty work. Many of Richard's 
descendants were Quakers. Richard is called 
a yeoman in a deed, dated 1706. at Flemp- 



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stead. His will, elated 1725, bequeaths to chil- 
dren: Richard, David, Jonathan. Sarah Smith. 
Phebe Downing, Anne Carle, Hannah I'ine. 

(III) Richard (3), son of Richard (2) Val- 
entine, was born at Hempstead, about 1675- 
80, and lived at Hempstead Harbor, Long 
Island. He lived to a great age, surviving his 
son Richard. We find mention of a "sister 
.\nn I'earsall." but not of his wife's name. 
His will was tlated in 1768. He bequeathed to 
the following: Son Richard, mentioned below: 
Phebe, widow of his son Richard, and her 
children ; grandchildren George and Richard 
Weeks (children of his daughter Deborah, 
who married, 1736, Samuel Weeks, and whose 
daughter, Abigail Weeks, married. 1770, Rich- 
ard Titus ) ; grandchildren Richard Kirk, Je- 
mima Baker and Abigail Weeks. 

(IV) Richard (4). son of Richard (3) \'al- 
entine, was born about 1720, and died in 1763. 

He married I'hebe , and as he mentions 

his brother-in-law, Pienjamin Robbins, it is 
assumed that her maiden name was Robbins. 
His will, dated at Hempstead, in 1763, men- 
tions his son Richard and "small" children, 
evidently not named ; also daughters Abigail. 
Sarah, Alary, Phebe and Martha. 

(V) Joseph, son of Richard (4) X'alentine. 
was born at North Hempstead, January 6, 
1750. Richard X'alentine (his brother) was 
living at Xorth Hempstead, and made a deed 
in 1806; was a taxpayer there in 1786: died 
October 29. 1812, aged seventy-seven, at Xew- 
town. Joseph X'alentine left home when a 
youn-g man, and, in 1775, was located at Potigh- 
keepsie. New York, where he enlisted in Cap- 
tain Swartwout's company, in the revolution- 
ary war. He appears either to have served 
about a year, or to have obtained a furlough, 
for he was married July 11, 1776. Afterward 
he lived for a short time in Chatham. Columbia 
county, Xew York, but finally settled j^erma- 
nently in the town of Jackson, Washington 
county, Xew York. From him ]iractically all 
the Washington county X'alentines are descend- 
ed. Many spell the name "\'olentine," and, it 
is said, that as so many of the faniilv were 
Tories during the revolution, Joseph himself 
changed the s])elling in protest against the 
course of his relatives. Children, born at 
Jackson: Daniel, June 2. 1777; Elias, Janu- 
ary 10, 1770: Phebe, Ajiril 20, 1782; John .^.. 
mentioned beUnv ; Betsey, May 27, 1786: Ste- 
phen, July II, 1788; Joel, January 22, 1791 : 
.\bbie. May 2, 1793; Aloses, March 21, 1796: 



Prudence, October 26, 1798: Lydia, Xovem- 
ber 16, 1800: Harvey, June 28, 1803. 

(VI) John A., son of Joseph \ alentine, was 
born at Jackson, Washington county. New 
York, March 16, 1784. He settled in the town 
of fierlin, Chenango county. New York, and 
followed farming. He died there in the prime 
of life in 181 5. He married Temperance Bron- 
son, whose ancestors were from Connecticut. 
Children : Esther, Rhoda, Phebe, Hiram, John 
.\., mentioned below; William, and Minerva. 

(\'II) John A. (2), son of John A. (i) 
\ alentine, was born in New- Berlin, Chenango 
county. New York, August 14, 1813, and died 
in Harford. Cortland county, New York. Janu- 
ary 14, 1889. He received a common school 
education in the district schools of his native 
town, and he lived there until 1835, when he 
came to Marathon, Cortland county. Si.x years 
before his death he left Alarathon and made 
his home in Harford, where he spent the re- 
mainder of his life. He was actively engaged 
in farming up to the time of his death. He 
married (first) Rhoda Sali.sbury, born in Cin- 
cinnatus. now Marathon, New York, February 
23, 1S15, died January 14, 1867, daughter of 
Silas and Lydia ( Dodge ) Salisbury. Her 
father was born June 26, 1784, probably in 
Connecticut, married, February 19, 1807, Lydia 
Dodge, born in Connecticut, February 3, 1786. 
Her parents came to Cincinnatus, New York, 
in 1807, and afterward removed to White- 
water, Wisconsin, where her father died about 
1854, and her mother in 1877. Children of 
Silas and Lydia (Dodge) Salisbiu\v: .-\manda, 
.\nsil, Oliver. Nelson, Rhoda, Elisha, George, 
Marj^ Jane, Christopher, Silas, Samuel and 
Lydia. Mr. X'alentine married (second) Are- 
thusa ( Braley ) Merrihen, a widow. Children 
of first wife: Esther, born March 21, 1841, 
died aged twenty-one years : George Nelson, 
mentioned below: Charles, born 1851, died 
1903, in C'tah. Child of second wife: XX'ayne, 
born in Lapeer, New York, living in igii, at 
XX'hitney Point, New York. 

(X'lII) George Nelson, son of John .\. (2) 
X'alentine, was born in Marathon, New York, 
Julv 22. 1845. He attended the public schools 
of his native town and the Marathon Academy, 
and, during his youth, worked on his father's 
farm. He was a merchant at Marathon for 
seven years, and afterward engaged in busi- 
ness as a builder and electrical engineer. Ex- 
cept for a short time, when he was living 
in XX'hitewater. XX'isconsin, and Lapeer. New 



.\i-:\\ voRi 



York, Ik- has always lived in Maratlnm. For 
eight years he served the town as justice of 
the peace. He is a member of Marathon 
Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. 
In religion he is a Methodist, and is a member 
of the board of trustees of the Marathon 
Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics he 
is a Republican. He married, April 7, 1867, 
Emma, born in Lapeer, New York, January 
(J, 184c), daughter of John White and Mary 
.\nn (Kennedy) Freeman (see Kennedy \ 
and Freeman \'II). Children: i. Ralph C, 
born February 27, 1869, engaged in fruitgrow- 
ing at Lewiston, Niagara, Xew York ; married 
Lillian Goring, of Xiagara F'alls ; children: 
Clark and Christine. 2. Leighton F., born July 
29, 1871, great commander of Order of Macca- 
bees, in state of Xew York, and devotes all his 
time to the duties of that office : married Bessie 
Kelly, of Albany, Xew York ; one son, Elwood 
Leighton. 

(The Keiiiu'dy Line). 
( 1 ) Daniel Kennedy, immigrant ancestor, 
came to Salem, Massachusetts, before 1679, 
for, in that year, he appears to have had an 
allotment of land at Sufifield, Connecticut. He 
died at Salem, June 11, 1695. He married, 
Xovember 10, 1681, at Salem, Hannah, born 
September, 1658. daughter of Henry and Judith 
( liirdsall ) Cooke, of Salem. The Salem rec- 
ords are defective and nothing further has been 
learned of him. His widow may have gone to 
Connecticut, where his sons settled (see'"Essex 
Hist. Collections," vol. i., p. 1 14, and vol. ii., p. 
43). Children, born at Salem: Daniel, .\ugust 
10, 1682: David, mentioned below: Hannah, 
twin of David, July 7, 1(^)83, was jirobably the 
Hannah admitted to the church at Hampton, 
Connecticut, February 7, 1725, though it may 
have been her mother; Jonathan, January 19. 
1687: Isaac, January 21, 1(189, married, Janu- 
ary 21, 1729-30, Phebe Leonard, and settled 
at Hampton: Elizabeth, March 21, 1692, ad- 
mitted to Hampton church, January 3. 1725: 
Margaret, admitted to Hampton church, June 

30- 1723- 

(II) David, son of Daniel Kennedy, was 
born at Salem, Massachusetts, July 7, 1683. 
He removed to Hampton, Connecticut, with his 
brothers and sisters, and the village in which 
they lived was named Kennedy \illage for the 
family. He married, Xovember 5, 1718, at 
Windham (later Hampton), Margaret Lam- 
bert, or Lombard. Children, born at Hani]i- 
i ton: Sarah. fVtober 13, 1720; Hannah, March 



3, 1723: Elizabeth, June 4, I72(): David, men- 
tioned below : Daniel, June 19, 1730, died 1732 ; 
John, Xovember 18, 1732. 

(Ill) David (2), son of David (i) Ken- 
nedy, was born at Windham, or Hampton. 
Connecticut, March 28, 1728. He was a soldier 
in the French and Indian w-ar, in 1758, in the 
Seventh company, CajUain Benjamin Leet, of 
Plainfield : Third Regiment, Colonel Eleazer 
Fitch, and again, in 1759, in Captain George 
Crary's company, same regiment I see "French 
and Indian War Records," vol. ii., coll. x., 
"Conn. State Hist. Society," pp. 64, 170). He 
married there, January 10, 1750, Deborah Jen- 
nings. Children: Sybil, born October 5, 1750: 
Flannah, August 20. 1752: David, mentioned 
below; Margaret, Sejitember 8, 1757; Xathan- 
iel, February i, 1768; Deborah, .August 12, 
1770: Hadasseh. Alay 2, 1775. 

( I\' ) David (3), son of David (2) Ken- 
nedy, was born at Hampton, January 20, 1755. 
He was a soldier in the revolutionary war, a 
sergeant, some time between 177 — and 1781, 
in Captain Eels" company, in the Connecticut 
Line, Third Regiment. He apjiears also as a 
soldier on the Lexington alarm, under Major 
James (iordon, of \'oluntown (p. 24, "Conn. 
Rev. War Rolls"). He seems also to have 
been in Cajitain IDaniel Clark's comjiany, in 
1777, at Stillwater, and in Captain ^ioses 
Branch's company in 1777-78. He married 
Lucy Jennings. Children: Rufus, mentioned 
below ; Erastus, and Cora. 

( \' ) Rufus, son of David (3) Kennedy, 
was a soldier in Captain Palmer's company, 
in the war of 181 2, and was in service at Xew 
London ( see "Conn. War of 1812 Records," 
published by the state). He married Polly 
Hunt. Their daughter, Mary Ann, married 
Jnhn White Freeman (see Freeman \TI). 

(The Freeman Line). 

( I ) Samuel Freeman, immigrant ancestor, 
is designated with the title "Mr.," and call- 
ed "gentleman" in the records. He came to 
\\atertown, Massachusetts, from Mawlyn, 
county Kent, England, and had deed of Eng- 
lish property, July 22, 1640. His house, in 
Watertown. was burned February 11, 1630. 

He married Apphia . Children : Henry, 

gave a letter of attorney, December. 12, 1646, 
for collection of a legacy from his grand- 
mother, Priscilla Freeman, of Blackfriars, Lon- 
don, deceased; Samuel, mentioned below. 

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man, was born at Watertown, Alay 11, 1638. 
He must have been closely related to Edmund 
Freeman, progenitor of most of the Cape Cod 
familie;!, two of whose sons, Edmund and 
John, married daughters of Governor Thomas 
Prince (Prence). The history of Eastham 
says Samuel Freeman was taken thither by 
Governor Prince (Prence), who married his 
mother. At any rate the Prence and Freeman 
families were closely allied, and many descend- 
ants of Edmund and some of Samuel were 
named for the governor. Prince Freeman. Sam- 
uel became a prominent citizen of Eastham ; 
he married there. May 12, 1658, Mercy, daugh- 
ter of Constant Southworth, who was a son of 
the second wife of Governor William Brad- 
ford, and an early settler of Plymouth. Con- 
stant Southworth made bequest in his will to 
Mercy Freeman. Constant Southworth married. 
November 2, 1637, Elizabeth Collier, whose 
sister Mary married Governor Prince ( Prence), 
April I, 1636. Children of Samuel and Mercy 
(Southworth) Freeman: Apphia, born De- 
cember II, i6(3o, died young; Samuel, born 
March 26, 1662; Apphia, January i, 1667; 
Constant, mentioned below; Elizabeth, June 
26, 1671. 

(III) Captain Constant Freeman, son of 
Samuel (2) Freeman, was born in Eastham, 
March 31, 1669, died June 8, 1745. He mar- 
ried, October 11, 1694, Jane Treat. She died 
September i, 1729, in her fifty-fourth year. 
Children, born at Eastham : Robert, mentioneil 
below; Jane, September 2, 1697, died young; 
Jane, March 5, 1698-99 ; Constant, March, 
1700, died at Truro, May 3, 1756; Mercy, born 
-August 31, 1702; Hannah, May 3, 1704; Ed- 
ward, November 25, 1705 ; Elizabeth, Febru- 
ary 4, 1707-08. 

(IV) Robert, son of Captain Constant Free- 
man, was born at Eastham, August 12, 1696. 
He settled at Truro. He was dismissed from 
Truro to Pom fret, Connecticut. March 4, 1738- 
39. Children : Elijah, mentioned below ; Re- 
becca, born September 25, 1724 ; perhaps others. 
James and Samuel were brothers of Elijah. 

(V) Elijah, son of Robert Freeman, was 
born at Truro, January 6, 1722-23. He went 
to Pomfret, Connecticut, when a boy. He mar- 
ried, in 1767, perhaps for a second wife, .\nne 
Eldredgc- (Eldred). In 1790 the first federal 
census gives Elijah Freeman, at Easton, Al- 
bany county, New York, with two males over 
si.xteen, one under that age and two females. 



Children : Prince, mentioned below ; ISarbara. 
James, Elijah, Polly and Jonathan. 

(VI) Prince, son of Elijah P>eeman, was 
born in 1768. He settled, in 1801, at Virgil. 
New York, and married Bethia White, at New 
Canaan. New York, Children : Lurinda, Polly, 
Anna, Rufus A., James, Peter E., Elijah ; John 
\\'.. mentioned below, and Orrin Prince. 

(VII) John White, son of Prince Freeman, 
was born in Virgil, New York, January 19, 
1809, died December 9, 1878; married Alary 
Ann Kennedy, daughter of Rufus Kennedy 
(see Kennedy V). Their daughter Emma, 
born in Lapeer, New York, January 9, 1849, 
married. April 7, 1867, George Nelson \'alen- 
tine (see \'alentine VIII). Their son Dwight 
was a soldier in the civil war, serving three 
years in the Thirtieth New York Engineer 
Corps. His son, John W., was a soldier in the 
Spanish- American war, and participated in the 
battle at .Santiago; was a member of the Ninth 
Regiment, Regular Army, known as the "Fight- 
ing Ninth"; after his return he went, with his 
regiment, to the Philippines, where he was 
discharged, his term of enlistment having ex- 
pired. 

This surname means, liter- 
PATTERSON ally, son of Patrick, and 
belongs to a large class of 
English and .Scotch surnames, similarly de- 
rived. This family is particularly numerous 
in Scotland, in Stirlingshire, Aberdeenshire, 
Dumfriesshire, and in other counties. The 
spelling Pater.son is most generally used. The 
Scotch-Irish, of this name, are very numerous 
in the counties of Down, Antrim, .Armagh, 
Londonderry and Tyrone, where the spelling 
is usually Patterson. The coat-of-arms of the 
Bishop of Ross, who belonged to the family 
of Paterson, is described ; .\rgent, three peli- 
cans feeding their young in nests, vert, on a 
chief, azure, as many mullets of the field. The 
other Patterson arms are like this, or but little 
varied. .\ndrew Patterson, who settled at 
.Stratford. Connecticut, before 1690, came from 
Hamilton. Scotland, and is the progenitor of 
many of the Connecticut families. Numerous 
jjioneers of this surname came with the Scotch- 
Irish, about 1720, to New England. 

(I) Shubael Patterson, pioneer ancestor, is 
said to have come to this country from Eng- 
land, about 1771. He appears to have settled 
in Berlin, Hartford county, Connecticut. In 



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1790, according to the first federal census, 
Shubael (spelled Sherbial) Patterson had three 
males over sixteen and three females in his fam- 
ily. Of his family also doubtless were Edward 
and Elizabeth Patterson, who, according to the 
same census, were heads of families there. The 
name was formerly spelled Pattison pretty 
generally. 

(II) David, son of Shubael Patterson, was 
born about 1755. According to family tradi- 
tion he served seven years in the revolution. 
He appears to have settled before the revolu- 
tion in Greenwich, Hampshire county, ^lassa- 
chusetts, and probably went to Vermont, be- 
fore the close of the war. David Patterson, 
of Greenwich, was in Captain Jonathan Bard- 
well's company, Colonel David Brewer's regi- 
ment, from Greenwich, in 1775: also in Cap- 
tain Smith's company, Colonel Marshall's regi- 
ment, in 1777; sergeant of Captain Josiah 
Smith's company, Colonel Thomas Marshall's 
regiment afterward. Further service of David 
Patterson appears in a company from Mon- 
tague, Massachusetts, and in Vermont. He 
married Heath, of Scotch or Scotch- 
Irish ancestry. They had eleven children. 

(III) Lyman Patterson, or Pattison, seventh 
son of David Patterson, was born at Castle- 
ton, Rutland county, Vermont, March 28, 1794. 
He married (first), in 181 5, Almira, daughter 
of Joseph Tuttle, of English ancestry. In 
1816, with his wife and one child, Lyman Pat- 
terson removed from Vermont to the town 
of Volney, Oswego county. New York. The 
journey was made in the method in vogue in 
those days, with ox team, and required eighteen 
days of travel, and, when he reached his new 
home, he had but eighteen cents in money to 
begin life in the wilderness. He cleared a 
farm, and, in the course of time, became well- 
to-do, however. His wife died in 1828, and 
two years later he married (second) Graty 
Perkins, who died in 1836. He married (third), 
in 1838, Polly Jeffers. Children of first wife: 
Almira ; George H. ; William D., mentioned 
below. Child of second wife: Sylvanus, died 
in 1872, aged thirty-seven years. Child of third 
wife: Orson, drowned at the age of six years. 

(IV) William D. Patterson, son of Lyman 
Patterson, or Pattison, was born in Fulton, 
New York. He was educated in the public 
schools of Fulton, and became one of the lead- 
ing citizens there, having been a trustee and 
president of the incorporated village of Fulton. 
For many years he was superintendent of the 



Oswego canal. He was vice-president and 
trustee of the Fulton Savings Bank from the 
time it was organized until his death. In poli- 
tics he was a Democrat, in religion a Meth- 
odist. He married Adelia Keeler, a native of 
Rochester. Children: i. Hattie A., born in 
Fulton, died in April, 191 1,, was the wife of 
S. F. Hill ; one son, Demster. 2. , Helen L., 
born in Fulton, wife of Monroe Skeel. 3. 
William H., mentioned below. 

(V) William H., son of William D. Patter- 
son, was born in Fulton, December 21, 1863. 
He attended the public and high schools of 
his native town, and began his business career 
there as clerk in the dry goods store of Bennett 
& Stewart. After ten years he bought the dry 
goods store of C. E. Sacket, and engaged in 
business on his own account, as partner in the 
firm of Connell & Patterson. In 1896 he 
bought the interest of his partner, and since 
then has conducted the business under his own 
name. He has a large and flourishing trade, 
and has added to the business by buying an- 
other store and making various adtlitions from 
time to time. He is interested in various 
enterprises in Fulton, as stockholder. He is a 
member of the Methodist Episcopal church, 
of Fulton, and of the official board. In poli- 
tics he is a Democrat. For ten years he was 
a member of the board of education of Fulton, 
and, for two years, a member of the board of 
public works of the city. He is a member of 
the Fulton Chamber of Commerce ; of Hiram 
Lodge, No. 144, Free and Accepted Masons ; 
of tlie Knights of Pythias, and of the Masonic 
Club. 

He married, June 10, 1885, Frances L., 
daughter of Dr. D. E. and Jean Monroe 
(Miller) Lake, granddaughter of William and 
Rachel (Tufift) Miller. William Miller set- 
tled at Battersea, Ontario, Canada. His wife 
Rachel was a native of Scotland. William 
Miller, father of William, married Eleanor, 
daughter of Jeremiah Utley, and granddaugh- 
ter of Jeremiah Utley, whose home was in 
northern Vermont. Mr. and Mrs. Patterson 
have one child, Ethel L., wife of W. M. Dun- 
ham, of Fulton, now of Greene, New York ; 
have one child, Frances Elizabeth. 



Robert Potter, immigrant an- 
POTTER cestor, came from Coventry, in 

England, in 1634, and was ad- 
mitted a freeman of Massachusetts, September 
3, 1634. He is mentioned first as a farmer in 



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Lynn, ^lassacliusetts, and removed thence to 
Roxbury. He became a follower of Samuel 
Gorton, and, in 1637, he was one of those 
summoned before the general court for not 
conforming to the dictation of the church and 
other authorities. With Gorton and others 
Potter became one of the owners of a tract of 
land, purchased of the Indians, called Shawo- 
mett Purchase, in Rhode Island, afterwards 
nametl Warwick, in honor of the Earl of War- 
wick, who had. befriended the exiles from Mas- 
sachusetts. Gorton came from Groton, Eng- 
land. Potter was admitted an inhabitant of 
Aquidneck, Rhode Island, in 1638; on April 
30, 1639, he and twenty-eight others signed 
the compact, on which the civil government of 
the town rested. Gorton, Potter and others 
agreed with the Friends in rejecting church 
ordinances, but differing in other points. The 
pioneers were not without their troubles in 
Rhode Island. Potter, Garden. Houlden and 
Shotten were ordered disarmed and disfran- 
chised, March 16, 1642, for some religious 
reasons, it is presumed. In the same year 
Potter sold his house, at Portsmouth, to his 
brother-in-law, John Anthony. The persecu- 
tion by the Boston bigots continued. In 1643 
Robert Potter, with others of the Shawomett 
purchase, was notified to appear before the 
general court of Massachusetts, on an alleged 
complaint of Indians, from whom land was 
bought unjustly. The summons was not obey- 
ed, the Rhode Island men denying jurisdiction. 
Captain Cook, with a company of soldiers, was 
then sent from Boston and besieged the set- 
tlers in a fortified house. In a parley it was 
then said "that they held blasphemous errors 
which they nnist repent of or go to Boston for 
trial." They were soon all taken to Boston. 
excepting Shotten, and seven of them, viz : Gor- 
ton, Wickes, Houlden, Potter, Garden, Weston 
and Warner, sentenced to be confined in dif- 
ferent towns. .\t the time of their capture 
their wives and children were forced to betake 
themselves to the woods, and suffered hard- 
ships that resulted in the death of three women, 
one of whom was the wife of Robert Potter. 
In reality the sentence of the Puritan Inf|uisi- 
tion was that they be condemned to death and 
executed, provided they attempted to esca|)e 
or maintained their religious beliefs, which 
were described as "blasphemous and abomin- 
able heresies." But the indignation of the 
general ])ublic at the cruelty of the punish- 
ment eventually caused their release or banish- 



ment. Gorton and some associates went to 
England to present the case to the commission- 
ers of foreign plantations and naturally enough 
secured an order reinstating them in the prop- 
erty at Shawomett, and prohibiting further 
molestation from Massachusetts Bay Colony. 
Potter and others of Roxbury were excom- 
municated for supporting Mrs. Hutchinson. 

In 1649 Mr. Potter was licensed to keep an 
inn ; in 1 65 1 he was a commissioner. He died 
in 1656, and left a small estate, over which 
his widow had some difficulties. She married 
(second) John Sanford, and she died in Bos- 
ton, in 1686. Her will was dated March 16, 
1686, and proved May 4, following. She be- 
queathed to the children of John Potter, and 

to others. His first wife was Isabel . 

who died in 1643, as related. Children of first 
wife: Elizabeth, born at Roxbury; Deliver- 
ance, at Portsmouth, 1637 ; Isabel, at Ports- 
mouth, (lied August 26, 1724; John, mentioned 
below. 

(II) John, son of Robert Potter, was born 
at Portsmouth, in 1639, died there in 1694. 
He was admitted a freeman in 1660. He was 
deputy to the general assembly from Ports- 
mouth, in 1667-71-72-80-83. He served in a 
court martial, at Newport, for trial of certain 
Indians, charged with being engaged in King 
Philip's designs, August 24, 1676. He was 
assistant in 1685-86. He deeded land to his 
son Robert, October 10, 1687, and he and his 
son Robert sold land to John Anthony, April 
28, 1688. He deeded also to sons Fisher and 
John and Samuel in 1692-93. He married 
(first) Ruth, daughter of Edward and Judith 
Fisher: (second) Sarah (Wright) Collins. 
Children by first wife, bom at W'arwick : Rob- 
ert, March 5, 1665: Fisher, July 12, 1667: 
John, mentioned below : William, May 23. 
1671 : Samuel, January 10, 1672; Isabella, Oc- 
tober 17, 1674; Ruth, November 29, 1676; Ed- 
ward, November 2S, 1678: Content, October 
2. 1680. 

(III) John (2), son of John (I) Potter, 
was born at Warwick, November 21, 1669, 
(lied February 5, 171 1. He married Jane, 
daughter of Roger and Alary Burlingame. He 
was killed by the fall of a tree and his widow 
married, December 27, in the same year, his 
brother, Edward Potter. Each of the brothers 
had a son, John Potter, who grew to maturity, 
each having the same mother. The jury mak- 
ing an in(|uest (ni the death of Potter found 
Uim to be ".\xedentolly excesery" to his own 



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<leath. It may be mentioned also that Thomas 
Fenner, assistant, refused to marry the widow- 
to her hiisbancrs brother, on account of the 
relationsliip which under Enghsh law was a 
bar. Children of John I'otter and wife Jane, 
born at Cranston : John, before 1695 ; Fisher, 
mentioned below ; Alary ; William ; Amy, and 
Alice. 

(I\') l'~isher, son of John (2) i'otter, was 
born September 29, 1706, at Cranston, Rhode 
Island, died April 28, 1789. He married, No- 
vember 10, 1728, Mary W'insor, born 1707. 
died 1789, daughter of Samuel Jr. and Mercy 
( Harding or Harden) Winsor. Children, the 
five eldest born at Cranston, the four others at 
Scituate, Rhode Island: I'hiliii, August 27, 
1729: Samuel, January lo, 1731 : Mary, De- 
cember 23, 1733; Fisher, June 10, 1735: Jere- 
miah, March 3, 1737; Phebe, May 20, 1742: 
Christopher, mentioned below: John, Novem- 
ber II, 1747: Winsor, January 15, 1749. 

( \' ) Christopher, son of Fisher Potter, was 
Ijorn at Scituate, Rhode Island. August 22, 
1744, died July 23, 1822. He married, Se])- 
teniber 12, 1765, Wait Waterman, born 1730. 
(lied in 1835. daughter of Colonel John and 
Sally (Fenner) Waterman. Children, born at 
Scituate: William, April 5, 1766: Emor, July 
23, 1767; Phebe, February i, 1769: Pardon: 
Charles ; Harden, or Harding, mentioned below : 
Rdwanl : Isaac D.. .\pril 8, 1786: James : Lillis. 

(\'I) Harden, or Harding, son of Christo- 
])her Potter, was born at Scituate, Rhode Island. 
June 8, 1779, died at Solon, now Taylor, New 
\'nrk, October 22, 1857. He came to New 'S'ork 
state, when a young man. and made his iKmie 
at Taylor, where he followed the occupation 
of farming until his death. He married Ruth 
Champion, of Stark, Herkimer county. New 
York, born May 8. 1790, died January 17, 183'), 
daughter of Dan and Ruth (Harris) Cham- 
pion (see Champion \). Children: John, born 
X(n-cmber 10, 1808, died May 17, 1885: Dan- 
iel Champion, July I, 1810, died May 9, 1826: 
Charles, November 28, 181 1, died May 10, 
1881 : Joel, October 19, 1813. died January, 
1908; Erastus. June 7, 1815, died July 17, 
1896; Harris, born March 31, 1817, died Seji- 
tember 22, 1885 : Elisha, born August 22. 1819, 
died February 22, 1821 : Philander, February 
25, 1 82 1, died April 14. 1901 ; Nelson, March 
9, 1823, died June 18, 1895; Chauncy D., Au- 
gust 20, 1826, died June 16, 1869, soldier in 
the civil war. Seventy-sixth New York Regi- 
ment ; Elijah Champion, March 26, 1828. died 



September 2j, 1855; Edmund, mentioned be- 
low : David King, born January 20, 1837. 

(\TI) Edmund, son of Harden, or Hard- 
ing, Potter, was born in Solon, now Taylor. 
Cortland county, New York, September 20. 
1830, died at Cortland, April 11, i9or). He 
was educated in the common schools, and 
learned the trade of blacksmith. For many 
years he resided in Taylor and Cincinnatus, 
New York, and was, for some some years, em- 
ployed by Kingman, Sturtevant & Larabie, in 
the carriage business, as a blacksmith. When 
this firm moved the business to I'.inghamton 
he went with them and worked there, for ten 
years, in the same business. In 1893 he came 
to Cortland, and, for twelve years, was em- 
ployed by the Cortland Carriage Company. 
He resided in Cortland the remainder of his 
life. In politics he was a Republican, and, for 
twenty years, was postmaster of Taylor. He 
lield the office of justice of the peace many 
years. He was an expert penman and used to 
give lessons in penmanship, lie was a mem- 
ijer of the Wesleyan Methodist Church. 

He married (first), November 30, 1851, 
Lillis Cole, of Solon, now Taylor, born in 1832. 
<lie<l .April 28. 1861. He married (second). 
.Ndvemiier 21, 1861. Jane Halhert. born June 
2(). 1825, died April 2^. 1899. He married 
( third ). September 27, 1901, Mrs. Hattie Chat- 
field. Children by first wife: i. Velma D.. 
born October 16,' 1852, died April 6. 1899: 
married .\ndrew Hutchinson ; children : Ed- 
ward A.. Richard D., De Forrest, Harley, .A-l- 
bert Hutchinson. 2. Lucy Jane, born Alay 5 
1855. died September 25, 1874. 3. Lafarcnzn 
P.. born June 23, 1859, died January 22, 1893 
4. Herbert Louie, mentioned below. 

( \TII ) Herbert Louie, son of Edmund Pot- 
ter, was born at Cincinnatus. New Y'ork. .'Xjiril 
20, 1861. He was educated in the district 
schools of Taylor, New York, and, for six 
vears after leaving school, worked on a farm. 
He worked also, for a time, at the blacksmith 
trade. In 1888 he came to Cortland, New 
York, where he since made his home. For a 
year and a half he worked for the railroad 
company, and ten years for Wickwire Brothers. 
Since 1907 he has been in the trucking busi- 
ness, on his own account. He is a member of 
John L. Lewis Lodge, Inde])enflent Order of 
Odd Fellows, of Cortland, and in politics is a 
Republican. He is a communicant of the 
Methodist Episcopal church. 

He married, September <). 1879. Alice M. 



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Allen, of Taylor, daughter of Amenzo W. and 
Mary Elizabeth (Angell) Allen. Children: i. 
Waldo Roscoe, born June 20, 1881, an elec- 
trician; resides in Buffalo; married, in 1901, 
Celestia Suits ; son, Herbert, born January, 
1903. 2. \'ivian Ruth, born August 17, 1887; 
resides with Jier parents. 

(The Champion Line). 

(I) Henry Champion, immigrant ancestor, 
came to the American colonies, and settled at 
Saybrook, Connecticut, as early as 1647. His 
land is described in the records of 1660. Re- 
fore that date he had sold his lot, on the town 
plot, to Jonathan Rugg. He removed, with his 
family, to the east side of the Connecticut 
river, and became one of the most active found- 
ers of Lyme, being propounded a freeman. 
May 12, 1670. The records of that town were 
begun in 1674, and, on June 18, 1674, a record 
of his land was made ; he owned several lots 
at this time. He lived in the house which he 
had built on the hill, just east of the meeting 
house, near the old burying-ground, and he 
was very likely a farmer, as the remainder of 
the settlers were. His ear mark was recorded 
March 24, 1673-74. On March 12, 1671, repre- 
sentatives of the town of New London entered 
a complaint against Henry Champion and sev- 
eral of his fellow-townsmen in the court at 
Hartford. The trouble between the towns was 
a strip of land between Bride brook and Xi- 
antic river, including Black Point, in Lyme, 
which both towns claimed by virtue of previ- 
ous grants. New London was fined nine pounds 
and Lyme five pounds, and these fines were 
afterwards remitted. His name occurs fre- 
quently in the records as a grantor or grantee 
of land. He was a witness of the will of 
Tobiah Colls, of Saybrook, September 2, 1664, 
and was a beneficiary in it, a-s were the other 
two witnesses. When Sir Edmund Andros 
received the government of Connecticut, in 
October, 1687, he orderetl an inventory to be 
taken, August 27, 1688, and Henry Champion's 
property was valued at thirty-seven pounds. 
At this time he had given much of his property 
to his sons. November i, 1706, there is a deed 
of gift to his grandson Henry, eldest son of 
Henry, his son, in which he gives part of his 
home lot, on ^Meeting House Hill, and "said 
Henry was not to put any tenant on this tract 
during the lifetime of his grandfather or his 
wife Deborah," who signed the deed of con- 



sent "as per marriage agreement." His wife 
was probably a sister or daughter of one of 
the early settlers of Saybrook. His second 
wife was evidently very shrewd, as she in- 
duced the old man to make a very good mar- 
riage settlement on her and finally involved 
him in a law suit with the widow of the eldest 
son, who maintained a strong fight for her 
rights in the property of her husband. His 

second wife was Deborah , and they 

were married ^larch 21, 1697-98. He died 
February 17, 1708-09, said to be ninety-eight 
years old. Children, born in Saybrook: Sarah. 
1649; Mary, 1651 ; Stephen, 1653; Henry, men- 
tioned below; Thomas, April, i6ss: RacheU 
165-. 

(H) Henry (2), son of Henry (i) Cham- 
pion, was born in Saybrook, in 1654, died in 
the middle of July, 1704. in Lyme. He mar- 
ried, in Lyme, April i, 1684, Susanna, daugh- 
ter of Balthazar and Alice DeWolf. She mar- 
ried (second) John Huntley Sr., of Lyme. 
Henry Champion lived on Meeting House Hill, 
in Lyme, and owned several tracts of land, 
some by grant and some from his father. He 
was forty-nine years old at his death. The 
inventory of his estate amounted to two hun- 
dred and thirty pounds, more than half of 
which was real estate. Islrs. Susanna Cham- 
pion was made administratrix, August 8, 1706. 
She was given one-third of the property for 
life, and one-half of the movable property 
forever. The eldest son was given a double 
portion, and the others equal shares. Chil- 
dren, born in Lyme: Henry, January 5, 1684- 
85 ; Joshua, mentioned below ; Susanna, Feb- 
ruary 25, 1689-90; Samuel, June 18, 1691, 
died young; Alice, March 15, 1694; Rachel, 
December i, 1697; Abigail, June 25, 1699; 
Stephen, July 5, 1702; Mary, October 14, 1704. 

(HI) Joshua, son of Henry (2) Champion, 
was born in Lyme, Connecticut, September 28, 
1686. and died there. He married (first), in 
Lyme, May, 1712, Mary, born January 5, 1692- 
93, in Lyme, died there, March 29, 1730, daugh- 
ter of John and Mary Mott. He married 
(second), in Lyme, March 15, 1732, Sarah, 
born April 13, 1702, daughter of Jasper and 
Ruth (Peck)" Griffin, of North Lyme. He 
was a farmer by occupation, and part owner 
of a sawmill, at Four Mile River. On June 
28, 1703, he was reinstated in certain rights by 
John Andruss, who had acquired them from 
the former's father. Children of first wife„ 



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hiirn in Lyme: Mary, April 9, 1713: Hannah, 
August I. 1715; Joshua, February 6, 1718; 
Samuel, December 17, 1722, died young; Sus- 
anna, May 8, 1725: Phebe, October 12, 1728; 
Ezra, mentioned below. Children of second 
wife, born in Lyme: Sarah, March 18, 1734; 
Jasper, July 30, 1737; Ruth, June 22. 1744: 
Samuel, January 15, 1746. 

( I\') Ezra, son of Joshua Champion, was 
born in Lyme, February 21, 1730, died there, 
March 15. 1776. He married there, October 
24, 1752, Mary Bump, who married (second) 
Asahel Rowland. She died March 11, 1826, 
aged ninety-three years. Both were buried in 
the East Lyme burying-ground. He lived at 
Four Mile River, now South Lyme, and was 
master and owner of a coasting vessel. His 
inventory showed an estate of si.x hundred and 
forty-four pounds three shillings three pence. 
Children, born in South Lyme: Hannah, Au- 
gust 2},. 1753; Stephen, March 16. 1755; Reu- 
ben, February 16, 1757; Thankful, June 23, 
1759; Dan. mentioned below; Ezra, August 
28, 1763; Lydia. February 11, 1765; John De- 
cember 21, 1768; Polly, January 26, 1770; 
Joshua, August 22, 1773. 

(V) Dan, son of Ezra Champion, was born 
in South Lyme, August 29, 1 761, died in Stark- 
ville. New York, January i, 1821. He mar- 
ried Ruth Harris, born in Lyme, October 23, 
1760, died in Starkville, December 17, 1849. 
Soon after his marriage he removed to Chat- 
ham, New York, and became one of the first 
settlers there. About 1800 he removed to 
Herkimer county. New York, and settled in 
that part of the town of Stark which was after- 
wards known as Starkville. For several years 
he lived in a log hut. and then built the house 
which remained standing until 1830, when it 
was pulled down by his son Joel. He died 
intestate, and left six hundred acres of land, 
which were divided among his thirteen chil- 
dren. Children: Mary, born November 3, 1782 ; 
Sarah, October 12, 1784; Elizabeth, July 12, 
1786, died November 14, 1789; John IMarvin. 
July 12, 1788: Ruth, May 8, 1790, married 
Harden, or Harding, Potter (see Potter \'l) ; 
Dan, March 14, 1792; David, December 21, 
1793 : Elijah (twin), November 23, 1795 ; Lydia 
(twin), November 23, 1795; Elisha, January 
13, 1798; Joel, February 2, 1801 ; Ezra, De- 
cember 13, 1802; Abraham, May 21, 1805; 
Wealthy. November 2, 1809. 



The progenitor of the Wright 
WRIGHT family, with two brothers, came 

from Ireland or England, about 
1750, perhaps earlier, and settled in Dutchess 
county. New York, near the Hudson river. He 
married Abigail Smith. 

(I) Jacob Wright, or Jacob Henry Wright, 
as the name is also given, was born in Dutchess 
county, about 1756. He settled on a farm 
near the village of Moravia, Cayuga county. 
New York, and, later in life, removed to Preble, 
New York, where he died in 1849, aged ninety- 
three years. He was a farmer all his active 
life. In 1790 there were three men named 
Jacob Wright in New York state, according to 
the federal census. One lived at Canaan, 
Columbia county, and two were of Montgom- 
ery county, living respectively at Canajoharie 
and Caughnawaga. One of them was a cap- 
tain in the revolution, in Colonel Philip Van 
Cortland's regiment. 

Jacob Wright married Anna Armstrong, who 
died in 1850, aged eighty-two years. Children: 
Henry, mentioned below ; Thomas ; Smith : 
Joshua, born in Windham, near Catskill, on 
the Hudson, August 13, 1813, and came, with 
his family, to I\Ioravia and Preble, died May 
20, 1802, married Rebecca A. \\'est, and had 
five children : Eleanor, married Sullivan Smith ; 
Ann, married Harmon Loomis ; Charity, mar- 
ried Cambern. 

(II) Henry, son of Jacob Wright, was born 
in Dutchess county. New York, in 1788, died 
in Illinois, in 1865. He came to Cayuga coun- 
ty, with his parents, when a young man, and 
followed farming for an occupation. He lived 
for some years at Preble, New York, and spent 
his last years in the home of his son, at Hunt- 
ley, Illinois. He married Martha Egbertson, 
born in I7()4, fl'ed in 1856. Children of Henry 
and Martha (Egbertson) Wright: Abram.died 
aged about twenty-five years : Ann Maria, died 
aged twenty years ; Egbert Alanson, mention- 
ed below ; Jerome ; Rebecca, married Toseph 
P.arce; Jacob Henry; Harriet, married Jerome 
Fulton ; Charles, lives in Huntley, Illinois ; An- 
drew. 

(IIL) Egbert .Alanson. son of Henry Wright, 
was born in ^\'indham, Greene county, New 
York, August 21. 1821, and is now (iQii) 
living with his daughter in Homer, New York. 
at the advanced age of ninety years. He re- 
ceived a common school education. About 



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1827 he came to the town of Tully, with his 
parents, and afterward removed to Truxton 
Hill, where he lived and worked for fifteen 
years. In 1864 he came to Homer, after living 
for some years at Preble, New York, and 
since then he has made his home in Homer. 
He purchased a large farm, near the Little 
York station, in Homer, known as the W'alrad 
farm,' and conducted it successfully for many 
years. This farm is now owned by his son. 
Since advancing age obliged him to retire from 
active labor he has made his home with his 
daughters in Homer Milage. He has been an 
active, progressive and industrious man. In 
politics he is a Republican. At one time he 
held the office of road commissioner, or "path 
meister," but he never cared for public office. 
He married, January 16, 1843, Miriam Wins- 
low, born at Preble, New York, July 26, 1824. 
died February 9, 1897, daughter of Ira and 
Tryphena (Waterman) Winslow (see Wins- 
low XI). Children: i. Anna Maria, born 
January 15, 1844, lives in Homer, New York; 
married .\bram Knapp, deceased. 2. Harriet 
Francelia, born July 19, 1845, lives in Homer; 
married David W. Carver, deceased. 3. Mar)- 
Amanda, born July 2, 1847, lives in Homer; 
married Richmond Klock. 4. Jennie, born 
February 17, 1849; married ^lerritt Hallen- 
beck, of Tully, New York. 5. Lewis, born 
January 17, 1853, lives in Detroit, Michigan: 
married Martha Devendorf, and had Elmer 
Egbert and Ann. 6. Henry S., born March 
10, 1859, died November 24, 1861. 7. Nellie 
M., born October 8, i860, died October 19, 
1861. 8. Charles E., born IMarch 24, 1862. 
died March 28, 1863. 9. Rollin Egbert, men- 
tioned below. 10. Robert Trowbridge, twin of 
Rollin Egbert, born May 20, 1866; married, 
February 11, 1891, Roxanna 15. Gay, of Preble, 
daughter of Irving and Deborah Gay ; they 
have a daughter, Sarah Emilv. born I'^ebruarv 

15. i«9^'- 

(1\') Rollin Egbert, son of Egbert Alanson 
Wright, was born in Homer, New York, Alay 
20, 1866. He attended the public schools of 
his native town and the Homer Academy. He 
has always followed farming for an occupa- 
tion, and has always lived on the homestead, 
where he was born, which he now owns. Mr. 
Wright is keenly interested In public affairs, 
and has been, for the past seven years, road 
commissioner of the town of Homer, and large- 
ly through his .skill and management the town 
has some of the best roads in the state. In 



politics he is a Republican. He is a member 
of Homer Lodge, No. 332, P'ree and Acce[)t- 
ed Masons: of Homer Chapter, Royal Arch 
Masons, of Homer ; of Little York Grange. 
No. 441, Patrons of Husbandry, and of the 
Baptist church, of Homer. 

He married, January 16, 1888, Adelia Hunt- 
ley, born February 25, 1869, of Otisco, Onon- 
daga county, New York, daughter of Warren 
and Mary (Henderson) Huntley. Children: 
Smith, born July 18, 1890; Laura A., July 25, 
1895: Miriam, May 17, 1901, died aged seven- 
teen months; Arthur Warren, July 26, 1905: 
Mabel Irene, September 24, 1908. 

(The Winslow Line). 

(I) William Winslow, or Wyncelow, the 
first of the lineage as traced in England, had 
children : John, of London, afterwards of 
Wuncelow Hall, living in 1387-88, married 
Mary Crouchman, who died in 1409-10, styled 
of Oouchman Hall ; William, mentioned below. 

(II) William (2), son of William fn 
Winslow. 

(HI) Thomas, son of \\'illiani (2) Wins- 
low, was of Burton, county Oxford, having 
lands also in Essex; was living in 1452. He 
married Cecelia, one of the two daughters and 
heiress of an old family — Tansley. She was 
called Lady Agnes. 

(IV) William (3), .son of Thomas Wins- 
low was living in 1529. Children: Kenelm, 
mentioned below ; Richard, had a grant from 
Edward \''I., of the rectory of Elksley, count)' 
Nottingham. 

(V) Kenelm, son of William (3) Winslow, 
purchased, in 1559, of Sir Richard New-port, 
an estate called Newport's Place, in Kempsey, 
Worcestershire. He had an older and very 
extensive estate, in the same parish, called 
Clerkenleap, sold by his grandfather, Richard 
Winslow, in 1550. He died in 1607, in the 
parish of St. Andrew. He married Catherine 

. His will, dated April 14, 1607, proved 

November 9, 1607, is still preserved at Wor- 
cester. Only son, Edward, mentioned below. 

(VI) Edward, son of Kenelm Winslow, 
was born in the parish of St. Andrew, county 
Worcester, England, October 17, 1560, died 
before 1631. He lived in Kemjjsey and Droit- 
w-ich, county Worcester. He married (first) 
Eleanor Pelham, of Droitwich ; (second), at 
St. Bride's Church, London, November 4, 1594, 
Magdalene Oliver, the records of whose fam- 
ily are found in the parish register of St. 




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XI'.W ^e)RK. 



Peter's, Droitwich. Cliiklreii : Richard, born 
about 1595-96; Edward, governor of Plymouth 
colony, October 18, 1595, Droitwich; John, 
April 16, 1597; Eleanor, April 22, 1598, Droit- 
wich ; Kenelni, mentioned below ; Gilbert, Oc- 
tober 26, 1600, came in the "MayBower" with 
Edward, signed the Compact : Elizabeth, March 
8, 1601-02; Magdalen, December 26, 1604, 
Droitwich; Josiah, February 11, 1605-06. 

(\'II) Kenelm (2), son of Edward Wins- 
low, was born at Droitwich, county Worcester, 
England, April 29, 1599, and was the immi- 
grant ancestor. He came to Plymouth, prob- 
ably in 1629, with his brother Josiah, and was 
admitted a freeman, January i, 1632-33; was 
surveyor of the town of Plymouth, 1640. and 
was fined ten shillings f(_)r neglecting the high- 
ways. He removed to Marshtield, about 1641, 
having previously received a grant of land 
there, called Green's Harbor, March 5, 1637- 
38. This grant, originally made to Josiah 
W'inslow, his brother, he shared with Love 
Brewster. His home was " on a gentle emi- 
nence by the sea, near the extremity of land 
lying between (jreen Harbor and South Rivers. 
This tract of the township was considered the 
Eden of the region. It was beautified with 
groves of majestic oaks and graceful walnuts, 
with the underground void of shrubbery. A 
few of these groves were standing within the 
memory of persons now living (1854), but all 
have fallen beneath the hand of the woodman." 
The homestead he left to his son Nathaniel. 
Other lands were granted to Kenelm, as the 
common land was divided. He was one of the 
twenty-six original proprietors of Assonet 
(Freetown), Massachusetts, purchased of the 
Indians, April 2, 1659, and received the twenty- 
fourth lot, a portion of wdiich is still owned by 
a lineal descendant. Kenelm was a joiner by 
trade, as well as a planter. He filled various 
town offices ; deputy to the general court, 1642- 
44, 1649-53. He had considerable litigation, 
as the town records show. He died at Salem, 
whither he had gone on business, September 
13. 1672, apparently after a long illness, for 
his will was dated five weeks earlier, August 
8, 1672, and in it he describes himself as 
"being very sick and drawing nigh unto death." 
He may have been visiting his niece, Mrs. Eliz- 
abeth Corw-in, daughter of Edward Winslow. 
He married, June, 1634, Eleanor Adams, widow 
of John Adams, of Plymouth, who survived 
him, and died at Marshfield, where she was 
buried December 5, 1681, aged eighty-three. 



Children: Kenelm. mentioned below; Eleanor, 
or Ellen, born about 1637; Nathaniel, about 
1639; Job, 1 64 1. 

( X'lll ) Kenelm (3), son of Kenelm (2) 
W inslow, was born about 1635, at Plymouth, 
died November 11, 1715, at Harwich. He re- 
moved to Cape Cod and settled at Yarmouth, 
afterwards Harwich, and now Brewster, Mas- 
achusetts. His homestead was on the west 
border of the township, now' called West 
Brewster, Satucket or W'inslow's Mills. He 
w^as mentioned in the Yamiouth records in 
1668. In records he was called "Colonel W'ins- 
low, planter or yeoman." He bought large 
tracts of land in what is now Rochester, Mas- 
sachusetts, on which several of his children 
settled. The water privilege remains in the 
family to the present day. In 1699 he deeded 
it to his son Kenelm, and, in 1873, it was own- 
ed by A\'illiani T. Winslow, of West Brewster. 
Kenelm Winslow bought of George Dennison, 
of Stonington, Connecticut, one thousand acres 
of land, in Windham, later Mansfield, March 
II. 1700, for thirty pounds. He gave land. 
October 7, 1700, to son Samuel, who sold it to 
his brother Kenelm, but neither Samuel nor 
Kenelm lived in Windham. October 3, 1662. 
he was fined ten shillings for "riding a journey 
on the Lord's day." yet he rode sixty miles to 
Scituate, on three occasions, to have a child 
baptized in the Second Church there. He was 
on the committee to seat the meeting house, 
October 4, 17 14. 

He married (first). September 2^. 1667. 
Mercv Worden. born about 1641, died Sep- 
tember 22, 1688, daughter of Peter Jr. and 
Mercy Worden, of Yarmouth. Her gravestone 
is in the Winslow graveyard, at Dennis. It is 
of hard slate from England, and is the oldest 
in the yard. This burying-ground is near the 
road leading from Nobscusset to Satucket, a 
short distance from the Brewster line. He 

married ("second) Damaris . who was 

living as late as March 27. 1729. His will was 
dated January 10, 1712, and proved December 
28. .1715. Children of first wife: Kenelm, 
baptized at Scituate, .\ugust 9, 1668; Josiah. 
born November 7. 1670; Thomas, baptized 
March 3, 1672-73. died April 6, i68g; Samuel, 
born about 1674; Mercy, about 1676; Nathan- 
iel, 1679; Edward, January 30. 1680-81. Chil- 
dren of second wife: Damaris, married, July 
30, 1713. Jonathan Small, of Harwich; Eliza- 
beth, married, August 9, 171 1, .Andrew Clark, 
of Harwich ; Eleanor, married. March 25. 



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1719, Shubael Hamblen, of Barnstable; John, 
born about 1701, mentioned below. 

(IX) John, son of Kenelm (3) Winslow, 
was born in 1701. He was a farmer at Ro- 
chester, Massachusetts, and was elected dea- 
con of the church there, August 5, 1748. He 
married, March 15, 1721-22, Bethia Andrews, 
born May 26, 1699, daughter of Stephen and 
Bethia Andrews, of Rochester. She died at 
an advanced age, at the home of her son Prince. 
His will was dated January 11, 1752, and 
proved July 16, 1755. Children, born at Ro- 
chester: John, October 31, 1722; Deborah, 
P'ebruary 8, 1724; Jedediah, March 26, 1727; 
Nathaniel, April 22, 1730; Bethia, May 24, 
1732; Lemuel, November 3. 1734; Prince, men- 
tioned below ; Stephen, July 5, 1739; Elizabeth. 

(X) Prince, son of John Winslow, was 
born at Rochester, April 6, 1737, died at Shef- 
field, December 29, 1793. He bought land at 
Salisbury, Connecticut, in 1761, and sold it 
November 18, 1763, and removed to Sheffield, 
Massachusetts, the adjoining town on the north. 
He was a farmer, sheriff of the county during 
the revolution. He was a soldier in the revolu- 
tion, a sergeant in Captain John Holmes's com- 
pany, Colonel John Felton's regiment, April 
21, 1775; also in Captain Enoch Noble's com- 
pany, Colonel John Brown's regiment, June 
29 to July 28, 1777, in the northern army ; and 
a private in Captain John Spoor's company. 
Colonel John Ashley's regiment, from Berk- 
shire county, in October, 1780, for a few days. 
He married, June 21, 1763, Sarah Goodrich, 
born November 25, 1739, daughter of Jared 
and Miriam (Boardman) Goodrich, of Shef- 
field. She died March 12, 1822, at Preble. 
Children, except first born at Sheffield ; Miriam. 
at Salisbury, March 25, 1764; Bethia, August 
•27. 1765; Stephen, June 29, 1767; Abigail, 
June 12, 1770; Diadema, I-'ebruary 28, 1772; 
Jared, April 10, 1774; Ira, mentioned below. 

(XI) Ira, son of Prince Winslow, was born 
at Sheffield, June 7, 1776, died November 10, 
1862. He was named for Ira Allen, brother 
of the famous Ethan Allen. He married, at 
Florida, Montgomery county. New York, Try- 
phena Waterman, born March 29. 1782, at 
Chatham, died March 4, 1856, at Preble, New 
York, where she was buried. She was a daugh- 
ter of Elisha and .Mary (\'aughn) Waterman, 
of Chatham. Ira Winslow was a saddler and 
harness-maker by trade, and resided at Florida, 
Duanesburg, in Schenectady county, and at 
Preble, Cortland county. New York. Chil- 



dren: Ira, born July 11, 1798, lived at Elgin, 
Illinois ; Bethia, February 2, 1802 ; Noble, mar- 
ried Samuel Trowbridge ; Matilda, born Au- 
gust II, 1804, married Elijah Thomas; Har- 
riet, August 3, 1806, married Samuel C. Skeele ; 
Mary, January 31, 1808, married Ira Skeele; 
Sarah .'\nn, January 21, 1810, married Willis 
Smith: Charles Nichols, January 13, 1812: 
Cynthia, December 11, 1814; Elisha, Decem- 
ber 9, 1816, married Jane Gilbert; Abigail, 

August 17, 1818, married Egbertson ; 

William, September 3, 1820; Miriam, July 26, 
1824, married, at Homer, January 16, 1843, 
Egbert Alanson Wright (see Wright III). 



Rev. John Crandall, the im- 
CR.\NDALL migrant ancestor, was born 

in England, and settled in 
Providence, Rhode Island, as early as 1637. 
He is the progenitor of all of the name of 
colonial ancestry in this country. He was a 
Baptist in religion, and for differing with the 
Puritan church was persecuted in Massachu- 
setts, where he settled first. From Providence 
he came back to Newport, Rhode Island, as 
early as 165 1, and became a prominent mem- 
ber of the Baptist church there, subsequently 
the first elder of the denomination at Westerly, 
Rhode Island. With John Chace and Obadiah 
Holmes he went to Lynn, Massachusetts, to 
hold services for the Baptists, was arrested 
there, July 21, 165 1, and sent to prison in Bos- 
ton, and, ten days later, convicted of breaking 
the law in holding services, and fined five 
pounds, in default of which he was to be 
publicly whipped. Upon his promise to appear 
at the next term of court he was released. In 
1655 he was a freeman of Rhode Island: in 
1658-59 he was a commissioner. With eight 
others he signed a letter to the court of com- 
missioners of Rhode Island, dated August 27, 
1661, in relation to a tract of land at \\'ester- 
ly, where they and others desired to settle. He 
was a deputy to the general assembly in 1667, 
and, in the fall of that year, was living at 
Westerly. He and Joseph Torrey were ap- 
pointed commissioners to treat with Connecti- 
cut, as to jurisdiction over disputed territory. 
May 14, 1669, and was supplied with thirty- 
five shillings by the colony of Rhode Island to 
pay his expenses to Connecticut. He received 
a letter from the governor and assistants of 
Connecticut, November 18, 1669, complaining 
that he and others had appropriated a large 
tract of land belonging to Stonington, Connecti- 



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cut. He and Tobias Saunders answered the 
complaint for the Westerly people. He was 
conservator of the peace at Westerly in, 1670, 
and deputy to the general assembly again in 
1670-71. He was arrested by the Connecticut 
authorities, May 2, 1671, and, by advice of 
the Rhode Island government, declined to give 
bond. The Rhode Island colony promised to 
pay his expenses and defend him. His first 
wife died August i, 1670, and he married 
(second) Hannah, ]irobably daughter of Will- 
iam and Ann (Porter) Gaylord, of Windsor, 
Connecticut. Siie died in 1678. He died at 
Newport, whither he had removed on account 
of King Philip's war, in 1676. Children : John, 
married, June 18, 1672, Elizabeth Gorton; 
James, took the oath of allegiance September 
17, 1679; Jane, married Job Babcock ; Sarah, 
married Josiah Witter; Peter, died in 1734; 
Joseph, married Deborah Burdick, in whose 
family the name Tracy is found ; Samuel, men- 
tioned below ; Jeremiah, died 1718 ; Eber, 1676. 

(II) Samuel, son of John Crandall, was 
born in 1663, and died May ig, 173*'). He 
lived at Newport and Little Compton, Rhode 
Island. He married, in 1685, Sarah Celly, 
born 1666, died August 3, 1758. Children, 
born at Little Compton : Samuel, mentioned 
below; Mary, born May 17, 1689, died July 
II, 1732; James, August 23, 1692, died Janu- 
ary 20, 1752; John, January 11, 1695; Peter, 
October 25, 1697; Joseph, November 28, 1701, 
died June 2, 1731 ; Thomas, July 27, 1707. 

(III) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (i) Cran- 
dall, was born at Little Compton, October 30, 
1686. He married, at Tiverton, Rhode Island, 
May 3, 1706, Mary Wilbour, and lived at Little 
Compton. Children, born there : Thomas, 
1707: Eber, 1708; Samuel, mentioned below; 
William, 171 1; John, 1713; Peter, 1715; Wil- 
bour, 1717; Sarah, 1718; Joseph, 1721, died 
January 19, 1791 ; Mary, born 1723, died April 
4, 1783; Lois, 1725; Benjamin, 1731 ; Nathan- 
iel. 1733, died April 10, 1821. 

( IV) Samuel (3), son of Samuel (2) Cran- 
dall, was born at Little Compton, in 1710. The 
records of the Rhode Island towns are deficient 
and the record of his family is wanting. 

(V) Samuel (4), son of Samuel (3) Cran- 
dall, according to the best evidence available, 
and undoubtedly of the family given above, 
was born in Little Compton. Westerly, or vicin- 
ity, in 1736. He removed to New York state, 
and died there in 1836. aged one hundred years. 



Children: Laban. mentioned below; Wilson; 
John, and Samuel. 

(VI) Laban, son of Samuel (4) Crandall, 
was born in 1765. He married, in 1788, Esther 
Crandall, a distant relative, born 1765, died 
1867, according to family records, aged one 
hundred and two years. He died in 181 5. 
Children: Ezra, born 1788, died 1881 ; Hosea, 
March 30, 1790 (q. v.) ; Ira, born 1792, died 
1874 ; George, mentioned below ; Olive ; Susan ; 
John ; Tracy ( a name brought into the family 
by marriage with the Burdicks, see above) ; 
Hial. 

(VII) George, son of Laban Crandall, was 
born in 1797, and died in 1887. He married, 
in 1816, Hannah Gage, born 1797, and died in 
1882. Children: Louisa, born 1816; ]\Iarilla ; 
John M., mentioned below ; Elkanah, Januarv 
II, 1825. 

(\'III ) Rev. John M. Crandall, son of George 
Crandall, was born January 16, 1823. He is a 
Baptist clergyman at Lestershire, Broome coun- 
ty. New Y^ork. He married Lucy .A. Session, 
born May 31, 1831, died December 31, 1896. 
Children : Lathan Augustus, mentioned below ; 
L. Addie. born February 14, 1855 ; Bert, born 
December 26, 1866, died November 29, 1889. 

(IX) Rev. Dr. Lathan A. Crandall, .son of 
Rev. John M. Crandall, was born in Plymouth, 
Chenango county. New Y'ork, September 30, 
1850. He received his early education in the 
public schools and prepared for college at 
W'hitestown Seminary, New Y'ork, graduating 
in the class of 1871. He entered Pennsylvania 
State College, and afterward went to Hillsdale 
College, in ]\Iichigan, where he was graduated 
with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1873, 
and received the degree of Master of Arts in 
1874. He received the degree of Doctor of 
Divinity from his alma mater in 1889. He 
studied divinity at the Rochester Theological 
Seminarv. New York, and received the degree 
of Bachelor of Divinity there, in 1881, and was 
ordained in the Baptist denomination in the 
same year. He was pastor of the Memorial 
Baptist Church, of Chicago, from 1902 to 1904, 
and since then has been pastor of the Trinity 
Baptist Church, at Minneapolis, Minnesota. 
He is a member of the executive committee of 
the Baptist Educational Society ; member of 
the board of trustees of the Divinity School of 
the L'niversity of Chicago ; chairman of the 
American Committee on the Baptist World 
.Alliance. In politics he is a Republican. He 



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marrieil (first), July i6. 1872. Mary Xichols, 
born 1850. (lied April 3, 1891, daughter of Rev. 
Asahel Xichols, of Ames, ilontgomery county. 
New York. He married (second), December 
8. 1892, Nellie L. Hart, of Racine, Wisconsin, 
daughter of John S. and Susan (Hawkins) 
Hart. She was born October 6, 1868. Chil- 
dren by first wife: I. Bruce \'., born (Jctober 
16, 1873; married, December 8, igoo, Minnie 
Smith; children: Bruce, born May, 1904. and 
Willard, February 29, 1908. 2. Vinnie. born 
December 7, 1875; married Hervey B. Hicks, 
and resides at Oakland, California; children: 
Hervey, born 1902. Children by second wife: 
3. Susan, born January i. 1894. 4. Latlian A., 
born October 10, 1903. 



Belosity Smith was born in Con- 
SMITH UL'cticut, and came, with six broth- 
ers, to Pennsylvania, settling in 
Upsenville, Susquehanna county. He married 
Laura Lines, of an old Connecticut family. 
Children : Wellington Conger, mentioned below ; 
Frederick Augustus, married Margaret Dear- 
born ; Esther, married Edward Park. 

(H) Wellington Conger, son of Belosity 
Smith, was born at Upsenville, Pennsylvania, 
August 22, 1825. died January i, 1904. He 
married, November 29, 1847, Anna, born May 
4, 1830, died May 2, 1882, daughter of An- 
drew and Mary (Buel) Leighton. He was a 
farmer, owning a considerable tract of land at 
Upsenville, and was a prominent member of 
the Presbyterian church there. Children : Clar- 
ence Bel ford, mentioned below ; Alice Emor- 
ette, bom December, 1853, ^^^^^^ April 7, 1867; 
Elsie Adeline, born September 8, 1857, mar- 
ried, December i8, 1883, \\'illiam Lawson. 

(HI) Clarence Belford, son of Wellington 
Conger Smith, was born at L']isenvil!e. FVnn- 
sylvania, November i, 1850, died in 1899. He 
was connected, for more than thirty years, 
with the wholesale dry goods firm of Smith, 
Kenney & Company, becoming a partner in 
the firm in 1873. He was a member of the 
First Presbyterian Church, of Binghamton, 
and, for many years, was an active ami effi- 
cient worker in the Binghamton Young Men's 
Christian Association. In politics he was a 
Democrat. He married. October 15, 1872. 
Fannie E. Crandall, born March 31, 1856 (see 
Crandall X'Hl). Children, born at Bingham- 
ton: 1. Andrew J.. January 22, 1874, died July 
I. 1874. 2. CiUthrie, Octoljcr 15. 1877. died in- 



1908 : married Eveline Jennings, of Candor, 
New York ; child : Clarence Jennings, born 
January 18, 1908. 3. Edna Lucilla, January 
31, 1888; married, February. 1904, Leslie Mc- 
Lean Wilson Jr., of Binghamton ; children : 
Leslie McLean, born September 7, 1905 ; Fran- 
ces Crandall, October 5. 1908; Nellie Guthrie. 
August 31, 1910. 

(The Crandall Line). 

(VH) Hosea, sonof Laban Crandall (q. v.). 
was born at Sherburne, New York, March 30, 
1790. died August 16, 1887. He was a farmer, 
and one of the pioneer settlers of the region 
near the present city of Syracuse, New York. 
He owned large tracts of land there. He mar- 
ried, June 16, 1812, Martha Lawrence, born 
February 19, 1790. died ^larch 18, 1871. Chil- 
dren : I. .\chsah ^L. born April 23. 1813; mar- 
ried, .\pril 29. 1838. Allen H. Kelly; she died 
.April 7, 1872. 2. Hial. September 30, 1815. 
died September. 1885 ; married. September, 
1840. Maria Hicks. 3. Andrew- Jackson, men- 
tioned below. 4. Julia A.. April 18, 1820, died 
April 8. 1880; married A. J. Soule. 5. Charles. 
December 2^. 1822, died March 3. 1872; mar- 
ried Sarah Baum. 6. Charlotte, Januarj' 6. 
1826; married, November 26, 1861. Henry D. 
Dreasbeck. 7. Christiana, May 25, 1828; mar- 
ried, February 18, 1851, John Boon. 8. Har- 
riet E., October 13, 1831 ; married, August 25. 
1857, William H. Young. 

( \'H n Andrew Jackson, son of Hosea Cran- 
dall. was born near Sherburne, Chenango coun- 
ty. New York, January 5, 1818. He was edu- 
cated in the public schools. After farming for 
a few years he came to Binghamton, New 
York, in 18^)3, and purchased the Ways Tav- 
ern, which he remodeled and named for his 
family. The (."randall House, the name by which 
it has since been known. He conducted the 
hotel successfully to the time of his death. 
March 22, 1889. In politics he was a Demo- 
crat. He married, March 11. 1 851, Eliza, daugh- 
ter of Albert and Abigail ( .Mexander ) \\'ay 
(see Way X'll). Children: i. Lucilla, born 
December 18. 1851 : married Daniel M. Bodle ; 
children : Edward J. and Myrtle Lucilla. 2. 
Donna Maria, March 27, 1854; married (first) 
Edward Payson Smith ; child, Georgia, mar- 
ried Fred F. Hammond: married (second) 
L. C. Rockwell, of Glens Falls. 3. Fannie E.. 
March 31. 1856; married. October 15. 1872. 
Clarence Belford Smith (see ."^mith). 



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(The Way Line). 

(I) Henry Way, immigrant ancestor, was 
born in England, in 1585, died May 24, 1667. 
He and his wife Elizabeth came in the ship 
"Mary and John," in 1630, and settled in Dor- 
chester, Massachusetts. Two or more of his 
nephews also settled there. Aaron Way was 
a proprietor of Dorchester in 1640; freeman. 
May 7, 1641 : bought a farm at Rumney Marsh, 
jointly with William Ireland. I'ebruary 19, 
165 1, and removed to Boston; gave bond for 
his brother. Richard Way, 1657; ^^'^^ dismiss- 
ed to the new church at Uoston, with his wife 
and William Ireland, February 3. 166061 ; 
his will is dated .\ugust 25, and proved Septem- 
ber 26, 1695. Richard \\'ay was a cooper by 
trade, lieutenant of the Dorchester company, 
was admitted to the church. May 5, 1643, and 
freeman, April 27, 1657 ; removed to Boston 
and was admitted townsman, April 27, 1657 ; 
deposed, in 1666, that his age was forty-two. 
There was a Widow W'ay in Dorchester, Feb- 
ruary 23. 1646, perhaps mother of .\aron and 
Richard, and sister-in-law of Henry. There 
is reason to believe that her husband was 
George Way. mentioned in the Dorchester 
records, January 2, 1637-38, as having had a 
grant of land formerly. Henry \\'ay is digni- 
fied with the prefix Mr., which, at that time, 
indicated some rank or social station. He 
came with the first company of pioneers, and 
carried on a fishing business. His boat saved 
three shipwrecked men off the coast, July 26, 
1631, and two other boats of his were lost, 
five men being killed by the Indians, and two 
drowned in 1633. He was admitted to the 
church. May 5, 1643. His wife Elizabeth died 
June 3, 1665, aged eighty-four. Children : 
George, mentioned below : Samuel ; Henry Jr. ; 
Richard ; Elizabeth ; another son was lost in 
the winter passage of the ship "Lion," charter- 
ed by the governor and council to go to Bristol, 
England, for food for the colonies, December 
or January, 1650-51. 

(II) George, son of Henry Way. was born 
in England, about 1620, died at Saybrook, 
Connecticut, about 1690. While he was living 
in Boston, with the remainder of the family, 
mentioned above, he supported Roger Will- 
iams, and, though not among the original twelve 
founders of Rhode Island, he soon followed, 
about 1657, and. after the town of Providence 
was burned, he settled in Saybrook. He mar- 
ried, in Boston, Elizabeth, daughter of John 
and Joanna Smith. W'hile in Boston he shared 



in a division of the Xeck Lands, now South 
Boston, in 1637. He took the oath of allegiance. 
May 31,1661. Children: Elizabeth, born March 
19, 1651, Boston; George, settled in New Lon- 
don, died February 23, 1717; Thomas, men- 
tioned below. 

(III) Thomas, son of George Way, was 
born about 1665, in Rhode Island, died 1736, 
at East Haven, Connecticut, whither he re- 
moved about 1720, from Saybrook. He was 
a farmer I^y occupation. He married Ann. 
daughter of .\ndrew Lester. Children : Dan- 
iel, born December 23, 1682, or 1692; Eben- 
ezer, October 30, 1693 ; Elizabeth ; George, 
about 1695 ; David, mentioned below ; James, 
settled at East Haven; Hannah: John, lived 
in Wallingford : Thomas, born March 18. 1700: 
Mary, died December 22, 171 1. 

(IV) David, son of Thomas Way. was born 
at East Haven, Connecticut, about 1695-1700. 
Children, born at East Haven : Easter, born 
September. 1720; Mary. March, 1722; David. 
July 25, 1723; Mary, February 13, 1725; Han- 
nah, May 6, 1727; Thomas, mentioned below. 

(V) Thomas (2), son of David Way, was 
born at East Haven, October 25, 1729 (town 
records). Another date given, November 5. 
1728. is evidently obtained from his age at 
death, the change of the calendar, in 1752. 
dropping eleven days, accounting for the dif- 
ference between October 25, and Xovember 5. 
It frequently happens that the age on grave- 
stones or death records is a year too great. He 
married Zillah . born July 25. 1734. Chil- 
dren, born at Northfield, Connecticut : Titus. 
Xovember. 1756 ; Elizabeth, .September 9. 1759 : 
.\va. I'ebruarv 22, 1761 : Elizabeth. Decem- 
ber 26. 1763 ; Elizabeth, August 5, 1766 ; Thad- 

dcus, October, 1768, married Bunnell. 

and died December, 1829: Thomas, twin of 
Thaddeus ; David, born December 15, 1770, 
died 3'oung; Sarah, October 19, 1772; Thad- 
deus, April 20. 1775 ; David, mentioned below 

(VI) David (2), son of Thomas (2) Way. 
was born at Xorthfield, Connecticut. Novem- 
ber 27, 1779, died October 11, 1852. He mar- 
ried Slary Doolittle. born September 27. 1778. 
died February 8, 1855. Children: i. Albert, 
mentioned below. 2. Hiram, bom April i. 
1804; married Caroline Way. daughter of 
Thaddeus. and had Esther, who married George 
Jacobus. 3. Matilda. February 25, 1807; mar- 
ried Bryant, and died November 15. 

1838. 4. Esther, September 9, iSag; married 
Putnam, and had Har\-ev and ludson 



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Putnam. 5. Harvey. June 15, 1813; married 
(first) Amelia \'osburg : (second) Sarali Bev- 
erly; children: Eugene and Minnie. 6. Arvins, 
August 5, 1814, died September 14, following. 
(VII) Albert, son of David (2) Way, was 
born September 10. 1801, died September 24, 
1863. He married (first) Elizabeth Lakin ; 
(second), May 24, 1829, Abigail Alexander, 
born October 23, 1812, died August 16, 1848; 
(third), November 26, 1850, Betsey L. Jones. 
Child by first wife: Jane Amelia, bom Febru- 
ary 19, 1827. Children by second wife: Sophia, 
December 30, 1830, died February 12, 1831 ; 
Mary, February 18, 1832, died June 23, 1832; 
Esther, April 3, 1833. died January 25, 1835; 
Angeline, December 27, 1834, died January i, 
1891 ; Eliza, October 5, 1836, died March 27, 
1898, married Andrew J. Crandall, March 11, 
1851 (see Crandall \'III) ; Frances E., Sep- 
tember 2, 1838. married, September 16, 1861, 
O. N. Swift ; Albert, July 31, 1844, married, Au- 
gust 4, 1863, Alice, born March 14, 1847, daugh- 
ter of William and Almira (Aspe) Wright: 
children : Olive Mary, born July 19, 1868. mar- 
ried, July 12, 1887, Theodore Earle ; Albert 
Crandall, August 28, 1870: Frances E., Janu- 
ary 3, 1884. 

( I\') Benjamin, son of John (2) 
SANDS Sands (q. v.), was born Novem- 
ber 24, 1735, died October 14, 
1824. He married Mary Jackson, who was 
born 1739, died NovemlDer 16, 1798. They 
had a son Obadiah. 

(\') Judge Obadiah Sands, son of Benja- 
min Sands, was born August 22, 1774, very 
likely at Sand Point, Long Island, died Janu- 
ary 30, 1858. He married Elizabeth Teed, 
born April 5, 1778, died January 29, 1837. He 
moved from Sand Point to Delaware county. 
New York, where he had a large tract of land 
and became a wealthy farmer for those times. 
In politics he was a Democrat, and in religion 
both he and his wife were members of the 
Society of Friends. Qiildren : i. Marcellus, 

married Jackson ; children : Jerome, 

Julia, Andrew J. and Herbert. 2. Odessa, died 
young. 3. \\'illiam Guthrie, married Eliza 
Myeatt : children : Maria, Sarah and Catherine. 
4. Charles Teed, married Anna Turk. 5. Fred 
Augustine, married Clarissa Mygatt : children: 
Clarissa, Henry, J. Frederick and Arabella. 6. 

.\ndrew Jackson, married Harriet . 7. 

Eli7.al)eth Eneid, married loshua Sanders. 8. 



Catherine Iliad, twin of Elizabeth Eneid, mar- 
ried James Clark. 9. Jerome Bonaparte, men- 
tioned below. 

(Vl) Jerome Bonaparte, son of Judge Oba- 
diah and Elizabeth (Teed) Sands, was born 
in Franklin, New York, February 2, i82i,died 
February 10, 1902, in Bainbridge, and was 
buried there. He received his education in the 
common schools, and the academy of his native 
town. He moved to Bainbridge in 1858. He 
was a practical and successful farmer, being 
always the first in his neighborhood to take up 
new inventions in agricultural implements, and 
improved methods in farming. He was a promi- 
nent man, and held a number of public offices. 
In politics he was a Democrat, and in religion 
favored the Episcopal church. He was a mem- 
ber of the F"ree and Accepted Masons, of Bain- 
bridge. 

He married, January 11. 1843, Jane, daugh- 
ter of Samuel and Lucy ( Arnold ) Shaw. She 
died June 3, 1893. Children: Emma, born 
February 29, 1844, married Stephen H. Sea- 
cord: Charles T., September 16, 1845; Jane; 
Frederic J., November 24, 1849 : Elizabeth, 
November 14, 1852, died June 10, 1885; James 
C, January 10, i8s6; William G., May 31, 
1858; Orin A.; April 21, 1862. 



Matthew Rowe, immigrant ances- 

ROWE tor, was one of the early settlers 
of New Haven, Connecticut. Chil- 
dren : Elizabeth, born January, 1650: Daniel, 
January, 1651 ; John, mentioned below; Llan- 
nah, August, 1656; Joseph, November, 1658; 
Stephen, August 28, 1660. 

(II) John, son of Matthew Rowe, was born 
in New Haven, Connecticut, April 30. 1654. 
He married there, July 14, 1680, Abigail Alsop. 
Children, born at New Haven : John, October 
2;^. 1681 ; Matthew, February 14, 1684: Ste- 
I)hen, mentioned below ; Abigail, August 13, 
1689; Hannah, February 11, 1691 ; Sarah, Oc- 
tober 15, T"oo. 

(HI) Stephen, son of John Rowe, was born 
at New Haven, July i, 1687. Children, born 
at New Haven: Stephen, September 7, 1716; 
Joseph, mentioned below ; Daniel, November 
7, 1720: Marv, December 21. 1722; Ebenezer, 
February 18, 1725. 

(I\") Joseph, son of Stephen Rowe, was 
born at New Haven, October 7, 1718; married 
there. December 21. 1743. Abigail Beecher. 
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tioned beluw ; Ebenezcr, September 2, 1748: 
Rebecca, June 29, 1750; Mary, January 28, 
1753; Eunice, June 29, 1755; Stephen, Janu- 
ary 31, 1758. 

(\') Joseph (2), son of Josepli (i) Rovve, 
was born at New Haven, September 2"], 1744. 
He settled at what is now Plymouth, Connec- 
ticut. Among their children was x-\ri, men- 
tioned below. In this connection it is interest- 
ing to note that Plymouth was incorporated 
under that name in 1795, before that being 
known as Northbury. Daniel Rowe, one of 
the incorporators, is supposed to have been a 
brother of Ari. 

(\"I) Ari, son of Joseph (2) Rowe. was 
born at Plymouth, Connecticut, October 2, 
1765. He married Wealthean Bull, born July 
7, 1762, daughter of Samuel Bull, a descendant 
of Thomas Bull, of Hartford, Connecticut. 
Children: Levi, born September 18, 1791 ; 
Laura, May 7, 1793; Norman, mentioned 
below; Cynthia, February 2, 1797; Martin, 
April 21, 1799; Samuel. April 22, 1801 : Jo- 
seph Hopkins. July 30, 1803. 

( \ 11) Norman, son of Ari Rowe, was born 
in Connecticut, January 2, 1795, at Harwinton, 
in Litchfield county. He married Polly Moore, 
February 15, 1816. Children: Samuel Rowe; 
Nathan Moore, mentioned below ; Henry M. ; 
Abbie M. ; Augustus F. 

(\'ni) Nathan Moore, son of Norman 
Rowe, was born in Oswego, New York, in 
1823. He married, in 1850, Sophia Park, born 
in 1830. Children: Charles N. ; Louise, mar- 
ried Professor F. G. Hubbard, and resides at 
Madison, Wisconsin ; Louis Cass, mentioned 
below : Norman, consular agent of the I'nited 
States, at Guanaquato, Mexico. 

(IX) Hon. Louis Cass Rowe, son of Na- 
than Moore Rowe, was born in Oswego, No- 
vember 27. 1861. He attended the public 
schools of his native tow'n, and, in 188 1, began 
to study law in the office of Benjamin F. Chase, 
then district attorney of the county. In 1884 
he was admitted to the bar and immediately 
began to practice. He is a Democrat in poli- 
tics, and, in 1894, was appointed postmaster 
by President Cleveland, and served one term 
of four years. In 1908 he was elected to the 
office of county judge, overcoming a Repub- 
lican majority of four thousand in a presi- 
dential election. He married, 1898, Emma 
Benz, born 1868. Children, born at Oswego: 
Abbie Louise, May 10, 1900; Charles Lee, No- 
vember 15, 1904. 



Michael Maricle, of ancient 
M.VRICLE Dutch ancestry, lived in Scho- 
harie county. New York, until 
181 1, when he located at Cincinnatus, New 
York, among the pioneers of that town. The 
farm which he cleared has remained in the 
possession of his family to the present time, 
and is now occupied by J. Edwin Maricle. He 
died at Cincinnatus, after a long, active and 
useful life, at the age of eighty-four years, in 
1833. His wife was of Scotch ancestry. Chil- 
dren : Margaret, married Cyphrinus Seeber : 
Elizabeth, married Thomas Esmoy ; Catherine, 
married King Solomon Stevens ; John, men- 
tioned below; Michael: Jacob; Philip; Cor- 
nelia: I'eter; Nicholas: Mary, married George 
Harper. 

(II) John, sun of Michael Maricle. was born 
in Sharon, Schoharie county. New York, De- 
cember 10, 1804, died in Cincinnatus, New 
York, March 23, 1891. He removed to Cin- 
cinnatus, with his parents, when he was about 
seven years old. and received his early educa- 
tion there in the public schools. He helped 
his father clear the farm and continued to 
work on the homestead when a man. He suc- 
ceeded to the farm on which his father died, 
and continued to live there all his life. He was 
a genial, jovial, companiable man. a sturdy, up- 
right citizen, highly res])ected by all his towns- 
men. In politics he was a Democrat, in relig- 
ion a Presbyterian. He married Catherine See- 
ber, born in August, 1808. died May 7, 1891, 
daughter of Cyphrinus Seeber. Children, born 
at Cincinnatus: Elizabeth, died in infancy: 
Lydia, born November 15, 1832, died in 1848: 
Martin, November 23, 1835, mentioned below; 
Delila, born 1840, died 1871, married William 
J. Holmes ; John Edwin, lives on the Maricle 
homestead, at Cincinnatus. 

(III) Martin, son of John Maricle, w-as 
born at Cincinnatus, November 2},, 1835, and 
attended the public schools there. He lived 
with his father on the homestead until he was 
twenty-five years old, and then engaged in 
fanning on his own account, in Cincinnatus, 
for a number of years, and afterward at Mara- 
thon and Freetown. He lived in the town of 
McGraw for twenty-five years, having financial 
interests still in the Miller Corset Company. 
For two years he conducted a hotel at \'irgil, 
New York. From 1898 to 1908 he followed 
farming again at Freetown, and then he ex- 
changed his farm for city property in Cortland 
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made his home in Cortland. In politics he is 
a Democrat, and, while living in Freetown, he 
served the town on the board of assessors. He 
is a member of Mclirawville Grange, Patrons 
of Husbandry. He attends the Methodist 
Episcopal church. 

He married, September 21. 1858. Emma 
Adeline Hall, born August 30. 1839, at Tarry- 
town, Xew York, daughter of William Edwin 
and Marinda (Purdy) Hall. Children; i. Her- 
bert D. Alton, born June 30, 1859, died 1864. 
z. Marinda Purdy, i860; married Cass C. Wil- 
cox, now with the Gillette Skirt Company, of 
Cortland, Xew York ; children ; i. Ward Wil- 
cox, born May 28, 1885, married Hattie Bean, 
and has a daughter, Alargaret Elizabeth Wil- 
cox; ii. Nina E. Wilcox, born May 16, 1886, 
married Arby Pudney ; iii. Martin David Wil- 
cox, born August 8, 1895. 3. George Howard, 
mentioned below. 4. Fred H., born January 
14, 1865, a merchant at McLean, New York ; 
married Carrie Totman, and has one daughter. 
Corinna. 

(IV) George Howard, son of Martin Mar- 
icle, was born at Cincinnatus, New York, June 
I, 1862. He received his early education in 
the district schools of his native town. His 
first business experience was a year as clerk in 
a general store, at Harford, New York. He 
came to the town of McGraw, New York, in 
1876, and has made his home there since. For 
several years he worked as clerk in a store, 
and, in 1891, engaged in business on his own 
account, in partnership with Holland C. John- 
son, under the firm name of Maricle & John- 
son. Besides conducting a general store, the 
firm had coal and wood yards comiected with 
the Cortland & Homer Traction Company, and 
was the largest buyer of country produce in 
the town. In u;>04 the junior partner sold his 
interest to Mr. Alaricle, who has continued the 
business alone since that time. A recent publi- 
cation described his business thus; "He does a 
large business, his trade extending through a 
wide area, including many families in Mc- 
Graw, who purchase nearly all of their house- 
hold supplies from him. This activity in the 
store is due largely to the fact that anything 
needed in staple and fancy dry goods, dress 
goods, notions, boots and shoes, house furnish- 
ings, groceries, fruits, vegetables, etc., can be 
had there at prices a little bit less than arc 
charged by competitors. .\'o retail merchant 
makes the profits some people imagine, par- 
ticularly in these times of the high cost of liv- 



ing ; hence we say 'little less" in prices, compared 
with those other merchants get." Four clerks 
are emjiloyed by Mr. Maricle, there is a well 
regulated free delivery service, telephone con- 
nections, and the premises are lighted evenings 
by gas generated in the basement. The store 
occupies all the buildings, except the front 
room on the second floor, which is used by the 
telephone company as a local exchange. 

In politics Mr. Maricle is a Republican of 
prominence. He has been a member of the 
board of trustees of the incorporated village 
of McGraw, of the board of education and is 
now treasurer of the village and of the water 
board. For six years he was town clerk and 
he is now serving his second term as sui)er- 
visor of the town. He is a prominent member 
of the board of supervisors of the county. He 
is a member of Cortlandville Lodge, No. 470, 
I'ree and Accepted Masons; of McGrawville 
Lodge, Xo. 320, Odd Fellows, and of the En- 
campment and Canton in Cortland. He is 
keeidy interested in music and his voice has 
been well trained. He has been, for many 
years, leader of the Corset City Band, and a 
member of the Male Quartette, of McGraw, 
which has made more than a local reputation. 
Mr. ]\Iaricle is a self-made man of the finest 
tyi^e, a substantial and useful citizen, whose 
integrity, enterprise and public spirit have 
made him known throughout the county and 
brought to him, especially in his own town, the 
esteem and confidence of the community. In 
religion he is a Presbyterian. 

He married, January 18, 1883, Cora E. 
Graves, born in AIcGraw, daughter of Walter 
and Emma (Giles) Graves, of McGraw. They 
have one daughter, Goldie Emma, born Octo- 
ber 16, 1888. 



This name, written also 
L( )L'.\'SBERR^' Lounsbury, is not given 

in "Patronymica Brit- 
lanica," or any other commonly used work on 
British surnames, and books of Heraldry do 
not mention it. It seems to be an English local 
name, although not common. The immigrant, 
Richard Lounsbury. settled at Rye, Xew York, 
which was an English settlement, and he is 
believed to have been an Englishman. There 
is nothing to sup])ort the theory that it is an 
Anglicized form of a I-'rench surname, except 
the fact that New Rochelle, an adjoining town, 
was settled by I'rench Huguenots. Richard 
Lounsbury. as he sjx'lled his name, settled first 




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in Dutchess county. New York, in 1648; was in 
Putnam county in 1660, and a proprietor of 
I'ening's Neck, Rye, Westchester county, as 
farly as 1672, many years before the Hugue- 
nots came to New Rochelle. He scjUl land and 
rights on the "Neck" in 1673 and 1682, but re- 
tained land on Budd's Neck, in Rye. His will is 
dated January 2, 1690, the year of his death. His 
wife's name was Elizabeth. Children: Thomas, 
had rights in the town of White Plains con- 
veyed to him by his father : Michael, of further 
mention; John, lived in Rye, New ^'ork ; 
Henry, born August 15, 1684: Mary. 

(11) Michael, son of Richard and Elizabeth 
Lounsbury, was bom 1683, died 1731. He 
settled at Stamford, Connecticut, as early as 
1709. He married, June 19, 1707, Sarah Lock- 
wood. Children: Elizabeth, born June 13, 
1708; Sarah, twin of Elizabeth: Michael (2). 
born January 23, 1709; Jemima, March 17, 
171 1 ; Joshua, July i, 17 16: Monmouth, of fur- 
ther mention: Nehemiah, December 23, 1718: 
Abigail, September 11. 1719: Jonathan. (Octo- 
ber 20. 1 72 1. 

(HI) Monmouth, son of Michael and Sarah 
( Lockwood ) Lounsbury, was born December 
23, 1717. In 1747 he was a member of the 
school committee of Stamford. The only rec- 
ord found of his marriage is to a second wife 
in 1766. Children by first wife: Thomas, born 
January 16, 1739: Elizabeth, July 25, 1741. 
died young; Benjamin, of further mention; 
Michael, September 12, 1744; Elizabeth, Sep- 
tember 16, 1746: Monmouth (2), July 31. 
1748: William, February 28, 1749, died yomig : 
Jemima, December 4. 1 731 ; William, August 
5' 1753 • Tamar, September 11, 1735; Abigail. 

(IV) Benjamin, son of Monmouth Louns- 
bury, was born in Stamford, Connecticut, De- 
cember 23, 1742, died 1771. He married, in 
Stamford, January 16, 1766, Rebecca Whit- 
ing, and had issue. 

I \' ) Benjamin (2), son of Benjamin ( i I 
and Rebecca ( Whiting) Lounsbury, was born 
.\pril II, 1767, in Stamford, Connecticut, died 
in Nichols, Tioga county. New York, May 31, 
1837. He married, 1792, Elizabeth Piatt. Chil- 
dren: Harriet, born June 7. 1793; Hannah, 
May 23, 1793: Piatt, of further mention: 
Charles, July 19, 1800; Horace, December 12. 
1804: Benjamin, May 4, 1807, died Sejitember 
20, 1888; James, Octolier 17, i8o(); William. 
December 6, 1812, died July 12, 1887: Norman, 
born May 12, 1815. 

(\'\) Piatt Lounsberrv (as the name was 



spelled in this generation), son of Benjamin 
(2) and Elizabeth (Piatt) Lounsbury, was 
born at Nichols, Tioga county, New York, 
Sejitember 18, 1797. He followed agriculture 
all his days. He married Sarah Lanning. Chil- 
dren : Sarah, Piatt (2), Mary, .\mos, Horace. 
Prudence, Betsey, Benjamin, Harriet, Ceorgc 
and l-".noch. 

(\TI) Benjamin (3), son of Piatt and 
Sarah (Lanning) Lounsberry, was born in 
Nichols, New York, died March 23. 191 1. He 
married Frances Silvernail. 

(\ III) Dr. Robert L, Lounsberry, son of 
Benjamin (3) and Frances (Silvernail) Louns- 
berry, was born at Smithboro. Tioga county. 
New York, February 14, 1869. He received 
his early education in schools of Kingston, 
Pennsylvania, and chose the profession of 
medicine. He prepared in the medical depart- 
ment of the University of New York, whence 
he graduated M. D. He began practice in 
Oswego, New York, continuing two years, 
then settling in Buffalo, where he spent five 
years in [iractice. In 1899 '^^ removed to Bing- 
hamton. New York, where he is now medical 
director of the Security Mutual Life Insurance 
Company. He is a member of many societies 
and associations, among them the State Med- 
ical Society. He married. May 27. 1890, Emma 
Marv Harris (see Harris IX). 

(The Harris Line). 

This name is one frequently found in early 
New England records, as several families set- 
tled in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Con- 
necticut, prior to 1700. This branch of the 
family descends from English ancestors. The 
name is derived from the possessive of Henry 
or Harry as Harry's, finally becoming the sur- 
name Harris. Thomas Harris, born in Eng- 
land, emigrated to New England and settled 
at Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1630. His 
wife was Elizabeth, who survived him and be- 
came the wife of Deacon William Stilson. of 
Charlestown. She died February 16, 16(59-70, 
aged ninety-three years. Deacon Stilson in 
his will, made .^pril 12, i(S88. named John 
Harris. Thomas Harris, William Harris. Dan- 
iel Harris and Anne Maverick (Widow of 
Flias Maverick) as the children of his first 
wife. 

(II) Daniel, son of William and I'^lizabetli 
Harris, had a house lot assigned to him in 
Rowley, Massachusetts, very soon after the 
first assignment of lots in 1644. He was a 



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carpenter and wheelwright, and carried on 
both trades at Rowley. On the loth and 21st 
of August, 1652, he sold his lands in Rowley, 
and soon afterward removed to jMiddletown, 
Connecticut, where, in 1660, he was "approved 
to keep an inn." He was appointed lieutenant 
in 1661, and later was commissioned captain. 
He married Mary, daughter of Joseph \\'eld, 
of Roxbury, Massachusetts. "Captain Daniel 
Harris departed this life the last of November, 
1701." "Mary, the widow of Captain Daniel 
Harris departed this life September 5, 171 1." 
Children, all but the first, born at Middletown : 
Mary, born at Rowley, married Isaac Johnson ; 
Daniel, of further mention ; Joseph, died 
young ; Thomas, twice married ; Elizabeth, died 

young; Sarah (2), married Hunnewell ; 

William, born July 17, 1665; John, married 
(first) Susannah Collins, (second) Mindwell 
Lyman ; Hannah, twice married. 

(HI) Captain Daniel (2) Harris, son of 
Captain Daniel (i) and Mary (Weld) Harris, 
was born at Middletown, Connecticut, July 15, 
1653, died October 18, 1735. He also held the 
military rank of captain. He married (first), 
December 14, 1680, Abigail Barnes, died May 
22, 1723. He married (second), January 5, 
1726-27, Elizabeth, widow' of Samuel Cook, of 
Wallingford. Children by first wife, all born 
in Middletown ; Abigail, ]\Iary, Daniel, Joseph, 
Patience and John. 

(IV) John, son of Captain Daniel (2) and 
Abigail (Barnes) Harris, was born in Middle- 
town, Connecticut, March i, 1690-91. He mar- 
ried Rachel Moss, of Wallingford or Derby, 
Connecticut. They lived at Cornwall, New 
York, and later at the "Oblong," Dutchess 
county, New York. 

(V) John (2), son of John (i) and Rachel 
(Moss) Harris, was born in Derby, Connecti- 
cut, April, 1744. He was the first of his line 
to settle in Pine Plains, New Y'ork. He was 
the founder of the Harris Scythe Works, going 
to Pine Plains wdien twenty years of age and 
beginning work on an anvil in a shop ow'ned by 
his uncle Josepii. This eventually grew into a 
very large business. lie married Mary Gam- 
ble, and, about 1770, went to Fort Ann, New- 
York, returning to Pine Plains after the war, 
and resumed scythe-making. He died Novem- 
ber 27, 1814. I lis widow died December 20, 
18.34. 

(VI) John (3), son of John (2) and Mary 
(Gamble) Harris, was born November 2, 1776. 
He married Elizabeth , and had issue. 



(\TI) John (4), son of John (3) and Eliz- 
abeth Harris, was born September 12, 1802, 
died January 19, 1872. He was of Orange 
county, New York. He married, January 12. 
1826, Adeline Loomis, born November 18. 
1802, died November 14, 1867. 

(\TII) Oliver Porter, son of John (4) and 
.Vdeline (Loomis) Harris, was born at Mont- 
gomery, Orange county. New York, October 
17, 1837, died May 6, 1898, at Nichols, New 
York. He received his early education in the 
.Xewburg, New York, schools, chose the pro- 
fession of law, entered Albany Law School, 
whence he was graduated, and later admitted 
to the New York state bar. He located in 
Nichols, Tioga county. New York, where he 
practiced his profession. He later became in- 
terested in the wholesale produce business, 
being senior of the firm Harris, De Groat & 
Company. He was an active Republican in 
[lolitics, and, for several years, served as jus- 
tice of the peace. He married, at Yonkers, 
Westchester county, New Y'ork, March 21, 
1867, Harriet Isabel Corsa, born September 18. 
1843, at Montgomery, New York, died June i, 
1882, daughter of Solomon and Elizabeth ( De- 
voe) Corsa, and granddaughter of Andrew 
Corsa, and great-granddaughter of Isaac Corsa. 
Isaac Corsa was born in 1735, died 1822. He 
married Mary Gibbs. Their son, Andrew 
Corsa, married. October 12, 1792, Mary Poole, 
born February 10, 1776, daughter of Solomon 
I'ooie. Their son, Solomon Corsa, was born 
1800, dieil 1 89 1 : married Elizabeth Devoe. 
born March i, 1807, daughter of John and 
granddaughter of John Devoe, born 1733, mar- 
ried 1754. Maria DuBois. John Devoe (2). 
horn P>bruary 5, 1778, married Sarah Weeks, 
born April 13, 1771. Children of Solomon 
and Elizabeth (Devoe) Corsa: Robert, born 
July 31, 1826: Sarah .\nn, died young; Eliza- 
beth, born July 27, 1833; Martha, June 26, 
1836; Matilda, June 26, 1838; Emma, October 
20, 1841 ; Harriet Isabel, .September 18, 1843, 
married Oliver Porter Harris ; John D., Feb- 
ruary 7, 1846; Walton, January 14, 1850. Chil- 
dren of Oliver Porter and Harriet Isabel 
(Corsa) Harris: Nettie May, married Frank 
Ross, child, Nina Frances; Emma Mary, of 
further mention ; Maud Anna, married Alilton 
Johnson, children: Isabel, Harris and Robert; 
Lizzie \'iola, married Dr. Walter Everett, 
child, Oliver Harris. 

(IX) Emma Mary, second daughter of Oli- 
ver Porter and Harriet Isabel (Corsa) Harris, 



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married. May 27, 1890, Dr. Robert L. Louns- 
berry, of Binghamton, New York, their pres- 
ent home. 



Francis Wilson was a native of 
WILSON West Meath, Ireland, and was 

educated and spent his boyhood 
in his native county. He married there, and, 
about 1825, when still a young man, came to 
this country and located in Oneida county. 
New York. After a time he bought a farm at 
Amboy, Oswego county. New York, where he 
followed farming the rest of his days and was 
a useful and respected citizen. He held vari- 
ous offices of trust and responsibility in the 
town, and was an old-line W'hig in politics 
until his party dissolved, afterward being a Re- 
publican. He died in Camden, Oneida county, 
in 1871. He was a communicant of the Prot- 
estant Episcopal church. He married Cath- 
erine Moore, who died at Amboy, in 1854. 
Children: Ann, John, William, Francis, George 
H. (mentioned below), Elizabeth, James, Lucy, 
Samuel and Joseph. 

(II) George H., son of Francis Wilson, was 
born in Amboy, New York, March 21, 1836. 
His early life was spent in farm work on the 
homestead and in the district schools of his 
native town. At the age of seventeen he began 
work as a cooper, and afterward engaged, on 
his own account, in the lumber business, which 
he followed for fifteen years on a large scale 
and with much financial success. In 1871 he 
established a general store at Glenmore, and 
a year later removed to Taberg, Oneida coun- 
ty, where he continued in the same line of 
business, and, for twenty years, was a prosper- 
ous and influential merchant. In the mean- 
time he established a canning factory at Ta- 
berg and built up an extensive business in that 
line; in 1889 he built another canning factory 
at Mexico, and conducted that in connection 
with his other business. In 1902 he came to 
Mexico, and since then has made his home 
in that town. In 1909 he sold an interest in 
his business at both places and retired from 
active labor, devoting himself to the care of 
his property and enjoying some well earned 
leisure. He was one of the reorganizers of 
the First National Bank of Mexico, and has 
been its president since then. In politics he is 
a Republican, and while living in the town of 
Ansville, Oneida county, was elected super- 
visor, and has been a trustee, and, for five 
years, president of the incorporated village of 



Mexico. Mr. Wilson commanils the respect 
and confidence of the entire community, and 
is counted among the leading men of the town. 
Kindly and generous by nature, he has always 
given freely of his means to help the unfor- 
tunate, and contributes generously to the vari- 
ous charitable organizations of the town. He 
is a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal church. 
He married, November 30, 1870, Mrs. Mary 
W. .'Zanders, widow of Lucian Sanders. She 
was born in Berkshire county, Massachusetts. 
A u trust 14, I S3 1, daughter of John and Maria 
(Baldwin) Driggs ; her father was born in 
Berkshire county; her mother, I\Iary (Bald- 
win), was a daughter of James and Mary 
Baldwin, of an old and prominent New Eng- 
land family. James Baldwin was a soldier in 
the revolutionary war, and, for many years, 
was a representative to the Massachusetts gen- 
eral court: two of his sons were soldiers in 
the war of 1812. In 1839, John Driggs, his 
wife and children, came to Oswego county. 
New York, traveling in wagons and sleds, and 
settled first three miles southeast of the town 
of Mexico, removing afterward to Colosse, a 
.small settlement in the town of Mexico, where 
he lived for many vears. The discovery of 
gold drew him to California in 1849. but he 
returned in a short time. Although too old to 
enlist in the civil war, he was active in secur- 
ine recruits and in otherwise supporting the 
Union. Mr. Driges snent his last years on a 
farm, a mile south of the village of Mexico, 
where his wife died in 1867, and he died in 
t88v Mr. and Mrs. Driggs had three chil- 
dren. John. James, and Mary, who married as 
stated above. 



John .Sullivan, a native of 
SLTXIV.AN Ireland, came to this country 
when a young man and locat- 
ed in Fulton, New York. His father and an- 
cestors lived and died in Ireland. For many 
vears he worked in the mills at Fulton and died 
tliere. August 6, 1876. He married Tulia Barry. 
Children: Nellie, married Thomas AIcGovern : 
Tfnnie ; Margaret, married John Goss : Dennis 
M., proprietor of a drug store at Oswego Falls. 
New York : John R., mentioned below. 

John R. Sullivan, son of John Sullivan, was 
born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, Octoljer 10, 
18*12. and, when a voimg child, was brought, 
bv his parents, to Fulton. New York, where he 
was educated in the public schools. At the age 
of sixteen he became a clerk in the dry goods 



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and grocery store of Howe & Dexter, and con- 
tinued with that concern for five years. As 
soon as he was of age he started in business 
on his own account at Oswego Falls. He start- 
ed his present business in Fulton, in i88f), in 
a small store in the Emeny block, on the west 
side. His affairs prospered, and, three years 
later, he erected the handsome and commodious 
building at the corner of West Broadway and 
Second street, and occupied, at first, only the 
ground floor. In a few years, however, he 
added furniture and other departments and 
occupied the entire building, in the meantime, 
trebling his force of clerks. He also organized 
a very efficient and well-equipped delivery serv- 
ice. In the course of time, he found it neces- 
sary to again enlarge his quarters, and, in 1908, 
he erected the furniture annex, a large build- 
ing with five floors and basement, and, in 191 1, 
on account of increasing trade, he added a 
large and well-etjuipped basement in the main 
store. The main floor of the store presents 
the attractive features of the modern depart- 
ment store, showing, on one side, notions, 
men's and women's furnishing goods, jewelry, 
cut glass and other glassware, and underwear, 
on the other, dress goods, table linen, ladies' 
coats and suits, and domestic goods in great 
variety. A balcony is devoted to china and 
glassware, French clocks, novelties and all 
sorts of bric-a-brac. The general and private 
offices of Mr. Sullivan are also on this floor. 
The second floor of the main store is devoted 
to parlor and upholstered furniture, carpets, 
rugs, curtains, shades, pianos and other musi- 
cal instruments and a well-stocked art depart- 
ment. The third floor is also part of the furni- 
ture department, with a well-selected stock of 
dining tables, buffets, sideboards, chairs and 
other furniture ; for the bedroom, iron, brass 
and wooden bed.steads and accessories, dress- 
ers, commodes, chairs, etc. The sewing ma- 
chines are shown on this floor. A feature of 
this jiart of the store is the complete furnish- 
ing of a i)arlor, a dining-room, a library and a 
bedroom, the settings being changed from 
week to week. Mr. Sullivan makes a specialty 
of the Globe- Wernicke sectional book cases 
and modern office equipment. The furniture 
annex is located at the corner of W'est Sec- 
ond and \'oorhees streets. The building is 
forty by fifty-four feet. Here all the goods 
for the furniture department are received by 
freight and made ready for the salesrooms. 
The first floor is a showroom for biiffets.dres.s- 



ers, desks, sideboards and dressing tallies, and 
a great variety is kept in stock. The second 
floor is given up to the bulky material, such as 
mattresses, iron bedsteads, and to the picture 
framing room. Rocking chairs, sofas, couches, 
davenports and similar goods are stored on the 
third floor of the annex, and refrigerators, 
coolers, kitchen cabinets and similar goods on 
the fourth floor. A total of sixteen thousand 
feet of floor space are in use, and this is the 
largest department store in Oswego county, 
and perhaps in northern New York. 

Mr. Sullivan is not only a very successful 
and enterprising merchant, but a citizen ot 
public s])irit and usefulness. He has been 
president of the Chamber of Commerce, is an 
active member of the Boost Club, the name of 
which indicates its public-spirited purposes. 
He is treasurer of the Aluminum Manufactur- 
ing Company, and one of the directors of the 
C^swego County Independent Telephone Com- 
pany. He was appointed postmaster of the 
west side, in 1885. and served four years, and 
again, in 1892, he was appointed and served 
another term of four years. In politics he is 
an influential Democrat, with independent 
ideas. For four years he was town clerk and 
at present is a member of the board of educa- 
tion of Fulton. He is a director of the First 
National Bank, and a trustee of the Fulton Sav- 
ings liank. In religion Mr. Sullivan is a Roman 
Catholic, and a generous supporter of the 
Church of the Immaculate Conception, of 
which he is a communicant. He is a member 
of the Benevolent and Protective Order of 
Elks, the Knights of Columbus, and of the 
Improved Order of Red Men. 

John R. Sullivan married, July 14, 1909. 
Ann M. Satterlee, a native of Provitlence. 
Rhode Island. 



Patrick Bulger was the son of 
Bl'LGER a well-to-do farmer and was 
born in Castle Corner, county 
Queen, in the eastern part of Ireland, August 
17, 1806. He was educated in the schools of 
his native place. In 1844 he, with his wife and 
family and possessions, came to this country 
and made his home in \'olney. Oswego coun- 
ty. New York, where he bought a farm and 
conducted it for a number of years. ?Ie pros- 
pered and became one of the representative 
men of the community, .\bout ten years be- 
fore he died, he sold his farm and sought a 
home for his declining years. He purchased 



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a place on the west bank of the Uswego river, 
about five miles from the city of Oswego, in 
a beautiful location, and since his death the 
property has remained in the possession of his 
family. Here he continued to follow agricul- 
ture and having the skill and the means to ft)l- 
low out his ideas successfully he added ma- 
teriallv to his fortune. lie died August t,. 
1880. ■ 

He married, in his native land. ISridget Mur- 
phy, an accomplished and cultivated young 
woman, who was educated in the excellent 
schools of her native town, and at Dublin 
Seminary. Her fine character and liberal edu- 
cation fitted her admirably for her duties as 
wife and mother and she succeeded in making 
a model home for her family. She died at 
Oswego, October 20. 1879. Children: i. Child, 
tlied in infancy, in Ireland. 2. Patrick F., born 
in Ireland, formerly recorder of the city of 
L'tica, New York. 3. Hon. Charles X., born in 
\'olney. New York, recorder of the city of 
(Jswego for many years. 4. Dr. William James, 
mentioned below. 5. Mary, born in Ireland, 
married Michael Hennessy. of Oswego. New 
York. 

( II ) Dr. William James Bulger, son of I'at- 
rick Bulger, was born in \"olney, near the 
village of Fulton, Oswego county. New York, 
May 28. 1867. In his youth he had all the 
educational advantages possible. He attended 
the public schools of his native town and then 
took a course at Falley Seminary, in Fulton, 
and entered the State Normal School, at Os- 
wego, New York. He decided upon medicine 
for his profession and began to study under 
Dr. Ira L. Jones, of Minetto, New York, and 
afterward continue 1 under the instruction of 
Dr. James A. Milne, of Oswego. In 1879 he 
entered the Long Island College Hospital, of 
I'.rooklxn, where he spent a year. During the 
following year he was a student in the Medical 
School of the Universit)- of Michigan, at Ann 
Arbor. He returned to complete his course in 
the Long Island Hospital, however, and was 
appointed assistant to the noted anatomist. Dr. 
Cardan L. Ford. He received his degree from 
the Long Island College Hospital, June 15. 
1882, exceptionally well equipped for his pro- 
fession. He was admitted to partnershii) by 
his former preceptor at Oswego, Dr. Milne, 
and the medical firm continued with abundant 
success until Dr. Milne retired shortly before 
his death, in 1887. Dr. Bulger rose steadily in 



b.is profession and attained high rank. He be- 
came recognized as one of the most skillful 
surgeons in this section, and no physician is 
held in higher estimation either by patients or 
by the medical fraternity. In later years he 
has been called in consultation in most of the 
cases of peculiar difficulty and his reputation 
has not been confined to this locality. Natur- 
ally a student. Dr. Bulger has not confined his 
researches and reading to medicine and sur- 
gery, but has made natural science of all 
branches a life study. In politics he is a Dem- 
ocrat, and was elected mayor of Oswego in 
1892. While filling that office he was appoint- 
ed collector of customs at port of Oswego, by 
President Cleveland. In religion he is a Roman 
Catholic, member of St. Mary's Catholic 
Church, of Oswego. He is a member of the 
State Medical and County Medical societies, 
and consulting physician to Oswego Hospital. 
He was a member of New York National 
Ciuard, at Oswego, the Forty-eighth Separate 
Lomjianv, and for fifteen years w'as surgeon 
iif the company. At the beginning of the 
Spanish-American war he was appointed, by 
( iovtrnor lilack, surgeon of Third Regiment, 
National f iuard of New York, and retired with 
lank of major. 

He married, August 20. 1883, Mary Cusick, 
born in Oswego, New York, daughter of 
[•"rank and Elizabeth I ding ) Cusick. At the 
time of her marriage ^Irs. Bulger was princi- 
jial of one of the public schools of the city of 
Oswego. Their only child, Charles William, 
b(irn July 13, 1884, died aged fourteen months. 



William McCarthy, born in 
McCarthy Ireland, came to this coun- 
try when a young man and 
made his home in Oswego county. New York. 
He married Sarah Wallace, who was born in 
Scotland, and came, with her family, to New 
\'ork state, when she was a girl. They were 
married in Oswego. Children: William .■\.. 
James IL, John, Margarette, Sarah. Kitty. 

ill) William A., son of William McCarthy, 
was born in Oswego, New York, in 1837. He 
leceived his early education in the public 
schools, and in boyhood began the life of a 
mariner on the Great Lakes, and became a 
master mariner, and, for many years, was 
faiuiliarly known as "Captain McCarthy." He 
commanded many vessels and owned a num- 
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was traveling salesman for the Kingsford 
Starch'Company. He married, in 1862, Nancy 
Maria Hubbard, who was born in 1843, in 
Cummington, Massachusetts, daughter of Sam- 
uel Porter and \'anila (Mitchell) Hubbard. 
Children : Albert F., mentioned below ; Sarah 
Josephine, born in Oswego, married Harry P. 
Penfield, of Oswego county, and resides at 
present at Ridley Park, Pennsylvania ; Will- 
iam N., born in Oswego, in 1871, married 
Jessie Diirey, he is in partnership with his 
brother. 

(HI) Albert F., son of William A. Mc- 
Carthy, was born in Oswego, New York, May 
3, 1863. He received his education in the 
public schools of his native place. After leav- 
ing school he became a salesman in a boot and 
shoe house, engaged in the wholesale trade. In 
1883 he succeeded to the ownership of the 
business, in partnership with Charles North and 
William A. McCarthy, his father, under firm 
name of North, McCarthy & Company, .\bout 
ten years later Mr. North withdrew and the 
firm became A. F. McCarthy & Company, 
composed of A. F. and William A. McCarthy. 
After the death of his father, William A., in 
1908, W^illiam N., his brother, was admitted. 
The firm has a large wholesale trade in leather, 
boots and shoes. Several traveling salesmen 
are kept on the road. Mr. McCarthy was one 
of the promoters of the People's Oil & Fuel 
Company, of Oswego, and is vice-president of 
the company, which has stations at Water- 
town and Clayton, New York ; is a trustee in 
the Oswego County Savings Bank. 

In politics Mr. McCarthy is a Republican. 
He has been active in public affairs for many 
years, and, in 1909, was elected county clerk 
of Oswego county. For eight years he served 
on the fire and police commission of the 
city of Oswego. He is a member of Oswego 
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Os- 
wego. He belongs to Grace Presbyterian 
Church. 

He married. June 16, 1887, Helen \'iola Le- 
Faiver. born in Oswego, May 2, 1864, daugh- 
ter of .Stephen and Esther (Scruton) LeFaiver. 
Children: .Mbcrt Porter, born April 25, 1888; 
E.sther Maria, born October 23, 1896. Albert 
Porter fitted for college in the schools of Os- 
v.ego, and was graduated from Yale, in the class 
of 1910. He is at present in the employ of the 
Suburban Gas Company, of Pennsylvania, as 
a mechanical engineer. 



Redhead is an ancient English 
REDHE.VD surname, derived from the 

name of a locality. Places of 
this name are still found in Forfarshire and 
Orkney, in the British Isles. The name is 
found in the Hundred Rolls, among the oldest 
surnames in the country. Two coats-of-arms 
are given by Burke. One is described: Sable, 
a bend engrailed between two cotises, argent; 
on a canton of the last a saltire, gules. Crest: 
A sinister arm in armor, proper, embowed in 
the gauntlet, a sword point downward, argent, 
hilt and pommel, or, charged above the wrist 
with a crescent of the last. Another and prob- 
ably more ancient one is described : Argent, 
three martlets, sable, a chief, azure. Crest: 
An eagle's head, azure. The family described 
in this sketch was located for some generations 
at Gedney Dyke, Lincolnshire. England. 

(I) Richard Redhead was born at Gedney 
Dyke, Lincolnshire, England, and received his 
education there. He was ordained as a Wes- 
leyan preacher, and, for several years, follow- 
ed his profession in England. In 1840, while 
still a young man, he came to this country, and 
located in Central New York. He was a pas- 
tor of Methodist churches at Waterloo, Bald- 
winsville, Wolcott, Port Byron and Tully, 
Skaneateles, Fulton, Liverpool. Rome, and other 
places in New York state. He married Eliza- 
beth Barker, who was also a native of England. 
Children : Sarah E., died at the age of thirteen 
years ; Nellie, married Samuel Willis, of Tully, 
New York ; Edwin Richard, mentioned below. 

(II) Edwin Richard, son of Rev. Richard 
Redhead, was born in Brownville, Jefferson 
county. New York, January 6, 1851. He at- 
tended the public schools and prepared for 
college at Red Creek and Fairfield seminaries, 
and entered Wesleyan University. Afterward 
he went to Syracuse L^niversity, and was grad- 
uated in the class of 1874, with the degree of 
Bachelor of Arts. He studied law for a time, 
but on account of impaired eyesight gave up 
his professional career and became a travelling 
salesman for the F. G. Weeks Paper Manu- 
facturing Company, of .Skaneateles. In 1880, 
with Mr. F. G. Weeks, he was one of the 
founders of the Victoria Paper Mills Company, 
of Fulton; he became secretary and treasurer 
of the corporation, and since 1891 has been its 
|)resident. Since 1898 he has been president 
of the Citizens' National Bank. He is presi- 
dent of the board of trustees of the Fulton 




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Public Library, and trustee of Syracuse Uni- 
versity, the Cazenovia Seminary, and the 
Thousand Islands Park Association. For the 
past thirty years one of the leading business 
men of Fulton, he has ever taken an active 
part in the development of the city, and in 
promoting its growth and prosperity, giving 
his best etifort to the advancement of all bene- 
ficial improvements. His unselfish support of 
public interests has been frequently given, in 
face of strenuous opposition, but in every 
instance his views and actions have found 
ample vindication in the accomplished results. 
This was fully manifested in the sewage and 
waterworks enterprises, which were closed up 
to the full satisfaction of the entire community. 
He has been active in promoting various im- 
portant industries. He promoted the develop- 
ment of water power at the West End upper 
(lam, and, with JMr. Weeks, organized the Os- 
wego Falls Pulp & Paper Company, and built 
its plant — one of the most important manu- 
factories in all this region, and assisted ma- 
terially in building up the Victoria Paper Alills. 
He was personally the moving spirit in the 
development of industries across the river, at 
the lower dam, devoting to it much of his time 
and capital. For five years he was president 
of the Chamber of Commerce, of Fulton, and, 
during his administration, the act was passed 
to consolidate the villages of Fulton and Os- 
wego Falls, and the project had his hearty 
support. He was one of the original sewer 
commissioners of the city, having charge of 
the installation of the city sewerage system. 
When the question of the city (then a village) 
acquiring ownership of the waterworks was 
brought forward, a citizens' committee of in- 
vestigation was appointed, of which he was 
chairman, the other members being Abram 
Emerick and J. A. Foster. The committee 
made an exhaustive report, and of such con- 
vincing nature that the people voted favorably 
by a strong majority. Their views were amply 
vindicated, the waterworks having proven one 
of the best investments of the city ever made, 
and one which will be liberally productive of 
revenue to the city for years to come. It is 
conceded that Mr. Redhead was the moving 
spirit in this important enterprise. 

Mr. Redhead is a Methodist in religion, a 
trustee of the State Street Methodist Epis- 
copal Church, superintendent of its Sunday 
school, and, in 1892, he was a delegate to the 
General Conference of the Methodist Epis- 



copal Church, at Omaha, Nebraska ; delegate 
to the Ecumenical Conference at London, Eng- 
land, in 1902, and delegate to the General Con- 
ference, at Baltimore, Maryland, in 1908. 

He married, May 25, 1877, Sarah A. Petty, 
daughter of Israel Petty, of Port Byron, New 
York. They have no children. 



Henry Goetcheus, immi- 
GOETCHEUS grant ancestor, was born 

in Germany, in 1767, died 
in East Homer, Cortland county, New York. 
December 26, 1844. With two brothers he 
came to this country, when he was a young 
man, and followed farming. For a time he 
lived in Orange county, New York, then in 
Preble, and finally at East Homer, where he 
spent his last days. He married Nancy Daven- 
port, born in 1778, died in 1866. Children: 
John D., mentioned below ; Beverly ; Andrew ; 

George ; Mekeel ; Morris ; Mary, married 

Fox ; Catherine, married Joseph Case ; Sally, 
married Jefferson Ransom ; Betsey, married 

Rowe. 

(II) John D., son of Henry Goetcheus, was 
born in Orange county, New York, February 
24, 1802. died in Copper Lisle, Broome county, 
New York, May 17, 1886. During most of his 
long life he resided in Chenango and Broome 
counties, New York. For many years he lived 
in German, Chenango county, where he had 
charge of a farm of three hundred acres or 
more. Afterward he removed to L'pper Lisle, 
Broome county, where he spent his last years. 
He married (first), January 5, 1827, Amelia 
Ford, born October 2, 1809, died in 1851, 
daughter of Stephen and Nancy (Preston) 
Ford, of Butternuts, New York. He married 
(second) Hulda (Cotton) Neal, a widow, born 
November 11. 1812. died October 22, 1882. 
Children of first wife: i. Chauncey, born Feb- 
ruary 5, 1828, died March 19, 1907. 2. Amelia 
Jane, August 15, 1830, lives in McGraw, New 
York ; married Mordina Totman, deceased. 3. 
Rosetta, August 24, 1832, died December 15, 
1861 ; married Davis. 4. Harvey, No- 
vember 26. 1834. died March 28. 1906. 5. 
Willard, July 28, 1837, lives at Oakland. Cali- 
fornia. 6. Mary, June 10, 1839, died April 18, 
1906: married Nathaniel Drummond. 7. Frank 
DeWitt, July 15, 1842, lives in Binghamton, 
New York. 8. Eug^ene, August 27, 1846, died 
September 25, 1888. 9. Jerome, mentioned 
below. 10. Emory, November 15, 1850, died 
in infancv. Child of second wife: 11. Hattie, 



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born September 14, 1859, lives in Upper Lisle, 
Xew York ; married Charles Brannan, de- 
ceased. 

(III) Jerome, son of John D. Goetcheus. 
was born in the town of German, Chenangt) 
county. New York, August 26, 1848, and is 
now living in Syracuse, New York. He at- 
tended the public schools of his native town 
and at I'pper Lisle. Broome county. New York. 
For several years he worked at farming in 
Upper Lisle, and was also a carpenter, and. 
during his later years, followed that trade. In 
politics he was a Republican. He married, in 
1872, Ella Burnap, born in German, July 30, 
1855, died March 8. 1891. daughter of William 
and Amanda ( Gidley ) liurnap. Children: 1. 
Ella May, born May 2, 1875; married Nelson 
McKeen, of Binghamton, New York. 2. Cora 
Belle, April 10, 1876. 3. John D., mentioned 
below. 4. George, resides at McGrawville. 
New York. 

(IV) John D. (2), son of Jerome (i) 
Goetcheus, was born in Copper Lisle, Broome 
county. New York, November 26, 1877. His 
early education was received in the public 
schools of his native town. In 1894 he came to 
Cortlandville, and, for three years, was em- 
ployed in the box factory at AIcGraw, where 
he remained for three years. In 1897 he came 
to Cortland and entered the employ of Bing- 
ham & Miller, as clerk in their men's furnish- 
ing store, and, in 1904, was admitted to part- 
nership in the firm. Since then the firm has 
been known as the Bingham & Miller Com- 
pany. Mr. Goetcheus is president of the fam- 
ily association, comprising the descendants of 
Henry Goetcheus, which holds annual reunions 
in this vicinity. In politics he is Republican, 
in religion a Methodist. He married, .\ugust 
30, 1900, Efifa May, daughter of W. P. and 
Ophelia (Morey) Henry, of McGraw, New 
York. Children : Richard R., born May 26. 
1901 ; J. Paul, February 13, 191 1. 



Joshua Chauncey, father of 
CHAUNCEY George G. Chauncey, came 

from Waterford, Ireland. 
and located in Oswego. New York, in 1845. 
He was a ship-builder by trade. He married 
Mary Stannard, of Waterford, Ireland, both 
of whom were members of the Episcopal 
church. Children : William, John, Joshua, 
Julian, Elizabeth. Catherine, Mattie, George 
^"i., mentioned below. 



George G.. son of Joshua Chauncey, was 
born in Oswego, New York, October 7, 1853. 
He was educated in the schools of his native 
town, and, after leaving school, learned teleg- 
raphy, and was ai)pointed train dispatcher for 
the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad 
Company, Oswego, and later took charge of the 
business of the company at Fulton, New York. 
In 1880 he entered the employ of the Denver 
& South Park Construction Company. This 
company was at that time building a railroad 
from Denver, Colorado, to Gunnison City. He 
was in charge of construction work on the Al- 
pine Tunnel, which penetrates the Continental 
Divide, at \\ illiams Pass. Two years later, 
in 1882. he removed to Niagara Falls, where he 
had charge of the Rome, Watertown &Ogdens- 
burg railroad for a period of five years. In 
1887 he returned to Fulton, New York, and 
became treasurer of the Fulton Water Works 
Company, and he was also treastirer of the 
F'ulton Electric Light & Power Com[)any. He 
held this position for twelve years, and, in 
1903, he was elected secretary of the Volney 
Paper Company, and, for six years, was 
active in its management. In 1909 he bought 
the Phoenix Tissue Paper Mill, at Phcenix, 
New York, and is at present engaged in the 
matuifacture of tissue paper. When Fulton 
became a city he was made president of the 
fire anrl police board and organized the police 
department. In 1906-07 he was president of 
the board of public works. He is vice-presi- 
dent of the Fulton Savings Bank. In religion 
he is an E]iiscopalian. and he is a vestryman 
in the Zion I-'piscopal Church, Fulton, New 
York. In 1879 he was appointed, by Governor 
Robinson, aide-de-camp of Sixth Brigade, New 
York National Guard, to the rank of first lieu- 
tenant. In 1880 he was appointed, by Gov- 
ernor Cornell, senior aide-de-camp, to the rank 
of ca]:)tain. He was a member of Company 
G, Fulton, New York National Guard. In 
1882 he married Cora B., daughter of Reuben 
and Ruth Bradshaw, of Fulton, New York. 



John Johnston, son of George 
JOHNSTON and Elizabeth Johnston, wa.s 

born in the north of Ireland. 
He came to this country at the age of seven 
years, with his parents, who located at Fulton, 
New York. He was educated in the public 
schools, and, in early life, was employed in 
the sawmills. In 1861 he enlisted in the Twen- 




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ty-fourth New York Regiment, New York 
Volunteer Infantry, for two years. He reen- 
listed after he was mustered out, and served 
three years more, in the Fifteenth Regiment, 
New York \'okinteer Infantry, and was honor- 
ably discharged at the end of the civil war. 
His last 3-ears were spent in North Dakota, 
where he took up a homestead, and where he 
died in 1903. He married /\nn Doyle. Chil- 
dren: Mary, married John Murphy; George, 
mentioned below ; Elizabeth, married Barney 
r.urns ; Margarita; William, deceased; Nellie. 

George Johnston, son of John Johnston, was 
born at Fulton, New Y'ork, July 23, 1853. 
.\fter a very brief schooling he began to work 
at the age of nine years in Kellogg & Kennedy's 
mill, and, after working one year, when he was 
but ten years old, he was operating a steam 
engine at the match factory of John Foster & 
Company. .Yfter a year and a half with this 
concern he went to the Hitchcock & Blakesley 
Knitting Mill to learn the trade of knitting and 
weaving cotton warp dressing. Air. Johnston 
went to Oswego, New York, in the employ of 
Hart & I-'letcher, until 1867, when he returned 
tc Fulton in the fall, and, for a year, worked 
as porter and bell boy in the Lewis House. 
He then began to learn the trade of copper 
and tinsmith, and became foreman of the shop 
at the age of eighteen years. In February, 
1876, he became the proprietor of the business, 
and, before he was of age, had largely in- 
creased the business and was a prosperous and 
successful business man. Always progressive 
and industrious, his affairs have prospered, and 
he now has one of the largest hardware stores 
in the city of Fulton, and an e.xtensive tin- 
smith business. He is a charter member of the 
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and 
has been treasurer for ten years. He was a 
charter member of Oswego Council, Knights 
of Columbus, but has transferred his member- 
ship to Fidton Council. He is also a member 
of the Improved Order of Red Men ; of the 
Holy Name Society, of Fulton, and a faithful 
communicant of the Catholic church. In poli- 
tics he is a Democrat. 

He married, in 1879, Hannah Sullivan, born 
at Fulton, in 1857, daughter of Thomas and 
Hannah Sullivan. Children, born at Fulton : 
George, died in infancy; William, died aged 
sixteen years; Agnes, died in infancy; Anna, 
married William J. Gillespie; Margarita; Ger- 
trude ; George, who is now a student at the 
Cniversity of Pennsylvania ; Thomas. 



John Wilde .\llen was born in 

.\LLEN London, England, in 1825. What 
little education he had in his 
youth was received in the schools of his native 
land. Early in life he went to work in the 
coal mines in England. Afterward he fol- 
lowed the sea. While still a young man he 
came to Canada and resided in Prince Edward 
county, Ontario. He was a contractor and 
builder there, and afterward a miller. He died 
in 1895. 

He married Elizabeth Smith, in Canada. 
Children : Thomas ; Henry ; Isaac ; Joseph ; 
Jane; Alery; John W. ; William N., who is 
in business in Scranton, Pennsylvania; Reu- 
ben Young, mentioned below. 

Reuben Young .\llen, son of John Wilde 
.\llen, was born in the town of Consecon, 
Prince Edward county.Ontario, Canada, March 
28, 1855. ^^^ attended the schools there, then 
learned the trade of stone mason, becoming ex- 
pert in the cutting and inscription of stone 
monuments and gravestones. He worked for 
some years as journeyman in various places, 
and, in 1882, came to Phoenix, New York. In 
that town, three years later, he started in busi- 
ness for himself, and he has built up a large 
trade in monumental stone work of all kinds. 
Mr. .Mien has taken an active part in public 
affairs, and is a member of the board of trus- 
tees of the incorporated village of Phcenix, 
and one of the sewer commissioners. He is 
director and secretary of the Phcenix Rural 
Cemetery Association. Hs is a member of 
the Citizens' Club, of which he was one of the 
founders, and a member of Golden Rule Lodge, 
No. JJ, Odd Fellows, of which he is past noble 
grand. He is a member of the Congregational 
church. 

He married, in 1883, Harriet E. Share, born 
in Phceni.x, daughter of Samuel and Sarah A. 
Share, of Phceni.x. They have one child. Made- 
line Harriet, born March 25, 1894. 



In 1790, at Branford, New Haven 
SMITH county, Connecticut, there was a 

Dow Smith who had one son over 
si.xteen, three sons under sixteen and six females 
in his family. Other heads of the family there 
were Stephen, James, Isaac, Jordon, Joseph 
and Allen Smith, who were doubtless related 
to each other. Stephen Smith joined the church 
June 25, 1749, and was a deacon for many 
years, until he resigned in 1 77 1. His wife. 



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Margaret Smith, joined the church at Bran- 
ford, in September, 1745. 

(I) Dow Smith was born at Branford, Con- 
necticut, in 1737, and died February 26, 1841, 
aged one hundred and three years eleven 
months twenty-four days. He settled in the 
town of Van Buren, on lot 20, in 1814. He 
served in the revolution. On page 19, vol. viii. 
Connecticut Historical Records, Dow Smith is 
recorded as serving under Captain Isaac Cook, 
Continental Regiment, 1775. He also was in 
Captain Davis' company. Colonel Charles Bur- 
rell's regiment, in 1776, and is named on the 
pay roll. He had two sons — Augustus and 
Robert. 

(II) Augustus, son of Dow Smith, was born 
near New Haven, Connecticut, October 11, 
1802, and was brought to \'an Buren by his 
parents in 1802. He was a shoemaker by 
trade, but later was engaged in farming. He 
married Martha Howe (first) and (second) 
Julia A. Peckham. Children by first wife: 
Ann E., who married L. E. Warner ; .A^bigail, 
married John J. Hopkins ; Sarah J., married 
William Carj^enter; Martha, died in 1851; 
Maynard ; Miles, mentioned below. 

(HI) Miles, son of Augustus Smith, was 
born in \'an Buren, New York, June 10, 1828. 
By trade he was a millwright until 1878, when 
he and his son took up the furniture and 
undertaking business at Baldwinsville, New 
York. He was trustee of the village and high- 
way commissioner. In religion he is a Meth- 
odist, attending the Methodist Episcopal church. 
He is a member of Mohegan Lodge, No. 29, 
Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He mar- 
ried Jane M. Fuller. Children: Cora I., mar- 
ried John I. \'an Ness; M. Homer, mentioned 
below. 

(I\') M. Homer, son of Miles Smith, was 
was born in \'an Buren, New York, Septem- 
ber 20, 1856. He received his education in the 
public schools of Baldwinsville. He then work- 
ed for one year as clerk in the post office, after 
which he remained with Downer & Company, 
as clerk for four years. In October, 1878, he 
bought the furniture and undertaking business, 
which he ke])t up initil a few years ago, when 
he closed out the furniture business. .\'ow he 
is the leading midertaker of Baldwinsville, 
New York. In religion he is a Methodist, in 
politics a Republican. He was a member of 
the school board for eight years, and town 
clerk for nine years. He is a member of Seneca 



River Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ; 
Riverside Chapter, Royal Arch Alasons, and 
of the Masonic Club. 

In 1882 he married Phebe A. Schofield, of 
Saratoga, New York. Children : Edna A., 
married J. W. Smith ; Clarence H. ; Windsor C. 



Matthew Woodruff, immi- 
WOODRUFF grant ancestor, was born in 
England, and settled early 
at Hartford, Connecticut. He removed to 
Farmington in 1640-41, and died there about 
1662, at an advanced age. His will becjueaths 
to his wife, three sons and a daughter Hannah, 
wife of Richard Se\inour Jr., and the court 
added to these the name of another daughter, 
Elizabeth, wife of John Broughtoi'. of North- 
ampton, Massachusetts. Matthew Woodruff 
was one of the eighty-four proprietors of 
Farmington Church, April 2, 1654. Children: 
John, born 1643; Matthew, 1646; Hannah, 
1648; Elizabeth, 1651 ; Mary, November 5. 
1654, died young: Samuel, mentioned below. 

(II) Samuel, son of Matthew Woodruff, 
was born at Farmington, August 26, 1661. He 
married, in 1686, Rebecca, daughter of John 
Clark. She died August 4, 1737, aged seventy- J 
five years. In 1698 they located in the western I 
part of Farmington, afterward called South- 
ington, of which he was the first white settler. 
He was a man of great size and strength and 
excellent disposition. He died January 8, 1742. 
Children, born at Farmington : Samuel, Janu- 
ary 20, 1686-87 ; Jonathan, November 30, 1688 ; 
Rebecca, February 4, 1690-91 ; Ruth, Febru- 
ary 13, 1692: Ebenezer, December 27, 1694; 
Daniel, November 2. 1696; David, February 
27, 1698-99; Hezekiah, August 9, 1701 ; Rachel, 
November 2, 1703 ; .-Xbigail, February 26, 1705- 
06; John, mentioned below; Rede, 1710. 

(HI) John, son of Samuel Woodruff, was 
born at Farmington, .April 5, 1708. He lived 
in what is now Southington, near the Adna 
Neal house and afterward on West street. He 
died October 17, 1794, being killed by a fall. 
He married (first), August 11, 1729, Eunice 
Wiard. who died May 7, 1761. He married 
(second) .Abigail Ives. Children, born at 
.Southington: Sarah, born September 10, 1730; 
John, October 18, 1732; Russel, mentioned 
below; Jesse, baptized March 12, 1738, mar- 
ried Mygatt, of Berlin, and removed 

to W'atertown, Connecticut; John, baptized 
June 15, 1740; Eunice, baptized February 12. 




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1743; Timothy, baptized December 5, 1745, 
removed to Burlington; Lucy, baptized May 
10, 1752. 

(I\ ) Russel, son of John \\ cwdruff, was 
baptized at Southington, July 13. 1735. He 
removed to Burlington, Connecticut. Accord- 
ing to the census of 1790 lie was living at 
Berlin, Hartford county, a town adjoining 
Southington, and had no family. The other 
heads of family of this surname in that town, 
doubtless his sons, were: Roswell. mentioned 
below : Selah, who had no family : Amos, who 
had two sons under si.xteen years and five fe- 
males : Gad, had a son under sixteen and one 
female. 

(\') Roswell, son of Russel Woodruff, ac- 
cording to the best evidence at hanfl, and as 
■'hown by the census, certainly of this family, 
was born probably at Ikirlington, Connecticut. 
May 10, 1763. He settled in the town of Le- 
roy, Xew York, at Sanford Corners, in 1804, 
and died in 1830. He married Lois Patter- 
son. Children: i. Daughter, died young. 2. 
Xorman, mentioned below. 3. Xorris. born 
.September 7. 1792. died June 4. 1828; mar- 
ried Lucy Houghton, and had children : i. Lois 
P., born 1821 (now living), married Howell 
Cooper, of Watertown, Xew York; ii. Marie 
D., deceased, married Pierceon Mundy, of 
Watertown. Xew York; iii. Emma A., mar- 
ried Henry Keep, southern railroad magnate, 
afterward Judge Schley, of Xew York City 
I deceased) ; iv. Mary il.. married Henry Cad- 
well, of Erie, Pennsylvania (deceased) ; v. 
Xorman W.. unmarried, died at age of twenty- 
five years; vi. Sarah ^L, married Roswell P. 
Flower, late governor of the state of New- 
York, died 1910; vii. Horace W. ; viii. Fred- 
rick B. ; i.\. .Abbie A., married e.x-Lieutenant- 
( lovernor Allen C. Beach. 

fVI ) Xorman. son of Russel and Lois (Pat- 
terson) Woodruff, was born April 20. 1789. 
died June 4. 1828. He married Lucy Hough- 
ton, and had children : George W., mentioned 
below ; Charles, born April 18, 1817, died June 
4, 1893; Pitt ^L, born January 23, 1823, now 
livin?-. 

(VII) George W., son of Xorman and Lucy 
I Houghton) \\'oodrufif. was born July 19. 
1815. in Jefferson county. X'ew York, died 
November 30, 1893. He married (first) Mar- 
tha Truax. born October 29. 1816. and (sec- 
ond ^ Mary C. Salisbury, who died in 1906. 
Children of first wife: i. Cornelia H., born 
June 29. 1842, married Edward Snell, died Oc- 



tober 4. 1867. 2. Nancy, born July 29, 1845, 
married Dempster D. Taggart, 1862, died Oc- 
tober 13, 1868. 3. Xorman W., twnn of Xancy. 
mentioned below. 

( \TII) Xorman W.. son of (ieorge W. and 
Martha (Truax) Woodruff, was born in 
Theresa. Jefferson county, Xew York, July 29, 
1845. He received his early education in the 
public schools and at Falley Seminary, Fulton, 
Xew York, and at the Eastman Business Col- 
lege, at Poughkeepsie. After leaving school he 
engaged for several years on the old homestead 
in Theresa. In 1875 he came to Mexico, Os- 
wego county, Xew York, and established a 
retail grocery store, which he conducted with 
uniform success for a period of twenty-five 
years. With his surplus capital he made ex- 
tensive investments in western real estate, and 
after he retired from the grocery business he 
devoted his attention e.xclusively to real estate 
and became a large operator both in New York 
and the west. His judgment was good and his 
investments turned out well. At the time of 
his death he possessed a large fortune. He 
was handicapped, moreover, by loss of hear- 
ing, but he had the assistance of a very cap- 
able wife, who kept his books while he was in 
the grocery business and became familiar with 
every detail of his real estate o])erations, so 
that after his death she was able not only to 
care for the property wisely, but she added to 
it materially. He attended the Presbyterian 
church, and contributed largely to its benev- 
olences. In politics he w-as a Democrat. He 
died at Mexico, December 18, 1908. He mar- 
ried. June I, 1881. Margaret M., adopted 
daughter of Abram and Jemima (Townsend) 
Hadley. who were respected citizens of Mex- 
ico. Mr. and Mrs. Woodruff had one son. 
George Norman, born April 25, 1894, a grad- 
uate of the Me.xico Academy, class of 191 1, 
and entered the Dr. Holbrook preparatory 
school, at Ossinning, Xew York, September 
23. 191 1. 



The Irwin family is of ancient 

IRW IX Irish ancestry, whose family seat 

for many generations was at Rox- 

borough. county Roscommon. Ireland. In 

1638 the family estate was sold and has since 

remained out of possession of the family. 

(I) Captain William Arthur Irwin held a 
commission in the Xinety-third Regiment, in 
the British army. He married Elizabeth 
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croft, an estate in county Norfolk, near county 
Suffolk, England. They had three sons: i. 
William James, mentioned below. 2. Arthur 
Leighton, a wrangler and fellow of Cains Col- 
lege, Cambridge University, England, who at 
the time of his death was principal of the Dio- 
cesan College, at Madras. India. 3. Henry 
Offley, graduate of Pembroke College, Cam- 
bridge University, where he took honors in a 
mathematical tripos: at the time of his death 
was rector of Hagley, Tasmania. 

(II) William James, son of Captain Will- 
iam Arthur Irwin, was educated at Cambridge 
University (A. M.) ; was head master of the 
Grammar School, at Kingston, Canada. He 
married Selina Maria, eldest daughter of 
Chamberlin William \\'alker, LL. D., of Trin- 
ity College, Dublin. Children : William Henry ; 

— ■ , married Dr. John McCarthy : Chere, 

married a Mr. Cameron ; Annie, marrietl James 
MacKridge; Arthur C, mentioned below. 

(III) Dr. Arthur Chamberlin Irwin, son of 
William James Irwin, was born on the Isle 
of Guernsey, in the English Channel, April 23, 
1843. He was educated at the Kingston Gram- 
mar School, of which his father was principal, 
and at Queen's University, where he studied 
medicine. After he graduated from the med- 
ical school of Queen's University he settled 
at Wolfe's Island to practice his profession, 
and he remained there until 1880, when he re- 
moved to the city of Kingston and resumed 
practice in that city. Both as a citizen and as 
a i^hysician he was very popular, and as a 
teacher he is held in the highest regard both 
by students and fellow-instructors. He was 
professor of medical jurisprudence and sani- 
tary science and clinical medicine in the Royal 
College of Physicians and Surgeons, at Kings- 
ton, Ontario, in Canada. He has been vice- 
president of the Ontario Medical Association 
(in 1883), and he was alderman of the city 
of Kingston in 1885-86. Dr. Irwin has been 
a Free Mason since 1874. He is a communi- 
cant of the Church of England. In politics he 
is a Liberal. 

He married Marion A. Murray, of Kings- 
ton, Ontario, Canada. Children : Lulu, wife of 
K. Cameron : Dr. .Arthur W., mentioned below ; 
Annie : Chere. 

(IV) Dr. Arthur W. Irwin, son of Dr. 
Arthur Chamberlin Irwin, was born in Kings- 
ton, Ontario, Canada, August 31, 1875. He 
attended the Kingston Collegiate Institute and 
Queen's L^niversity, from which he was grad- 



uated in 1896, with the degree of M. D. He 
began to practice medicine at Marysville, On- 
tario, and remained there for nearly a year. 
Since 1900 he has been in active general prac- 
tice at Oswego, New York. He is a skillful 
surgeon, and has been particularly successful 
in this branch of his profession. He is a mem- 
ber of County and State Medical societies. In 
religion he is an Episcopalian. He is a Free 
Mason and member of the Improved Order of 
Red Men, of Oswego. 

He married, in 1900, Stella P. Emmett, born 
.August 31, 1880, at St. Catherine's, Ontario, 
daughter of Maitland Emmett, a railroad engi- 
neer. Children : Chere Irene, born in Oswego. 
October 31, 1901 ; Arthur Emmett, born at 
Oswego, April 22, 1907. 

Charles H. Calisch was born in 
CALISCH 1824, in Denmark, and came to 

this country in i860, locating 
at first in Xew York City, and afterward in 
Jersey City, New Jersey. During most of his 
active life he was a tobacco broker. He died 
in Xew York City, in 1894. He married Se- 
villia Gunst, born in Denmark. Children: i. 
.Albert G., born in Denmark, resides in Mon- 
toya. New Mexico. 2. Harry, born in New 
York City, resides in Chicago, Illionis. 3. 
Marion H., born in New ^'ork City, married 
Giarles Carlisle, resides in Xew York City, a 
widow. 4. Louis, born in Xew York City, died 
aged twenty-seven. 5. Julius, born in Hobo- 
ken, Xew Jersey, resides at Buffalo, New 
York, the general manager of the Buffalo & 
Lake Erie Traction Company. 6. Dr. Alex- 
ander C, mentioned below. 7. Serina, born in 
Hoboken, New Jersey, married Xate Heilbrun : 
resides in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

(II) Dr. -Alexander C. Calisch, son of Charles 
H. Calisch, was born in Jersey City, Xew Jer- 
sev, January 29, 1871. He attended the ])ublic 
schools and graduated from the HolK>ken high 
school, in 1886. He then entered the New 
York Homoeopathic Medical College and Flow- 
er Hospital, of New York City, receiving his de- 
gree in i8gi. He was appointed house phy- 
sician at the Albany City Homoeopathic Hos- 
pital, and served six months. During the next 
year he was house physician and surgeon at 
Ward's Island Hospital, and afterwards was 
physician and surgeon at the Five Points 
House of Industry, of New York City, for 
nine months. Since 1893 he has been in gen- 
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and at Oswego, whither he came in 1898. He 
enjoys a large and growing practice in that 
city. 

He is a member of the Oswego Academy of 
Medicine ; the Oswego County AIe<hcal Soci- 
ety, of which he is vice-president, the first 
homcEopath ever elected to that office ; mem- 
ber of the Xew York State Homoeopathic 
Medical Society, of which he is one of the 
censors ; member of the New York State ]\Ied- 
ical Society. He is visiting physician and as- 
sistant surgeon of the Oswego Hospital. He 
was assistant surgeon, with the rank of first 
lieutenant, in the National Guard'of the State 
of Xew York. He is captain of the Uniform- 
ed Order of Knights of Pythias; member of 
the Elks, Independent Order of Foresters, the 
Columbia Club, Fortnightly Club and Yacht 
Club. In jiolitics he is a Democrat and was 
elected for three years coroner of Schoharie 
county. New York. 

He married, October 21, 1896, at Johnstown, 
New York, Lena Richheimer, born at Johns- 
town, December 5, 1873, <laughter of Joseph 
and Henrietta Richheimer. Dr. and Mrs. Ca- 
lisch have no children. 



William Heagerty was a na- 
il EAGERTY tive of Ballylongford, Ire- 
land. In 1 85 1 he came to 
this country, with his family, at the time of 
the great emigration caused by the famine in 
Ireland. He landed at Quebec and came to 
Dunkirk, New York, where he found employ- 
ment in the railroad business, and became fore- 
man of his section. He died in 1869. He 
married in Ireland, and had seven children. 

(II) Jeremiah, son of William Heagerty, 
was born in Ballylongford, Ireland, Novem- 
ber I, 1845, 3"d came to this country, with his 
father, when he was six years old. The family 
came to Buffalo, New York, from Quebec, 
where they first landed, and located finally at 
Dunkirk, New York. He attended the public 
schools at Dunkirk, but at the age of ten years 
he began to work for a living as water boy for 
the section hands on the railroad at Dunkirk. 
At the age of sixteen he entered the employ of 
L. L. Hyde, for whom he worked for five 
years. He entered the employ of the Mer- 
chants' Union E.xpress Company, December 
10, 1866, and continued for two years, leaving 
to accept a position with the American Express 
Company, in the service between Buffalo and 
Albany. After five years in this position he 



accepted the agency of the Wescott Express 
Company. In 1871 he started in business on 
his own account in Oswego, in a fruit and con- 
fectionery store. His business flourished and 
he is one of the leaders in this line of business 
in the city of Oswego. He has a cold storage 
plant in Oswego, with a capacity of fifteen 
thousand barrels, erected in 1894, and the only 
plant of its kind in the city of Oswego. In 
recent years the capacity of the building has 
been tested to its limits. 

He is a member of the Elks, of Oswego; of 
the Knights of Columbus ; of the Catholic 
Men's Benevolent Association. In politics he 
is independent. He is a communicant of St. 
Mary's Roman Catholic Church. For two 
years he filled the office of commissioner of 
public works, and was chairman of the board. 
Mr. Heagerty is a citizen of public spirit and 
substantial worth, of liberal views, upright, 
industrious, enterprising, and highly respected 
by his townsmen. His career is another fine 
illustration of the success in life of those who 
start with no advantages. He is a typical self- 
made man. 

He married (first), in August, 1867, Mary 
Donovan, who was born in Ireland, in 1845, 
died in 1888. He married (second) Elizabeth 
Hickey, born in Sterling, New York, daugh- 
ter of Mr. and Mrs. John Hickey. Children 
of first wife: Catherine V., born in Dunkirk. 
1869; W'illiam J., born in Syracuse, 1871 ; 
Margaret, born in Oswego, 1873; Helen, born 
in Oswego, 1875; Jeremiah, born in Oswego, 
1879. Child by second wife: J. J., born De- 
cember 16, 1895. 



Ca]3tain John I'arson^ was born 
PARSONS in Yarmouth, England, in 1831. 

and received his schooling in 
his native place. Early in life he began to fol- 
low the sea, and, after he came to this country 
in 1850 he was a mariner on the Great Lakes, 
rising to the rank of master mariner, and hav- 
ing command of several vessels in succession 
and numerous steamers, engaged in trade on 
the lakes. Most of his active years were spent 
on the upper lakes. He retired a few years 
ago. In politics he is a Republican, and in 
religion a Methodist. He married, January 4, 
i860, Eliza McAuley, who was born in Os- 
vvego, New York, in 1843. Children : Fannie, 
died in 1880; Nellie E., married Charles S. 
Wright, and resides at Oswego : John S., men- 
tioned below ; .'X.nna M., married George H. 



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Hunt, and resides at Oswego ; Minnie R., mar- 
ried Fred C. Westfall, and resides at Niagara 
Falls. New York; Lizzie, died in 1885. 

(II) John S., son of Captain John Parsons, 
was born in Oswego, New York, December 25, 
1864. He attended the public schools of his 
native town until the age of sixteen years, 
when he began work as office boy for B. C. 
Frost, commission merchant, and continued in 
his employ until August 14, 1881. From that 
time until 1890 he was in the employ of Daniel 
Lyon & Son, ship chandlers. He succeeded to 
the business, after the death of his employers, 
in 1890, and has continued it to the present 
time, with uninterrupted success. It is the 
only house in this line of business in the city 
of Oswego. Mr. Parsons is also collector of 
customs for the port of Oswego, an office to 
which he was appointed by President Taft. in 
January, 1910. He is a prominent and influ- 
ential Republican. He was elected alderman 
of the city in 1888. In 1905 he was chosen 
police and fire commissioner, and, at the end 
of his term in 1909, was reelected. In 1907 he 
was elected county clerk for three years. He 
was a deputy compiler for the constitutional 
convention in 1894. For the past twenty years 
he has been a member of the county committee 
of the Republican party. 

He is a member of the Frontier City Lodge, 
Free and -A.ccepted Masons, of which he is 
treasurer; of Lake Ontario Chapter, Royal 
Arch Masons; of Lake Ontario Commandery, 
Knights Templar ; of Media Temple. Mystic 
.Shrine ; of Oswego Lodge, Benevolent and 
Protective Order of Elks; the Oswego Yacht 
Club ; the City Club, of which he is also treas- 
urer, and the Fortnightly Club. He is an 
active member and treasurer of the Oswego 
Chamber of Commerce. His business career 
has demonstrated unusual ability, persistence 
and enterprise on his part, and his success is 
<lue entirely to his own efforts and cajiacity. 
He holds a leading position in the business 
world and the respect of the entire community. 

He married, February 14, 1902, Cora Cap- 
run, born in ilion. New York, daughter of 
Charles and Mary (Jones) Capron. She is a 
graduate of the ()svvego State Normal School. 
She is a descendant of revolutionary stock and 
regent of Fort Oswego Chapter, Daughters of 
the American Revolution, also president of the 
Winter Club. Mr. and Mrs. Parsons have no 
children. 



John Wright, the immigrant 

WRIGHT ancestor, was a native of Eng- 
land. He settled at Whitehall, 
New York. 

(II) John Bradley, son of John Wright, 
was born at Whitehall, New York. He was 
education in the public schools of his native 
town. About 1870 he removed to Van Buren, 
New York, where he has followed farming. 
In politics he is a Republican, and in religion 
a Methodist. He married Harriet Cornell, 
daughter of Abner and Mary Cornell. Chil- 
dren : James K., mentioned below ; Carl C. ; 
three who died in infancy. 

(HI) James Kent Wright, LL. B., son of 
John Bradley Wright, was born in \'an Buren. 
Onondaga county. New York. November 14. 
1880. He attended the public schools and the 
Baldwinsville high school, and studied law at 
L'nion College. .Albany, New York, graduating 
in 1903, with the degree of LL. B. In the 
same year that he graduated he was admitted 
to the bar. Since 1905 he has had a law office 
at Baldwinsville. and he is also a partner in the 
law firm of Alosher, Wright & Bennett, Uni- 
versity Block, Syracuse, New York. He was 
elected justice of the peace in the town of \^an 
Buren in 190,^. serving four years. In 1910 he 
was chosen village attorney. In 1908 he was 
admitted to practice in the L'nited States dis- 
trict and circuit courts. He is a member of 
the New York State Bar Association ; Syra- 
cuse Lodge of Elks, No. 31 ; Seneca River 
Lodge. Free and Accepted Masons; Riverside 
Chapter. Royal .Arch Masons ; Mohegan Lodge, 
Independent Order of Odd Fellows. No. 29 ; 
and is treasurer of the Odd Fellows Temple 
Association ; and the Modern Woodmen of 
America. He is a member of the First Meth- 
odist Church, of Baldwinsville. In politics he 
is a Republican. 

He married. May 26. 1903. Hazel Belle Wid- 
rig, born in Baldwinsville, New York, daugh- 
ter of Jackson and Betsey (White) W'drig. 
They have one child. Norma Harriet, born 
.April 12. 1905. 



Most of the colonial families of 
SNELL the name of Snell. and probably 

all of them, are descended from 
John Snell. who came from England to Wey- 
mouth, Massachusetts. He was a shipwright 
of Boston. His wife Philippa died there, and 
he married (second) Hannah, daughter of 



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James Smith, of Weymouth. Me died Novem- 
ber 2"], 1658, leaving a will in which he be- 
queaths to wife Hannah and four children; 
son John to be brouglu up by his father-in- 
law, James Smith, and niotiier-in-law (parents 
of Snell's second wife), Joan Smith; Susanna 
and youngest daughter Jane by wife; Hannah 
by his master and by Mrs. Timothy Front, Sen. ; 
money to be sent to his brother Symon Snell, 
of London, England. Children : Susanna, born 
June 21, 1659; Anna, January 2, 1661 ; John, 
October 9, 1663 ; Philippa, October 10, 1663 ; 
Simon, August 29, 1667. Descendants have 
been numerous in Weymouth, Bridgewater and 
vicinity, and in Ware and North Brookfield, 
Massachusetts. 

Tiie relationship of the Mohawk Valley Snells 
has not been established, on account of de- 
ficiencies in records. It is known that the 
Snell family came before the revolution, and 
had a grant of three thousand acres of land, 
near what is now Little Falls, then Tryon 
county, now Herkimer county, in the Mohawk 
valley. Mve generations have lived on this 
original grant, and the name is still common 
in that section. The family was numerous in 
revolutionary days. In the Second Regiment 
of Tryon county, New York, Colonel Jacob 
Klock, we find in the revolution, Adam, Hanckl, 
Hanyost, Jacob, Jacob Frederick, John, John 
Jr., John F., John J., John P., Nocholas, Peter, 
Selfrinus, Thomas Jacob; Nicholas and Jacob 
were heads of families in 1790, and also John, 
John J., and John S. Snell, all of Palatine 
town. New York. The names indicate that the 
family had Dutch blood in its veins, perhaps 
by intermarriage with the Palatines of the 
Mohawk valley. According to the family tra- 
ditions there were nine brothers among the an- 
cestors from Snell Bush, under General Herki- 
mer, at the battle of Oriskany, in the revo- 
lution. The record appears to corroborate 
this tradition, though the exact names are not 
known. 

(I) Stephen Snell, doubtless a descendant 
of the Mohawk valley pioneers, mentioned 
above, lived at New Haven, Oswego county. 
New York. 

(II) Orville H., son of Stephen Snell, was 
born in New Haven, New York, in 1832. He 
was educated in the public schools of his native 
town, and learned the trade of cooper. In 
later years he followed farming. He married 
Betsey, daughter of Nathaniel Ball. Children, 
born in \'olney. New York : William ; Lewis ; 



Effie ; Harold ; Edith, married Charles E. Davis ; 
John Elmer, mentioned below. 

(Ill) John Elmer.son of Orville H. Snell, was 
born in Volney, Oswego county, New York, June 
24, 1872, and was educated in the public and 
high schools of Fulton, New York. He learn- 
ed the business of manufacturing cheese and 
butter, and, in April, 1895, started at Baldwins- 
ville the largest creamery in the town of Ly- 
sander, as a partner in the firm of Garrett iJt 
Snell. The firm has been highly prosperous. 
I\Ir. Snell is also president of the Farmers' 
Implement & Lumber Company, and president 
of the Odd Fellows Temple Association. In 
politics he is an independent, and, at the pres- 
ent time, is a trustee of the incorporated village 
of Baldwinsville. In religion he is a Meth- 
odist. He is a member of the Modern Wood- 
men of America, and has held, in succession, 
all the offices in his lodge. He is colonel of 
the Second Regiment of Patriarchs Militant. 
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and, for 
the past eleven years, has been delegate to the 
Grand Lodge of the state. 

He married, April 26, 1893, Cora AI. Gard- 
ner, born May 30, 1871, daughter of Sands D. 
Gardner, of Fulton. They have no children. 



Peter Carr was born on Long Is- 
CARR land, about 1766. His father was 
a native of Germany, and the name 
is also spelled Karr. Peter Carr removed to 
Orange county. New York, and died there, 
about 1836. Children: Peter; David, men- 
tioned below ; William ; Fannie, and Elizabeth. 
(II) David, son of Peter Carr, was born on 
Long Island, before 1800, and came, with his 
parents, to Orange county. New York. In 
1850 he settled in Cortlandville, New York, on 
a farm of one hundred and forty-one acres, 
now or lately owned by C. Travis. Mr. Carr 
built a frame house and barn and planted one 
of the largest apple orchards in this section, 
and, before his death, had improved his farm 
to such an extent that it was one of the most 
valuable and productive of its size in the coun- 
ty. He sold it and bought another, consisting 
of one hundred and six acres, which his son 
William afterward owned. He also bought 
the farm of C. Coles, in Cortlandville. He 
was a well-to-do, progressive and enterprising 
farmer, and a useful citizen. He served in the 
war of 1812, and took part in various battles. 
He died at Cortlandville, aged about eighty- 
four years. 



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He married Azubah Curwin, born in 1800, 
died aged eighty-six, daughter of Peter Cor- 
win. Her father was born in 1762, and bap- 
tized at Aquebogue, Long Island, July 22, 1764, 
died September 30, 1850. He married, April 
I, 1787, Jemima Young, born June 30, 1766, 
died June 23, 1850. Peter Corwin removed 
to (kishen, Xcw York, before 1793. His chil- 
dren were: Elizabeth H., Israel Y., Azubah. 
Lucetta and Mary Corwin. Children of David 
and Azubah (Corwin) Carr : Israel Y., men- 
tioned below ; William, born June 27, 1824, a 
farmer of Cortlandville and McGraw. married 
.\nn Eliza, daughter of Jefferson Ransom ; 
Elizabeth, married Adolphus Barker, of East 
Freetown ; Clarissa Jane, married Ransom Mc- 
Elhcney : Azubah; David; Peter; Corwin; 
Hiram. 

(HI) Israel Young, son of David Carr, was 
born in Goshen, Orange county. New York, in 
1822 ; died in Charles City, Iowa, September 
7, 1891. He was educated in the public schools. 
and, when a young man, came to Cortlandville. 
where he lived during the greater part of his 
active life. In his younger days he followed 
farming, and afterward was owner of the 
Cortland flouring mill, now the W'ickwire Roller 
Mills, for a number of years. His last year* 
were spent at the home of his daughter, in 
Charles City, Iowa. In politics he was a Re- 
publican, in religion a Presbyterian. He mar- 
ried Margaret Rowe, of Homer, New York, 
born in 1823, died January 18, 1896. Children: 
Delmar William, mentioned below : Cassius M., 
deceased ; Eugene, a farmer at Charles City, 
Iowa, married Julia Ayers ; Florence L., mar- 
ried M. S. Wilson (deceased), and resides in 
Charles City. 

(IV) Delmar William, son of l.srael Young 
Carr, was born in Cortlandville, New York, 
November 13, 1844.. He was educated in the 
public schools of his native town, and at Caz- 
enovia Seminary. For many years he was in 
the dry goods business in Cortland. In recent 
years, however, he has been a traveling sales- 
man, and connected with the Empire Corset 
Company, of McGraw, New York. In politics 
he is a Republican, in religion a Presbyterian. 
He married, January 15, 1867, .-Xnnie Car- 
son, a native of .\rmagh, Ireland, daughter of 
Thomas and Sarah (Carson) Carson. Chil- 
dren: I. Margaret Ursula, born April 5, 1868; 
married Charles P.. Gray, of Newark, New 
Jersey, a manufacturer of jewelry; children: 
Margaret .Anna Gray, born March 6, 1890, 



married Harold Logan ; Henry Judd Gray, 
born July 8, 1892. 2. Frederick Delmar, born 
October 6, 1874, manager of a hardware firm 
in Elizabeth, New Jersey; married Josephine 
\'a-n Denburg, of Clyde, New York ; child — 
Catherine Josephine, born September 28, 1903. 



William Allen, progenitor of the 
ALLEN Rhode Island families of his sur- 
name, was born in England, and 
settled in Portsmouth, Rhode Island (Prudence 
Island), as early as 1670. He married Eliza- 
beth . He and James Greene Sr. were 

apjKiinted messengers to carry a letter from 
the Rhode Island general assembly to Gov- 
ernor Cranfield, of New Hampshire, August 
21, 1683. His will was dated June 2, 1685, 
jiroved June 29, 1685. His wife died in the 
same year. Children: Mary ; William, of Ports- 
mouth ; Thomas, of Swanzey ; John, born Oc- 
tober 26, 1670, died March 30, 1747, lived at 
North Kingston, Rhode Island ; JMatthew, No- 
vember 20, 1675, lived at Portsmouth, War- 
wick and North Kingston; Mercy; Sarah. The 
family was prolific, each having a large family, 
and the descendants in Rhode Island and all 
parts of the country have been very numerous. 
A descendant of William .Allen came to Madi- 
son county, New York, and settled, not long 
after the revolution, among the pioneers of 
that section. 

(I) George E. .Allen, a descendant of Will- 
iam Allen, was a farmer of Aladison county. 
New York. He married, and among his chil- 
dren was John Milton. 

(II) John Milton, son of George E. Allen, 
was born in the town of Lenox. Madison 
county. New York, in 1835. He attended the 
j)ublic schools, worked on his father's farm in 
boyhood, afterward taught school in the winter 
terms, and followed farming the remainder of 
the year. He married Hattie V., daughter 
of Truman Look. Children : George ; John ; 
Charles Milton, mentioned below. 

(HI) Charles ;\Iilton, son of John Milton 
.Allen, was born in Lenox, Madison county. 
New York, October 2, 1859. He was educated 
there in the public schools. He has been en- 
gaged in manufacturing all his active life. 
Since 1885 he has resided at Fulton, where he 
has a large factory, devoted to the making of 
e.vcelsior and butter tubs. He is counted among 
the most progressive and representative busi- 
ness men of the town, and is a useful and pub- 
lic-spirited citizen. He married, 1890, Mary, 




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daughter of \\ . R. Hamilton, of Providence, 
[■ihode Island. Children: Ronald H., a student 
in Harvard College: Charles ^lilton Jr., asso- 
ciated in business with his father : Zulma : 
Lloytl L. 



The Garrison family is of an- 
GARRISOX cient English origin, though 

some of this name, including 
many of the New York families, are descended 
from Gerritt (ierritson. of Staten Island, and 
Hergen. Xew Jersey, who was born in W'agen- 
ingen, Xetherlands, and died at Staten Island, 
in 1725. He came to this country in 1658. 
aged about twenty-five, in the ship "Gilded 
Deaver." He married Anna Ilermansse, and 
had nine sons. He appears to have returned 
to Holland soon, and to have come again in 
December, 1659, with Jan Gerritson. Wouter 
and Stofifel Gerritson came in February, 1659. 
In 1790 the first federal census shows the 
( iarrison family well distributed throughout 
Xew York state, no less than thirty-six families 
being reported in various sections. The fam- 
ily was also numerous, in colonial days, in 
Xew Jersey. 

(I) Abner C. Garrison was born in Xassau. 
.Albany county (now Rensselaer), Xew York. 
He had half-brothers, Daniel and David Henry 
Garrison. He had sons: Charles H., of Troy; 
George I!., of Jordan. Xew York, and Leavitt 
D., mentioned below. 

(II) Leavitt D., son of Abner C. Garrison, 
was born in Cortland. Xew York, where his 
parents settletl. He was e lucated in the public 
schools, and. when a young man, engaged in 
the grocery business, and afterward was a 
manufacturer of confectionery. He was one 
of the promoters of the Homer & Cortland 
Street Railway Company, and, for a time, was 
superintendent of the road. He has been re- 
tired from active business for several years. 
He is a member of the Cortlandville Lodge of 
Free and Accepted Masons. In politics he is a 
Republican, in religion a Presbyterian. He 
married Eliza Jane Wilson. Their only living 
child is G. Henry, mentioned below. 

( III ) G. Henry, son of Leavitt D. Garrison, 
was born in Cortland. New York, October 13, 
187"^. He was educated in the public schools 
of his native town, and at Troy, Xew York. 
He entered the employ of the Citizens Steam- 
boat Company, of Troy, wdiich operates a line 
of steamers between New York City and Troy. 
He became a director of the company and 



member of the executive committee. After 
two years he returned to Cortland and became 
bookkeeper for the Homer & Cortland Trac- 
tion Company, and, when the company was 
reorganized in 1901, as the Cortland Count) 
Traction Company, he was elected a director. 
Since 1904 he has been secretary of the cor- 
poration. He is vice-president of the \'alatie 
Knitting Company, of X'alatie, and connected 
with various other enterprises. He is a mem- 
ber of the Cortlandville Lodge. T'ree and .Ac- 
cepted .Masons; of the P>enevolent and Protec- 
tive Order of Elks, of Cortland, and of the 
Presbyterian church, of Cortland. In politics 
he is a Republican. He married, September 
18, 1901, Anna Winched, of Cortland, born in 
Cortland, daughter of .Alfred H. and Ella M. 
(Finch) \Mnchell. 



This familv originallv came 
TERPEXIXG from Amsterdam City, Hol- 
land. The name was for- 
merly spelled Teerpenningh, but is now spelled 
in various ways, such as Terpening, Terpen- 
ning, Terpeney, Tarpeney and Turpeny. "The 
Gazateer of the State of New York" makes 
the following statement: "As far back as 1682 
llaltus Terpening was married to Tryntja \'an- 
\'itt. in town of Frunville, Lister county. New 
York." It was the first marriage in that town. 
Many of the family, who spelled their name 
Teerpenningh, resided in L'lster, Esopus and 
Saratoga counties, at an earlier date. 

Teunis Terpenning, or Terpenny, as he sign- 
ed his name, was an early settler at Kingston 
L'lster county, Xew York. His will was dated 
there May 6, 1746, and he bequeathed to his 
wife Gertie, and children : Gerit, Jacobus, Abr-a- 
ham, Hendrickus, Esther, Mary Van Allen, 
Bridget, Hannah and Elizabeth. Dirck and 
Jacob Terpenny w ere witnesses and were doubt- 
less brothers. According to the first federal 
census, John Terpenning, of the neighboring 
town of Peekskill, Dutchess county, Xew A'ork, 
had two males over sixteen and one female, 
while his father. John Terpenning, of the same 
town, had' two males over sixteen, one under 
that age and five females. Among the pioneers, 
in the state of Xew York, were Jacobus or 
Jacob, Derrick or Dirk, Elias and John and 
Boadawin, sons of Derrick or Dirk. These 
resided in Ulster county as early as 1763. 
Elsewhere in New York state we find Peter 
and Samuel, who were living at Halfmoon. 
.Albany county, heads of families in 1790. 



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(II) John Terpeney, as he spelled his name, 
son of Peter Terpening, was born July 20, 
1777, died June 27, 1856. He came from the 
Holland patent, a twenty-thousand-acre tract, 
comprising the present towns of Deerfield, 
Floyd, Steuben and Trenton, in Oneida coun- 
ty, and settled in the town of Halfmoon, Sara- 
toga county, and then removed to Ira, Cayuga 
county, where he became the owner of six 
hundred and twenty acres of land. About 
1808-10 John and his father purchased a large 
farm in Ira or Hannibal town, and moved his 
family there, and there spent the remainder of 
his days. Some of their descendants spent 
their lives on the same land. John Terpeney 
married (first), in Saratoga county, New York, 
Phoebe Southard, about 1798-99-1800; mar- 
ried (second) a widow, Cecelia Olcott ; mar- 
ried (third) Mrs. Olive Foster, who survived 
him. He was the father of seventeen chil- 
dren, fifteen by first wife and two by second 
wife. 

(III) Isaac Terpening, son of John Ter- 
peney, was born in Ira, March 18, 1807, died 
1870. He followed farming there all his active 
life. He married Sally Drake. Children : 
Ephraim ; Reuben T. ; y\nna, married George 
Barlow. 

(IV) Reuben T. Terpening, son of Isaac 
Terpening, was born in Ira, New York, July 
23, 1 841. He was educated there in the public 
schools, and followed farming in his native 
town. During the civil war he was a private in 
Company E, Twenty-fourth New York Regi- 
ment, Volunteer Infantry, and in active service 
for three years. In politics he was a Democrat, 
and served as a commissioner of highways of 
the town of Ira. He married Lovina, daugh- 
ter of John Anthony. Children, born in Ira : 
Dr. Harvey J. ; Mina, married Silas Carter ; 
Myron, married Mertice Jones; Anna, mar- 
ried Floyd Dickinson ; Clara, married Arvid 
Goodrich ; Homer, resides in Wyoming. 

(V) Dr. Harvey J. Terpening, son of Reu- 
ben T. Terpening, was born in Ira, New York, 
December 12, 1869. He attended the Ira dis- 
trict schools and Fulton Academy. - For three 
years he taught school, and then entered upon 
the study of medicine in the Eclectic Medical 
Institute, at Cincinnati, (^hio. where he matric- 
ulated, August 28, 1892, and graduated June 
6, 1895. In the same month that he grarluated 
he passed the New York state examination 
and began to practice at South Hannibal, New 
York, where he remained until January i, 



1900. After practicing for a year in Penn- 
sylvania he came to Fulton, New York, July 
15, 190 1, and since then he has built up a large 
and successful practice in that city. He is a 
member of the Central New York Eclectic 
Society, the New York Eclectic Medical Soci- 
ety, the National Eclectic Medical Association, 
the Academy of Medicine, of Fulton, New 
York; the Oswego County Medical Society, 
the New York State Medical Society, and 
Utoka Tribe, No. 420, Improved Order of Red 
Men. In religion he is a Congregationalist, 
and in politics a Democrat. He has served, for 
the past six years, as health ofiicer and town 
physician, for the town of Granby. 

Dr. Terpening married, April i, 1905, Mayme 
Dines, born April 6, 1874, daughter of Nor- 
wood and Frances Dines. Children : Norwood, 
born March 9, 1906; Jessie M., June i, 1908; 
Ellery (twin). January 29, 191 1 ; Orion, twin 
of Ellery. 



The Keller family was of Dutch 
KELLER or German origin. Before the 

revolution the progenitor came 
to Montgomei7 county, New York, and his 
descendants have been numerous in central 
and western New York. He may have come 
thither from Pennsylvania, as the Kellers set- 
tled in that colony early. In 1790, in Herki- 
mer, Canajoharie, and other towns of Mont- 
gomery county, we find ten heads of families 
of Keller — Andrew, Casper. Henry (2), Ho- 
ness, Jacob, John (3) and Rudolph. 

(I) David Keller, son of one of those men- 
tioned in the census, and doubtless grandson 
of the first settler in Montgomery county, mar- 
ried Mayney Moyer, and settled in Shropel, 
New York. 

(II) Felix Albert, son of David Keller, was 
born in the town of Shropel, New York, July 
3, 1849. He attended the public schools there 
and afterward was engaged in farming with 
his brother. For a number of years he had 
several boats engaged in trade on the Erie 
canal, and, for twenty-five years, he was a 
hotel proprietor in the towns of Fulton and 
Volney, New York. He was a member of 
Volney Grange, Patrons of Husbandry. He 
married Elizabeth Ann Churches, born April 
28, 1859, daughter of John Churches, who came 
to New York state from England, where he 
was born, and settled first in Herkimer county, 
later in Oswego county, with the pioneers 
there, doing business as a carpenter and con- 



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tractor, and also following farming for many 
years. John Cluirchcs married Jane Appleby. 
Felix Albert Keller died September 21, 1908. 
Child — Sylvester D., mentioned below. 

(HI) Dr. Sylvester D. Keller, son of Feli.x 
Albert Keller, was born in the town of Volney, 
New York, April 14, 1879, and was educated 
in the Phcenix and Fulton high schools, and 
the Syracuse Medical School, from which he 
was graduated in the class of 1906, with the 
degree of M. D. For three years he was en- 
gaged in general practice at X'olney Center, 
New York, and, since 1909, has been located 
at Fulton, New York. In the comparatively 
short time in which he has been in that city he 
has built up a large and successful practice. 
He is a member of the Physicians and Sur- 
geons Association, of Fulton ; of the Oswego 
County Medical Society; of the New York 
State Medical Society, and of the American 
Medical Association ; of the Alpha Kappa fra- 
ternity, of his a!iiia mater, and of the Im- 
proved Order of American Woodmen, the 
Maccabees, and the Elks. In politics he is a 
Republican, in religion a Presbyterian. 

He married, October 2, 1907, May Rose 
Gifford, daughter of Reuben and Mary Gif- 
ford, of Canastota, New York. They have no 
children. 



Edward H. Lewis is first found in 
LEWIS Canada, where he engaged in the 

hotel business. Later he came to 
Fulton, New York, where he conducted a hotel. 
He had a son, Thomas Borland, born in Can- 
ada, mentioned below. 

(II) Honorable Thomas Borland Lewis, son 
of Edward H. Lewis, born in Canada, came to 
Fulton with his parents, and received his edu- 
cation there. Like his father he engaged in 
the hotel business, during the first years of 
business life. Later he started in the coal and 
grocery business. He was prominent among 
his fellowmen, and held important offices in the 
town. He was president of the village c^f Ful- 
ton, and supervisor six years, and represented 
his district in the assembly for eight years. He 
is now retired, and lives in New York Cily. 
He married Cora Case. Children: Br. Mur- 
ney, of New York City: Sarah: \'ictor C. 
mentioned below. 

(III) Victor C, son of Hon. Thomas Bor- 
land Lewis, was born in Fulton, New York. 
June 3, 1880. He was educated in the public 
schools of Fulton, and in the Mead Business 

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College, of Syracuse, New York, and at Pratt's 
Institute, Brooklyn, New York. He tlien start- 
ed in a paper mill, to learn the business but 
gave that up to receive a position as a boat- 
man, on the engineer corps. He worked in 
this position, for two years, on the Barge 
Canal, and, for one year, at Sylvan Beach. On 
July 4, 1908, he started his present cigar and 
tobacco store, which now has a large and suc- 
cessful trade. He was a delegate to the On- 
tario county convention, and also an ap])ointed 
substitute to the district convention. He is a 
member of Hiram Lodge, No. 144, I'Yee and 
Accepted Masons; of Chapter No. 1O7, Royal 
Arch Masons ; Lake Ontario Commandery, 
Knights Templar; of the Benevolent and Pro- 
tective Order of Elks, and of the Knights of 
Pythias. In June, 1903, he married Edith, 
daughter of William R. Hamilton. They have 
one daughter, Janet, who was born in Febru- 
ary, 1907. 

James Ensign, immigrant ances- 
ENSIGN tor, was born in England, and 

was among the first settlers of 
Cambridge, Massachusetts. The family was 
located in Kent county, England, as early as 
1395, and in Norfolk, Essex and other coun- 
ties very early. He was a proprietor of Cam- 
bridge in 1634, and was admitted a freeman 
of Massachusetts, March 4, 1634-35. The only 
other pioneer of the name, in New England, 
was Thomas Ensign, who was at Scituate, 
Massachusetts, in 1638, and was deacon of the 
church there. With Hooker came James En- 
sign to Hartford, among the founders. He 
was an original member of the First Church, 
February 12, 1670. His home was on what is 
now Elm street, Hartford. He was constable 
of Hartford in 1649 and 1662 ; chimney viewer 
in 1655 ; townsman in 1656. His will was 
dated November 2^. 1670, and in it he be- 
queathed to Rev. Air. Whiting and to Gov- 
ernor Winthrop. His wife Sarah died at Hart- 
ford, May, 1676, and the inventory of her 
estate was filed May 29. Children, born at 
Hartford: Bavid, mentioned below; Mary, 
married, in 1662, Samuel Smith ; Hannah, mar- 
ried Joseph Eaton ; Lydia, baptized August 19. 
1649; Sarah, born May 6, 1651. 

(II) Bavid. son of James Ensign, was born 
in 1644-45, at Hartford ; died at West Hart- 
ford, December 13, 1727. He was a miller as 
well as a farmer, and held various town offices, 
serving as chimney viewer, 1666. He was an 



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original member of the First Church, at West 
Hartford, 1713. He married (first), October 
22, 1663, RIehitable, daughter of Thomas Gunn, 
of Windsor. He married (second) Sarah, 
daughter of John and Sarah (Wadsworth) 
Wilcox, who died February 3, 1717. Children 
of first wife: David, born November 16, 1664; 
James, May 8, 1666 ; Thomas, mentioned below ; 
Sarah. January 22, 1673 ; Mary, January 26. 

""'"5- 

(HI) Thomas, son of David Ensign, was 
l)orn at West Hartford, December 7, 1668. He 
married, December i, 1692, Hannah, daughter 
of John and Rebecca (Greenhill) Shepard. 
His will was proved February 28, 1737, and he 
bequeathed to his wife and these children : 
Thomas ; John ; Moses, mentioned below : Dan- 
iel and Hannah (Benton). Thomas and Moses 
were executors. (Hartford Probate Records, 
iii. p. 259). 

(IV) Moses, son of Thomas Ensign, was 
born about 1700-03: married, January 3, 1730- 
31, Love, daughter of Thomas Andrews. Among 
their children was Isaac, mentioned below. 

(V) Isaac, son of Moses Ensign, was born 
at Hartford, December 16, 1747; died at Sims- 
bury, Connecticut, May 12, 1816. He was a 
farmer, and by trade a blacksmith. The town 
of Simsbury gave him a parcel of land, as an 
inducement to follow his trade there. He held 
various town offices in Simsbury. He was an 
active patriot in the revolution, but on account 
of lameness was not in service. He was a 
Congregationalist in religion. He married Lur- 
annah (Pcttibone) Barber, December 29, 1771. 
She died April 11, 1843, aged ninety-five years, 
daughter of Jacob and Jemima (Cornish) Pet- 
tibone. Her first husbaml, Jonathan Barber, 
was killed at Louisburg, in the old French war, 
in 1748, aged twenty-eight years. Children, 
born jft Simsbury: Isaac, Se])tember 12. 1772; 
Isaiah, March 15, 1774: Lurannah, .\pril 3, 
1776; v^riel, also called Sideny Ariel, July 19, 
1788; Zebe or Ziba, March 29, 1781, men- 
tioned below; Love, June 26, 1783; Zo])liar : 
Bildad ; Eri ; Moses, March 2, 1794. 

(VI) Zeba, son of Isaac Ensign, was born 
in Simsbury, March 29, 1781, and came to 
N'elson, Madison county, New York, with his 
brother Isaiah, in 1800. He was one of the 
pioneers of that section. By trade he was a 
mason, and also a farmer. He married Sarah 
Case. Cliildren, the first three born in Con- 
necticut, the others in New York: Wealthv : 



Lurannah ; Sterling ; Asa ; Newton ; David ; 
Zeba S., mentioned below ; Nathan ; Sally. 

(\TI) Zeba S., son o? Zeba Ensign, was 
born in Nelson, New York, January 12, 1816; 
died in McGrawville, New York, November 
30, 1895. He was educated in the common 
schools and in the high school. He taught 
school for a time in his young days, and then 
became a farmer. He owned, at one time, two 
large farms, and engaged in dairy farming and 
sheej) raising. In 1891 he removed to Mc- 
(jrawville and made his home with his son 
until his death. He married, June 7, 1849, 
Betsey Grover, born in Canandaigua, New 
York, August 13, 1821, died May 21, 1872, 
daughter of Nelson and Tirzah (Chase) Gro- 
ver. the former-named a native of Connecti- 
cut. She had received a conunon school edu- 
cation, and had then learned the trade of 
tailoress, in which she was engaged until her 
marriage. Children : Duane Edwin, mention- 
ed below; Nettie, born October i, 1862, mar- 
ried Fred Martin, of McGrawville. 

(\TII) Dr. Duane Edwin Ensign, son of 
Zeba S. Ensign, was born in Georgetown, 
Madison county, New York. December 16, 
1859. He received his early education in the 
common .school, and the LTnion School, of 
Morrisville, and then entered the Cazenovia 
.Seminary, where he prepared for college. He 
graduated from the Eclectic Medical Institute, 
of Cincinnati, Ohio, June 5, 1888, and opened 
an office in McGrawville, where he has been 
practicing ever since. He is now one of the 
best known physicians in Cortland county, and 
has a large and constantly increasing practice. 
He is a member of the State and Central New 
York Eclectic Medical societies ; of the Cort- 
land County Medical Society ; Cortlandville 
Lodge, Kg. 470, Free and Accepted Masons; 
past grand of McGrawville Lodge, No. 320, 
Independent Order of Odd Fellows; past chief 
patriarch of Cortland Encampment, No. 127. 
He is a Republican in politics, and has always 
taken a great interest in political affairs. He 
has been a member of the board of education 
for eleven years, since 1900, and president of 
that body since 1903. He has also been the 
village health officer, and, in both positions, 
gave good service and satisfaction. For twelve 
vears he was a member of the State Board of 
Medical Examiners. In religion he and his 
wife are both members of the Methodist Epis- 
copal church. He has been a trustee of the 




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society for twenty years, since 1891, and super- 
intendent of the Sunday school for sixteen 
years. He married, December 6, 1888, Emma 
J., daughter of Amos H. and Emma J. (Par- 
sons) Towne, of Sauquoit, New. York. Chil- 
dren: Harold Grover, born April 13. 189 1 : 
Bessie Elena, .\ugust 2, 1895. 



Phineas Henderson was a 
HENDERSON native of Scotland, and. 
with two brothers, was an 
early settler at Tally. New York. 

(II) John, son of Phineas Henderson, was 
l)orn in Tully, New York. He was educated 
there in the public schools, and followed farm- 
ing all his active life. For many years he was 
postmaster of Tully. He married Alary Hunt. 
Children: Hiram; William H. ; Henry L. ; 
George; Clarinda ; Polly Ann; Jane; Orrin, 
inentioned below. 

(Iin Orrin, son of John Henderson, was 
born in Tully, July 7, 1823, was educated there 
in the district schools, and, in his boyhood, 
worked on his father's farm. He followed 
farming until 185 1, when he removed to .South 
Hannibal, Oswego county. New York, and 
settled on a large farm, which he had bought. 
Some years later he returned and engaged in 
the flour and feed business, at Fulton, New 
York, as sales agent for the firm of W. (j. 
Gage & Company, for twenty-five years. He 
also engaged in the retail coal business, under 
the firm name of Henderson & Thomson, and 
in the dry goods business, in the firm of Hen- 
derson & Redhead. He has continued in these 
firms to the present time. In 1853 '""^ attended 
the first fair of the .Agricultural Society, ex- 
hibiting a fine flock of sheep, and afterward he 
was president of the society for seven years. 
Mr. Henderson is a life member of the society, 
under its present name, the Oswego County 
Agricultural Society. All the buildings of the 
society were erected under the supervision of 
Mr. Henderson, and its success is largely at- 
tributed to his energy and leadership. .Active 
and prominent in public affairs, in 1887 he was 
supervisor of the town, and he also filled the 
offices of road commissioner and assessor for 
several terms. He was a delegate to the first 
county convention of the Republican party, 
and to the first state convention, which was 
held at Syracuse, and ever since he has been a 
firm supporter of Republican policies and can- 
didates. In 1844 he cast his first presidential 
vote for Ilenrv Clav. He is an influential 



member of the First Methoilist Church. He 
resides at Fulton. 

He married, in 1846, Maria L. (Gardner, 
born at Tully, daughter of William C. Gaid- 
ner, of Tully, New York. One child, Edward 
.\., was born in 1855, at I'^iirbanks, .Alaska. 
Mrs. Henderson died in 1900. 



Loren H. Miller was a farmer 
-MILLICR in Leyden, Lewis county, New 

York, and made his home there 
all his active life. He married Cynthia .A. Fan- 
ning. Children: William J., mentioned below; 
Josephine E. ; Myron L. ; .Albert D. : I lenry R. ; 
Charles S., and Eva .A. 

(II) William J., son of Lorcn H. Miller, 
was born at Leyden, September 11, 1841, and 
spent his youth on his father's farm. He at- 
tended the public schools and Mexico Acad- 
emy. When a young man he taught school for 
a time, but he devoted his life jjrincipally to 
farming, in the town of Mexico. Some years 
ago he retired from active business, and since 
then has made his home in the village of Mex- 
ico. In politics he is independent, but was 
formerly a Democrat ; in religion, a member 
of the Methodist Episcopal church. He mar- 
ried. December 29, 1864, in Mexico, Lydia A. 
Burlingham, born .August 17, 1847, daughter 
of Isaac M. and and Maria (Howard) Pnir- 
lingham. Her parents came from Herkimer 
countv, New York, to Mexico, where she was 
born. Children of William J. and Lydia A. 
Miller: Loren H., born May 24, 1866; Clayton 
I., mentioned below ; Molly Blanche, born Sep- 
tember 8, 1883. 

(III) Clavton I., son of William J. Miller, 
was born in Mexico, Oswego county. New 
York, June 16, 1868. He attended the public 
schools of his native town and the Mexico 
.Academy, from which he was graduated in the 
class of 1889. He entered Cornell L'niversity. 
anfl was graduated in the class of 1893, from 
the Law School. Before graduating he taught 
school for a number of terms, and was clerk 
in the law offices of C. C. Brow-n, of Mexico, 
and William .A. Poucher, of Oswego. He was 
admitted to the bar September 15, 1893, and, 
a month later, opened a law office in Mexico. 
He has built up a large and growing practice. 
In 1901 he was elected special surrogate of 
Oswego county for three years, and, in 1904, 
was reelected. In 1907 he was elected surro- 
gate of the county for a term of si.x years. He 
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as a trustee, and has taken an active part in 
town and village afifairs in Mexico. In poli- 
tics he is a Republican. He is a member of 
Mexico Lodge, No. 136, Free and Accepted 
Masons; of Mexico Chapter, No. 135, Royal 
Arch Masons; of Arbeit Lodge, No. 168, In- 
dependent Order of Odd Fellows. He and his 
wife attend the Presbyterian church. He mar- 
ried, April 10, 1900, Alice May Bard, a native 
of Mexico, New York, daughter of lames and 
Diana (Wilder) Bard. 



John Padget was born in Eng- 
PADGET land, and came, in boyhood, to 

this country, with his parents, 
who located in Norwich, Chenango county. 
New York. He died at Nineveh, Broome 
county, New York. After receiving a com- 
mon school education he learned the trade of 
stone mason, and, besides following this trade, 
was a farmer. He married Almira Scott, a 
native of Scotland. Children : Leonard ; Silas 
• E., mentioned below ; Henry, and Sarah. 

(II) Silas E., son of John Padget, was born 
in Oxford, Chenango county. New York. Feb- 
ruary 22, 1835, and was educated in the public 
schools and at Oxford Academy, in his native 
town. He learned the trade of coo]5er, when 
a young man. During the civil war he was in 
the service in a New York regiment, .\bout 
1870 he located on a farm in Tioga county, 
where he has since lived. He is a well-to-do 
farmer, and a highly respected and useful citi- 
zen. He is a member of the Presbyterian 
church, of Owego. He married, in 1862, Fran- 
ces Ingersoll, of Owego, Tioga county. New 
York, born at Owego, daughter of James and 
Lucinda (Ballon) Ingersoll. Children: i. Gur- 
don Edgar, mentioned below. 2. Lyman Alexis, 
born at Owego, a farmer in Owego, New 
York; marrieil Ellen Hunt; children: I'lorence 
and an infant son. 3. Horace Greeley, born 
at Owego, a physician and surgeon, located at 
Tully, New York, a graduate of Princeton 
University and Syracuse Medical College ; mar- 
ried Lucy Adams, of Towanda, Pennsylvania ; 
children: Thomas, Richard and Alice. 4. 
Vesta, born at Owego, teacher in East Orange, 
New Jersey. 5. Francis, born at Owego, has 
been a teacher in the Rochester high school, 
Rochester, New York ; a graduate of Elmira 
College, receiving degree of A. B. 

(III) Dr. Gurdon Edgar Padget, son of 
Silas E. Padget, was born April 24, 1866, at 
Nineveh, New York. With his parents he re- 



moved, when a small boy, to Owego, New 
York. He received his education in the public 
schools, the Owego Academy and Syracuse 
University, from which he graduated with the 
degree of M. D., in the class of 1904. He 
located in Cuyler, New York, August 18, 1904, 
and has practiced there since that time. He is 
a member of the Cortland County Medical 
Society and the New York State Medical Soci- 
ety. He is health officer of the town of Cuy- 
ler. In religion he is a Presbyterian, in poli- 
tics a Republican. He is a member of De 
Ruyter Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons. 

He married (first), in 1885, Delphine Eliz- 
abeth, daughter of Nathaniel and Melissa 
(Gould) Leonard. He married (second), 
March 18, 1903, Sarah Frances Easton, of 
Candor, New York, daughter of Zenas R. and 
Eliza Sophronia (Hubbard) Easton. Children 
of first wife: i. Bonnylyn, born .August, 1887, 
graduate of Owego Academy and Cortland 
Normal School, now a teacher in Woodbridge, 
New Jersey. 2. Lenora, born July 14, 1889, 
lives in Boston. Child of second wife: Fran- 
ces .-Mice, born .August 25, 1907. 



Richard Radway was born in 
1\.\DW.\Y Chedworth, England, the young- 
est of a family of eleven chil- 
dren. Some of his elder brothers came to this 
country, and when a young man he followed 
them thither, walking through the forest from 
Lake Chami^lain to Canton, St. Lawrence coun- 
ty. New- York, where he cleared a farm that 
is still in the possession of the family. In his 
native country he had learned the trades of 
painter and plumber, and he followed it in this 
country, in addition to his agricultural occupa- 
tion. Mr. Raflway was a Republican in poli- 
tics. He was, in early life, a communicant of 
the Church of England, afterward, in this 
country, a member of the Universalist church. 
He married Mary .Ann, daughter of Solo- 
mon and Ann (Wells) Squires, who came 
from Vermont to St. Lawrence county, among 
the early settlers. Children of Mr. and Mrs. 
Radway: i. Charles \\'., mentioned below. 2. 
William O.. born November 24, 1853. now 
living on the old homestead in Canton. 3. 
:\nna. married Marshall Giffin, and had two 
children : Richard, deceased, and Mary. 

( ID Dr. Charles W. Radway, son of Rich- 
ard Radway, was born in Canton, St. Law- 
rence coimty, New York, December 24. 1851. 
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farm, and attended the public schools of Can- 
ton. He prepared for college at the Canton 
Academy, and was graduated from the New- 
York Homoeopathic Medical College, in the 
class of 1876, with the degree of M. D. He 
was associated, for a year, in practice with his 
preceptor, Dr. San ford Hoag. He opened an 
office at Mexico. Xew York, April 6, 1877, 
and since then has been in active practice 
there. His practice is large and lucrative and 
his standing in his profession among the fore- 
most. He is president of the Medical Chirur- 
gical Society and a member of the Xew York 
State Homceopathic Medical Society. Dr. Rad- 
way has always been interested in public af- 
fairs, especially in public education, and he has 
been a member of the board of education of 
Mexico since it was organized. For fifteen 
years he has been health officer of the village 
of Mexico. In politics he is a Republican. He 
is a member of Mexico Lodge, No. 136, Free 
and Accepted Masons, and member of the 
Presbyterian church, of the board of trustees 
of which he is president. 

He married, June 5, 1878, Minnie Bennett, 
born at Morristown, St. Lawrence county. 
New York, daughter of Andrew T. and Eliz- 
abeth (Smith) Bennett. Her father was born 
in Canada, and came to this country when a 
young man ; served in the L'nion army, in the 
civil war, from beginning to end : her mother 
was born in Hammond, St. Lawrence county, 
daughter of William Smith, who was born in 
Scotland, and came to this country at the age 
of eighteen years. Dr. and Mrs. Radway have 
two children : Ruth, born October 25. 1892 ; 
Mary Isabel, September 10, 1897. 



Seth Jones, who was of an old 
JONES New England family which set- 
tled early in \"ermont, lived at 
Bennington, \'erniont. He was a farmer. He 
married, and among his children was Edward 
A., mentioned below. 

(in Edward A., son of Seth Jones, was 
born at Bennington, Vermont, in 1840. died in 
1903. He removed to Granby, New York, and 
from there to Fulton, New York, in 1858. He 
was educated in the public schools of Benning- 
ton. For many years he was freight agent for 
the New York Central & Hudson River rail- 
road, of Fulton. He married Carrie M. Jef- 
ferds. of Fulton, daughter of Edward and Car- 
oline JefFerds. Children : Charles F.. mention- 



ed below; George, born in 1865, lives in Ful- 
ton, married Olive Wood, no issue. 

(Ill) Charles F., son of Edward A. Jones, 
was born in Granby, New York, January 12, 
1863. He received his education in the public 
schools of Fulton, New York, and then learn- 
ed the trade of stove-plate molding, which Vie 
followed for a number of years. For the last 
twenty years he has been engaged in the hotel 
business. He is a meinber of Utoka Lodge, 
Improved Order of Red ]\Ien, and of Fulton 
Lodge, No. 830, Benevolent and Protective 
Order of Elks. In 1885 he married Catherine 
Gue, of Fulton. Children: i. May, married 
Cleveland Denesha ; children : Charles T., 
Genevieve and Ellen. 2. Nellie, married Har- 
old Carv. 



A branch of the Austin family 
AUSTIN of Rhode Island went to Shef- 
field, Berkshire county. Massa- 
chusetts. Zephaniah Austin settled in Whites- 
town, Washington county. New York. His 
sons, Zephaniah, Amos and Reuben, settled at 
Poultney, \'ermont. Of the same family were 
John Austin and Solomon Austin, who were 
heads of families, in 1790, at Whitestovvn, 
New York. 

(I) Edward Austin, doubtless a son of one 
of the Austins mentioned, was born in Ver- 
mont, and settled, when a young man, in Wash- 
ington county. New York, where he followed 
farming. His last years were spent in the 
family of his son Edward, in Warren county. 
New York. He lived to the advanced age of 
eighty years. He was a noted hunter and 
trapper in his younger days. Children : Gideon, 
John. William, Edward, Elizabeth, Anna, and 
Daniel and Henr>', twins. 

(II) Henry, son of Edward Austin, was 
born October 23, 1800. in Washington county. 
New York, and, during his boyhood, worked 
on his father's farm. When a young man he 
worked as a farm hand in the neighborhood. 
When he was twenty-five years old he and 
his brother Daniel came to the town of Mexico 
and took up a tract of one hundred and sixty 
acres of timber land, just north of the present 
village, and cleared and improved an excellent 
farm. Here he followed farming the remain- 
der of his life. In politics he was, in his 
younger days, an old-line Whig, afterward a 
Republican. In religion he was a Methodist, 
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and trustee in the Methodist Episcopal church, 
of Mexico. He married, in Washington coun- 
ty, August 27, 1825, Maria W. Warner, born 
August 13, 1807, in Washington county, daugh- 
ter of Solomon Warner. She died June 15, 
1857. Children : Elizabeth J., born Februarx- 
10, 1827, died October, 1905; Solomon W.. 
February 7, 1829, died March 20, 1897; Will- 
iam Woodsworth, June 22, 1831, died June 6. 
1887; Daniel FL. mentioned below: Rosa, Oc- 
tober 14, 1838. died September 4, 1883. 

(Ill) Daniel H.. son of Henry Austin, was 
born at Me.xico, New York, December 17, 
1833, and was brought up on his father's farm 
there. He attended the public schools of his 
native town and the Mexico Acatlemy. For 
five years he was employed in farming. In the 
first year of the civil war he went to the front, 
enlisting, October 10, 1861, in Company K, 
Eighty-first Regiment, New York Volunteer 
Infantry, and joined the Army of the Potomac. 
.\ftervvard his regiment was transferred to 
the Army of the James. His regiment was in 
many of the important battles of the war, and 
he took part in them. He was wounded at the 
battle of Cold Harbor. He remained in active 
service to the close of the war and was muster- 
ed out, with his regiment, .\ugust 30, 1865. 
He returned to the homestead in Mexico and 
resumed farming, following it successfully 
until he retired from active business, in 1893. 
Since then he has made his home in the village 
of Mexico. He is a member of Melza Rich- 
ards Post, Grand Army of the Republic, and 
of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which 
he is a steward. In politics he is a steadfast 
Republican. 

He married (first). June 14. 1873, Florence 
Moorhouse, born in Phoenix, Oswego county, 
New York, daughter of Somers Moorhouse. 
.She died in June, 1873. and he married (sec- 
ond), December 3, 1879, Minnie A. Chesebro, 
who was born at Phreni.x, January 9, 1852, 
daughter of Elmanson and Mary (Sweet) 
Chesebro. Her father was a native of Man- 
lius. New York, a son of Jesse Chesebro, who 
came thither from Preston, Connecticut, where 
the family has been prominent from the first 
days of the settlement. Child of first wife: 
I. Florence, died .September, 1893; married 
Ambrose Orser : children : Harold Orser, died 
in infancy; Austin Harold Orser, born Sep- 
tember 7, 1893. Children of second wife: 2. 
F-dith May, born April 19. 1882: married, June 
28, 1905, Wesley Moore. 3. Henry Warner, 



born September 23, 1884; inspector on Balti- 
more & Ohio railroad. 4. Minnie Luella, born 
August 25, 1887: married, June 26, 1906, Carl- 
ton D. Calkins. 



The surname Rice is identical with 
RICE Roice or Royce, which was the spell- 
ing in this family during the first 
century vr more in this country. 

(I) Robert Royce or Rice, the immigrant 
ancestor, was born in England, and settled 
early in Boston, Massachusetts. Some accounts 
locate him in Boston as early as 1631, and he 
seems to have been a member of the Boston 
church in 1632. Perhaps he returned to Eng- 
land, for there is a record of Robert Royce 
coming over in the ship "Francis," in 1634. 
.At any rate he was a member of the church, 
and admitted a freeman i\pril i, 1634. In. 
1637 he was disarmed with other supporters of 
Wheelwright, and Anne Hutchinson, on ac- 
count of his religious views. He removed to 
Stratford, Connecticut, in 1644, and was liv- 
ing there in 1658. About that time he located 
at New London, Connecticut, where he was a 
constable in 1660, and he was a member of 
the general assembly in 1669. He left an 
estate valued at £420. He married Elizabeth 

. Children : Joshua, born at Boston, 

.\pril 14, 1637; Nathaniel, baptized March 24, 
1639, removed to Wallingford, Connecticut; 
Patience, born at Boston, x-\pril i, 1642, died 
young; Ruth, married, December 15, 1669, 
|ohn Lothrop ; Sarah, married John Caulkins ; 
Nehemiah, removed to Wallingford : Samuel, 
mentioned below ; Isaac, married. December 
15, 1669, Elizabeth Lothrop, who married (sec- 
ond), in 1696, Ebenezer Clark ; Jonathan, mar- 
ried Deborah Caulkins. 

(II) Samuel Rice (Royee), son of Robert 
Rice, was born in Connecticut, January 9, 
1647, and was admitted a freeman in 1669. 
He died, according to the probate records, at 
Meriden, Connecticut, prior to March, 1712. 
He married (second). June 5, i6go, Sarah 
Bnldwin. He left children: Robert: Samuel; 
.Vbigail, married Joseph Cowles ; Prudence, mar- 
ried John Austin: Deborah, married Tlioma.s 
Mix ; Isaac : John ; Mary, and Jacob. 

(III) Isaac Rice (Royce), son of SamueJ 
Rice, was born about 1690. .Kccording to the 
probate records at New Haven (book v, p. 
535), he died prior to November 11, 1729, 
leaving a widow and four children: Joash. 
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(IV) Lieutenant Asa Rice, son of Isaac 
Rice, was born about 1720, probably at W'all- 
ingford. Ezekiel Rice was appointed his guar- 
dian (book vi, p. 210, New Haven probate 
records). He married, at Wallingford, No- 
vember 25, 1746, Anna, daughter of Ezekiel 
and granddaughter of Samuel Rice. He was a 
first lieutenant in the provincial troops, in Cap- 
tain Israel Woodward's company, from March 
26 to December 5, 1756 (p. 119, French and 
Indian War Records, Conn. Hist. Society). 
He was a shoemaker by trade, and also a 
farmer in Cheshire, formerly part of Walling- 
ford. He died at Sharon, Connecticut, in 1785. 
Children : Asa, mentioned below ; Seth, born 
June 6, 1752 ( ?) ; Isaac and Barnabas. 

(V) Asa Rice, son of Lieutenant .\sa Rice, 
was born in Cheshire, September i, 1754. He 
was a soldier in the revolution, in Captain 
David Downs's company. Colonel Burrell's 
regiment, and was taken prisoner at the Cedars, 
Canada, May 19, 1776. In 1777 he was in the 
company of Captain Jarius \Vilcox, a corps of 
artificers, in Colonel Jeduthan Baldwin's regi- 
ment, and his regiment served in the battles of 
Brandywinc, Germantown, Monmouth, and 
other battles (pp. 112 and 290, Conn. Rev. 
Rolls). In October, 1897, Arvin Rice, of Ful- 
ton, read a sketch of the family, and it seems 
best to preserve this account : 

"One hmulred years ago to-day, Asa Rice (V) 
and his family landed upon this shore, and founded 
the first permanent settlement in this part of the 
country. The following facts with regard to his an- 
cestry, his family and the circumstances of the jour- 
ney to this place, and the making of a settlement in 
the then wilderness, are from statements made by 
my father, Arvin Rice, who was then a boy of eleven 
years of age. I will give the history in his own 
words : 

"'My father's name was also .'Xsa. and he had the 
honor of taking part in the struggles of the revolu- 
tion; was taken prisoner by the Indians at the north; 
was at the taking of Burgoyne, and was an assistant 
in placing the great chain across the Hudson river 
at West Point. After the close of the war he set- 
tled in Connecticut, and became possessed of four 
acres of land worth $40. This land he traded with 
an old soldier for a lot in the military tract, and 
when the military tract was surveyed, lot No. 2, 
Hannibal (which lot lies upon the lake shore three 
miles west of Oswego) fell to him. He married 
Elizabeth Merriam, daughter of Nathaniel Merriam, 
and about the year 1789 moved with his family from 
Cheshire. Connecticut, to .Acra, Green county. New 
York, and in 17Q1; to Rensselaerville, in .-Mbany coun- 
ty. In 1/95, while the British were in possession of 
Oswego, and when there was no settlement upon the 
west side of the river, he came on to view his lot 
of land. In February. 1797, he moved to Whites- 



town. Oneida county, having then a family of eight 
or nine children. By selling a part of his land he 
obtained enough help to move on to his lot, and on 
September 26, 1797, left his abode in Whitestown 
for a wilderness home upon the shores of Lake 
Ontario. 

" "The first day we reached the boat on the Mo- 
hawk, and the ne.\t day moved up the river and 
found a large number of Irishmen digging the canal 
across from the Mohawk to Wood creek, a distance 
of two miles. We passed the carrying place and 
entered Wood creek, two other boats being in our 
company, and were three days in reaching Oneida 
lake, the water being low in some places, and all 
hands dragging the boats, one after another over the 
shoals. My brother Heman, then two years old, 
fell overboard. He had on a red dress, and we 
could see him in the water, and soon got him out. 
Where Wood creek empties into Oneida lake, the 
boat struck a log, and I fell into the water and was 
helped out by my father. We reached the lake at 
evening, and at two o'clock in the morning reached 
Rotterdam (now Constantia). The next day we 
reached Three River Point, where lived Squire 
Bingham, who professed to be a pilot, and the next 
morning he took charge of our boat to conduct ii 
down Three River Rift (opposite the present vil- 
lage of Phcenix). In going down the boat struck 
a rock in the middle of the ri^er, and whirled around 
across the stream, the bottom upon the rock. The 
upper side sunk and the boat filled with water, wash- 
ing otif many li,ght articles which were never recover- 
ed. .All the goods were thoroughly drenched except 
the upper drawer of the bureau, in which were the 
writings. The family fortunately were placed upon 
the shore previous to reaching the Rift, and stayed 
in a fisherman's camp opposite the boat, where we 
remained three or four days through a tremendous 
northwest storm. After the storm a light boat came 
along and helped get our things out, and our boat 
righted. We tlien came down the river, and at 
Oswego Falls found a carrying place of about a 
mile, thence down the river to the lake, and along 
the shores to father's lot. It was on October 6, 
1797, at about two o'clock in the afternoon, we ar- 
rived at Four Mile creek, and father said : 'This is 
our land.' and turned the boat towards the shore. I 
got to the bow, and when the boat touched the shore, 
I jumped off and said, 'I'll be the first to take pos- 
session.' 

" 'Tlie goods were taken out upon the beach, and 
the boatmen went back. It was a beautiful day, and 
the first business was to open the goods and snread 
them out to dry. Not a bush had been cut towards 
a clearing, but father had borrowed at the garrison 
in Oswego, a tent, seven by ten feet, which he raised 
for a temporary shelter a few rods back from the 
beach. Toward night the wind blew hard off the 
lake, and it began to lighten and thunder, and a little 
after sundown it rained and stormed very hard, 
while we. a family of ten. crept into the little tent 
and stayed all night. The next day father went back 
about thirty rods from the shore and cut some logs 
and made a pen. seven by ten feet, and placed the 
tent on top. and put some boards or pieces of boats 
he found on the lake .shore across, making a cham- 
ber for the bovs. Soon afterward we built of poles 
twelve feet long, a pen about si.x feet high, and 
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rafters, and ihi.' family moved into it. About that 
time mother and one of the children were taken sick 
with fever and ague. The boatmen who left us the 
day we landed were to have returned in three weeks 
with provisions for the winter, but did not return 
for six weeks. We had a little bag of flour, about 
twenty pounds, and father caught a salmon, and took 
another one from an eagle. That was all the pro- 
visions we had. Father went to Oswego and bought, 
for six dollars, a barrel of flour, which had been 
under water, and was wet and mouldy; no light 
bread could be made of it, and it made the children 
sick when they ate it. When the boatmen returned 
(probably about November 20) they helped father 
build a log house, sixteen by eighteen feet, covered 
with basswood bark, about a hundred rods back 
from the lake, and then the family moved in, draw- 
ing our sick mother upon a sled, as winter had al- 
ready set in. After we had moved in the boatmen 
said we must name our village, and they drank wine 
and named it 'Union Village.' In February, 1798, 
my brother Joseph, aged fourteen, and myself, clear- 
ed about four acres, and in the spring some corn 
,ind potatoes were planted, and a pair of oxen and 
a heifer brought from Whitestown. Once during the 
summer the cattle strayed away, and were gone some 
three weeks. On the fourth of July, 179S, Joseph 
and I went to Fort Oswego, and returned home at 
dusk. Lois, aged ten, and Ira, aged seven, had been 
set to hunt for the cattle, and had not returned. We 
searched till late in the evening but did not find 
them. The next morning we went out again, and 
as we called they answered. They had spent the 
night lying between the roots of two large birch 
trees. During the first winter but one family remain- 
ed at Oswego, and a man by the name of Hudson 
lived up the river about a mile, and hunted through 
the winter. From Oswego west to Big Sodus Bay, 
thence south to the Seneca river, and down the river 
to Three Rivers Point, and thence to Oswego, there 
were only two or three families, and they were at 
the Point and the Falls. In the fall of 1798 the 
children were all taken sick with the lake fever, 
and father, who was of feeble constitution, was sick 
for three months. In 1799 the family were well and 
some progress was made in clearing. For two years 
we pounded corn in a maple log for our bread and 
pudding. In 1800 the family were all sick again. 
About this time the bears began to trouble us by 
catching calves and pigs. We also suffered for lack 
of clothing, and the ticking of our beds and pillows 
was cut up, the feathers being emptied into barrels 
and boxes. Wild game and fish were then plenty, 
and we began taking grain to the mill to be ground, 
sometimes to Sodus Point or to Ellisburg in Jeffer- 
son county, and once to Oswcgatchie, now Ogdens- 
burg. Once father and mother and one child started 
to go to Oswego in a log canoe, and there bein.g a 
south wind, hoisted a sail. When they were about 
half a mile out the wind shifted, and the canoe was 
turned bottom upwards ; they got upon the canoe, 
.ind a boat went after them, so they arrived safely at 
home. 

" "The first i)low my father had was made by Mr. 
Church, and when I was about fifteen years old I 
walked up to Van Valkenburg's (probably near Ful- 
ton), and carried the plow share to be repaired. For 
ten years after our first arrival there was no oppor- 



tunity for school, and then it was at Oswego, three 
miles from our home. 

" '1898 the townships of Hannibal, Lysander and 
Scipio were organized into one town, and Asa Rice, 
my father, was supervisor. He reported fifteen in- 
habitants and the valuation of taxable property at 
$1,500. He continued supervisor until 1806. The 
first marriage in the town was of Augustus Ford 
and my sister, Damaris Rice, in the year of 1800.' 

"Here closes the history as I find it in papers 
written or dictated by my father. From the year 
1800 the family history was similar to that of other 
early settlers in a new country, hut their perils and 
privations and the struggles and hardships they en- 
dured for the first two or three years of their resi- 
dence here, were equalled by few if any in our state- 
In one respect only did they suffer less than those 
in some other localities, and that was from the In- 
dians, who at that time were few in numbers, and 
friendly. How diflferent their experiences from those 
of the emigrant or new settlers of the present day. 
Then ten days were necessary to make the journey 
of less than one hundred miles: now a few hours 
are sufficient to carry them several hundred miles. 
Then in their want and distress, relief was six weeks 
in coming ; now in cases of destitution or great 
calamities, distant towns and cities respond in a few 
hours with assistance and supplies. 

"Notwithstanding their exposure and the hardships 
they endured our family survived, most of them 
living to a good old age. Asa Rice lived twenty- 
six years from the time of his settlement here, and 
although not rich, was in comfortable circumstances. 
He had some two score of grandchildren, and died 
at the age of sixty-nine. His children were: 

"i. Damaris, bom in 1781, married Augustus Ford, 
in 1800, and died in 1852. She was the mother of 
thirteen children, of whom, I think, none are now 
living. The Ford Brothers, who kept a jewelry 
store on East Bridge street, Oswego, about forty 
years ago, were of this family. Augustus Ford, a 
successful jeweler now of Freeport, Illinois, is a 
grandson. 

"2. Joseph, born in 1783, married Sally Burt in 
1809, and died in 1871, aged eighty-eight years. He 
had a family of ten children, all of whom are dead. 
Mr. E. M. Rice and Mrs. Dora Saunders, of Hanni- 
bal, are his grandchildren. 

"3. Miriam, born in 1784. married Daniel Pease in 
1816, and died in 1S57. She was the mother of seven 
children, of whom Levi Pease, .Mfred Pease, and 
.\mos Pease, of Oswego town, and Mrs. Nancy 
Plumb, of Red Creek, New York, are living. 

"4. Arvin. born in 1786, was married three times, 
and died in 187S. aged ninety-two years. He was 
the father of seven children, of whom Dr. Alfred 
Rice, of Hannibal, Mrs. Eliza R. Hull, and myself 
(Arvin), are now living. Marshall Dunham and 
Thurston Dunham, of Elmira, New York, Rev. 
Dwight Dunham, of Kansas, Mrs. C. C. Place, of 
Oswego, Mrs. Charles R. Plumb, of Red Creek, 
New York, Rev. E. C. Hull, now of Oswego Town, 
Ernest W. Rice, of Hannibal, and Eugene E. Rice, 
of Montana, and my children are the living grand- 
children. 

"5. Lois, born in 1787, married Stephen Brace in 
1S07. and died in 1833. She was the mother of eleven 
children. One, Lucretia, married A. Ogden Hay- 



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wood, and settled in Ohio, but it is many years since 
I have l<nown anything of them. 

"6. Mehitabel, born 171^9, married Montgomery 
Perry in 181 1, and died in 1847. She was the mother 
of Mrs. Eliza P. Casey, later of Auburn, New York, 
deceased. Two sons of Mrs. Casey, Nicholas and 
Frank, still reside there. 

"7- Ira, born in 1790, died in 1809. 

"8. Polly, born in 1792, married Erastus Todd in 
1813, and died in 1827. She was the mother of five 
children, one of whom was Mrs. Laura Johnson, 
late of Hannibal, New York, deceased. Mrs. John- 
son's children : Henry A. Johnson, of Friend, Ne- 
braska, and Mrs. Frances Beadel, of Geddes, New 
York, are all of this liranch of the family I know of. 

"9. Heman, born in 1794, married Eliza Wilson, 
imd died in 1887, aged ninety-three years and one 
day. He was the father of three or four children, 
all of whom, I believe, are dead. Some of his de- 
scendants are living in Wisconsin. 

"10. Horace, born in 1796, died in February, 1798. 

"II. Sally, born in 1799, never married, died about 
.852. 

"12. Nathaniel, born about 1804, died in 1807. 

"13 Thomas JefTerson, born February 20, 1801, and 
died about 1875. He was the first white child born 
in Oswego county. He was the father of three chil- 
dren, all of whom are dead. 

"The family were remarkable for their integrity 
<if character, and all enjoyed the fullest confidence 
and respect of those who knew them. We trust the 
same may be said in the future of their descendants. 

"In the old cemetery on the west bank of the 
Union X'illage creek, about twenty rods below the 
bridge, are the graves of some forty or fifty persons, 
marked by rude stones, all without inscriptions, ex- 
cept five. Those are Asa Rice, his wife, and two 
of their children, and one other. Around their 
graves a substantial stone wall was erected some 
years ago. An orchard was once planted there, but 
now the place presents more the appearance of the 
wilderness to which our forefathers came than any- 
thing else. Few of us, I am sorry to say, ever visit 
the place. What a commentary it is upon the hurry 
.ind strife of our lives and the age in which we live. 
Those to whom we owe so much, who endured the 
privations and hardships of a settlement here, with- 
out neighbors or friends, and prepared the w^ay for 
our comfort and happiness, are forgotten, and their 
last resting place neglected. 

"We are here at the precise time of year and at 
the place where the family first settled. The .sky 
above and the earth beneath our feet are the same. 
We see the lake, and imagination pictures the little 
boat, with the family and all their possessions, draw- 
ing slowly to the shore, the father directing the 
expedition, the mother doulitless full of anxious 
care with the little ones, and the older children full 
of impatience to explore the land. Wearied and 
worn with the vicissitudes of the journey, they land, 
and as soon as their scanty furniture can be taken 
ashore, they sec the boat leave them, the boatmen 
promising to return in a few days with provisions 
for the winter. We see the mother and children 
seeking to dry their clothing and bedding, which 
had been wet in the disaster ,it Three River Rift, 
while the father cuts away a few bushes and erects 
the little tent, their onlv protection from the hard 
■storm that came upon them the first night of their 



arrival. In a few days their supply of flour is gone, 
and famine stares them in the face. The children 
become puny and sick. How anxious and weary 
must have been those six weeks before the relief 
came. Then the building of a little cabin, and the 
moving in after winter had commenced, and the 
attempt at rejoicing as they drank some wine, and 
gave a name to their settlement. I remember well 
of hearing my father sing a verse of a hymn sung 
upon the occasion. It was: 

" 'Where nothing dwells but beasts of prey. 
Or men as fierce and wild as they. 
He bids the oppressed and poor repair, 
.\nd build them towns and cities there. 
They sow the fields, and trees they plant. 
Whose yearly fruit supplies their want ; 
Their race grows up from fruitful stocks. 
Their wealth increases with their flocks.' 

"I cannot give you the tune, but I think it was 
'Whitestown.' Many of you doubtless, as well as 
myself, have heard father tell some of the incidents 
of his early life here. At the risk of being tiresome, 
I will speak of some of them. 

"On one occasion he set a trap for a rabbit or fox, 
and on going to it found caught therein a large wild- 
cat, which flew at him as far as the chain would 
allow. The little stick he had was not sufficient, and 
he had to bring large stones from the lake shore and 
stone it to death. In speaking of it, he gave me the 
impression that if the animal had once reached him, 
it would have done him serious injury. 

"Another time he was washing his hands at the 
house, when some one said, 'There is a bear.' He 
took down his gun, and stepping out saw the bear 
up yonder hill, some thirty rods away. He thought 
he would shoot it anyway, and raising his gun fired 
it. The bear turned his head a little, but kept on 
and went over the fence. Following on, when father 
reached the fence he saw the bear weak from loss 
of blood, and it soon died. It seems the bullet struck 
a little above the tail, and passed lengthwise nearly 
through the body. 

"In the year of 1804, the 'Fair American,' a small 
schooner, was built at Oswego by Mr. Wilson, and 
either Uncle Joseph or my father drove an ox team 
and drew timbers for it across the river on ice, 
every day. except Sundays, in the month of March. 

"Two of the boys went to Big Sodus to mill, and 
returning, their lunch being gone, they took some of 
the meal in the scoop and with water from the lake, 
made batter for pancakes, baking them upon a flat 
stone over the fire. The stone burst, and they had 
a great laugh over their new way of turning the 
cakes. 

"After my father was twenty-one years of age, he 
worked two seasons and earned enough to pay his 
way at school at Constableville, in Lewis county, 
walking out in the fall and back in the spring. He 
said at the beginning of the school the little boys 
stood at the head of the class, and the large ones 
at the foot, but at the end of the term, the order was 
reversed. 

"In 1809. as I understand it. grandfather bought 
or helped my father buy the States' one hundred 
acres on Lot 58. Hannibal, and in May or June of 
that year my father commenced clearing there ; the 
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house in which my father resided for thirty-eight 
years before his death. The first season he spent 
entirely in cutting down the forest, commencing 
work at sunrise and working as long as he could 
see at night. 

"In March, 1812, he married Polly Colton, who died 
in 1841. He then married Lydia Dada Cowles, my 
mother, who died in 1864. His third wife was Mrs. 
Jane McCool, who survives him. Many of you know 
what a strong, vigorous man he was, and how earn- 
est he was in the cause of temperance and other 
matters of public welfare. He was a strong anti- 
Mason, and was earnestly opposed to slavery. In 
my early days it was rumored in the family that hi^ 
house was a station of the underground railroad, 
and that a certain old gray horse he had, knew well 
the road to Oswego in the darkest night. Much 
more might be said but time forbids." 

(VI) Arvin Rice, son of Asa Rice, was born 
in Cheshire, Connecticut, June 25, 1786; died 
October 13, 1878, at Hannibal, New York. He 
settled in Hannibal, in 1809, and was one of 
the most successful farmers in the town. He 
was supervisor, 1829-30-40: town clerk from 
1822 to 1828, 1831-32; justice of the peace, 
1829-37; member of assembly, 1838. He united 
with the Presbyterian church about 1819, was 
elected deacon, and afterwards deacon for life. 
He married (first) Polly Colton, born 1812, 
died 1841. He married (second) Lydia Dada 
Cowles, December, 1841 ; she died May 18, 
1864. He married (third), October, 1864, 
Jane M. McCool. Children of first wife; Cor- 
nelia, married H. Dunham; Jackson; Alfred; 
Eliza, married Isaac E. Hull; Nathan; .\nn 
A. Child of second wife; Arvin Jr. 

(VII) Arvin Rice, son of Arvin Rice, was 
born in Hannibal, New "S'ork, March 23, 1845. 
He was educated in the common schools, and 
Falley Seminary, Fulton. He is a prominent 
lawyer and banker, serving as president of the 
Fulton Savings Bank, of Fulton, since Janu- 
ary, 1903. He was supervisor of town of Vol- 
ney, Oswego county, 1879 to 1882, and 1884 to 
1886. He is a Republican in jiolitics. a Pres- 
byterian in religion, and has been elder in the 
church since 1876. 

He married (first), August 5, t868, Eliza- 
beth Giddings, died October 17, i8fig; married 
(second), at Fulton, New York, October 16. 
1873, Fannie S. Howe. Children; Cornelia 
Howe, Anna \'irena. Arvin Lewis, George 
Benjamin. 

The surname Bradford is 

BR.^DFORD derived from the name of a 

place, Broadford. or Brad- 

onford. There are two very ancient towns of 



this name, one in Wiltshire, England, and one 
in Yorkshire, near Leeds. Near the latter was 
the home of the ancestors of the American 
family. This family dates hack in England, 
doubtless, to the beginning of surnames, in the 
eleventh or twelfth centuries. One of the first 
martyrs burned at the stake during the reign 
of Bloody Mary was John l]radford, prebend 
of St. Paul and a celebrated preacher. He was 
born in Manchester, Lancashire, 1510, and was 
executed July i, 1555. He was a friend of 
Rogers, Saunders, Latimer, Cranmer and Rid- 
ley, who also died at the stake about the saine 
time. The Bradford coat-of-arms is; Argent, 
on a fesse, sable, three stags" heads erased, or. 
Right Rev. Father in God, Samuel Bradford, 
lord bishop of Rochester and dean of W'est- 
minster. bore these arms, as well as those of 
his Episcopal See. 

The ancestry of Governor William Brad- 
ford has not been traced beyond his grand- 
father, mentioned below, though it is known 
that the family is ancient. 

( 1 ) William liradford, grandfather of Gov- 
ernor William Bradford, lived at .\usterfield 
(Osterfeldt), county Nottingham, England, 
and, in 1573, he and John Hanson were the 
only subsidiaries located there. Bradford was 
taxed twenty shillings on land; Hanson the 
same amount on goods. His grandson, Will- 
iam (governor), lived with him after the death 
of William, his son. The date of his burial, at 
.Vusterfield. was January 10, 1595-96. Chil- 
dren; I. William, mentioned below. 2. Thomas, 
had a daughter Margaret, baptized March 9, 
1578, at Austerfield. 3. Robert, baptized at 
Austerficld, June 25, 1561 ; married, January 
31, 1585, Alice Waingate. Robert was the only 
subsidiary at Austerfield ; his will was dated 
.-\pril 15, 1599, and he was buried April 23, 
following; children; Robert. Mary, Elizabeth 
and Margaret. 4. Elizabeth, baptized July 15, 

1570; married, January 20. IS03, . 

■ (II) William" (2), son of William (i) Brad- 
ford, was born at Austerfield, probably about 
1550, and died when yet a young man, July 15, 
1591. He married Alice, daughter of John 
Hanson. Children, born at Austerfield; i. 
Alarearet, baptized Alarch 8, 1585, died young 
2. Alice, baptized Octoljer 30, 1587. 3. Gov- 
ernor William, mentioned below. 

(HI) Governor William (3) Bradford, son 
of William (2) Bradford, was born in Eng- 
land, and baptized at .'\usterfielil. March 19, 
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with his grandfatlier, but, on the latter's death, 
VVilham went to live witli his uncle, Robert 
Bradford, who lived in Scrooby, five miles 
from Austerfield, near the estate of the Brew- 
sters, in county Nottingham. He joined the 
church where Rev. Richard Clifton and Rev. 
John Robinson preached, and soon became one 
of the leading "separatists." His early educa- 
tional advantages were limited, but by diligent 
study he became very proficient in Dutch. 
Latin, French and Greek, and also devoted 
himself to the study of Hebrew, that he might 
read the Bible in its original form. He went 
with the company which migrated to Holland. 
and was a most influential power among them. 
On his coming of age he received considerable 
property from his father's estate, but did not 
succeed him in his commercial undertakings. 
He learned the art of "fustian or frieze weav- 
ing." On November 15, 1613 he was affianced 
to Dorothea May, from Wisbeach, Cambridge, 
England. The banns were published in Ley- 
den, and they were married in Amsterdam, 
Holland, December 9, 1613. His age is given 
as twenty-three, hers as sixteen. They em- 
barked for England, July 22, 1620, and, after 
many trials, sailed from Plymouth, England, 
September 6, 1620, in the ship "Mayflower," 
reaching Cape Cod liarbor the November, fol- 
lowing. While they were at anchor, Dorothea 
fell overboard and was drownecl. Soon after 
the death of ("iovernor Carver, William Brad- 
ford was elected governor of the colony, which 
position he held by annual election until his 
death, with the exception of the years 1633- 
34-36-38-44. He took a prominent part in all 
the councils which were held at his house, and 
in all civic, political and military afifairs. From 
his house, at the foot of Burial Hill, each Sun- 
day morning, the company of people who as- 
sembled there marched up to the fort at its 
top, where religious services were held. The 
history of the times which he left gives a cor- 
rect and valuable picture of the events of that 
day. He married (second) Mrs. Alice (Car- 
penter) Southworth, widow of Edward South- 
worth, and daughter of Alexander Carpenter, 
of Wrentham, England. She died March 26, 
1670; he died May 9, 1657. Child of first 
wife: John, of Duxbury, 1615: married Mar- 
tha Bourne: died in Norwich, Connecticut, 
1678, s. p. Children of second wife: i. Will- 
iam, mentioned below. 2. Mercy, married 
Benjamin or Joseph Vermayes. 3. Joseph, 
born 1630; married. May 25, 1664, Joel Ho- 



bart, daughter of Rev. Peter Hobart, first min- 
ister of Hingham; died July 10, 1716. 

(I\') Major William (4) Bradford, son of 
Governor \Villiam (3) Bradford, was born 
June 16, 1624, in Plymouth, Massachusetts, 
diecL there, February 20, 1703. He removed 
to Kingston, Massachusetts. He was assist- 
ant treasurer and deputy governor of Plym- 
outh from 1682 to 1686, and from 1689 to 
1 691, and, in the latter year, one of the council 
of Massachusetts, under Governor Andros. He 
w-as also the chief military officer of Plymouth 
Colony. His will is dated January 29, 1703. 
He married (first) Alice Richards, who died at 
Plymouth, December 12, 1671, daughter of 
Thomas and Wealthy Richards, of Weymouth, 
Massachusetts. He married (second) Widow 
Wiswell. He married (third) Mrs. Mary 
Holmes, who died June 6, 1714-15, widow of 
Rev. John Holmes, of Duxbury, and daughter 
of John Atwood, of Plymouth. Children of 
first wife: i. John, born February 20, 1653. 
2. William, ^larch 11, 1655, <1'^'^' 1687; mar- 
ried Rebecca Bartlett. 3. Thomas, of Norwich. 
4. Alice, married Rev. William Adams and 
Major James Fitch. 5. Hannah, married, No- 
vember 28, 1683, Joshua Ripley. 6. Mercy. 
married Samuel Steel. 7. Alelatiah, married 
John Steel. 8. Samuel, mentioned below. 9. 
Mary, married William Hunt. 10. Sarah, mar- 
ried Kenelm Baker. Child of second wife: 11. 
Joseph, of Norwich. Children of third wife: 

12. Israel, married Sarah Bartlett, of Duxbury. 

13. Ephraim, married, February 13, 1710, Eliz- 
abeth Bartlett. 14. David, married, 17 14, Eliz- 
abeth Finney, died March 16, 1730. 15. Heze- 
kiah, marrieil Mary Chandler, of Duxbury. 

(\') Samuel, son of Major William (4) 
P.radford, was born in 1668, and was of Dux- 
bury as early as 1700, when he was first chosen 
juryman. He was constable, 1701 ; selectman. 
1703, and, in 1710. was one of three men ap- 
pointed to divide the common lands. He had 
a grant of land adjoining his house lot, in 1713, 
and lived about a third of a mile northeast 
from the mouth of Island creek. He is called 
lieutenant in records. He married, Julv, 1689. 
Hannah, daughter of John and Elizabeth 
Rogers, of Duxbury. Children: i. Hannah, 
born February 14, 1689-90; married Nathaniel 
Gilbert, of Taunton. 2. Gershom, December 
21, 1691 : married Priscilla, daughter of Rev 
Ichabod Wiswall, of Duxbury. 3. Perez, De- 
cember 28, 1694; married Abigail Belch. 4. 
Elizabeth, December 15. 1696; married W^ill- 



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iam Whiting, of Hartford. 5. Jerusha, March 
10, 1699: married Rev. Ebenezer Gay, of 
Hingham. 6. Welthea, May 15, 1702; mar- 
ried Lane, of Hingham. 7. Gamaliel, 

mentioned below. 

(VI) Gamaliel, son of Samuel Bradiord, 
was born May 18, 1704, died 1778. He was 
known as the Hon. Gamaliel Bradford, and 
held several important public positions, judge 
of the county court, member of the council of 
Massachusetts. He married, .August 30, 1727, 
.\bigail Bartlett, of Duxbury, who died .Au- 
gust 30, 1776. Children: i. .\bigail, born Sep- 
tember 24, 1728; married Captain Wait Wads- 
worth, of Duxbury, December 15, 1748. 2. 
Samuel, January 2, 1730; revolutionary sol- 
dier; married Grace Ring, of Kingston, No- 
vember I, 1749. 3. Gamaliel, September 2, 
1731 ; married (first) Sarah Alden, of Du.x- 
bury, (second) Mary Cooper; he was colonel 
in the revolution; died January, 1806-07. 4. 
Seth, September 14, 1733; married Lydia, 
daughter of Jedediah Southworth, of Du.xbury, 
February 7, 1760. 5. Paybody. March 8, 1735 ; 
soldier in the revolution ; married Welthea De- 
lano, of Kingston, 1760. 6. Deborah, August 
17, 1738; married Captain Melzer Adams, of 
Kingston. 7. Hannah. July 30, 1740: married 
Joshua Stanford, of Du.\:bury, November 13, 
1774. 8. Ruth. July 5, 1743: married Elijah 
-Sampson, of Duxbury, September 3, 1761 ; 
died r8i2. 9. Peter, mentioned below. 10. 
.A.ndrew, twin of Peter, June 2, 1745; soldier 
in the revolution : married ZMary Turner, of 
Pembroke; died January i. 1836. 

(\'II) Peter, son of Gamaliel Bradford, 
was born June 2, 1745. He married .\bigail 
Loring, of Pembroke, .\mong their children 
was Paul P., mentioned below. 

(VHI) Paul P., son of Peter Bradford, was 
born July 14, 1795, died October 2, 1865. He 
settled, with his family, in 1832, in Oswego 
county. New York. He married Rhoda Bab- 
cock. Children : Benjamin, Harriet, Dudley, 
.\le\-ander. Jesse, Abbey. 

(IX) Alexander, son of Paul P. Bradford, 
was born in Rhode Island, November 25, 1829; 
died March i, 1897. He was three years old 
when the family came to Oswego county, New 
York. He was educated in the public schools 
of Oswego county, and followed farming for 
many years, at X'olney, New York. He was 
interested in jniblic affairs, and served the 
town of Yolney as assessor and two terms as 
highway commissioner. In 1886 he removed 



to Fulton, New York. He was trustee of the 
incorporated village of Fulton and street com- 
missioner several years. He was one of the 
charter members of \'olney Grange, Patrons 
of Husbandry, and a faithful member of the 
Methodist Episcopal church. In politics he 
was a Republican. He married, February 10, 
1854, Catharine Sears, born August 30, 1833, 
daughter of Z. P. Sears, descendant of Rich- 
ard Sears, one of the pioneers of Cape Cod. 
Children: i. Charles P., born November 13, 
1857. 2. Hattie A., May 3, 1858, died July 29, 
1884. 3. Catharine M., April 23, 1862. 4. 
Ira A., April i, 1864. 5. William Jesse, men- 
tioned below. 

(X) William Jesse, son of Alexander Brad- 
ford, was born in Ingalls Corners, Oswego 
county. New York, January. 11, 1870. He was 
educated in the public schools and the Fulton 
high school. He then engaged in the sand and 
gravel business, and has built up a prosperous 
trade as a general contractor. He has invested 1 
considerably in real estate in Fulton. In poli- I 
tics he is a Republican. He is a member of 1 
the Fulton Methodist Episcopal church. He 
married, January 21, 1891, Carrie Bertha Por- 
ter, born in Fulton, daughter of John and 
Susanna Porter, of Fulton. Children : Nettie 
Susanna, born December, '1891 ; Leonard, lune 
I. if^7- 

William Moody, immigrant an- 
MOODY cestor of this family, was born 

in W^ales, England, and came 
from Ipswich, Suffolk county, Wales, and lo- 
cated in Newbury, Massachusetts. He was of 
Welch ancestry, and a saddler by trade, com- 
ing to New England in 1634. He was admit- 
ted as a freeman. May 6, 1635, and was one of 
the first settlers of the town of Newbury. His 
descendants have been among the n;ost promi- 
nent men of that town and vicinity to the pres- 
ent time. He had a ninety-two grant from 
the town. According to tradition he was the 
first to shoe oxen. He died October 25, 1673. 
His widow, Sarah, died January 13, 1672-73. 
Children: Sauuiel, born in Wales, about 1630: 
Rev. Joshua, about 1632; Caleb. The Rev. 
Joshua was educated in Newbury, and was a 
graduate of Harvard College in 1653. He was 
a mini.ster in the Congregational church at 
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1658. Be- 
cause of his refusal to administer the sacra- 
ment to two strangers, to him unknown, he 
was thrown into prison by order of Governor 




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Crawford, where he remained thirteen weeks, 
when through the influence of friends he was 
released, and went to the "old Church" in Bos- 
ton, where he preached until 1692. He had a 
son Samuel,- who was a graduate of Harvard, 
and a renowned preacher, who liad five sons, 
three of whom were ministers. 

(I) David Moody was a descendant of Will- 
iam Moody, who immigrated from Wales, and 
is said to have been a son of Joshua Moody, a 
descendant of William, and born in Essex 
county, Massachusetts, May 4, 1778. He mar- 
ried Geminia Bean, and removed to New- 
Hampshire, and from thence to Vermont, and 
from there to Union, Broome county. New 
York, in 1812. He purchased a farm on Bean 
Hill, and followed farming during his life. 
Children: i. Nehemiah, born in Vermont, in 
iSoo; married Nancy Rockwell, at Union, had 
a son Elisha, and several other children ; re- 
moved to McKean county, Pennsylvania, w'th 
his family. 2. Stephen, born in Vermont, in 
1801 ; settled in Cortland, New York ; mar- 
ried Charlotte ; had three sons : Bur- 

dette, Frank and Gideon. 3. Zebina, born 
1804; '•emoved to Michigan, and had several 
children. 4. Gemima, who married Josiah Caf- 
ferty, and left three children: Charles M., 
Milton T. and Albertine. Charles M. had two 
sons. Lute D. and Lee M. Cafferty ; Albertine 
left no children, and Milton T. left one daugh- 
ter, Emma Cafferty. 5. Hannah. 6. Sally. 
7. Abbie, each of whom were married, but left 
no descendants. 8. Charles, see forward. 9. 
John, born at Union, in 1818; was an attorney 
and resided in New York; married (first) 
Elizabeth Steele, and had one daughter, Jennie, 
who married Frederick Goeller, and has sev- 
eral children. His first wife died 1870, and he 
married (second) Margaret Goeller, by whom 
he had two sons, John and Milo, who reside in 
New York. 

(H) Charles, son of David Moody, was 
born April 8, 1808, in Vermont, and he re- 
moved, in 1812, with his father to Union, New 
York. He received a common school educa- 
tion, and, for a number of years, was engaged 
in farming and lumbering at L'nion, New 
York, where he married, January i, 1838. 
Amanda, daughter of George Keeler, who 
came from Connecticut, and Elizabeth (Smith) 
Keeler, who came from Dutchess county. New 
York, who had several other children. Charles 
Moody and his wife removed from Union, 
New York, to Spencer, New York, in 1862, 



where he engaged in farming, and resided 
until his death, in 1891. He was a long time 
member of the Methodist Episcopal church, 
and one of its officers, and one of the principal 
persons who had charge of the erection of the 
first Methodist Epi'scopal church in the village 
of Union, causing the same to be built. Chil- 
dren, all born at Union, New York: i. Edwin 
C, see forward. 2. Harriet A., married Mar- 
shall Sweetlove, and has no living children. 

3. W'illiam H., born May 20, 1848; married 
Ella Sullivan, and they had three children: L. 
Dwight, born 1874, died June, 1910; Fred C, 
born 1876, died 1888; Raymond, born 1885. 
an attorney at law, and resides in Brooklyn. 

4. Charles E., born February 22, 1850; mar- 
ried Dean Hutchins, and resides at Sayer. 
Pennsylvania ; has three living children, Mau- 
rice, May and Floyd. 5. Julia K., born Sep- 
tember, 1855; married Rev. Isaac B. Wilson, 
has one daughter, Ruth. They reside at Spen- 
cer, New York. 

(HI) Edwin C, son of Charles Moody, v>'as 
born in Union, New York, November 4, 1838. 
He was educated at the public schools, and at 
an academy at Union, New York. He began 
the study of law in 1858, in the office of his 
uncle, John Moody, in the city of New York, 
and attended the New York University Law 
School, where he was graduated in April, 1861. 
and the degree of LL. B. was conferred upon 
him by the university, and he was admitted in 
the supreme court in New York, in May, 1861. 
as an attorney and counselor. It was in the 
midst of the civil war, and he opened a law 
office in the village of L^nion, New York, and 
commenced the practice of law at that place, in 
July, 1861. He was engaged in the enlisting 
of men for tne service, and as deputy provost 
marshall in the enrollment of men preparatory 
to a draft. During the winters of 1861-62-63 
he taught school at L-nion. He was town clerk 
of L'nion in 1863-66. and supervisor of the 
town of Union for eight years after 1866. 
chairman of the board of supervisors in the 
years 1870-74-75; in 1877 he was a member 
of assembly from Broome county. Removed 
from Union to Binghamton in 1877, and, from 
1861 to the present time, engaged in practicing 
law in Broome county general business, and 
was county attorney from August, 1907, to 
January, 1910. In politics he is a Republican. 
He is a member of the Calumet Lodge, Odd 
Fellows, and of the Binghamton Club. 

He married (first). November 26. 1862, 



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Helen D., born July i6, 1840, daughter of Ste- 
phen and Maria (Powers) Wheeler. She died 
in June, 1879, and he married (second), at 
Canastota, New York, August 12, 1885, Sadie 
A., daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth Clow. 
Children of first wife: i. Iidith S.. born Octo- 
ber I, 18(36: married Rev. E. F. Hallenbeck ; 
children : Wilbur C. and Margaret. 2. Carrie, 
born 1867, married Henry S. Waldron. and 
had Helen and Gladys Waldron. 4. Edwin 
H.. bom May 3, 1879, graduate of Hamilton 
College, afterwards from New York Law 
School, 1902 : admitted as an attorney and 
counselor at law in supreme court, 1905 ; now 
in partnership with his father. Child of sec- 
ond wife: 5. Mildred E., born March 29, 1895. 



John Alexander was an 
.ALEXANDER early settler at Cambridge, 
Massachusetts, and was 
active in the movement to have the town of 
Newton set off and incorporated. He died at 
Newton, December i, 1696. He appears to 
have been in New Hampshire in 1686, and in 
Groton, Massachusetts, in 1691. He married 

Beatrice . Three children are recorded 

in the Newton printed records : Martha, born 
July 16, 1668; Deliverance, January 5, 1671 ; 
Elizabeth. 

(U) Joseph .'Mcxander, believed to be son 
of John Alexander, was at Mendon as early as 
1736. A deed recorded at Worcester shows 
that John Alexander, of Worcester, bought 
land at Mendon, April 23, 1736, and was then 
of Mendon, as shown by Deed Book 33, p. 367, 
Worcester records. Joseph died intestate, at 
Mendon, in 1753. His inventory was dated 
May 5, 1753, and his widow Sarah was ap- 
pointed administratrix. May 10, 1754. Their 
son William was born in 1745, as shown by 
the nomination of his mother as his guardian, 
on October 27, 1762, when he was seventeen 
years of age. There were doubtless other chil- 
dren. 

(HI) William, son of Joseph .\lexander, 
was born at Mendon, in 1745. He settled in 
the adjacent town of Upton, Worcester coun- 
ty, Massachusetts, and flied there, February 
19, 1817. His will was dated March 13, 1813, 
bequeathing to wife Sarah and children — Eze- 
kiel, William. Daniel (mentioned below), Jo- 
se[)h and Leonard. William married, October 
9, 1804, .Anna Campbell, of Worcester; child, 
Eliza, bom at Shrewsbury, June 30, 1807. 
Ezekiel lived at L^ptcjn, where he died August 



15, 1840, aged sixty years; married, about 1803, 
ThirzaWheelock,of Mendon (intentions March 
15, 1803), and she died November 15, 1840, 
aged sixty. Leonard married (intentions dated 
March 9, 1809) Sarah Rhodes. 

(IV) Daniel, son of William Alexander, 
was born at ]\Iendon or L'pton, about 1775. 
He is said to have lived at Cambridge and Wor- 
cester, Massachusetts, and, when a young boy, 
was doubtless educated and brought up in 
L^pton. About 181 7 he came to New York 
state, after a short sojourn in \'ermont, and 
his brothers, William, Leonard and Joseph, 
came to the same section. He married, at 

Upton, February 18, 1796, Hannah . 

Children, born at L^pton : Augusta, September 
23, 1797. married Peleg Arnold : Hannah, mar- 
ried Jacob Schermerhorn ; Electa, married 
David Pratt ; Leonard, mentioned below. 

(V) Leonard, son of Daniel Alexander, 
was born at Bennington, Vermont, in 1803; 
died in Cortland, New York, November 20, 
1887. About 1817 he came, with his parents, 
to Cortland county. New York, and located 
at East Homer. He cleared a tract of wild 
land, when a young man, and should be count- 
ed among the pioneers of the town. Eventu- 
ally he became possessed of a farm of one 
hundred and ninety-seven acres, and he gave 
his attention to general farming until he re- 
tired from active labor, and came to Cortland 
to make his home with his daughter, Orissa 
A., there spending his declining years. He 
was, at one time, commissioner of highways, 
and held various other positions of trust. In 
politics he was a Republican, in religion a 
Methodist. He married Melvina Miner, of 
Homer, born 1808, died 1878, daughter of 
Asahel and Rhoda (Keep) Minor. Children, 
born at Homer: Louisa Nelton, April 5, 1833; 
Morris La Grange, July 27, 1834; Orissa 
.\urelia, June 21, 1836: Melvin L., mentioned 
below; Irving, June 12, 1839, died March i. 
1908: Hartley Keep, March 28, 1841. died 
1849; Vinnie Amanda, July 16. 1843; Frank 
F., November 14, 1848, died March 6, 1892; 
William H., May 18, 1853, resides in Chicago, 
Illinois. 

(VI) Melvin L., son of Leonard Alexander, 
was born in East Homer, January 14, 1838, 
and is now living in McGraw, New York. He 
received his education in the district schools of 
his native town. He followed farming as a 
youth and young man. After leaving home 
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1890, at Cortlandvillc. making a specialty of 
his dairy. For a number of years he had an 
insurance agency in Cortland. Since 1905 he 
has made his home at McGraw, New York, 
and is retired. In politics he is a Republican ; in 
religion a Methodist. He married, December 
16, i860, Nancy "M. Barber, of Caton, Steuben 
county, New York, born February 10, 1842, 
daughter of Ephraini and Betsey Barber. Chil- 
dren : I. Minnie, born December 12, 1861 ; 
married W. C. Taylor, of Syracuse. 2. Mary 
L., born April 20, 1864; married Frank \\'., 
Hendee, of McGraw. 3. Hartley Keep, men- 
tioned below. 4. Rolland L.. born July 19, 
1869; now with the Empire Corset Company. 
5. Stephen D., born November 15, 1871 ; assist- 
ant superintendent of the Empire Corset Com- 
pany; married Elva Town. 6. Maggie S., born 
April 23, 1874. died February il, 1891. 7. Mil- 
dred .-v., born October 18, 1876; married C. 
Pearl Geer, of McGraw. 8. Mattie O.. born 
March 3, 1879. 9. Frank L.,born December 16, 
1881 ; stenographer and bookkeeper with the 
Empire Corset Company. 10. Maud Ethel, born 
.September 21, 1886: married Arthur ]\. Day, of 
Buffalo, New York, city passenger agent of 
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad 
Company. 

(\TI) Hartley Keep, son of Melvin L. 
.Mexander, was born at East Homer, New 
York, May 31, 1866. He was educated there 
in the public schools, and at the State Normal 
School, at Cortland, and Allen's Business Col- 
lege, at Elmira, New York. For a time he 
taught school in Steuben county. New York, 
and then was, for some years, bookkeeper for 
Hopkins Brothers, of Cortland. In 1888 he 
came to McGraw, New York, and was em- 
ployed as bcxikkeeper by P. H. McGraw & 
Sons, corset manufacturers, remaining in this 
position until 1901. He left to become vice- 
president and treasurer of the Empire Corset 
Comjianv, of which he was one of the organ- 
izers, and be has held these offices since that 
time. In politics he is a Republican. For 
three years he was president of the incor- 
porated village of McGraw. He is a trustee of 
the high school, and member of the board of 
water commissioners of the village of McGraw 
and a director in the Cortland Savings & Loan 
Association. 

He married, June 24, 1890, Hattie May 
Warren, of McGraw, born May 3. 1867, daugh- 
ter of Charles Benjamin and Sarah A. (Jones) 



Warren. They have one child, Warren Ken- 
neth, born March 13, 1897. 



Probably the earliest record of the 
PAGE Page family was in 1151 to 11 57, 
when John de Pagham was the 
fourth Bishop of Worcester, England. Pag- 
ham, Pagenham. and Pageham, are the same 
names, the spelling being changed gradually 
in the records until it became Page of Page- 
ham, and finally Page. 

About i6oo. Sir Gregory I'age, Knight, had 
sons who came to America. Sir Gregory Page, 
created baronet December 3, 1714, of Green- 
wich, Kent, England, was his son ; the baro- 
netcy became extinct August 4, 1774. Their 
coat-of-arms was: Azure, a fesse indented be- 
tween three martlets or, sometimes or and azure. 
Crest: .\ demi-horse per pole dancettee (or 
and azure). Many branches of the family in 
England have used this coat-of-arms, and it 
may have been a late grant to the baronets. 
The arms give distinct proof that the Page and 
Pagenham families were the same, for there is 
no other form given. Sir Hugo, Knight, must 
have had arms, and William the Crusader, 
1271, at the time of the last Crusade, also must 
have had arms, so they were evidently record- 
ed as Pagenham, for their coats-of-arms. About 
1 3 10. in the time of Edward II., the coat-of- 
arms of Sire Edmon de Pagenham (Pagan- 
ham or Pakenham) and later of John de Pag- 
enham. were: Quarterly or and gules (gold 
and red ) in the first c|uarter, an eagle display- 
ed vert : mantling or and gules. Crest: Out of a 
mural crown or, a demi eagle gules. On one 
banner is placed the same coat-of-arms as on 
the family flag, and on another is placed that 
branch of Pagenham called Page, or Paige, of 
Devonshire, England. These arms were: .Ur- 
gent a bend between three eagles displayed all 
sable. Crest : An eagle ermine. To this fam- 
ily belonged Nicholas Paige, of Rumney Marsh, 
colonel of the Second Regiment of Foot, Suf- 
folk county, Massachusetts, 1717. He came 
from Plymouth, Devonshire, England, in 1665, 
and used a demi-eagle instead of eagle ermine, 
for his crest. 

Deacon Robert Page married Lucia , 

and came from Ormsby, Yorkshire, England, 
or near by, to Massachusetts. Their daughter 
married in 1662. Francis Page, of Bedford, 
England, 1504-1678, had a son. Colonel John 
Page, of Williamsburg, \'irginia, who was born 



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at Bedford, 1627, and died in 1692. Colonel 
Page was a member of the Virginia colonial 
council. He married, 1656, Alice, daughter of 
Lucky, of Essex. He was created a baronet. 
The foregoing matter pertaining to the early 
history and heraldry of the family was furnish- 
ed for this work by Emmett D. Page, 274 Gates 
avenue, Brooklyn, New York. 

(I) Asa Page, from one of the early Amer- 
ican immigrants of the Page family, settled in 
Litchfield county, Connecticut. According to 
the first federal census, taken in 1790, Asa 
Page, of Litchfield county, had three sons under 
sixteen and three females in his family. He 
was probably born as early -as 1745- At the 
same time and in the same locality there was 
according to the same authority an Asa Page 
(2d). The fact that he was called 2d tends 
to show that there was a third Asa Page at 
some time, and that the father may have been 

Asa Jr. Asa Page married Eunice . 

Between 1790 and 1792 both Asa Page and 
his son Asa removed to Whitney Point, Broome 
county. New York. The old homestead there 
on Page Brook is now owned by Orlan T. 
Page. Dr. Page writes of Asa Page and .Asa 
(2d) : "Both of these Asa Pages were buried 
just north of where the widow of Sherman 
Page now lives in a meadow above Whitney's 
Point, then used as a burial plot. It overlooks 
the valley of the Otselic river. This land is on 
what is now known as the David Allerton 
farm. About i860 Allerton removed the stones 
and plowed up the plot, after asking Sherman 
Page, a son of .'Asa (2d) to share in the ex- 
pense of removing the bodies to the cemetery 
at Lisle, New York, two miles distant. The 
bodies were finally removed by Allerton and 
the stones are now scattered. Many of the 
Page family were buried there. On one of the 
old stones these words were inscribed : 

"Afflictions sore long time 1 bore, 
Physicians were in vain ; 
'Til God was pleased to give me case. 
.\nd free me from my Pain." 

Asa Page ( ist) desired to be buried there, so 
that when the last trumpet sounded "he could 
rise up and at the resurrection could overlook 
the river and meadows thereof." Dr. Page re- 
meiribers seeing the .graves when a child, and 
recalls the locations. He says the stones are 
piled U]) around the place of burial or used for 
doorsteps to a barn. His inother related to 
him much of the family history preserved here. 



as written down at the time of her death in 
1901. 

Children of Asa and Eunice Page : Solomon, 
Calvin and Luther, died early ; John, mention- 
ed below ; .\sa (2d), married Hannah L. Faulk- 
ner, a native of Scotland, and lived in Litch- 
field county, Connecticut, and Broome county, 
New York ; and earlier on Long Island Sound, 
in Connecticut. (Dr. Page writes that his 
mother's mother, Anna Page, a daughter of 
.\sa Page (2d), visited the old home in Con- 
necticut when she was seven years old, and she 
used to tell of her impressions and how she 
thought the Sound was the ocean. It was in 
the Leet or Leete district). Children of .\sa 
(2d) : Rufus, of Olean, New York, father of 
State Senator Charles Page, of New Y'ork 

City ; Lewis ; Sherman ; Lucy, married 

Thurston; .Anna Page (grandmother of Dr. 
Page), and Clara Page. Polly Page was the 
third surviving child of Asa (ist). 

(II) John, son of Asa Page, wa.s born in 
Connecticut, and came with his father to 
Broome county. New York, about 1792. Dr. 
Page says the remnants of the old log house 
that he built in 1792 are still visible, and he re- 
luembers John Page, who died in 1856, and i- 
buried at Upper Lisle, New Y'ork. Dr. Page 
says that about 1792-95 John used to go by 
canoe to Binghamton with the wheat for mak- 
ing flour, down the Otselic river to Chenango 
Forks, where it joined another stream, and 
while he was away on these long trips, his 
wife stayed at home to protect the live stock 
from wild beasts, herself living in a log cabin 
with a curtain in place of a door at first. He 
luarried, in Connecticut, Rachel Perrin. Chil- 
dren : I. Laura, married Benjamin Hodges; 
their only surviving son, Alexander, is still 
living on Page Brook, on the homestead, aged 

about eighty-two years. 2. Sally, married 

.Ashley, of Chicago. 3. Solomon, mentioned 
below. 4. Irene. 5. Calvin. 6. Elmira, mar- 
ried Cyrus Coy. 7. Luther, father of Orlan 
Page, of Whitney's Point, New York. 8. 
Rhoda. 9. Asa, father of Dr. Emmett D. 
Page, of Brooklyn. 10. Lavinia. ii.JohnOrin. 

(HI) Soloiuon, son of John Page, was born 
in Triangle, or Whitney Point, New York, and 
died in Greene. New York, Tuly 9. 1886. He 
married, July 8, 1828, Eliza Coy, who was born 
in Connecticut. December 28, 1803, and died 
at Whitney's Point, September 2, 1886. Chil- 
dren : 1. Cyrus, born January 10, 1830; died 
April 24. 1905. 2. Ransom D.. mentioned 



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below. 3. Almira C, born October J2, 1833: 
died October 15, 1863. 4. Maryette, born Sq)- 
teniber 23, 1838; died December 6, 1902. 5. 
Albert, born March 4, 1843; died May 9, 1910. 

(I\'') Ransom D., son of Solomon I'age. 
was born in the town of Triangle. Broome 
county, New York, at the homestead on Page 
Brook, April 11, 1832, and died at Whitney 
f'oint. New York, April 20, 1886. He was a 
farmer and dealer in eggs, butter and other 
farm produce. During all his active life he 
resided in his native town, and took a keen 
interest in its affairs and welfare. In religion 
he was a Baptist, and a trustee of the church 
many years. In politics he was a Republican. 
He married, November 18, 1847, ^t Barker, 
New York, Lydia A. Boynton, born in Tri- 
angle. New York, died in Greene, New York. 
February 16, 1902, daughter of George and 
Eliza (Walworth) Boynton. Children: i. 
Arthur W., born August 11, i860; died No- 
vember 24, 1904, a produce dealer, owning 
several creameries in Whitney's Point and 
vicinity; married, August 26, i8yo, Ida M. 
Wright, I if Maine, Broome county, and had 
line son, Rutherftird E., born September 21, 
1897. 2. Erford Lydell, mentioned below. 

(IV) Erford Lydell, son of Ransom D. Page, 
was born in the town of Triangle, New York, 
May 8, 1865. He attended the public schools 
and Whitney Point .\cademy and Cornell 
L'niversity. In 1886 he engaged in business as 
a merchant in the town of Greene, where he 
has resided since then. He conducted a gen- 
eral store for fifteen years. In 1896 he found- 
ed the Page .Seed Company, of which he is 
president and general manager. The business 
was incorporated in 1902. It has flourished 
from the first, and grown to large proportions. 
The first building of the new plant was erected 
in 1905, and since then several others have 
been built. Mr. Page is president of the Chen- 
ango Hotel Company; secretary of the Board 
of Trade of Greene, and was formerly presi- 
<lent of the American Seed Trade .Association. 
In politics he is a Republican, and he has been 
president of the incorporated village of Greene. 
He is a trustee and a prominent member of 
the Congregational church of Greene. 

He married. May 9, 1889, Cornelia Jennette 
Russell, of Greene, daughter of William Fred- 
erick and Cornelia Juhel (Juliand) Russell. 
Children: i. Ethel, born I\Iay 9, 1894; died 
April 14, 1893. 2. Joseph Russell, born May 
7, 1897. 3- Lyman Arthur, born June 4, T902. 



Edward Nash was born in Lancas- 

.X ASH ter, Lancashire, England, in 1592, 

dvtring the reign of Queen Eliza- 

Ijeth. He had sons Edward, mentioned below. 

and John. 

( 1 1 ) Edward ( 2 ). son of Edward ( 1 ) Xasli. 
was the immigrant ancestor, and was born in 
Lancaster, England, in 1623. He came tn 
.\merica about 1650 to Stratford, and within a 
year settled at Norwalk, Connecticut, on a lot 
which he bought of Mark St. John, situated 
where the present East -Norwalk school now 
stands. He died here in 1699. He was a 
farmer, and a tanner, keeping his vat on Mill 
Brook. He married the widow of Thomas 
Barlow, of Fairfield ; she was also widow of 
Thomas Rumble, of Stratford, and j^robably 
was the daughter of Thomas .Slu'rwood, of 
Fairfield. She had a child. Bertha Rumble, by 
her first husband ; by second husband, Mary 
and Phebe Barlow, and children by Edward 
Nash: John, mentioned below; llrumah, mar- 
ried Deliverance Wakeley, 1678. 

(HI) John, son of Edward (2) .\ash, was 
born in Norwalk, in 1652, and is said to have 
been the first English male child born there. 
He was a fanner in Norwalk. He married 
.Mary Barlow, daughter of his stepmother, and 
she died September 2, 171 1. Children: John, 
mentioned below : Nathan, born January 26. 

trK;2-3. 

( 1\' ) John (2 ), .son of John ( i ) Na.sh, was 
JKirn in .Norwalk, Connecticut. December 25, 
1688, and died there in 1769. He was a farmer. 
He married. May 14, 1709, Abigail Blakeley. 
Children : Edward ; Mary ; John ; Nathan : 
.\braham, mentioned below; Micajah; Sam- 
uel : .Abigail ; Ebenezer ; Mercy. 

(\') Abraham, son of John (2) Nash, was 
born in Norwalk, October 10, 1718, and died at 
Ridgefield. Connecticut, June 24, 1801. He re- 
moved there in 1748, and owned a large farm 
in the southern ]3art of the town. He was a 
member of the Presbyterian church at first, 
but later joined the Congregational church. 
He married, November 21, 1738, Rhoda Keel- 
er, granddaughter of John Kecler, who mar- 
ried. June t8, 1679, Mehitable, daughter of 
John Rockwell; their son, John Jr., born De- 
cember 26. 1682, married, .\pril 19. 1710. 
Rhoda Hoyt. Children, resided at Ridgefield : 
.Abigail ; Abraham, mentioned below ; Phebe ; 
Isaac ; John ; Samuel ; Jacob, married August 
30, 1751, Freelove Keeler ; Rhoda; Mehitable: 
Ezra ; lonathan : Riah. 



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(\']) Abraham (2), son of Abraham (1) 
Xash, was born at Norwalk, November 7, 
1740, and died at Ridgefield, November 18, 
1821. He was eight years of age when he 
went to Ridgefield with his paraits. He was 
a farmer. In rehgion he was a Congregation- 
alist. He married, November 17, 1792, a Miss 
Ohnstead. Children : Daniel, mentioned below ; 
Sarah ; Jarcd ; Phebe : Samncl O. ; Abraham : 
Abiel ; Abraham. 

(VH) Daniel, son uf Alirahani (2) Nash, 
was born in Ridgefield, November 24, 1763, 
and died in Butternuts, Otsego county, New 
York, October 5, 1844. He removed there 
aJjout 1805. He married, April 30, 1783, Olive. 
l)orn A])ril 5, 1766, died October 24, 1840, 
(laughter of Eliakim Nash. Daniel Nash 
served in the revolution. Children : David, 
born November 10, 1783, died March 22, i860, 
was a soldier in the war of 1812 ; Dorcas, born 
February 22. 1787, married Nathan Gray: 
Sarah, born May 3, 1798. died August 10. 
1801 ; Harvey O., mentioned below. 

(Vni) Harvey Olmstead, son of Daniel 
Nash, was born in Ridgefield, January i, 1804, 
and died January 11, 1875, ^t Harpersville. 
Broome county. New York. He was brought 
to New York state by his parents when a 
young child. He was a miller and a farmer. 
For many years he lived at Butternuts, where 
his children were all born, and he later re- 
moved to Guilford, New York, and then to 
Harpersville, where he died. He married, 1839, 
Eliza A., daughter of Eeniuel Merchant : she 
was born May 31, i8o(^), in Danbury, Con- 
necticut, and died July 16, 1886, in Guilford. 
New York. Children : Elizabeth O.. born 
July 25, 1840, married (first) Joseph Thurs- 
ton, (second) W. S. I'sher, of Kingston, On- 
tario; William O., born March 9, 1842, lives in 
Guilford; Martin M., mentioned below; Ellen 
M., born May 31, 1845, married \\'illiam I!. 
Harvey, of Guilford : Gould, born February 
23, 1847, merchant, lives in Eagle River, Wis- 
consin ; Phebe A., born .-Xugust 30, 1848, mar- 
ried Oliver C. Bently, lives in Clilbertville, New 
York. 

(IX) Martin Marvin, son of Harvey O. 
Nash, was born in Butternuts, New York. Octo- 
ber 9, 1843, and died in Kingston, New York, 
.\\)T\\ 27, 1905. He was educated in the pub- 
lic schools, and learned the trade of wheel- 
wright and w'agon builder and for many years 
was in business making wagons and carriages 
at Guilford, New York. He was a soldier in 



the civil war, serving in Company F, Eighty- 
ninth Regiment New York X'olunteer Militia, 
and took i)art in the battles of Antietam, Cold 
Harbor and Gettysburg, besides other less im- 
portant actions. Through most of his three 
years and a half of service he was attached 
to the hospital corps. In politics he was a Re- 
publican. He was an active and faithful mem- 
ber of the Alethodist Episcopal church. He 
married. October 17, 1867, Eucinda R. Bentley, 
a native of (iuilford, daughter of Charles H. 
and Hannah (Main) Bentley. Children: 
Charles Gould, mentioned below ; May Eliza- 
beth, died in childhood: Paschal .\ndrew, born 
in the town of Guilford, married Susie Root, 
of Guilford, and had Luella and Harry. 

(X) Charles Gould, son of Martin Marvin 
Nash, was born in Guilford, Chenango county, 
New York, February 8, 1869. He was edu- 
cated in the public schools of his native town, 
and learned the trade of tinsmith. After 
working ten years as apjircntice and journey- 
man at his trade, in 1896 he engaged in busi- 
ness as partner in the firm of King & Nash, 
tinsmiths and plumbers. At the end of three 
years the firm was dissolved and Mr. Nash 
continued the business alone for the next 
eleven years. In 1910 he admitted a partner, 
and since then the business has been carried 
on by the firm of Nash & Robinson. Mr. Nash 
is a director of the Chenango Agricultural So- 
ciety. He has taken a keen interest in public 
affairs, and has been trustee of the incorpo- 
rated village of Norwich, and is at the present 
time supervisor of the town. In politics he 
is a Republican, and was the choice of his party 
as canclidate for county treasurer of Chenango 
county at the fall election (1911), taking 
seat of office January 1, 1912. He is vice- 
president of the Alert Hose Company, and an 
inflnential member of the Norwich Fire De- 
partment. He is a member of Norwich Lodge, 
No. 302, Free Alasons ; of Harmony Chapter, 
Royal Arch Masons, No. 151 ; Norwich Com- 
mandery. No. 146. Knights Templar; Ziyara 
Temple. Mystic Shrine, of Utica. New York ; 
of Canasawacta Lodge, Odd Fellows; Nor- 
wich Castle, Knights of Pythias, of Norwich ; 
Perlee Camp, Sons of \'eterans, of Norwich, 
and Norwich Lodge, Benevolent and Protect- 
ive Order of Elks. 

He married, July 6, 1893, Jennie Davis, born 
at Crossville, Tennessee, daughter of William 
and Rachel (Collins) Davis. Her father was 
born in Frankfort-on-Main. (iermanv, son of 



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Hans \'on Debis, an officer in the German 
army, afterward a noted physician, who came 
to America about 1849 and located at Little 
["alls, New York, afterward in Utica, New 
\'ork, where he died. The name was angli- 
cized in spelling to Davis. Mr. and Mrs. Nash 
liave one son, Edward, born July 26, 1897, and 
one adopted son, John Nash. 



Captain Thomas Brooks, the im- 
I '.ROOKS migrant ancestor, is said to have 

come from Suffolk, England, 
and settled first at W'atertown, Massachusetts, 
where he had a lot assigned him in 1631. He 
was made a freeman December 7, 1636, and 
soon after this moved to Concord, Massachu- 
setts. In W'atertown he had grants of land 
along Beaver Brook in 1636. At Concord he 
was elected constable by the general court, De- 
cember 4, 1638, and was deputy to the general 
court for six years. He was captain of the 
Concord company, and held other offices, as 
assessor, or "appraiser of horses, cattle, etc., 
for the purpose of taxing." He was also ap- 
pointed a special officer to prevent drunken- 
ness among Indians. He was granted the right 
of carrying on fur trade at Concord, for the 
sum of five pounds. He was a leading citizen 
<jf his time. His wife, Grace, died May 12, 
i6f)4, and he died intestate. May 21, 1667. An 
agreement among his heirs was signed at the 
probate office, June 17, 1667, by Joshua 
Brooks, Captain Timothy Wheeler, husband of 
Mary Brooks. Caleb and Gershom Brooks. 
Children: Mary, died October 4, 1693: Han- 
nah, Joshua, mentioned below ; Caleb, born 
1632; Gershom. Perhaps other children. 

(II) Joshua, son of Captain Thomas 
ISrooks, was born about 1630, probably in 
Ijigland. He married, October 17. 1653, Han- 
nah, daughter of Ca]5tain Hugh Mason. He 
was a tanner by trade, and settled in that 
part of Concord which was later Lincoln. He 
was ancestor of nearly all of the name in Con- 
cord and Lincoln, and three generations have 
in succession held the office of deacon in the 
church at Lincoln. He inherited half of the 
-Med ford property. He learned his trade of 
furrier antl tanner from Captain Mason, whose 
daughter he married. He was made a freeman 
May 26, 1652. Children: Hannah, John, died 
May 18, 1697: Xoah, born 1657; Grace, born 
at Concord, ]\Iarch 10, 1660-1 ; Daniel, men- 
tioned below: Thomas, May 5. 1666. died Sep- 
tember 9, 1671 : Esther, July 4, 1668; Joseph, 



September 16, 1671 ; Elizabeth, December 16, 
1672; Job, July 26, 1675; Hugh, January 1, 
1677-8; Thomas (perhaps). 

(Ill) Daniel, son of Joshua Brooks, was 
born at Concord, ^Massachusetts, November 
•5' 1663. He was known as Daniel, Sr., 
or as Ensign Daniel. He died October 18, 
1733. He married, .\ugust 9, 1690, .\nn, who 
died January 24, 1757, daughter of John and 
Mary (Cooper) Meriam. His will, dated Jan- 
uary 6, 1728-9, mentioned brother Joseph, 
wife Anna, daughters Anna Jones and Mar\ 
Wheeler, sons Samuel and Job. Children : 
Daniel, born June 5, 1693, died young; Samuel. 
May 5, 1694; Hannah or .^nna. February 21, 
1695-6; Job, baptized 1698; Mary, March 2, 
1699-1700; John, mentioned below. 

(R) Deacon John Brooks, son of Daniel 
Brooks, w'as born F'ebruary 12, 1701-2, in Con- 
cord. He married Lydia. born June 18, 171 1, 
daughter of John and Elizabeth Barker. He 
was deacon of the First Church at .Acton, 
where he died March 6, 1777. Children, four 
recorded at Concord, others at .\cton : John, 
born December 17, 1728; Samuel, mentioned 
below; Charles, April 6, 1732; Lydia, May 7, 
1734; Ephraim, .\ugust 5, 1736; Daniel, Octo- 
ber 24, 1738; Nathaniel. February 17, 1 740- 1 ; 
Jonas, March 18, 1742-3, died March 15, 1746; 
Peter, March 29. 1745; Jonas, July 31, 1747. 

( \' ) Captain Samuel Brooks, son of Deacon 
John Brooks, was born in Concord, Massa- 
chusetts, March 16, 1730. He married, March 
14, 1754, widow Hannah Brown, of Carlisle. 
Massachusetts, daughter of Simon and Han- 
nah ( Brown ) Davis, of Concord. Captain 
Samuel Brooks settled in Worcester, Massa- 
chusetts, about 1752, where many of his de- 
scendants now live. He was on the jury list 
as early as 1760. In 1762 he was elected fielil 
driver; highway surveyor in 1764: town war- 
den in 1766; tythingman in 1768; juror of the 
superior court; highway surveyor in 1770; 
surveyor of boards, shingles, etc. ; special com- 
mittee to draw the town line between Shrews- 
bury and Worcester in 1771 : juror in 1772: 
tythingman, school and special committees in 
1773. In 1774 he was among many of those 
most wealthy and influential men who signed 
a protest against the acts and agitation of the 
committee of safety and correspondence. A\- 
though he seemed to wish no war, when it 
came he fought hard for our rights. He was 
sent to the general court in 1786 and 1787. 
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was captain in the militia. He died in \\ orces- 
ter, June 2g, 1817, aged eighty-seven, and his 
widow died there December 6, 1819, aged 
ninety-five. Child : Samuel, mentioned below. 

(VI) Deacon Samuel Brooks, son of Cap- 
tain Samuel Brooks, was born at Worcester, 
Massachusetts, June 10, 1755, and removed 
from there to Haverhill, New Hampshire, at 
about the close of the revolution. He opened 
a store at the "Corners'" there, and also owned 
an oil mill on the brook, but he was not very 
successful. Later he went to Quebec, Canada, 
where he contracted with the governor of the 
provinces for a tract of land in the town of 
Chester, then a wilderness, and he and two of 
his brothers began the lumbering business. In 
1812, a year or two later, he removed his fam- 
ily there, but on account of a change of gov- 
ernors his plans were defeated, and he re- 
moved again to Stanstead, Canada, where he 
lived the rest of his life. While in Haver- 
hill he was very influential and took part in 
all public affairs. He was a representative 
of the general court, selectman of the town, and 
also held other public positions. For many 
years he was register of deeds for Crafton 
county, New Hampshire. He was a man of 
genial manners, very ingenious and skillful. 
He married, March 8, 1779, Aim Bedel Butler, 
daughter of Colonel Timothy Bedel, who was 
prominent in the revolution, and widow of 
Dr. Thaddeus Butler. Children, probably not 
given in order of birth: i. Hannah, married 
(first) Captain William Trotter, of Bradford, 
\'ermont ; (second) Colonel W'illiam Barron, 
of Bradford. 2. Calvin, mentioned below. 3. 
Daughter, married Asa Low, of Bradford. 4. 
Daughter, married Judge Nesmith, of Frank- 
lin, New Hampshire. 5. Samuel, born in Hav- 
erhill. 1793: married Eliza Towle, prominent 
merchant* at Stanstead, Canada ; a farmer and 
trader at Lenno.wille ; in 1837 was a delegate 
to London to interest cajiital in developing 
Canada; formed and became manager of Brit- 
ish Land Company ; removed to Sherbrookc, 
where he was manager of a branch of Mont- 
real Bank ; was a promoter of Grand Trunk 
Railroad. 6. Nathaniel, born in Haverhill. 
New Hampshire, October 3, 1797. 7. Edwin, 
lawyer in New York, removed to California. 
8. George Washington. 

(VII) Calvin, son of Deacon Samuel 
Brooks, was born probably in Haverhill. New 
Ham]ishire. A]iri! 9, 1782. and died at Phar- 



salia, Chenango county. New York, December 
7, 1848. He came to Chenango county about 
1812 and settled among the first in the wilder- 
ness. He was a farmer. He married, in 1805, 
Betsey Bartlett. born December [7. 1785, died 
.April I, 1846. Children; Luther, mentioned 
below : son, died in infancy ; Mary H., born 
July 22, 1810, died April 7, 1842 ; Calvin, June 
30, 1812; Lucy. June 22. 1817, died February 
9, 1897, married Franklin Holmes; John, June 
2, 1818; Artemas. May 5. 1820; Prentice, 
March 17, 1822; Charles, February 23, 1824; 
Betsey, February 22, 1826, died February 25, 
1829; Eliza Ann, May 19, 1830. died July 31. 
1844: Almira, August 8. 1832. 

(\TII) Luther, son of Calvin Brooks, was 
born December 4, 1806, probably in Haverhill, 
New Hampshire, and died in Norwich, New 
York, January 9, 1892. He came with his 
parents to New York state when about six 
years old, and settled with them at Pharsalia. 
Chenango county. In this town he lived dur- 
ing his boyhood and attended the public schools 
there. He followed farming there afterward. 
His later years were spent in Norwich, New 
York, where he was also a farmer. In poli- 
tics he was an earnest and active Re])ublican. 
In religion a communicant of the Methodist 
Episcopal church. He married, January I. 
1827, Ann Bosworth. born in Pharsalia, New 
York, July 25, 1807, died August 18, 1869. 
daughter of Timothy and Nancy (Monroe) 
Bosworth. Children : .-Vddison B.. mentioned 
below; Luther Sherman, born ]\Iarch i, 1830, 
died January 22, 1909; Amelia .\nn. born 
March 29, 1834. died June 24, 1904. married 
William S. Scarruth ; I'^reeman Novello, born 
March 5, 1837, died July 7, 1904; John Mor- 
ell. born September 26, 1840. died January. 
1854; Harriet Elizabeth, born June 17, 1843. 
widow of Frank H. Brown: Carroll Costello. 
born June i, 1846, died March 27. 1902: Lun- 
etta .\clella. born February 6. 1852, married 
.Augustus E. Race, of Norwich. New York. 

(IX) Addison Bifield, son of Luther 
Brooks, was born in Pharsalia, New York. 
December 31. 1827, and died at Norwich, June 
1, i<)07. He was educated in the common 
schools of his native town and in early life 
worked on his father's farm and at the trade 
of shoemaking. In 1865 he came to Norwich. 
New A^ork, and after working at his trade 
several years, retired from active labor. In 
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(first) Lydia Evans; (second) Maria Hall, 
born in Plymouth, New York, August 4, 1836. 
(laughter of Lyman and Harriet (Olin) Hall. 
Children by first wife: i. Addison C, born 
\])ril 8, 1853, resides in Norwich: Daughter. 
'lied in infancy. Children by second wife: 2. 
Ransom D., mentioned below. 3. Elmer Bi- 
field, born April 8, 1861, died July 24, 1905: 
married Kate E. Hartness : children: Clarence 
Ransom, deceased ; Archibald, died in infancy: 
Eeroy Homer, Ethel j\lay. 4. Casson Morell. 
born October 10, 1862, a traveling salesman, 
living in .S])ringfield, Massachusetts : children : 
Morell v., Isabelle. 5. Minetta Maria, born 
June 28, 1869; married George A. Stacy, of 
Norwich, and has children : Ruth M., Vera M., 
John Harold Stacy. 

(X) Ransom D., son of .\ddison Bifield 
Hrooks, was born in Pitcher, New Y'ork, July 
21, 1859. He attended the public schools of 
Plymouth and Norwich. New York, and the 
Eastman Business College at Poughkeepsie, 
New Y'ork, from which he was graduated in 
1881. Immediately after graduation he en- 
tered the employ of Lord & Ta\ lor. New York- 
City, dry goods merchants, as correspondent, 
and continued for two years. He had prior 
to entering business college worked at the 
shoemaking trade for several years. In 1883 
he returned to Norwich and entered the em- 
ploy of David Maydole & Company, manufac- 
turers of hammers, in the capacity of book- 
keeper, and in 1886 he became general mana- 
ger of the David Maydole Hammer Company, 
a position he has since occupied. He is also 
a ciirector of the Norwich Hospital Associa- 
tion. In politics he is a Prohibitionist and a 
strong supporter of the temperance movement 
in politics and elsewhere. He is a faithful 
member and one of the trustees of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal church of Norwich. He mar- 
ried. March 10. 1886. Kate Randall Barnard. 
<if Norwich, born in Chicago, .\ugust 27, 1857. 
daughter of Thaddeus W. and Caroline ( Ran- 
dall) Barnard. Children, born in Norwich: i. 
Edith Kate, born December 24, 1886, a school 
teacher in Norwich. 2. Philip Olin Elmer, 
horn January 26. 1889, stenographer : married. 
March 26. 1910. \'irginia Lucretia Frink, of 
Norwich. 3. Alarian \"irginia, born September 
20, 1890: married .September 21, 19 10. Rev. 
Arthur John Green, a Methodist clergyman. 
4. Caroline Rose, born December 17, 1893. 5- 
Laurence .Addison, born October 5. 1897. 



.\lexander_ Baker, the immigrant 
l!.\KER ancestor, was born in London, 
England, about 1607, and came 
over in the ship "Elizabeth and .'\nn" in 
1635, when twenty-eight years of age, with his 
wife Elizabeth, aged twenty-three, and two 
children, Elizabeth and Christian. He seems 
to have been for a short time in ( doucester, 
Massachusetts, but settled permanently at Bos- 
ton, where he was a ropemaker. He took the 
oath of allegiance before two justices of the 
|)eace, having obtained a certificate as to his 
standing from the church in England Ijefore 
his departure. He and his wife were admitted 
to the church October 4, 1645. Children : Eliz- 
abeth, born about 1633; Christian, about 1634: 
Alexander, January 15, 1636; Samuel, June 
16, 1638; John, June 20, 1640; Joshua, men- 
tioned below; Hannah, September 29, 1644: 
William, May 15. 1647; Benjamin. March 16, 
1653; Josiah, February 26, 1655, died in in- 
fancy; Josiah, born February 26, 1658. The 
first two children were born in England, the 
others in America. 

(II) Joshua, son of Alexander Baker, was 
born .\pril 30. 1642, in Boston, and died at 
New London, December 27, 1717. About 1670 
he removed from Boston to New London, 
where he had shares in the town plot and be- 
came in time owner of much land. He had a 
deed about 1700 from Owaneco, Chief of the 
Mohegans, for a large piece of land in Mohe- 
gan, and some of his descendants still occupy 
some of this land, located near the famous 
"Cochegan Rock." He married, September 13, 
r674. Hannah Tongue Mintern. widow of 
Tristram Mintern, of New London, and 
daughter of George Tongue. She was born 
July 20. 1654: one of her sisters married Gov- 
ernor John Fitz Winthrop. Children : Eliza- 
beth, born May 9. 1676: Joshua, mentioned 
below; Alexander, born Decanber t6, 1679: 
John, December 24. 1681 : Hannah. January 
18. 1683: Sarah, twin of Hannah: Benjamin. 
Mercv. Patience. 

(HI) Joshua (2). .son of Joshua (i) Baker, 
was born January 5. 1677. He lived in the 
North Parish, near New London, where he 
was a carpenter and farmer. He was an ac- 
tive member of the society, and his wife was 
a member of the church. He married, March 
27, 170S. Marion, daughter of Stephen Hurl- 
burt. He died in 1740. and his widow mar- 
ried (second) John Vibber. May 8, 1754. In 



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his will, dated May 25, 1740, proved at Xew 
London, July 8, 1740, lie mentioned his wife 
and ten children. Children : Joshua, born May 
3, 1706; Samuel, mentionel below; Elizabeth, 
born April 24, 1709; Gideon, November zj. 
1711; Lydia, June 12, 1712, died November 

24, 1712; James, born March 17, 1714; Anna, 
May 28, 1716; Stephen, March 17, 1719; 
Sarah, May 14, 1721 ; John, 1723; Asa, 1726. 

(IV) Samuel, son of Joshua (2) Baker, 
was born August 24, 1707. lie married, De- 
cember 8, 1733, Jerusha, daughter of Andrew 
and Sarah (ISaker) Davis, of Groton, now 
Ledyard, where he settled and was a farmer. 
He died in March, 1793. Children: Andrew, 
born September 18, 1738, died young; .Kmy, 
born January 9, 1739-40; Lydia, July 13, 1742 ; 
Daniel, mentionel below ; Elizabeth, May 5, 
1748; Samuel, July 27, 1750; Sarah, February 
[6, 1753-4; Andrew, March 22, 1756; Eunice. 
January 14, 1758. 

(V) Daniel, son of Samuel Baker, was 
born in Groton. Connecticut, February 26. 
1745-6, and died there November 10, 1815, 
aged sixty-nine years. He married Elizabeth 
Crosby, who died February 26, 1827, aged 
seventy-six years. Among his children was 
Andrew, mentioned below. 

(VI) Andrew, son of Daniel Baker, was 
born in Groton, February 20, 1779, and died in 
Michigan, July 10, 1836. About 1806 he came 
to New York state and lived in Allegany, 
Steuben and other counties. He was a farmer. 
Before 1856 he removed to Michigan, where 
he remained the rest of his life. He married 
(first), November 25, 1802, Nancy Moxley, 
born in Groton, August i, 1784, died March 

25, 1844. He married (second), March 12, 
1848, Assenath Armstrong. Children by first 
marriage: Nancy, born in Groton, October 16, 
1803, married Nathaniel Naramor, and died 
June II, 1897; Andrew, mentioned below: 
Faiuiy, born in Harpersville, New York. 
.August 5, 1807, married Benjamin D. Dol- 
bee ; J(jhn, born in Jefiferson, New York, 
July 8, 1809; Lois, born in Jefferson, May 31, 
181 1, married Alfred P>urlison: Prudence, 
born in Jefferson, April 5, 1813, died October 
6, 1844, niarried John F. Burnett; Charles, 
bom in Jefferson, September 13, 1815 ; J. War- 
ren, born in Canisteo, New York, Jime i, 1817. 
died May 14, 1863, married Iluldah Converse; 
Elizabeth, born in Howard, New York, Jan- 
uary 8, 1820, died February 7, 1891, married 
William H. Gordon; Hiram, born in Howard. 



May 6, 1823, died December 19, 1894, married 
Hannah L. Head ; John, born in Howard, May 
6, 1826, died July 6, 1892, married Olive L. 
Wilson ; Charles T., born in Howard, January 
2, 1829, married Ada Nutting. 

(\'II) Andrew (2), son of Andrew (l) 
P.aker, was born in Lyme, Connecticut, August 
28, 1805, and died in Norwich, New York, 
December 14, 1863. Lie was about one year 
old when his parents removed to New York 
state. He studied medicine with Dr. Case, of 
Howard, New York, anrl practiced for several 
years in Bath, New York. In 1843 he came 
from there to Norwich, New York. He was 
graduated from the Geneva Medical Collie 
in 1836. In 1843 he came from there to Nor- 
wich, where he remained until his death. In 
religion he was a L^niversalist. He was presi- 
dent of the Chenango County Medical So- 
ciety, a member of Norwich Lodge, Indepen- 
dent Order of Odd Fellows. He married 
(first), March 5, 1829, Armena Graves, who 
died August 30, 1835; (second), September 
4. 1836, Ruth K. Marshall, born in Poultney, 
Vermont, about 1814, died .September 8, 1856. 
Children by first wife : Austin Alonzo, born 
Alay 8, 1830, died May 19, 1866; Julia M,, 
born 1832, died March 3, 1834. Children by 
second wife: Thomas Spencer, mentioned be- 
low: Clarence M., born May 23, 1839, died 
February, 1910: Julia A., born May 23, 1841, 
luarried Melvin Graves; Delia L.. born 
.August 21, 1843, married R. S. Van Keuren ; 
Caroline Olivia, bom June 2, 1845, married 
.Aleck Dobson : Mary Elizabeth, born April 24, 
1S47. (lied September 28, 1883; Charles Orin, 
born June 8, 1849, physician at Fort Madison, 
Iowa; Adelphia .A., born .September i, 1851, 
died May 15, 1854; Fannie M., born August 
15, 1853, married Thomas H. \\'right, of Fort 
Dodge, Iowa; Ruth, born September 8, 1856, 
died .April 16, 1867. 

(\TII) Thomas Spencer, son of Andrew 
(2) Baker, was born at Bath, New York, Sep- 
tember 28, 1837. He came to Norwich with 
his parents when he was six years old, and has 
resided there since then, excepting during two 
vears spent in the west. He attended the pub- 
lic schools and Norwich .Academy. He began 
to study medicine under the instruction of his 
father, but instead of completing his course, 
he went to Ottawa, Illinois, where for two 
years he taught school. He was one of the 
first to enlist in the civil war. On April 15, 
1861, President .Abraham Lincoln issued his 




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call for 75,000 volunteers to serve for three 
months in the defense of the Union. Four 
days later, on April 19, 1861, three young men 
walked from Freedom, Illinois, to Ottawa, in 
the same state, a round trip of twenty- four 
miles, for the purpose of enlisting in the Elev- 
enth Illinois Regiment Volunteer Infantry. 
One of the trio of young men who responded 
so promptly to the president's call was T. 
Spencer Baker. When the war broke out Air. 
Baker, a young man of twenty-four, was 
teaching in Illinois. After serving the three 
months term of enlistment, he came to his 
home in Norwich, New York, and spent the 
winter of 1861-2. Then he went to Chicago, 
where he re-enlisted in Battery M, First Illinois 
Light .Artillery. He took part in many battles, 
including Chickamauga, Lookout Alountain, 
and all the engagements in northern Georgia 
during Sherman's March to the Sea. Being a 
medical student he was chosen steward of 
the Nashville Hospital, whither he had been 
sent on account of illness, and had charge 
of dispensing medicine to 1,400 patients. He 
continued in the service until the close of the 
war, when he returned to Norwich, New York, 
and entered the employ of John Mitchell as 
clerk in his drug store. In 1871 he established 
himself in business as a druggist, and for many 
years conducted a large and successful busi- 
ness. He retired from business in 1908. Since 
he sold his drug store he has represented the 
V'ictor and Columbia talking machines in this 
section. In 1888 he built the Baker Block, at 
the corner of North Broad and Henry streets, 
and for twenty years he occupied the corner 
^tore with his drug business. He also owns 
a block on Lackaw'anna avenue and other val- 
uable real estate in the town. In politics he is 
a Democrat, and he has served as town clerk 
several years. In religion he is a Spiritualist. 
He is a charter member of E. B. Smith Post, 
Grand .Army of the Republic, of Norwich. 

He married, September 4, 1867, Lucy H. 
Bailey, born in England January 7, 1840, died 
in Norwich, July 14, 1909, daughter of Sam- 
Hel and Mary (Cross) Bailey. Children: 
Maud, born June 29, 1868, died September 14, 
i8fi8; Mae, born September 2;^. 1870. married. 
January 15, 1901, Charles H. Corey, manager 
of the Borden Creamery, Norwich : Grace, 
born December 24, 1875, married 1908, Ray- 
mond \. Rindge, secretary of the Borden Con- 
densed Milk Company, in charge of New York 
Citv office. 



John Hill, the immigrant ancestor, 

H ILL was born in England and very likely 

married there, in 1629, Frances 

, who was born abcnit ifx)8, and died 

about 1680. He died in Dorchester, Massa- 
chusetts, May 21, 1664. His wife was ad- 
mitted to the Dorchester church about 1638. 
and on February 13, 1667, the widow Hill was 
taxed on eighteen acres in the "Create Lotts." 
Children : John, mentioned below ; b'rancis. 
born about 1632; Rebecca, about 1634, in 
Dorchester, married Josejih Gray ; Mary, about 
1636, married Thomas lireck; Samuel, born 
and baptized about 1638; Jonathan, ba]>tized 
July 12, 1640; Hannah, baptized December, 
1 641. married, 1662, Daniel Fisher, of Taun- 
ton, Alassachusetts ; Mercy, ba])tized January 
8, 1642, married Elkanah Willis, of Bridge- 
water, Massachusetts ; Ruth, born .August, 
1644, married July 19, 1664, Roger Willis: 
Ebenezer, Israel, served in King Philip's war, 
and was killed while in service : Martha, bap- 
tized August 20, 1648: Mehitable, baptized 
February 18, 1650-1, died March 5, 1679. 

(ID John (2), son of John ("i) Hill, was 
l)orn, probably in England, about 1630. In 1657 
he was one of a company who purchased a large 
tract of land from the Indians in the frontier 
beyond Medfield. They settled on this land, 
which later became Sherborn, and he became 
one of the prominent members of the new set- 
tlement. He owned a large farm, where he 
lived until his death, January 23, 1717-8. He 
married (first) Hannah, daughter of Abra- 
ham Martin, of Rehoboth : she died Novem- 
ber. t6qo. He married (second), about 1693. 
Elizabeth, widfjw of Benjamin P>ullar(l. of 
Sherborn: she died December 1, 1719. Chil- 
dren: Samuel, born about 1654: Ebenezer. 
born 1656; Abigail, born February 2, 1657-8, 
married Hopestill Leland ; John, mentioned be- 
low : Mary, born October 28, 1662, married 
(second) John Ellis, of Boston; Eleazer, born 
June 29, 1664: Johnson, June 22, 1666; Han- 
nah, about 1668, married, 1686, Daniel Pond, 
of W'rentham, Massachusetts : Sarah, about 
1670, married, 1691, John Ring. Jr., of Sher- 
born: Abigail, child of second wife, born 
Tune 10, i6<)S. married, 1712-3, lames .Adams. 
(Ill) John (3), son of John"(2) Hill, was 
l)orn March 14, 1660. He was a husbandman, 
and lived on a part of his father's farm at 
Sherborn, Alassachusetts, wdiere he died May 
23. 1738. He married, about 1693. Hannah 
Rockwood. born October i, 1673. died Feb- 



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ruary 7, 1729-30, ilauglitei" of Deacuii Samuel 
and Hannah (Ellis) Rockwood. Children 
born at Sherborn : John, mentioned below ; 
Aaron, born about 1698; Hannah, August 9, 
1702, married William Maine, Jr., of Wren- 
tham; Sarah, November 11, 1705, married 
Samuel Morse, of Wrentham ; Samuel, August 
II, 1710: James, March 3, 1711-12, died May 
II, 1729. 

(IV) John (4), son of John (3) Hill, was 
born at Sherborn, about 1695, and was also a 
husbandman at Sherborn all of his life, and 
died there about 1760. On condition of sup- 
port of his wife Ruth and himself, on April 
3, 1758, he transferred real estate to liis son 
James. He married, November 21, 1733, Ruth 
Day, born in Wrentham, (Jctober I, 1707, 
daughter of John and Ruth ( Puf¥er ) Day ; she 
married (second), 1762, Benjamin IJuIlard, of 
Holliston, who died in 1766, and she married 
(third) Deacon John Chapin, of Mendon. 
Children: James, born .\ugust 17. 1734; Caleb, 
mentioned below: Ruth, born April 26, 1739, 
married John Cheney, Jr.. of Dedham ; flan- 
nah, born October 16, 1741, married Asa Part- 
ridge, of Medway; Ebenezer, born July 8, 
1744; Abigail, born February 9, 1746, married 
Isaiah Daniels; John, born April 28, 1750, was 
in the revolution. 

(V) Caleb, son of John 14) Hill. wa.-> born 
August 17, 1736, at Sherborn, where he lived 
until 1778. He then removed to Lancaster, 
Massachusetts, where he died the same year. 
He served in Captain Daniel White's comjiany 
from April 10 to November 28, 1738, during 
the Canada expedition, and also served as pri- 
vate on the Lexington Alarm in 1775. He 
married, March 17, 1762, Hannah (Fiske) 
Fairbanks, born January 24, 1733, daughter 
of John and .Abigail (Lcland) Fiske. of .Sher- 
born, and widow of John Fairbanks. .As late 
as 1794 she was living in Medway. Children: 

Rhoda, married -. — Leland, 1781 ; David. 

.\aron, Abigail, John, mentioned below ; La- 
vina, Timothy. 

(VI) John (5), son of Caleb Hill, was born 
at Sherborn. November 21, 1771, and died 
October 13, 1832. in McDonough. Chenango 
county, Ncvif A'ork. He lived in .\thol, Massa- 
chusetts, and then removed to New York 
state. He married Susanna Parmenter, Feb- 
ruary 8, 1793, daughter of Jacob and Mary 
(Hadley) Parmenter. .She died December 26. 
1846. Children : John h'iske. born July 20, 
1791. died November r, 1846; Susannah, born 



June 13, 1800; .Abigail, married 



Shat- 



ton ; Chester, born December 9, 1802, died 
December i, 1S73; Sophie, born July 14, 1803, 
married Samuel Bachellor ; Jacob Parmenter, 
mentioned below : Edwin, born February 19, 
1813, died August 21, 1893, married Cornelia 
Parks ; Theodore, born July 10, 1819, died No- 
vember 3. 1887, married Alary Aleade. 

(ATI) Jacob Parmenter, son of John .(3) 
Hill, was born January 22. 1811, died August 
30, 1899. He lived in McDonough, New A'ork, 
where he was a merchant. He held the of- 
fice of postmaster there for thirty years. In 
addition to his business he dealt in real estate. 
In religion he was an Episcopalian and in poli- 
tics a Republican. He married Jane Jenkins, 
born February 13, 1813. died .A])ril 5, 1850. 
He married (second) Helen Jenkins, a sister 
of Jane; she died April 13, 1883. Children by 
first wife: Mary Jane, born July 27, 1833, 
married Bruce Reed : Charlotte, born Feb- 
ruary 2~. 1837. died October 10, 1840; James 
Parmenter, born .April 22, 1839; Laura L., 
born March 6, 1841 : Frederick Augustus, born 
Alay 13, 1843, died February 23, 1864; James, 
mentioned below : Thomas lenkins. born April 
3. 1850. 

(\ HI) James, son of Jacob Parmenter Hill, 
was born at AIcDonough, New A'ork, October 
19. 1843. He was educated in the public 
schools. For thirty years he conducted a 
general store in Cincinnatus, Cortland county. 
New A'ork, in 1896 returning to Chenango 
county. In politics he is a Republican, in re- 
ligion a Alethodist. He married Ruth Ann 
Purdy, bom April 19, 1830. died June 14. 1896, 
daughter of James Orlando and Harriet 
( Lull) Pnrdy. She is descended from Francis 
Purdy, who settled in Fairfield, Connecticut, 
in 1658, through James Orlando (7) ; James 
(6). married Ro.vy Tyler; David (3), David 
(4). Jo.se))h (3), John (2), Francis (i). Air. 
Hill married (second) Ella Blanchard. Chil- 
dren of first wife: Jane, born June 5, 1873, 
died in infancy: James Parmenter, mentioned 
below. 

( IN ) James Parmenter, son of James Hill, 
was born in the town of German. Chenango 
county. New A'ork, April 7, 1878. He at- 
tended the public schools of his native town 
and the Cincinnatus Academy. He studied 
law in the offices of Bixby & Brown, in Nor- 
wich, for about three years, and was admitted 
to the bar in 1901. .Afterward he became a 
partner in the law firm i>f Piixby & Hill. This 



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firm was dissolved in October, 1905, and since 
then Air. Hill has practiced alone. In politics 
he is a Republican, and as a candidate of his 
party was elected district attorney in 1907. 
leading the ticket at the election. As district 
attorney he displayed exceptional ability, and 
during his administration several notable crim- 
inal trials were hekl. He secured the conviction 
of William Scott for murtler in the first degree 
and a similar verdict in the case of Earl Hill. He 
prosecuted the famous Yeager burglary cases 
and he convicted David Uorst of murder in the 
second degree. He was faithful, conscientious 
and indefatigable in the discharge of his official 
duties, especially in the wise and discriminating 
disposition of the cases notbrought to trial. He 
was chairman of the Republican county com- 
mittee, 1908-11. He is a member of the Nor- 
wich Club, the .\lert Hose Company, director 
■of the Chenango National Bank and director 
of the Norwich Hospital Association ; mem- 
Ijer of the llenevolent and Protective Order of 
Elks. In religion he is an Episcopalian. 

He married. January 9, 1907, Florine P. 
Hall, of Norwich, daughter of John P. and 
Grace M. (Pellett) Hall. They have no chil- 
dren. 



William Walworth, the ini- 
\\ Al A\( )I\TI I migrant ancestor, came 
from near London in 1689, 
and settled in the New London colony, at 
the special instance of Fitzjohn Winthrop. 
then major-general commanding the forces 
of the colony, and afterward governor. Me 
is said to have been descended from Sir Wil- 
liam Walworth, lord mayor of London, died 
1383. The arms of the family were: Gules, a 
bend engrailed argent, between two garbs or. 
Crest : a cubit arm vested or, cuff argent, the 
arm grasping a dagger sinister imbrued gules, 
pommel and hilt or. Motto: "Strike for the 
laws." 

William Walworth was the first lessee and 
settler on Fisher's Island, where he was sent 
to introduce the English system of cultivation, 
and was very successful in this undertaking. 
Fisher's Island is a part of Suffolk county. 
Long Island, and because of the doubt as to 
title, William Walworth obtained grants from 
Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York. 
New York was finally granted the island, and, 
by a confirmation of Winthrop's title obtained 
from Governor Nichols, of New York, the 
island was fleclarcd to be subject to state au- 



thority, and Walworth had practical inde])cn- 
dence in everything. He married soon after 
his arrival, 1690, Mary Seaton, born in Eng- 
land, in 1669, and came to New London in the 
ship with him. Being left in a penniless state 
at her father's death, as he was a second son 
of the family and received no inheritance from 
his wealthy father, she determined to emigrate 
to America and try her fortune here. About 
1698 or 1699. because of danger from raids 
from pirates and Captain Kidd, he removed 
his famil}- from the island to Groton. In re- 
ligion William Walworth was a Congrega- 
tionalist, and he and his wife were baptized 
in the old New London meeting-house January 
24, 1691-2. He died in 1703, probably in Jan- 
uary. His will was filed January 3, 1703; the 
will and records were destro\ed by fire at the 
capture of New London by Benedict Arnold. 
His widow died January 14, 1752. Children: 
Martha, born March, 1691 ; William, men- 
tioned below ; Mary, February, 1695 ; John, 
June, 1697; Joanna. October, 1699: Thomas 
and James, twins. May, 1 701. in Groton. 

a'l) William (2). son of William ( i) Wal- 
worth, was born on Fisher's Island, New' 
York, January, 1694, and died May 17. 1774. 
at Noank, Connecticut. He owned much land 
in Groton. Bozrah and Lebanon, and he is 
said to have moved to Bozrah about 1744 and 
to have died there. He married. January 16, 
1720, Mary, born January 10, 1695. daughter 
of Captain Samuel and Susannah (Palmes) 
Averv, of Poquanoc : her maternal great- 
grandmother was Lady Susan Clinton, daugh- 
ter of Thomas, third earl of Lincoln ; Lady 
Susan was wife of General John Humphrey, 
a founder of the Massachusetts Bav Colony, 
and a helper in the foundation of Cambridge 
College. William Walworth married (sec- 
ond). September 23. 1742. Elizabeth Hinckley. 
Children by fir.st wife: Nathan, mentioned be- 
low : .Amos. James, Elijah. Mary, Susan, Lucy. 
.Abigail. Children by second wife: Eunice. 
Charles. 

(Ill) Nathan, son of William (2) Wal- 
worth, was born at Groton. Connecticut, Octo- 
ber 17. 1724. He married .Amy Stark, his 
cmisin, and lived in Halifax. X'ermont. Chil- 
dren: Mary, born September 13, 1752; Wil- 
liam, mentioned below ; Abigail, born Octo- 
ber 17, 1757: Lucy, born December 11, 1759; 
Elijah, born at Bennington. Vermont, Jan- 
uarv IS, 1762; Nathan. 1766; .Amy. .April 12. 
1769; Zacheus. September 3. 1771. 



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(IV) William (3), son of Xathan Wal- 
worth, was born September 17, 1755, and died 
August 15, 1825. He married Esther Packer, 
who died May 24, 1838, aged eighty-three 
years. He went from Groton to Preston, New 
York, in 1802, and lived there until his death; 
he was one of the pioneers there. Children : 
Percival : born May 30, 1779, died young; Na- 
than, July 15, 1783, died February 5, 1786. 
William, April 4, 1786; Charles, mentioned be- 
low; Daniel, June 18, 1790. 

(V) Charles, son of William (3) Wal- 
worth, was born February 26, 1788, doubtless 
at Sodus, New York, near Oswego, or in Gro- 
ton, Connecticut, and died in Cayuga county. 
New York, July 14, 1872. He came to Pres- 
ton, Chenango county, New York, in 1802, 
with his parents, and was a farmer there. He 
lived at various places in the state, and died 
at the home of one of his daughters in the 
town of Sterhng, Cayuga county. He was in 
the war of 1812, and while holding his colo- 
nel's, horse was wounded in the head. He mar- 
ried Eunice Plicks. of New London or Gro- 
ton, daughter of John Micks, a soldier in the 
revolution; she was born in 1787, and died 
December ii. 1866. Children: Lucy, born No- 
vember 23. 1815, died July. 1874, married 
Downing Fletcher ; Alonzo M.. mentioned be- 
low ; Eunice E., born July 23, 1819, married 
William Franklin; Charles A., born in Pres- 
ton, July 14. 1821, died December 29, 1908, 
married, February 28, 1856, Jane Kilsey, 
daughter of William Kilsey, of Weare, New 
Hampshire, and Mary (Tewksbury) Kilsey, 
of Woodstock, Vermont, and they had daugh- 
ter, Hattie Eliza, of Norwich, New York ; 
Robert H., born March 7, 1824, died Novem- 
ber 10, 1881 ; Hiram D., born August i, 1828, 
lived in Oxford, New York; Prudence, died 
in infancy. 

(VI) Alonzo Marvin, son of Charles Wal- 
worth, was born in Preston. Chenango county. 
New York. October 8, 1817, and died at 
Smithville Centre, December 6, 1908. He was 
a farmer in Sterling, Cayuga county, New 
York, for some time, but spent most of his 
life in Chenango county, and many years in 
Smithville. In politics he was a Republican, 
never missing a town meeting or other elec- 
tions from the time he was old enough to 
vote. He held the offices of assessor, town 
clerk, and justice of the peace. He was a 
member of the P.aptist churcli at Greene. Tie 



married (first) Ellen M. Van Patten, who died 
in 1848; (second) Harriet, daughter of 
Thomas and Nancy (Shaw) Terry, and she 
died June 16, 1884. Child by first wife: 
Walter C, of Norwich, New York. Children 
by second wife : Harmon A., mentioned below ; 
Ella M., born April 28, 1857 ; Lucy E., May 9, 
1859, died January 30, 1887, married Horace 
P>enedict, and had child, Lucy ; L'rsula, Feb- 
ruary 4, 18O4, married Joel Dorman, of Nor- 
wich, New York, and has one child, Esther. 

(\'II) Harmon Alonzo, son of Alonzo M. 
Walwortii, was born in Sterling, New York, 
November 30. 1851. He attentled school in 
Plymouth and the Norwich Academy. After 
the custom of his day he taught school in win- 
ter and followed farming in the summer, for 
ten years. In his later years he followed farm- 
ing. During most of his life he has been a 
resident of Smithville, where he still owns a 
farm. He has been honored by many places 
of public trust. For nine years he was super 
visor of the town of Smithville, and during 
two years of that time he was chairman of the 
board of sujjervisors of Chenango county. He 
was elected sheriff of the county for a term of 
three years in November, igog. He has been 
a director of the Chenango Fire Relief Asso- 
ciation for more than twenty years. For sev- 
eral years he was a traveling salesman for the 
International Harvester Company and for the 
Johnson Farm Machine Company. He is a 
member of Smithville Center Grange, No. 512, 
Patrons of Husbandry, and of the Baptist 
church. Mr. Walworth has had a successful 
business life and his administration of tin- 
important county and town offices that he has 
held has been characterized by zeal, prudence 
and faithfulness. His integrity and executive 
ability were especially valuable to the town and 
county that he served so well. Throughout 
this section of the state he has a wide ac- 
(|uaintance and a host of friends in all classes 
and i^arties. In politics he is a Republican. 

He married (first), December 20, 1877, 
Charlotte Hotchkiss. born in Smithville, died 

May 28, 1901, daughter of Calvin and 

(Sherman) Hotchkiss. He married (second), 
October 10. 1(105. Emma King Piliven, of 
Preston. New York, daughter of Jason and 
Diana (Park) King; she was born at Pres- 
ton, New York. By his first wife, Mr. Wal- 
worth had one son, Leon, born at Smithville, 
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a member of the Masonic fraternity, married, 
August 15, 1906, Ida Benetia Waltz, and lias 
children, Harold Walworth, born April 30, 
1907; Harmon Alvin, September 20, 191 1. 



Peter Mallory, immigrant 
MALLORY ancestor, was born in Eng- 
land and came early to New 
Haven, Connecticut, being one of the signers 
of the Plantation Covenant. He died after 
1675. Children : Rebecca, born at New Ha- 
ven, May 18, 1649; Mary, October, 1655; 
Mary, September 28, 1657 ; Peter, July 27, 
1658; Thomas, September 15, 1659, married 
Mary Humberfield ; Daniel, November 25, 
[661; John, May 10, 1663; Joseph, 1665; 
Benjamin, January 4, 1668; Samuel, March 
10, 1673; William, September 2, 1675; Abi- 
gail, married a Mr. Adams; children: William, 
Eli and Sarah. 

(I) P'eter Mallory, a descendant of Peter 
Mallory, the immigrant, was born near the 
border line between New York state and Ver- 
mont, about 1770, and came among the early 
settlers to Otsego county. New York. He mar- 
ried a daughter of David Shipman, of Hoosic, 
Rensselaer county, New York. Children : Levi, 
Norman, Lucius, William, Hiram Delos, Lucy, 
Jane, Lucinda. 

(II) William, son of Peter Mallory, was 
born in Otsego county. New. York, in 1808, 
died in 1 1 art wick. New York, in April, 1888. 
In his younger days he was a member of a 
theatrical company, and traveled in various 
parts of the country. His later years were 
spent at Hartwick, New York, where he fol- 
lowed farming to the time of his death. He 
married Eliza Todd, who was born in Hart- 
wick, New York, in 1808, died in April, 1888, 
and was buried in the same grave with her 
husband. She was the daughter of Lemuel 
and Sarah (Street) Todd; her father lived to 
the great age of ninety-five years. Children : 
Emily, married Thomas Glenn ; Hiram Delos, 
mentioned below ; Ophelia, married Sands 
-Shumway. 

(III) Hiram Delos, son of William Mal- 
lory, was born in Hartwick, New York, July 
3, 1842, and was educated there in the pub- 
lic schools and at Cooperstown Seminary. 
When he was fifteen years old he went to work 
for the LInion Manufacturing Company at 
Oak Creek, selling cotton goods manufactured 
by this concern, and continued in this position 



for a number of years. In 1861 he located at 
Norwich, New York, where he has since lived. 
He was for many years a traveling salesman 
representing various large wholesale tobacco 
houses at New York City and elsewhere. Dur- 
ing the early days of the development of the 
oil fields of Pennsylvania he bought and leased 
territory in the oil fields. From 1878 to 1905 
he represented the tobacco house of G. B. Far- 
rington, of New York City, and still does some 
business for that concern. He served the town 
of Norwich as justice of the peace and as 
magistrate and member of the town board and 
proved an able and efficient public servant. 
Since 1905 he has been city judge and has 
filled the position with credit and ability. He 
is a member of Norwich Lodge of Free Ma- 
sons ; of Harmony Chapter, Royal Arch Ma- 
sons ; of Norwich Commandery, Knights 
Templar. In politics he is a Democrat and in 
religion a Methodist. Fle married. May, 1864, 
Sophia S. Nash, born in Cooperstown, New 
York, October 9, 1837, died in Norwich, Jan- 
uary 25, 1903, daughter of Lewis L. and So- 
phia (Shipman) Nash (see Nash). 

(lY) Fred Lewis, son of Hiram Delos Mal- 
lory, was born in Norwich, New York, April 
14, 1869. He received his early education in 
the ])ublic schools of Norwich, and studied 
law in the office of A. F. Gladding, of Nor- 
wich. He was admitted to the bar May 31, 
1890, and during the next two years practiced 
law in Norwich. For seven years he was em- 
ployed in the United States Geological Survey 
in New York state. He was appointed deputy 
county clerk of Chenango county in January. 
1910, and has filled that office since then. In 
politics he is a Republican. He has been jus- 
tice of the peace of the town of Norwich, and 
deputy collector of internal revenue. He is 
a member of Norwich Lodge of Free Masons; 
of Harmony Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; of 
Norwich Commandery, Knights Templar, and 
is an active member of the Methodist Episco- 
pal church of Norwich. 

He married, November 11, 1901, Eugenia 
H. Ross, of Lewes, Delaware, daughter of 
Samuel Rowland and Martha (West) Ross. 
Her father was born at Milton, Delaware, De- 
cember 30, 1832; her mother in Lewes, Dela- 
ware, July 17, 1836. Her paternal grandpar- 
ents were Samuel and Eliza (Enniss) Ross, 
and her maternal grandparents, William and 
Ruth (Duffield) West. Mr. and Mrs. Mallory 
have no children. 



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Daniel Conroy was born in 
CONRO\' County Queens. Ireland, .\bout 
185 1 he came to America and 
settled in Ulster county. Xew York, and died 
in Xew l^'altz, Xew Y'ork. lie married Mar- 
garet Dun.n. Child : Daniel, a young boy at 
his father's death, mentioned below. 

(\l) Daniel Conroy. son of Daniel Conroy, 
was born in I'loyle. County Queens, Ireland. 
May I. 184(1. and when five \ears of age came 
to America with his parents. lie died in Nor- 
wich, New York, January 25, 1904. The Con- 
roys were large land owners in Ireland and 
well-to-do until the lands were confiscated by 
the Crown. Daniel Conroy went to school 
until he was nine years oi age. when he left 
to work in the Blue Stone Quarries, and the 
rest of his life from that time was spent in 
quarry work. He lived first in Hurley, Xew 
York, and around there, until 1881, and then 
he went to Smithville Flats. Chenango county. 
Xew' York. Here he remained for five years, 
and then removed to 1 lastings-on-the-Hud- 
son for tw^o years. .Yfter this he worked 
in Roscoe for two years, ami then removed 
again to South Oxford. New Y'ork, where be 
stayed for a period of thirteen years. He next 
went to Norwich. Xew York, and lived there 
for three \ears. He was foreman and super- 
intendent of i|uarries for many years. In 
Roscoe he carried on a business of his own. 
and in South Oxford he was superintendent 
for Mr. Clark over his quarries there. In Nor- 
wich, where be came in looi. be joined with 
Mr. Ryan and carried on business under the 
firm name of Ryan & Conroy. In December. 
1903. the company was reorganized under the 
name of Clarke, Conroy & Co.. ^Ir. H. W. 
Clarke being the new member of the firm. In 
politics Daniel Conroy was a strong Demo- 
crat. He was a member of Norwich Lodge. 
Xo. 211. Knights of Columbus, and of the 
Knights of Labor. He married. August 24. 
1873, Catherine, daughter of Patrick and Mary 
( riielan') Cahill. Patrick Cahill was principal 
of the National School in Mullingar. Ireland, 
where he lived and ilied. Catherine Cahill was 
born in June 15. 1853. in Mullingar. Coimty 
Meath. Ireland, and is now living in Xorwich. 
Xew York. Children: i. Daniel F.. men- 
tioned below. J. Mary, born March i. 1S76. 
died November i). 1881. 3. Patrick, born Jan- 
uary 5, 1878 : is a doctor in Xorwich. 4. 
John, born December i, iSSo, died January 
IQ. 1882. 5. Joseph, born January 9. 1883: is 



bookkee])er for Clarke, Conroy & Co. ; mar- 
ried Margaret Ivory; children: Joseph (de- 
ceased). Mary, Catherine and .Anita. 6. James, 
born Xoveinber 13. 1884. died March 19. 1885. 
7. Margaret, born April 17, 1886: married, 
June 28. 191 1, John James Glavin, of Syra- 
cuse, New Y'ork. 8. Catherine, born April i, 

1888. 9. .Ygnes, bom July 23. . 10. 

Francis, born January 19. 1893. 11. .\nna, 
horn July 1. iSt)6. tlied March 8. 1897. Three 
other children died in infancy. 

(Ill) Daniel Francis, son of Daniel Con- 
roy, was born in Hurley, Ulster county New 
York. June 22. 1874. He attended the public 
schools of his native town, Oxford .\cademy, 
Oxford; Hastings high school. Hastings-on- 
the-lludson. and the Eastman Business Col- 
lege, at Poughkeepsie , New Y'ork. He became 
associated with his father in the management 
of the blue stone business and has continued 
in it to the present time. He was in partner- 
ship with his father for three years in the blue- 
stone business in South Oxford. New Y'ork. 
and afterward was a member of the firm of 
Ryan i^- Conroy and of Clarke, Conroy & Com- 
pany. When the concern was incorporated in 
igio under the name of the Clarke-Conroy 
Comjiany. Mr. Conroy became secretary of the 
corjioratiou, and has had charge of the work 
at the (|uarry. The baril, dark blue stone quar- 
ried in Chenango county is second to none in 
qualitx'. and is used throughout the country 
for buildings and roadmaking. This company 
is the foremost in this line of business in this 
section of the county. The mill and yards are 
connected with both railroads. A large force 
of stonecutters are employed in the mill in 
addition to the large force of quarrymen in 
Xorwich. Much of the stone is shipijed in a 
finished state for curbing, flagging, lintels, 
steps, copings, water tables, sills, etc.. besides 
an innnense (|uantity in rough. The largest 
(juarry of the company is on a bill west of the 
village. The mill has all the modern ma- 
chinery and is lighted by electricity. 

Mr. Conroy is independent in politics and 
has served the town of Oxford as justice of 
the peace. He is a member of the Benevolent 
and Protective Order of Elks ; the Knights of 
Columbus, and the Ancient Order of Hiber- 
nians. In religion he is a Roman Catholic, a 
comuumicant of St. Paul's Church. 

He married. April 2J. i8q8. Julia .\. Burke, 
born August 13. 1874. at Poughkeepsie. New 
York, daughter of Patrick and Margaret 




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Burke. Children : Mary, born at Oxford, New 
York, April 24, 1899; Daniel Francis, Jr., 
born at Norwich, New York, June 25, 1904; 
William Burke, born at Norwich, December 
21, 1905. 

The Bell family is of ancient 
HELL Scotch ancestry. John Bell settled 
at Ballstown, Albany county, New 
York, and is believed to be the pioneer in this 
country. According to the first federal cen- 
sus he had in his family in 1790 four males 
over sixteen, one under sixteen, and four fe- 
males. Stqihen Ball, presumably a relative, 
was of the same county, and head of a fam- 
ily in 1790. 

(H) David, son of John Bell, was born 
February 5, 1770. He settled in Green Bush, 
.Albany county. New York, and for many years 
was a manufacturer of cloth for men's cloth- 
ing. His shop with all the machinery and 
books was burned November 25, 1816. He 
married, December 3, 1792. Abigail Allen, 
born March 19, 1774, died November 8. 1861. 
David Bell died "Tuesday night, five minutes 
after 12 o'clock, July 27, 1847, aged ']'/ years, 
five months. 22 days." Children:!. Deidamie, 
born Sunday. February 25, 1794: married. 
December 2"]. 1818, Henry Sleighter ; she died 
October I, 1872, aged seventy-eight years 
seven months si.x days. 2. Martha, born Mon- 
day, November 23. 1795, died November 9, 
(863, aged sixtj'-seven years eleven months 
sixteen days; married, June i, 1817, James 
\"an \'oorhas. 3. John .Mien, mentioned be- 
low. 4. Laura, born February 14. i8oa, died 
June 21. 1882, aged eighty-two years two 
months nine days ; married, March 16, 1829, 
Henry .\ikers. 5. Sally, born Sunday. Feb- 
ruary 14, 1802. died suddenly May 11. 1879. 
aged seventy-seven years two months twenty- 
seven days. 6. Hiram, AL D., born Tuesday. 
June 12, 1804; a physician; had his leg ampu- 
tated March 11. 1823: died Thursday morning. 
November 25, 1830, aged twenty-five years 
five months thirteen days. 7. Stephen Bell, 
born Friday. .\ug^ist I, 1806: a miller by 
trade; died December 13, 1869, aged sixty-two 
years si.x months twelve days ; married, Sep- 
tember 2. 1828, Eliza Becker. 8. Horace, born 
Friday, October 28, 1808; a merchant: dSed 
March 2, 1861, at 10:30 p. m.. aged fifty-two 
years four months four days. 9. Arthur, born 
Thursday, January 4. 181 1 ; married. January 
10, 1855, Charity Deyo. 10. Mary, born 



Thursday, August 5, 1814; died June 4, 1890. 
aged seventy-five years nine months twenty- 
nine days. 

(HI) John Allen, son of David Bell, was 
born March 28, 1798, at Greenbush, or East 
Albany, New York. He was educated in the 
public schools, and was a hardwood finisher 
by trade andi a musician by profession. He 
died September 28. 1854. He married, Jan- 
uary 2. 1819, Ann Hubbard Woodworth 
(called Nancy), born November 5, 1802, died 
January 15. 1851. Children: William, born 
"October 18. 1819, died October 18. 1819; An- 
geline A., born August 28, 1820: Edwin, April 
24. 1822; Caroline E.. August i. 1823, died 
.\pril 22, 1830; David I., born A])ril 11, 1825; 
Horace, mentioned below ; Robert Wood- 
worth. March 8, 1829; Hiram, .\pril 8, 1831. 
died May 30. 1831; Elizabeth. July 4, 1832; 
Alexander, February 16, 1835, died April 15. 
1836; .Ann, born May 16, 1837: John Allen. 
Jr.. February 17, 1839. 

( I\" ) Horace, son of John Allen Bell, w-as 
born May 3. 1828. in Troy, New York, for- 
merl}' East Albany, and died in Boonton, New 
Jersey, July 13, 1882. He was educated in 
the public schools, and learned the trade of 
car]ienter. He worked at his trade in Troy for 
a number of years, and at the age of thirty 
settled in Boonton, New Jersey, where he fol- 
lowed his trade to the end of his life. He 
married Huldah Temple, of Morris county. 
New Jersey: she was born April 2. 1830, and 
is now living at Norwich, New York, a daugh- 
ter of Ira and Mary (Hedley) Temple, and 
granddaughter of Ebenezer Temple, who w-as 
a soldier in the revolution. Children of Hor- 
ace and Huldah Bell : Laura. Oscar G., Julia, 
married \\'ilson Husk, of Caldwell, New Jer- 
sey; Clara, Elizabeth, died in infancy. 

(V) Oscar Gaines, son of Horace Bell, was 
born in Boonton, New Jersey, December 23. 
1857, and died in Norwich, New- York, Feb- 
ruary 21. 1908. He was educated in the com- 
mon schools of his native town, and in 1874 
began his business career as a clerk in a drug 
store in Boonton. Two years later he removed, 
to Smyrna, Chenango county. New York, 
where he also worked two years as a clerk 
in a drug store, returning at the end of that 
time to take a position as bookkeeper in a 
silk mill in his native town. In 1882 he came 
to the village of Norwich to take the position 
of prescription clerk in the drug store of T. 
D. Miller and continued in the employ of Mr. 



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Miller until 1885, when the Norwich I'har- 
macal Company was organized, Mr. LJell be- 
ing one of the founders and owners. In 1890 
the business was incorporated, with Oscar G. 
P.ell, president ; T. D. Miller, vice-president, 
and C. S. Xorris, secretary. The company 
took the front rank in its line of business in 
this section of the state. Xumerous proprie- 
tary articles and ointments and pharmaceutical 
preparations were included in the output of 
the concern. Unguentine, a surgical dressing 
made by this company from a formula dis- 
covered by Sir Astley Cooper, secured a world- 
wide reputation and enormous sales. The 
plant consists of several large buildings, fitted 
with machinery of a special type and design 
made expressly for the conTf^jiy. The main 
building is a three-story structure thirty by 
one hundred feet. Another building, devoted 
exclusively to the manufacture of pills, is 24 
by 64 feet and two .stories high. The boiler 
house is 24 by 38 feet, and the engine room 
twenty feet square. The office building, in 
which the advertising department is located as 
well as the counting room and the experi- 
mental laboratory, is 22 by 34 feet. The New 
York office of the Norwich P'harmacal Com- 
pany is located at 51 John street. New York 
City, and the company has traveling salesmen 
in nearly every state of the union and agents 
in South .\merica and Canada. The growth 
and prosperity of this great business has been 
due in large measure to the energy and capacity 
of the president, and he continued at the head 
of the company until he died. He was a mem- 
ber of the Board of Education and always 
keenly interested in public education. He was 
an officer of the local building and loan asso- 
ciation. In religion he was a Congregational- 
ist and a member of the church. In ])olitics 
Mr. P.ell was a Republican. He was a member 
of Norwich Lodge, No. 302, Free Masons, and 
of other social clubs and organizations. He 
was well known in the drug trade, and highly 
respected in the community for his splendid 
business ability and achievements and his up- 
.rightness, kindliness and enterprise. 

He married, November 24, 1881, Flora M. 
F-funt, of Smyrna. Chenango county. New 
York, daughter of C.eorge Hunt, who was born 
Januarv 12. 1S2S, died iS'oH, married .Mary 
Jane Dixon, horn July 20, 1830, died in 1889. 
John Dixon, father of Jane, was the son of 
Major Joseph Dixon, a soldier in the revolution. 



George Hunt was a son of Lucius Hunt. Chil- 
djren of Oscar G. and Flora M. Bell: i. Caro- 
line, born December 11, 1882; married Floyd 
W. Trieble, principal of grammar school at 
Itica, New York; children: Bruce Wilson 
Trieble, Helen Belle Trieble, and Richard 
I'elcher Trieble. 2. Joseph H., born October 
0, 1884: a member of Booth Company, of 
Norwich. New York, in the manufacture of 
perfumes ; married Jennie Doyle, of Ellen- 
ville. New York, and has a daughter, Eleanor. 
3. Helen Temple, born September 20, 1889, 
died aged five years. 4. Dorotha Hunt, born 
Sq)tember-26, 1897. 



Henry Lyon, the immigrant ances- 
LYON tor, was one of the family of Lyons 

of Glen Lyon in Perthshire, Scot- 
land, and came to the colonies with his two 
brothers Thomas and Richard in 1648. The 
three brothers had been soldiers in Cromwell's 
army, and were on guard before the ban(|uet- 
ing house at Whitehall, January 31, 1648, when 
Charles the First was executed. Immediately 
after, they fled to America. Henry went to 
MiH()rd, Connecticut, where he is first on rec- 
ord, Vebruary 24, 1642. when he was admit- 
ted to^the church. In 1652 he married Eliza- 
beth, daughter of William Bateman, of Fair- 
field, Connecticut, and was granted a house 
lot there. May 28, 1654, he was dismissed 
from Fairfield to Milford church. In 1666 
he came to Newark, New Jersey, as one of 
the founders with the Milford colonists. He 
was the first treasurer of Newark, 1668-73, 
and first keeper of the ordinary. In 1673-74 
he removed to Elizabethtown, where he was 
a large landowner and a merchant of extensive 
interests. He was a member of the general 
assembly, November 5, 1675. On .August 11. 
1681, he was appointed justice of the peace; 
on February 4, i68t, was made judge of small 
causes; February 28, 1681. a member of the 
governor's council; December, 1683, commis- 
sioner; November 26, 1684, representative in 
council of the governor. Among his lands 
were one himdred acres of upland since known 
as Lyon Farm. He married (second), 1669- 

1700, Mary . He returned to Newark 

in 1696, and died there in 1703. Children of 
first wife: Thomas, 1652-53; Mary, 1654-55; 
Samuel, mentioned below; Josq)h, 1658-60; 
Nathaniel, 1663-64; John, 1665-66; Benjamin, 
1668; Ebenezcr, 1670. -All were born in Fair- 



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field, except last two, in Newark. Children of 
second wife: Mary, 1690-91; Dorcas, 1692-93, 
both born in Elizabethtown. 

(11) Samuel, son of Henry Lyon, was born 
about 1655-56, in Fairfield, Connecticut. He 
married (first) Sarah Beach, born 1654, daugh- 
ter of Zopher and Sarah (Piatt) Beach, of 
New Haven, Connecticut. He married (sec- 
ond) Hannah, daughter of Thomas and Alary 
(Harrison) Pierson. In 1666 Samuel Lyon 
received a lot in the distribution. On June 24, 
1667, when he could have been only about 
twelve or thirteen years of age, he signed the 
"fundamental agreement" with the Milford 
colonists, and February 25, 1683-84 he sold 
two acres of land to Zopher P>each. His will, 
dated August 20, 1703, proved at Xew York. 
February 26, 1707, mentions wife Hannah, 
and his children, making his brother Benja- 
min executor. Children of first wife : Samuel ; 
Henry, born 1682: Joseph; Mary; Sarah 
Children of second wife: John, mentioned 
below; James, born October 5, 1700; Hannah. 

(HI) John, son of Samuel Lyon, married 
Elizabeth, daughter of Edward and Mary 
Riggs. Edward Riggs was descended from 
Edward Riggs, who came in 1633 with his 
family to lioston. John Lyon's descendants 
have not been traced definitely, but it is possi- 
ble that he had sons Joseph, John, and Thomas, 
mentioned below. 

(IV) Thomas, son of John Lyon, married, 
1760, Huldah, a sister of Martha Burlingame, 
who married John Lyon, of Scituate, October 
27, 1763, in Cranston, Rhode Island; she was 
daughter of Daniel and Rose (Briggs) Bur- 
lingame. Samuel, Alexander, and Major 
Thomas Lyon were probably his sons. One 
reason for this statement is that Cyrus, a son 
of John, brother of Thomas, named his oldest 
son Alexander in 1797, and there can be no 
doubt that Cyrus and .\lexan(ler were cousins. 
Also, a daughter of Samuel Lyon married a 
i'lirlingame. 

(V) Samuel, son of Thomas Lyon, came to 
Chenango county, Xew York, in 1791. with his 
brothers .Xlexander and Major Thomas. Sam- 
uel and Alexander are said to have served in 
a Connecticut regiment in the revolution ; 
.Mcxander nev'er married. Major Thomas 
Lyon was killed at Little York, in 1812, in a 
figlit with the British. He led a regiment of 
state troops from Chenango county in 1812. 
"Toward the close of 18 13 General Dearborn, 
under whom Major Lyon served, crossed Lake 



Erie with seventeen hundred men, with the 
intention of attacking York, now Toronto, and 
then the chief depot of the British depots in 
the west. A landing was made before York 
on the 27th of the month (April) under hot 
fire, but the Americans pushed! on and the 
enemy were driven from the works. The 
.Americans were still pressing toward the main 
works when a magazine exploded, a plot of the 
British. Two hundred Americans were killed 
and wounded, among the mortally wounded 
being Major Lyon, who was carried on board 
the commodore's vessel and there died, the 
death of a hero." Samuel Lyon and his 
brothers bought land of Benjamin Hovey, 
Governor Clinton's land agent, for one shilling 
an acre, and built a gristmill, and also a lum- 
ber and a woolen mill. He settled in O.xford, 
1792, and at Lyon Brook, near Lyon Brook 
bridge, on the New York, Ontario & Western 
railroad. He came from Great Bend, Penn- 
sylvania. He is said to have had a brother. 
Dr. Daniel Lyon. Children: Daniel; Huldah, 

married Charles Smith ; Sally, married 

Rathbone ; Betsey, married Burlin- 
game ; Polly, married Samuel Pollard ; Sam- 
uel, married Eddy; Lovina, and Lu- 

cina, twins, Lovina married John I'oUard, Lu- 
cina married Baker ; Ira ; Lovica, mar- 
ried William -Smith; George Rowdey, men- 
tioned below. 

(\'I) George Rowdey, son of Samuel Lyon, 
was born August 16, 1800, at Lyon Brook, 
town of Oxford, Chenango county, New York, 
and died in Greene. New York, in 1886. He 
learned the trade of a blacksmith with David 
Maydole, of Norwich, the founder of the May- 
dole Hammer Company. He also worked with 
James .\. Glover, of Oxford, and about 1822 
came to Greene, where he started a small iron 
foundry, with the bellows operated by horse 
power. The present Lyon Iron Works grew 
out of this small business. In politics he was 
a Republican, and served as supervisor of the 
town. 1 le was a Congregationalist, and a dea- 
con in the church. He married, December 28, 
1822. Susannah, daughter of David and Char- 
ity (W'ilson) Lyon, she was born in Oxford, 
New York, May 30, 1803. Children : Henry A., 
mentioned below; Ann Eliza, born August 21, 
T829, lives in Greene, married (first) Judson 
Babcock, (second) Isaac B. PerLee, who died 
in 1901 ; George Milton, born February 15, 
1832, married Eliza Lewis; Mary Alice, born 
May II, 1839, died May i, 1842; Susan Alice, 



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born September 14. 1842, died February 9, 
1896, married Burdette Holcomb. who died in 
1896. 

(VII) Henry A., son of George Rowley 
Lyon, was born in Greene, New York, Novem- 
ber 22, 1826, and died December 2, 1908. He 
received a public school education at Greene, 
and then attended Oxford Academy. Until 
his marriage he worked in the Lyon Iron 
Works for his father, and then he conducted 
a hotel in Willett, New York, for a time. Later 
he returned to Greene, and after the death of 
his father, who founded the works in 1840, 
the business which had been conducted in a 
partnership, was incorporated. He was made 
vice-president of the corporation, and later 
became president. At the time of his death 
he was vice-president. He married Elvira H. 
Dyer, of Willett, Cortland county. New York, 
daughter of John and Harriet (Shaw) Dyer; 
she was born in 1830, and died May 25, 1909. 
Children : Harriet A., married Edward A. 
Barnard, and they have a son Robert : Susie 
A., married John Eaton, deceased, has daugh- 
ter Florence : Walter Dyer, mentioned below. 

(\'in) Walter Dyer Lyon, son of Henry 
.\. Lyon, was born at Greene, New York, Oc- 
tober 22, 1867. He attended the public schools 
of his native town and the Greene high school, 
graduating from the latter. After leaving 
school he entered the Lyon Iron Works, at 
Greene, for the purpose of learning the busi- 
ness, and he has been engaged there to the 
Dresent time in various positions of responsi- 
bility. Since ii;)07 he has been jiresident and 
general manager of the corporation. The Lyon 
Iron Works, founded by George R. Lyon, 
manufactures saw, shingle and lath mills, mak- 
ing small gray castings a specialty. The coin- 
pany also makes shingle bolters and bunchers, 
slab, circular and drag saw machines, horse, 
animal and dog power machinery, fodder cut- 
ters and carriers, agricultural implements in 
great variety, pulleys, shafting, hangers, etc. 
Special machinery is built to order. 

Mr. Lyon is politically a Republican. He is 
past master of Eastern Light Lodge, No. 126. 
Free Masons, of Greene: of Greene Chapter, 
No. 106. Royal Arch Masons, of Greene; of 
Malta Commandery, Knights Templar, of 
Bingliamton, New York, and Kalurah Temple, 
Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic 
Shrine. He married, December 14, 191 1, Eliz- 
abeth, daughter of fohn and Matilda (Gilli- 



land) Mason. Mr. Lyon attends the Baptist 
church, being one of the trustees. Mrs. Lyon 
is a Congregationalist. 



James Gibson, the immigrant an- 
GIB.SON cestor, came from Argyleshire, 
on the western shore of Scot- 
land, to .America, in 1722, and made his home 
in Coimecticut. With him came his second 
wife, .\gnes (Campbell). By his second wife 
he had, born in Connecticut : John, mentioned 
below; Janet, married John Gordon. 

(II) John, son of James Gibson, was born 
in Connecticut, about 1725. He lived in Wind- 
ham county, Connecticut. He married Esther, 
(laughter of Adam and Jane (Hall) Kasson ; 
her parents came from Belfast, Ireland, and 
according to family tradition they came in the 
same ship with James Gibson and other Scotch 
and Scotch-Irish pioneers. .\dam Kasson died 
at X'oluntown, Windham county, Connecticut, 
November i, 1752, aged seventy-one years, 
and his wife died there March 31, 1767, aged 
eighty-five years. Children of John and Esther 

Gibson : Jacob, married Deming ; .Xrch- 

ibald, died in infancy; .Alexander, never mar- 
ried; Jolin J., married Kate Warren; Archi- 
bald, married three times ; William, married 
Lodema Ransford ; James, married Hannah 
W. Pierson ; Thomas Kasson, married Lubrina 
Reddington ; Mollie, married Hezekiah Pellett ; 
Nancy, married Edward Waterhouse; Betsey, 
married John \\'asson ; Chauncey C. mention- 
ed below. 

(III) Chauncey C, son of John Gibson, 
was born in \\'indham county, Connecticut, 
about 1775. His father and he were among 
the first settlers of Norwich, and settled there 
about 1700. He died in South New P>erlin, 
New A'ork, about 1867. He was educated in 
the ])ublic schools. He was an especially skill- 
ful violinist, and for many years was in requisi- 
tion for country dances and other entertain- 
ments. The section was sparsely settled in his 
dav. and on one occasion he was accompanied 
bv howling wolves in traveling to North Nor- 
wich by night. He manufactured spinning 
wheels, which were in use in all farm houses 
in his day. and was a skillful mechanic. He 
married Mary Smith, a second cousin of Gail 
Borden, a descendant of a famous old New 
Bedford family. Children; John, died in in- 
fancy; Harriet, married Ira Lincoln; Phebe, 
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De Lance, died in infancy; Sarah Smith, mar- 
ried Abial Cook Herron ; Schuyler Jerome, 
married Sarah Eliza Hancock; Polly Maria, 
married Henry Bennett. 

(IV) Dr. Stanford Chandler Gibson, son of 
Chaimcey C. Gibson, was born in Norwich, in 
1810, and died in South New Berlin, New 
York, in 1894. He attended the public schools, 
but was largely educated through his own ef- 
forts. A constant student all his life, he ac- 
quired a liberal education and became a man 
of learning and culture. For some years he 
taught school when a young man, but found 
a preference for medicine, and fitted himself 
for the profession of physician and surgeon 
and followed it through life. He located at 
South New Berlin, Chenango county. New 
Y'ork, and practiced there till about eight years 
before he died. He was a successful practi- 
tioner, nnich beloved by the people of the com- 
munity, and sincerely mourned when he died. 
Before the civil war he was a Democrat, but 
he became a Republican in the early days of 
that party and was strong in his support of 
the Union during the civil war. He married 
(first) Martha R. Hall; (second) Sarah E. 
Church, born at Columbus, New York, 18 16, 
ancj died in 1863. daughter of Varnum and 

(W'yman) Church. He married (third) 

Katherine E. Failing. Children of first wife: 
Captain Edwin O., who served in the civil war. 
and in the regular army, and is buried in the 
National Cemetery at Arlington ; Dwight T., 
a lawyer at Waverly, Iowa. Children of sec- 
ond wife: Kasson Church, a dentist in New 
York City ; Frances Janet, married Jay Eccles- 
ton, and lives at Canastota, New Y'ork ; Mar- 
tha, married Daniel Thompson, of Norwich ; 
Stanford Jay, mentioned below. Children of 
third wife ; Charles S., super\-isor of grades 
in Syracuse i)ublic schools. 

(\') Stanford Jay, son of Dr. Stanford 
Chandler Gibson, was born in South New 
Berlin, January 13, 1858. He attended the 
public schools, the New Berlin Academy, and 
Cornell University, from which he was gradu- 
ated in the class of 1879. He studied law in 
Ithaca and in the office of Judge Gladding, of 
Norwich, and was athnitted to the bar in 1883. 
For three years he was principal of the South 
New Berlin Union School, three years of Af- 
ton high school and three years of New Berlin 
high school in Chenango county. In 1893 he 
was chosen principal of the Norwich high 
school, and since 1899 he has been superintend- 



ent of schools of Norwich. In politics he is a 
Republican, and he has taken an active part in 
public affairs. He is a member of the Ma- 
sonic fraternity, of the Odd Fellows, and of 
the Imjiroved Order of Red Men, all of Nor- 
wich. 

He married, in April. 1885, Gertrude J. Sage, 
of South New Berlin, daughter of Gilbert and 
.\delaide (Sargent) Sage. Children: i. Ed- 
win Fred, born January 27, 1886, graduate of 
t'ornell University in 1910 (M. D. ), and now 
a practicing physician in Norwich ; he is also 
health officer of the village. 2. Kasson Stan- 
ford, born January 7. 1890; a student of Cor- 
nell University. 3. Gilbert Sage, born August 
10, 1896. 4. Stanford Jay Jr., June 25, 1909. 



Daniel Rindge. the imnugrant 
RINDGE ancestor, was born in bjigland. 

and settled as early as 1648 in 
Ijjswich. He died in February, 1661. His 
will was dated February 3, and proved March 
2^, 1661. To his wife Mary he beciueathed a 
third of his property; also house and lands 
now in possession of Thomas Waite. until his 
two youngest daughters be of age, "and if 
they desire it they may have the same for their 
portion." He had a farm in the iiands of Dan- 
iel Davison. He married Mary, daughter of 
Robert Kinsman. He purchased of John Davis. 
February 8. 1648, a si.x-acre lot on Heartbreak 
Hill : and February 14, 1648, a dwelling house 
and six acres of Thomas Emerson. He bought 
a farm of Thomas Bishop. March 5, 1670, 
located on Mile Brook. He was licensed as an 
innkeeper in Ipswich in May. 166 r, and was 
"to keepe the herd on the south side of the 
River," May 9, 1655. Robert Kinsman came 
to New England in the shi]j "Mary & John," 
in 1634, and settled in Ipswich in 1635. His 
homestead was near the site of the present 
.South meeting house and the Cove. Children 
of Daniel Rindge : Mary, married I'zziel Ward- 
well; Daniel, soldier in King Philip's war; 
Roger, born June 19, 1657; Susanna; Isaac, 
mentioned below; Sarah, .August 7, 1659. 

(II) Isaac, son of Daniel Rindge, was born 
about 1655, and died in Ipswich in 1714. He 
bequeathed to his son John his negro Jack, 
and to his son Isaac he gave his sword. His 
estate was valued at £202 6s. Two of his 
sons. Isaac and John, being over fourteen 
years of age. chose for their guardian their 
imcle Francis Crompton. John settled in Ports- 
mouth, New Hampshire. He married (first") 



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Elizabeth Dutch, daughter of John and Mary 
I Roper) Dutch. She died May 3. 1700. and 
he married (second) EHzabeth ( Hurnham ) 
Kinsman, daughter of Deacon John Burnham. 
Children of Isaac Rindge: John, born June i, 
1695; Isaac, mentioned below; Elizabeth, Sep- 
tember 2, 1701 ; Abigail, December 26, 1703 : 
Daniel, August 24, 1705 ; Samuel, December 

27, 1709- 

(III) Isaac (2), son of Isaac ( i ) Rindge. 
wa.s bom at Ipswich, May 25, 1698. He mar- 
ried, in 1719, Mercy Ouarles. (Page 283. 
Hammatt's "Early Inhabitants, Ipswich, Mas- 
sachusetts"). He moved from Ca]ie Ann. 
Massachusetts, to Hampton. Connecticut. Chil- 
dren: Isaac: John: Lucy; Daniel; William, 
mentioned below: Martha: .Sarah. Xo record 
of eighth child. 

(I\') William, son of Isaac (2) Rindge, 
was born about 1740. He lived in Hampton 
and Ashford, Connecticut, and W ilbraham, 
Massachusetts. He married Hannah Utley, 
and built the house in Wilbraham in which 
four generations of the family have been born. 
Of their fifteen children, thirteen grew to 
maturity. Children: i. Erastus, married Sally 
West ; children : William, Emeline, John and 
.\ngeline. 2. Isaac, married Phcebe Richard- 
son ; children : Isaac, married Matilda Tate, 
and had Charles and Alfred ; Alary Ann, mar- 
ried Addison .\lden, and had Addison and 
Mary ; Catlierine, married Charles West, and 
had Catherine; \\'illiam, went to California. 
3. Eunice. 4. Linda, mentioned below. 3. 
William, mentioned below. 6. Nancy, married 
Orson Cone. 7. Royal, married Ro.xanna 
Barker. 8. Alfred. 9. Lucy, married David 
McCray ; children: Cornelia. Caroline, Sarah 
and David. 10. Cornelia, married Augustus 
Barrett. 11. Eidelia. mentioned below. 12. 
Caroline, married Thomas J. Shcpard ; chil- 
dren : Hannah Jane, married Richard B. Price ; 

Caroline, married Winter; Nellie Shej)- 

ard. married Gideon Hall. 13. Jane M., mar- 
ried Earl Trumbull; lived at Little I'alls. New 
York ; had children. 

(Y) Linda, daughter of William Rindge. 
married Henry Lathrop. Children: i. Utley, 
married Lavinia Peck ; children : Henry, Har- 
riet Lavinia and Frances Marie. 2. Porter, 
married Cornelia P.eals ; child : William. 3. 
Emily, married Lewis Moody Ferry. 4. Caro- 
line, married Solomon Williams ; children : 
Carrie; and Emily, married James Martin, and 
had Mario. 3, ]ulia. ft. Charlotte. 7. I'idelia. 



8. Charles, married Sarah Churchill: children: 
I'Vederic, Linda and Fidelia. 

(\') William (2), son of William (i) 
Rindge, was born in Windham county, Con- 
necticut, and died March 17, 1821. Accord- 
ing to the family his name was William E. 
Rindge. He came to New York about 1810 
.\mong his children was Samuel Fuller, men- 
tioned below. 

(\') Fidelia, daughter of William Rindge, 
married Elkanah P.arton. Children: I. Horace. 
2. Lucy, married Charles Shaw ; children : Eliz- 
abeth and Charles. 3. George Frost, married 
Julia Beardsley; children: Elizabeth, and 
(ieorge E., married .\nnie P.unch, and had 
daughter Julia. 4. Elizabeth, married Charles 
Nicholas ; children : Robert h'enner, and Grace, 
married Charles Hall, and had children : Nich- 
olas. Hiland and Elizabeth. 

( \T ) Samuel Fuller, son of William E. 
Rindge, was born in Windham county, Con- 
necticut, and died in Brookfield, Madison coun- 
ty. New York. He settled in the town of 
Homer, Cortland county, near the village of 
East Homer, where he followed farming and 
taught school. He was a powerfully built, 
earnest, resolute man, a noted hunter of big 
game, when deer, bear, foxes and all the fur- 
bearing animals were plentiful in this region. 
He held a commission in the state militia under 
General Hathaway, of Solon, New York, and 
for a time lived at Solon. He spent his last 
years at the home of his daughter in Brook- 
field, aufl died there. He married I'ing- 

ham, who was related to the fovmder of Bing- 
hamton. New York. Children : Edwin R., 
mentioned below ; Lucius ; Charles, living in ^1 
lialdwinsville. New York; Levantia, married 
Delos Clark, of Brof)kfield, Madison county, 
.New York. 

(\II) I-".dwin R., son of Samuel Fuller 
Rindge, was born in 1819, at Homer, Cortland 
county, and died at Killawog, Broome county, 
in 1889. He attended the public schools of 
1 Inmer and Solon. When a young boy he was 
apprenticed to Mr. Carpenter, of Carjjenter- 
ville, in the town of Homer, to work in the 
woolen and carding and cloth dressing mill, 
and continued to work in this mill for a num- 
ber of years. In 1843 ^^ removed to the town 
of Lisle, in Piroome county, and conducted a 
carding and fulling mill for about five years. 
He then went to Chenango Forks in the em- 
ploy of Jose]3hus Byram. who owned grist, 
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at this place he removed to Dryden, Tomp- 
kins county, where he took charge of the full- 
ing department of a large woolen mill for two 
years. .\l)out 1856 he went to Killawog, Xew 
York, and for about si.x years operated a card- 
ing and fulling mill, .\fterward he was asso- 
ciated with his son in the management of his 
general store, the railroad station and post- 
office in Killawog. He was postmaster of 
Killawog and lived there during his last years. 
In politics he was a Re]niblican : in religion a 
llaptist. He married, in 1843, Cynthia D. 
Briggs, born 1806, in Cortland county, and 
died in 1905, daughter of Joel R. Briggs. Chil- 
dren : I. Fernando D., born 1844: enlisted in 
1862 in Com]iany D. One Hundred and Ninth 
Regiment Xcw York \'olunteers, and killed at 
battle of the Wilderness, May 12. 1864. 2. 
Rowley Eugene, mentioned below. 3. Jerome 
D.. born 1852: a farmer in Cortland county, 
near the town of Marathon. 

(\I1I) Rowley Eugene, son of Edwin R. 
Rindge, was born in the town of Lisle, Broome 
county, Xew York, July 12, 1846. He attend- 
ed the district schools of Killawog, Dryden, 
Chenango Forks, and the Marathon Academy, 
walking a distance of three miles daily from 
Killawog to the academy, .\fterward he taught 
the winter term of school at Upper Lisle. In 
1864 he became a general merchant at Killa- 
wog in the firm of I^ratt, Hoyt & Rindge. 
After one year Mr. Pratt withdrew and the 
name of the firm became Hoyt & Rindge for 
three years. .Mr. Hoyt was succeeded by Mr. 
I'hettiplace, and until 1872 the firm name was 
Rindge & I'hettiplace. Mr. Rindge then sold 
out to his partner, and in 1865 was appointed 
station and express agent at Chenango Forks, 
on the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western rail- 
road, a position he filled until 187 1, and dur- 
ing these years his father had charge of his 
interests in the store at Killawog. He came 
to Norwich, New Y'ork, in 1871, as agent and 
dispatcher for the Delaware, Lackawanna & 
Western railroad, having charge of all the 
train men and the yard gang of section men 
until 187'^, but continued as agent until 1878. 
In 1878 he engaged in the coal business in Xor- 
wich in partnership with Mr. Bartle, under the 
firm name of Bartle & Rindge. The firm was 
dissolved by the death of his partner in Au- 
gust, 1880, and Mr. Rindge continued in busi- 
ness alone until 1882. He handled all the coal 
that came into the town over both railroads 
for many years. In addition to his coal busi- 



ness, he deals e.xtensively in real estate and 
is the owner of much valuable property in the 
town. Mr. Rindge is active in public affairs, 
and for ten years was a member of the board 
of education and has been a member of the 
board of health. He was formerly president 
and general manager of the Xorwich Furni- 
ture Company, and is one of the owners at the 
present time. He is a member of the Baptist 
church, and was chairman of the board of 
trustees of the society. He joined the Free 
Masons in Lisle, Xew York, many years ago. 
He married, September 7, 1869, Lucy A. 
Davis, of La Pierre, Cortland county. New 
York, daughter of John C. and Julia A. (Terry) 
Davis. Children: i. Fred Davis, born .April 
23, 1 87 1, died September ly. 1872. 2. Ray- 
mond Arthur, born in Xorwich, Xovember 13. 
1873; confidential secretary of General Super- 
intendent Rogers, of the Borden Condensed 
Milk Company, in New York City; married 
Grace, daughter of T. Spencer Baker, of Nor- 
wich. 3. ( Irace Ada, married .\lexander L. 
Hackett. 4. Florence May. 



William Teall (Teal or Teel), the 
TEALL immigrant ancestor of most of 
the Teal, Teel. Teale and Teall 
families of this country, if not of all, was a 
carpenter by trade. He located early at Mai- 
den, Massachusetts, and also lived at Medford 
and Charlestown. He was a nephew of Will- 
iam Clement, of Newton, Of his children all 
but William appear to have left their native 
town. William Teall married (first) Mary 
: (second) Hannah Kendrick. Chil- 
dren, the first five of whom were born at Med- 
ford, the others at Charlestown : Abigail, born 
January i, 1685: Benjamin, November 2, 1689; 
Elizabeth. June 22, i6q6: Oliver. July 19, 1699, 
doubtless the settler of New Haven and Kill- 
ingsworth, Connecticut, said to have come 
from England in a brief genealogy of his de- 
scendants (his son Oliver was of Hillsdale, 
Columbia county. New York, in 1790) ; Rachel. 
.\ugiist I. 1705: Hannah, July 25. 1707; John, 
September 25, 1709: Esther, September 9, 
171 1 ; Mary, March 30, 1713; William, bap- 
tized October 3, 1714, lived at Charlestown: 
Caleb, baptized June 23, 1717; Abigail, bap- 
tized June 30, 1723 ; Elizabeth, bom October 
12, 1723. 

(II) The second generation scattered through 
Massachusetts and Connecticut. Oliver Teall, 
of New Haven and Killingsworth. has been 



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mentioned. In ijyo the first federal census 
shows that Aaron, Benjamin and Blaney Teall 
were the only heads of families left in Charles- 
town, and Gershom, Jonathan and Samuel in 
Medford. Anne, William, William Jr. and 
Joseph were heads of families in Newbury- 
port, Massachusetts. Dr. Oliver Teall, son of 
Oliver Teall and grandson of William Teall, 
was in Hillsdale, New York, in 1790. In 
Columbia county his cousins, Lawrence and 
Zachariah Teall, also located and had fam- 
ilies in 1790. The other heads of families of 
this surname in New Y'ork state in 1790 were 
Henry, Jacob, Joseph, Samuel, William and 
Timothy Teall. Joseph and Timothy Teall 
were mentioned in the Oliver Teall genealogy. 
Some of the New Y'ork Tealls are descended 
apparently from Henry G. Teel, who was born 
September 28, 1728, died July 2, 1795; came 
to Knowlton, \Varren county. New Jersey, 
before the revolution ; married Christina — ■ — , 
born 1730, died March 25, 1795. The will of 
Henry G. Teel was dated June 12, and filed 
August 20, 1795, bequeathing to Andrew, born 
August 15, 1758; John, born 1760, resided at 
Rlairstown, New Jersey; William, Henry, 
Christina and Barbara. Isaac and Joseph Teall 
were the only heads of family of this surname 
in 1790 in the state of Connecticut, but there 
served in the revolution from Connecticut 
Jacob, Josejih, Nathan, Samuel (2), Titus and 
Timothy Teall, several of whom moved to 
New Y^ork before 1790. 

(III) Charles Teall, descendant of William 
Teall, probably in the third generation, per- 
haps the fourth, was born at Rhinebeck, New- 
York. We have shown that several of this 
family located in Columbia county before 
1790. Henry had one son under sixteen and 
two females in his family, Lawrence hafl two 
sons under si.xteen and one female, and Zach- 
ariah had two females. They were living in 
the same town, and their names follow each 
other in the list as taken in Columbia county. 

(IV) Charles Teall, born about 1775, son 
of one of the Columbia county settlers, was 
born at Rhinebeck, and located at Albany, 
New York. He married and had a son, Charles 
H., mentioned below. 

(V) Charles H., son of Charles Teall, was 
born on Quaker street, .'Xlbany, New York, in 
1824. He was educated in the ])ublic schools, 
and learned the trade of car])enter. He be- 
came a master builder and contractor and also 
followed farming. He died in 1906. He mar- 



ried Mary Hunting, and they had one son, 
Charles C, mentioned below. 

(\T) Dr. Charles Clayton Teall, son of 
Charles H. Teall, was born in Lysander, New 
York, April 12, 1863. He was educated in 
the public schools, at Falley Seminary and 
Cazenovia Seminary. In 1897 he entered the 
American School of Osteopathy at Kirksville, 
Missouri, then under the presidency of its 
founder. Dr. Still. After graduating in 1899 
he took a post-graduate course at St. Louis. 
He began to practice in Brooklyn, New York. 
Since 1909 he has been located in Fulton, New 
Y'ork, where he has an extensive practice. He 
was elected president of the American Osteo- 
jjathic Association at St. Louis in 1902, and 
lie has been secretary of the New Y'ork Osteo- 
pathic Society. Dr. Teall has written various 
articles of a professional nature and is author 
of the work, "Practice of Osteopathy." He is 
a member of Weedsport Lodge, No. 385, Free 
and Accepted Masons, of Weedsport, New 
York; Royal Arch Masons, at Jackson, Michi- 
gan : Jackson Council, Royal and Select Mas- 
ters ; Salem Town Commandery, Knights 
Templar, of Auburn, New Y'ork : Lulu Temple, 
Mystic Shrine: of the l^athfinder and Masonic 
clubs of Fulton, and Citizens' Club. In politics 
he is a Rejjublican. 

1 le married, Sejitember, 1900, Grace Hen- 
ninger, born in Hamilton, Ohio, daughter of 
Jonathan Henninger. Children: Charles H. 
Mary Grace. 

fames Conners was born in 
CONNERS Ireland in 1817. He married 
Mary A. Fuller, of Killarney, 
Ireland, in Montreal, Canada, October 20, 
1847, by Bishop Phalen. In 1850 they came 
to Inilton, New York, where they made their 
home for over fifty years, and were loved and 
respected by all with whom they came in con- 
tact for their charity and kindness of heart. Mr. 
Connors purchased wdiat was then known as 
the Great Bear Spring Farm, and after im- 
proving the same sold to the village of Fulton 
the portion of ground upon which the present 
City Water Works is now located. He work- 
ed for the late Captain Malcolm, of Oswego, 
and the Dodge Company, of Washington, Dis- 
trict of Columbia, many years, retiring from 
public work in 1879. Ten children blessed 
this union, namely: 1. John, interested in the 
oil wells in .Sunny Side, Pennsylvania. 2. 
William, physician of Scrantou, Pennsylvania, 



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also a very successful writer. 3. James, de- 
ceased ; was president of the Nebraska Mining 
Company. 4. Stephen, one of the stockholders 
of the above mine. 5. Thomas, of the Stand- 
ard Oil Company, of Taft, California. 6. Mrs. 
John Carroll. 7. Mrs. Martin Dietrich, of 
Fulton, New York. 8. Mrs. Frank Mack, of 
Oswego, New York. 9. Kate, who resides on 
the homestead. 10. Joseph H., of whom fur- 
ther. 

(II) Joseph H., son of James Conners. was 
born in Fulton, New York, .August 15, 1864. 
He was educated in the city schools, and for 
seven years worked in a cheese factory in Ful- 
ton for the late Harvey Smith. He then ran 
the factory for two years. In the spring of 
1887 he entered the employ of Hines, Mof- 
fett & Clark, of Watertown, New York, as 
their sujiply man and timekeeper on water 
and electric light works at Rochester, Minne- 
sota. In 1888 he worked on the Battle Island 
lock and on the water works at Phoenix, New 
York. The following year he worked for 
Bassett Brothers on construction of water 
works at Clyde, Palmyra, Phel]:is, Brockport 
and Holly, New York. In i8qi he went back 
to work for \Villiam Patrick and remained 
with him for three years. In 1894 he formed 
a ]iartnership with the late Willard Johnson 
under the firm name of Johnson & Company. 
They raised the Oswego Falls dam and built 
the foundation for the Oswego Falls Paper 
Company. In 1897 he took over the tools 
of the company and founded the company of 
Conners & Smith. They built tlie Nestle Food 
jilant at Fulton, New York, two and one-half 
miles of pavement at Salamanca, New York, 
the power house at Stuyvesant I'alls, install- 
ed machinery for the third railroad from Rens- 
selaer to Hudson, the lock and dam at Saranac 
Lake, Albany avenue bridge foundation at At- 
lantic City, Oakwood avenue pavement at 
Troy, bridge at Waterford and three miles of 
good roads from Lestershire to Hooper. 

In 1904 Mr. Conners started in business for 
himself. He built roads at Fabius, Apulia, 
Deerfield, Utica. Parish and Burrs Mills. In 

1905 he built the Henderson roads, and in 

1906 Mill No. 5 at F'ulton for E. R. Redhead. 
In the last three years, in the firm of Con- 
ners & Hendricks, he has built the Utica Street 
Bridge at Oswego, New York, and the Dia- 
mond Match Factory and pavement on Sec- 
ond street. In 1910 the same firm bad the 



contract for building the concrete sewer for 
the barge canal at Fulton, New York, and in 
the same year also built a retaining wall for 
the Fulton Light, Heat & Power Company, 
and a dock for the Eureka Paper Company. 
In the past year, 191 1, he built four miles of 
the Fulton Hannibal road, No. 772. at a cost 
of $45,000.00. He is a stockholder and di- 
rector in the Nebraska Mining Company of 
Hastings, Nebraska, mines joining the valu- 
able Silver Slipper mines located at Robaux, 
South Dakota. In politics Mr. Conners is a 
Democrat and has held many positions of re- 
sponsibility and trust. In 1909 he was elected 
mayor of the city of Fulton by a large major- 
ity. He is a member of the Church of the 
Immaculate Conception, and at present is 
president of the St. Vincent De Paul Society, 
president of the Hosi)ital Association ; member 
of the Knights of Columbus, St. Josqjb's 
Council, No. 256 ; Lodge, No. 830, Benevolent 
and Protective Order of Elks : Citizens' Club, 
and Chamber of Commerce. 

He married, July 11, 1900, Ellie Macksey. 
(faughter of Patrick and Ellen Macksey, of 
Sherbourne, New York. Children : Joseph M., 
born October 30, 1901 ; Marguerite, born De- 
cember 15. 1903. 



In the great exodus from 
ll'I.I.WI) France following the French 

revolution, thousands sought 
for a h<ime in this country. Of these emigres 
a small company in Philadelphia decided to 
form a settlement in the rapidly developing 
section of New York state, and .Simon Barnet 
was delegated to select a site for the jiroposcd 
town. He came up the Susc|uehanna river to 
"Chenango Pint," now Binghamton, and then 
followed the course of the Chenango river to 
the present town of Greene. Here he decided 
to locate the settlement and be made a contract 
with Malachi Treat and William W. Morris, 
the original patentees, for a tract of land, 
which came to be known as the French Tract 
or the French Village Plot, located on the east 
bank of the Chenango river and embracing the 
present grounds of the Riverside Agricultural 
Society. Charles Felix de Bolyne, a man of 
considerable talent, learning and wealth, was 
at the head of the project. In 1792 or soon 
afterward eight or ten of these French fam- 
ilies established themselves in Greene, but the 
colonv did not flourish, and after the death of 



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Mr. Bolyiie by drowning in 1795, the French 
families scattered and few remained to carry 
on the settlement. 

(I) Captain Joseph Juhand was born in 
Lyons, France, January 17, 1749. In his early 
life he received a good academic education. 
His father intended that he should devote him- 
self to the medical profession and he studied 
medicine for a time, acquiring such a general 
knowledge of the subject as to stand him in 
good stead in later life, both as commander 
of a vessel and as a pioneer in a new country. 
Being a man of great energy of character, 
bold and venturesome, he abandoned the study 
of medicine and followed the sea. He passed 
through all the grades and while yet a young 
man became a master mariner and command- 
ed a merchant vessel. He made several voy- 
ages across the .Atlantic, sailing between Xantes 
and Bordeau-x in France, and Boston and Phil- 
adelphia in the L'nited States. While in this 
country he took occasion to travel in the inter- 
ior and mingled freely with the people, losing 
no opportunity to improve his knowledge of 
the English language and of the manners and 
customs of the country. On one of his voy- 
ages he was staying for a time near Xew 
Haven, Connecticut, and met the woman he 
married, Hannah Lindsley, daughter of a re- 
spectable farmer. This marriage doubtless 
changed his plans materially, for after closing 
out his interests he abandoned the sea and de- 
cided to make his home in this country. His 
decision may have been influenced also by the 
political disturbances in his native land. His 
own native city of Lyons was torn by the 
strife of civil war during the dreadful French 
revolution. Soon after his marriage in 1788 
he removed to a farm near ( ireenfield, Massa- 
chusetts, where he resided for several years. 
Having heard of the French colony mentioned 
above and being urged to locate there, he de- 
cided to join the French settlers and set out 
w'ith his wife, two children, and household 
goods through the wilderness to make his home 
in Chenango county, New York. He expect- 
ed to find good land and congenial society. In 
1798 he joined the colonists at Greene, leaving 
his family in that part of the town which is 
now Coventry while he set to work to buikl a 
house and clear his land. Several families 
had already left the town and others were pre- 
paring to seek homes elsewhere, but Captain 
Juliand was not discouraged. He bought the 
land that others had abandoned, including the 



town plot. To him and Judge Elisha Smith 
must be given, history tells us, the credit for 
permanently settling the town of Greene. He 
lived there the remainder of his days and rear- 
ed a family of five sons and one daughter. After 
living many years to enjoy the fruits of his 
enterprise and to witness the improvement and 
prosperity of the country, he died October 13, 
1821, in the seventy-third year of his age. 
Captain Juliand was a man of medium stature. 
He possessed, however, remarkable energy and 
vivacity, shrewd common sense and character- 
istic French courtesy of manner. He was 
charitable, giving his time, sympathy and money 
freely to the poor and unfortunate, and he 
fought earnestly and always against the spirit 
of intolerance and oppression. 

His wife, Hannah (Lindsley) Juliand, was 
born in Guilford, Connecticut, January '27. 
1763. died at Greene, Xew York, .April 11. 
1851. Children: Richard W., born March 8, 
1790, in Greenfield: Martha, September 13, 
1792, in Greenfield; Joseph, mentioned below; 
Lewis, .August 31, 1800; George, March 23, 
1803; Frederick, mentioned below. 

( II ) Joseph ( 2) , son of Captain Joseph ( i ) 
Juliand, was born in Greene, Xew York, Feb- 
ruary 23, 1797, died in Greene, February 13, 
1870. He was educated in the public schools 
of his native town. Early in life he became a 
general merchant and until 1839 was in part- 
nershi]) with his four brothers. They were 
also dealers in cattle and live stock. After 
that time he conducted the store alone. In 
1859 he established a banking business and he 
continued in this business until the time of 
his death. The bank is still known as the 
Juliand Bank. He was a shrewd and success- 
ful man of affairs. In politics he was a Whig 
until that party was dissolved, and afterward 
a Republican and a leader in the new party. 
He was elected to the Xew York state assem- 
bly and served in 1827 and again in 1834, and 
during his term was one of the prime movers 
in securing the building of the Chenango canal. 
He was active in the state militia and became 
colonel of his regiment and afterward was 
universally known as Colonel Juliand. He was 
a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal 
church, and one of the founders of the church 
in Greene and warden for many years, holding 
that office from the founding of the church 
until he died. 

He married, October 15, 1822, Anna Maria 
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(laughter of Erastus and Abigail (Stevens) 
Perkins. Children : Cornelia, born November 
24, 1826, married William F. Russell, of 
Greene: Anna M., August 18, 1835, died Au- 
gust 23. 1855; Josqjh Erastus, mentioned 
below. 

(II) Frederick, son of Captain Joseph (i) 
Juliand, was born at Greene, October 9, 1805. 
He received his early education in the district 
schools, and at the academy at Utica, New 
York, then a noted institution, and at Oxford 
Academy under Dr. David L. Prentice. After- 
ward he studied under the tutorship of Rev. 
John B. Ho}'t, of Greene. He began his busi- 
ness life in the employ of Hill & Juliand, hotel 
proprietors. Afterward he was a clerk in the 
store of Colonel ]\Ioses G. Benjamin, then a 
prominent merchant in Bainbridge, New York, 
residing in the family of his employer and re- 
ceiving as wages for the first year the sum of 
fifty dollars and an increase of ten dollars a 
year after the first year. In the fourth year he 
received a stipend of fifteen dollars a month. 
In 1830 Mr. Juliand entered into partnership 
with his brothers. Joseph, Lewis and George 
Juliand, under the firm name of J. Juliand & 
Brothers in the conduct of general farming 
and a general store, and the firm had a pros- 
perous existence of ten years. When the firm 
was dissolved, Frederick Juliand continued the 
store as sole proprietor. In i860 he trans- 
ferred the business to his son, John R. Juliand. 
who continued it until 1866. 

In religion Mr. Juliand was an Episco- 
palian. He was baptized at the age of four 
years in that church at Bradford. Connecti- 
cut, and confirmed by Bishop Onderdonk 
on the occasion of the last visit of the bishop 
to this diocese. For twenty-five years Mr. 
Juliand was superintendent of the Sunday 
school, and from 1873 he was junior warden. 
In early life he was a Whig and his first vote 
for president was cast for John Quincy Adams. 
He was punctilious in performing his simple 
duties of citizenship, and during a long life 
rarely missed voting at an election. When the 
Republican party was organized he joined it 
and continued to supjjort its candidates all his 
life. Just before the civil war lie was interest- 
ed in the L'nderground Railroad and gave his 
hearty su])|)ort to the anti-slavery movement. 
He was a lifelong supporter of the temperance 
movement. The first ofiice held by Mr. Juli- 
and was that of postmaster of Greene, receiv- 
ing his commission from the hand of Presi- 



dent Harrison and serving through the Tyler 
administration. He was elected on the Whig 
ticket to the state assembly in 1855 ^"^ served 
in the session of 1856 on the committee on 
banks. In the fall of 1863 he was nominated 
for state senator on the Re])ublican ticket from 
the Twenty-third district comprising Chenan- 
go, Madison and Cortland counties, and was 
elected by a plurality of 5.459. In the senate 
he was aj^pointed chairman of the committee 
on public ])rinting, member of the committee 
on banks, roads and bridges and poor laws. 
He was an efiicient and able legislator and e.x- 
erted a large influence in the legislature. In 
the fall of 1866 he was again nominated for 
the assembly, against his expressed wishes, 
and was elected by a majority of 1,608, the 
largest given to any candidate on the ticket 
with him. He served in the session of 1867 as 
chairman of the committee on towns and coun- 
ties and member of the committee on banks 
He was reelected the following year, and al- 
though his party was in the minority he was 
honored with an appointment upon his old 
committee, that of towns and counties, and 
was on the important sub-committee of the 
whole. In 1862 and again in 1866 he was a 
member of the Republican state committee. 
He was appointed one of the incorporators of 
the State Soldier's Home at Bath and a trus- 
tee of the State Inebriate Asylum at Bingham- 
ton. During the civil war he gave strong sup- 
port to the L'nion, contributing money, aiding 
the families of absent soldiers and encouraging 
enlistments. In 1862 he served on a commit- 
tee from the Twenty-third senatorial district 
to raise troops and aided effectively in putting 
the One Hundred and Fourteenth Regiment in 
the field. In the summer of 1864 he went to 
the front with funds from the town of Greene, 
and on his way to North Carolina the steamer 
on which he was a passenger was attacked by 
guerillas. He was robbed of all his valuables, 
including the .'^6,000 he was carrying to the 
recruiting agent. Through the influence of a 
friend, he and Major Jenny, of Syracuse, were 
paroled, but the remainder of the captives were 
sent to a rebel jirison and half of them died. 
Mr. Juliand married (first), in 1S35, Jane 
Cameron, daughter of Captain John Ringer, 
of Geneva. He married (second), in 1841, 
Catherine R., daughter of Hon. Isaac Hayes, 
of Unadilla. He married fthird). in Septem- 
ber, 1865, Harriet M., daughter of Hon. Ben- 
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county, New York. ll_\- his tirst wife he had 
one son, John Ringer, who succeeded his father 
in business. By the second wife he had a son. 
and two daughters. Sarah J. and Minerva. 
The son thed in infancy. 

(Ill) Joseph Erastus, son of Joseph (2) 
JuHand, was born in (ireene. New York, in 
the same house in which he is now living, Oc- 
tober 28, 1843. He attended the pubHc schools 
of his native town and Hobart College at Ge- 
neva, New York, from which he was gradu- 
ated in the class of 1864. Immediately after 
he graduated he became a clerk in his father's 
bank. After the death of his father he formed 
a partnership under the name of Russell & 
Juliand, with his brother-in-law. and since then 
this firm has conducted the Juliand Bank with 
marked success. In 1893 the business was re- 
organized under a state charter under the name 
of the Juliand Bank and Mr. Juliand has been 
])resident of the bank since that time. He has 
also been president of the Lyons Iron \\'orks 
of Greene. He was for nineteen years treas- 
urer of the Riverside .\gricultural Society, and 
is a director of the Greene Manufacturing 
Company. He is a communicant of the Prot- 
estant Episcopal church, was its vestryman for 
thirty years and since IQ04 has been junior 
warden. 

In politics Mr. Juliand is a loyal and influ- 
ential Re|)ublican and he has held many offices 
of trust and honor. For twelve years he was 
supervisor of the town of Greene and an influ- 
ential member of the board of supervisors of 
Chenango county. He has been elected to 
various county and state conventions of his 
party and has been chairman of the county 
convention. He is, moreover, a useful and 
public-sjiirited citizen, giving freely his influ- 
ence and sujjport to all movements designed to 
better the community in which he lives. 

He married, September 6, 1870, Mary A.. 
born .'\ugust 8, 1845, in Greene, daughter of 
Charles A. and Maria L. (Guernsey) Stevens. 
Children : i. Adelaide Maria, born July 9, 1873 ; 
married, July to, 1901, Horace A. Gross, a 
merchant of Greene : children : Mary .Adelaide, 
born May 17, ifP4: Caroline .\., May 6, i9or); 
Clara Cornelia, January 23, 1909; Joseph Jtdi- 
and, July 3, 1911. 2. Clara Cornelia, born May 
15, 1877: married, September 6, 1905, Ralpli 
V'an \''alkenburg, of Chicago, a mechanical 
engineer ; child, Juliand, died December 23. 
igio. 



Putnam is an ancient English 
PL'TN.AM surname, taken from the place M 
name, Puttenham. This town I 
is mentioned in the Domesday Book (1086); 
it was a part of the great fief known as the 
Honor of Leicester. The parish of Putten- 
ham is situated in Hertfordshire, near Bed- 
fordshire and Buckinghamshire. The coat-of- 
arms to which all the .-Ymerican descendants of 
this lineage are entitled is: Sable, between eight 
crosses crosslet fitches (or crusily fitches) ar- » 
gent, a stork of the last, beaked and legged 
gules. Crest: A wolf's head gules. 

( I) .Simon de Puttenham is the first of the 
name of whom there is definite record in Eng- 
land, and was probably the lineal descendant 
of Roger, who held the manor of Puttenham 
under the Bishop of Baieux. He lived in 1199. 

(II) Ralph de Puttenham is supposed to 
have been son of Simon. He lived in 12 17, 
and held a knight's fee in Puttenham. 

(III) Richard de Puttenham lived in 1273, 
believed to have been son of Ralph. 

(1\') John de Puttenham lived in 1291 in 
the manor of Puttenham. 

( \' ) Thomas Puttenham lived in the time 
of Edward I. He is said to have married 
Helen, daughter of John Spigornell. He had 
sons Roger and Henry. 

(\ I ) Roger Puttenham, son of Thomas, was _ 
of age before 1315, and was high sheriff of m 
Hertfordshire in 1322. He married .\lisha . " 

( \TI) Henry Puttenham, son of Roger, lived 
from about 1300 to 1350. 

(\TII) Sir Roger Puttenham, believed to 
be son of Henry, was born about 1320 and died 
about 1380. 

(IN) ^Villiam Puttenham is believed to be 
son of Sir Roger, and was of Puttenham Penn, 
Sheffield, Marbleton. He married ]\Iargaret Jj 
.Marl)leton. daughter of John. Children: Henry, I 
Robert and William. ' 

(N) Henry Puttenham. son of William Put- 
tenham, was over si.xty years old in 1468, and 
lived in 1473. He inherited the estates of his 
father. He died July 6. 1473. He married 
Elizabeth, widow of Geofl'rey Goodluck. In 
her will, dated December 25, 1485, she desired 
to be buried in the Chajiel of St. Mary the 
\'irgin, in .Ml Saints of Istelworth. 

(XI) William Puttenham, son of Henry 
Puttenham, was born about 1430, and died in 
1492. He married Anne, daughter of John 
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will, dated July lo. 1492, was proved at Lam- 
beth, July 23, 1492. He directed that his body 
be buried before the image of the Blessed Vir- 
gin Mary, in the Chapel within the church of 
the Hospital of the Blessed Mary, called the 
Elsingspytell. in London. Children : Sir George, 
heir, knight ; Edmund of Puttenham, died with- 
(lut issue; Nicholas of F'enne, ancestor of the 
American family ; Frideswide ; Elizabeth ; Alio- 
nore, married Richard Pigott ; Brigide ; Agnes. 

(XH) Nicholas Puttenham, son of William 
Puttenham, lived at I'utnam Place, in Penne. 
This estate probaljly came into the family in 
1315, in the time of Roger Puttenham. Put- 
nam Place is now a farm house, and a railway 
station perpetuates the name. Nicholas was 
born about 1460. His will was made in 1526. 
Children: John of Penne; Flenry, mentioned 
below. 

(XIII) Henry Puttenham, son of William 
Puttenham, was living in 1526, probably in 
Eddlesborough. Children : Richard of Eddies- 
borough and W'oughton, mentioned below ; John 
of Slapton and Mawridge : Thomas of Eddies- 
borough. 

(Xl\') Ricliard Putnam, son of Henry Put- 
tenham ( Putnam ) , was probably the eldest 
son, and lived at Eddle.sborough and Wough- 
ton. In his will, dated December 12, 1556, 
proved February 28, 1556-57. he directed that 
his body be buried in the churchyard at Wough- 
ton. Children : John, mentioned below ; Harry 
of W'oughton, whose will was dated July 13. 
1579, proved October 3, following; Jonas. 

(XV) John, son of Richard Putnam, was of 
Rowsham, in W'ingrave, and was buried in 
Wingrave, October 2, 1573. His wife was 
])robably Margaret, who was buried January 
27, 1568. His will, dated Se])tember 19, 1573. 
and proved November 14, that year, directs 
that he be buried in the churchyard at Win- 
grave. Children: Nicholas, mentioned below; 
Richard of Wingrave. died without issue, bur- 
ied at Wingrave, June 24. 1576; Thomas of 
Rowsham; Margaret. 

(XVI) Nicholas, son of John Putnam, was 
born about 1540. He lived at Wingrave until 
about 1583. when he removed to Stewkeley. 
He inherited property from his father and 
both his brothers. His will is dated January i. 
1597, proved September 27. 1598. He mar- 
ried at Wingrave, January 30, 1577. Margaret, 
daughter of John and Elizabeth Goodspeed. 
She was baptized at W^ingrave. August t(S, 



1556; buried at Aston Abbotts, January 8, 
1618-19. She married (second), December 8, 
1614. Children of Nicholas and Margaret Put- 
nam, baptized at Wingrave: Anne, October 12, 
1578; John, mentioned below; Elizabeth, Feb- 
ruary II, 1581 ; Thomas, September 20, 1584; 
Richard, living in 1597. 

(X\TI) John, son of Nicholas Putnam, was 
baptized at Wingrave, county Bucks, England. 
January 17, 1579. He was the immigrant an- 
cestor. He inherited the estates of Aston Ab- 
botts, antl ]M-obably lived in Stewkeley with his 
parents until his father's death, when he took 
]30ssession of the estates at Aston Abbotts, 
where he lived until he went to New England. 
He was called husbandman in 1614. He is 
supposed to have married Priscilla Deacon, in 
161 1 or 1612. He was an early settler in 
Salem. Massachusetts, and according to fam- 
ily tradition canie there in 1634; but the first 
record of him is March 21, 1640-41, when his 
wife was admitted to the church, and in the 
same year he received a grant of land. He 
was admitted to the church, April 4. 1647. ^^^' 
was a farmer, and his handwriting indicated a 
good education. He was well off, one of the 
wealthy men compared to his neighbors. Be- 
fore his death, he gave farms to his sons John. 
Nathaniel, and probably to the others also. 
John received his by deed, March 31, 1653. 
John Putnam died in Salem Milage, now Dan- 
vers, December 30, 1662. Children : Eliza- 
beth, baptized in England. December 20. 1612; 
Thomas. March 5. 1614-15; John. July 24, 
161 7. die(F voung ; Nathaniel, mentioned below ; 
Sarah. March 7, 1622-23: Phebe. July 28, 
1624; John. May 27. 1627. 

(XVlII) Nathaniel, son of John Putnam, 
was born in England, and baptized at Aston 
Abbotts, Buckinghamshire. October 11, 1619. 
He died at Salem. July 23, 1700. He was a 
prosperous farmer and settled on what is now 
Danvers. He married Elizabeth, daughter of 
Richard and Alice (Bosworth) Hutchinson. 
She was born in Arnold. England. August 20. 
1629; baptized there August 30; died at Dan- 
vers. Massachusetts. June 24, 1688. Both were 
admitted to the church at Salem, in 1648. Part 
of the original homestead at Danvers is still 
known as the Judge Putnam place. Nathaniel 
Putnam was constable in 1658, and deputy to 
the general court in 1690-91. He was promi- 
nent in church and town, serving for some 
vears as selectman. He had great business 



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ability and activity; was a man of unusual 
powers of mind, "of great energy and skill in 
the management of affairs and of singular 
sagacity, acumen, and quickness of perception."' 
He left a large estate. He was involved in a 
lawsuit over the ownership of the Bishop farm, 
and his side of the controversy was successful. 
During the trouble over the pastorate of Rev. 
Mr. Bayley, he was an opponent, but when ]\Ir. 
Bayley was dismissed, he was one of those who 
contributed land, Alay 6, 1680, to make a farm 
for him. He had the rank of lieutenant, and 
was one of the four messengers to Rev. Sam- 
uel Parris to obtain his reply to their call. As 
the head of the large and influential Putnam 
family, he was known for years as "Landlord 
Putnam." He was a leader in the witchcraft 
delusion which had its centre in Salem and 
Salem Village, where he lived. Upham says 
of him: "Entire confidence was felt by all in 
his judgment and deservedly, but he was a 
strong religionist, a lifelong member of the 
church, and extremely zealous in his ecclesi- 
astical relations. He was getting to be an old 
man (at the time of the delusion), and Mr. 
Parris had wholly succeeded in obtaining for 
the time the possession of his feelings, sym- 
pathies and zeal, in the management of the 
church, and secured his full coojjeration in the 
witchcraft prosecutions. He had been led by 
Parris to take the very front of the ])roceed- 
ings. But even Nathaniel Putnam could not 
stand by in silence and see Rebecca Xurse 
sacrificed." Children, born at Salem \'illage : 
Samuel, February 18, 1652, died young; Na- 
thaniel. April 24, 1655, died young; John, men- 
tioned below; Joseph, died young; Elizabeth. 
August II, 1662; Benjamin. December 24, 
1664; Mary, September 15, 1668. 

(XIX) John, son of Nathaniel Putnam, was 
born at Salem Village (Danvers), March 26, 
1657: ba])tized in Salem, September 6, 1657. 
His farm was in that ])art of Danvers west of 
Hathorne"s Hill, near the log bridge across the 
Ipswich river. Part of it is or was lately 
owned by (ieorge H. Peabody. He was known 
as "Carolina John," and as John Putnam Jr. 
He was constable of Salem during the witch- 
craft trials. .\t one time, Mercy Lewis, one 
of the "afflicted girls." had l>een living at his 
house as a servant, and in May, 1692, he testi- 
fied, apparently in good faith, as to a fit she 
had when bewitched. A week after the ordi- 
nation nf the Rev. Joseph dreen. a cluirch 



meeting was held at John Putnam's house ui 
1698, and several of the wronged members of 
the church again met with the majority and all 
agreed to live in "love together." John Put- 
nam was frequently tythingman, surveyor of 
highways, and served in other town offices. 
His will was dated November 30, 1721, and 
proved October i, 1722. He married in Salem, 
December 2, 1678, Hannah, born December, 
1655, daughter of Samuel and Eliza Cutler. 
Children : Haimah, born August 22, 1679; Eliz- 
abeth, .November 26, 1680; Abigail, February 
26, 1682; .Samuel, November 5, 1684; Josiah, 
mentioned below ; Joseph, baptized July i, 1688 ; 
Mary, born September 29, 1688; Susanna, 
April II, 1690; Joshua; David; Rebecca, born 
August 16, 1691 ; John, .August 16, 1691 ; Sarah, 
March 5, 1693; Amos, January 27. 1698; Pris- 
cilla. May 7, 1699. 

(NN) Josiah, son of John Putnam, wa> 
born at Salem X'illage. October 29, 1686; died 
at Danvers, July 5, 1766. He married at Salem 
X'illage, February 19, 1712-13, Ruth, born Feb- 
ruary 26, 1690-91, daughter of Joseph and 
Elizabeth (Swimierton) tlutchinson. His will 
was dated June 8, 1762, proved September 2, 
1766. He and his wife were admitted into the 
church, December 10, 1727. He was called 
"Yeoman," and evidently did not take much 
part in town affairs. His house was built after 
1714. Children, baptized at Salem X'illage: 
Asa, born July 31, 1714; Enos, October 6, 
1716; Josiah, mentioned below; Peter, bap- 
tized April 5, 1724; Elizabeth, baptized July 
4, 1723; Elisha, baptized ]\Iarch 24, 1727-28; 
Ruth, baptized June 4, 1732. 

(XXI) Josiah (2), son of Josiah (i) Put- 
nam, was born at Salem X'illage, March 3. 
1718-19, and died in XX'arren, Massachusetts. 
February 4, 1795. He married, January 13, 
1740. Lydia XX'heeler, of Brookfield, Massa- 
chusetts; born August 14, 1721 ; died March 
25, 1805, after a sickness of five years with 
numb jjalsy. Josiah Putnam was a captain in 
Colonel Jedediah I-'oote's regiment, and was at 
Lexington. April 19, 1775. .Xmong his men 
was his son Josiah. Children : .Xsa, mentioned 
below ; Lydia ; Thankful, Ma)- 6, 1747 ; Josiah, 
June 8, 1749-50; Ruth, July 24. 1752; Mary 
Western, .Xpril 15, 1759. 

(XXII) .Asa. son of Josiah (2) Putnam, 
was born in Danvers. .Xugust 10, 1743; died 
September 7. 1795. He married, July 24, 1766, 

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Vermont. His widow married, about 1800, 
Colonel Benjamin Simonds, of Berkshire comi- 
ty, Massachusetts. Children of Asa Putnam: 
Perley, born March 10, 1767; Lewis, mention- 
ed below ; Serephina, September 7, 1772 ; Eben- 
ezer, September 4, 1779; Josiah, August i, 
1781 ; Alfred, May 10, 1784; Sewall, Septem- 
ber 23, 1786: Sylvia, May 25, 1789; Harvey, 
January 5, 1793. _ 

(XXHI) Lewis, son of Asa Putnam, was 
born August 22, 1769, and from Brattleboro, 
Vermont, removed with his family to Weeds- 
port, New York. Children ( ?) : Robert ; F'ar- 
ley ; Lewis, mentioned below. 

(XXIV) Lewis (2), son of Lewis (i ) Put- 
nam, came to Weedsport, New York, with his 
parents when he was a small boy, before the 
road was built, and helped to clear the farm 
and build the family home in the wilderness. 
Children : Charles ; Frank W. ; A. D. ; Joseph- 
ine S., married O. T. Atwood. 

(XXV) F"rank W., son of Lewis Putnam, 
was born at Weedsport, New York, about 
1827, and was educated in the public schools. 
He became one of the substantial and repre- 
sentative farmers of the town, and died there 
in 1887. He married Marietta Remington, 
born in Cayuga county. New York. She died 
in 1908. Children, all born at Weedsport: 
Blanche E., married Frank RL Mills; (jrace 
L. ; Jay R., married Eva Hoyt : Ernest Ambert, 
mentioned below. 

(XXVI) Ernest Ambert, son of Frank W. 
Putnam, was born at Weedsport, New York, 
August 17, 1868. He attended the public 
schools there, and after graduating from the 
Weedsport high school, became a clerk in the 
drug store of H. L. Burrill & Company, where 
he was employed for nine years. After work- 
ing for a time in a drug store in Seattle, Wash- 
ington, he returned to New York state, and in 
July, 1896, bought a drug store at Fulton, and 
since then has conducted a successful business 
there. He is a member of the Methodist Epis- 
copal church, and of the following organiza- 
tions : Hiram Lodge, No. 144, Free Masons, 
of which he was for four years worshipful 
master : Fulton Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; 
the Council, Royal and Select Masters, and 
Lake Ontario Commandery, Knights Templar. 
In politics he is a Republican. 

He married, June 30, 1887. Florence Bowen, 
born at Sennett, daughter of J. M. Bowen, of 
Weedsport. They have one daughter. Modena. 
horn October 17. 1889. 



The surname Whitaker is 
WHITAKER variously spelled Whittier, 

Whitehair, Whiteyear, Whit- 
yeare, Whittaker. It has been an English sur- 
name, originally a place name, meaning White- 
acre. Whitakers settled in Virginia among the 
first. Rev. Ale.xander Whitaker, the Apostle, 
accompanied Sir Thomas Dale to X'irginia in 
161 1, baptized Pocahontas in 1614, and mar- 
ried her to Rolfe; was drowned in the James 
river in 1616. Edward Whitaker was grantee 
of land in Virginia in 1638. Captain William 
Whitaker and Richard AMiitaker apjjear to be 
his sons. Descendants of Richard Whitaker are 
numerous in Enfield, North Carolina. George 
Whitacre was on shi])board on his way to Vir- 
ginia in May, 1654. The fact that some pioneers 
went from Virginia to Haverhill and others 
from Haverhill, Massachusetts, to Virginia 
may be remembered in investigating die rela- 
tionship of the \'irginia and Massachusetts 
families, and the fact also that the name Ed- 
ward was found in both families. 

(I) Abraham Whitaker, the immigrant an- 
cestor of this family, was born in England. 
1590-95, died in Haverhill, ".Abraham the old 
man," May 5, 1674. He settled first in Salem 
and was a carpenter by trade. He was taxed 
as a resident of Marblehead in 1637; was 
one of the parties to a lawsuit in 1637. He 
removed to jManchester, Massachusetts, and 
finally to Haverhill where his son settled. He 
made an oral will, August 6, 1674, and it was 
proved November 26, 1674. The date of death 
as given here must be incorrect or the date of 
the will as given by Pope. He undoubtedly 
died in 1674, however. He bequeathed to his son 
Edward one-half the land; the other half to 
wife for the bringing up of the children he had 
by her ; five shillings apiece to the two children 
of the first wife; five pounds debt due to son 
John above his share of the estate, to be paid 
"to him when twenty-one years old. The son, 
Edward Whitaker. of Beverly, sold his share 
of the land January 2. 1675. Chikiren : Ed- 
ward, of Amesbury ; .Abraham, mentioned be- 
low ; John ; others. 

(II) Abraham (2), son of Abraham (i) 
Whitaker. was born about 1626, in England, 
probably by his father's first wife. He de- 
posed in 1666 that he was forty years old. 
This deposition could not have been his father's, 
for the first Abraham was a taxpayer in 1637 
and over twenty-one. He married, March 19, 
165=;. Elizabeth Simonds, at Haverhill. She 



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died there November 5, 1683. He built his 
house about 1660, surely before 1668, on the 
common, as did many others. At the end of 
thirteen years his land was taken from him 
by the town because he failed to pay six pence 
a year rent to the town. L'nless it was some 
quibble, Abraham was in financial trouble, for 
he had paid no rent in thirteen years and de- 
clared himself unable to do so. Chase says : 
"He must have been poor indeed, as he candid- 
ly told the town when he was called on to 
know when he would pa\' his rent." That was 
in 1673. Children, born at Haverhill: Abra- 
ham, February 28, 1656; William, December 
21, 1658; Isaac, July 30, 1661 ; Hannah, April 
15, 1664, died 1664; Elizabeth, January 26, 
1669; Henry, September 24. 1672; Hannah, 
March 19, 1674-75 ; John, August 27, 1679. 

fVH) James Whitaker, a descendant of 
.\braham (i) Whitaker, in the sixth or seventh 
generation, was born, according to family rec- 
ords, January 6, 1796, at Keene, New Hamp- 
shire, died November 17, 1870. In 1816 he 
came to Syracuse, New York, where he work- 
ed at his trade of carriage making for a year. 
In 1817 he came to Eulton, New York, and 
built a shop on the present site of the mill of 
True Brothers. He built a house with his own 
hands after his regular working hours, furnish- 
ed it, and bought a barrel of flour costing 
twenty-five dollars. Having prepared his home, 
he walked to Svvanzey, New Hampshire, to 
get married. His wife came to Fulton by stage 
alone, while he returned on foot, but he made 
the trip in record time, arriving two days be- 
fore his bride and in one day he covered a 
distance of eighty miles. He worked at his 
trade until 1830, when he built the first brick 
block in Fulton and established a general store 
which he conducted for twenty-five years. He 
.also owned six canal boats. .After he sold his 
store he bought a farm and carried it on the 
remainder of his life. He married Lucretia 
Holbrook (see Holbrook \ I). She died De- 
cember 29, 1887. Both were members of the 
Methodist church of which he was a class 
leader for forty years. Children : James H., 
born January 24, 1820; Mary M., December 
1 1, 1822 ; James H., September 22, 1824 ; Mar- 
tha, February 19. 1827; John, July 13. 1829; 
Elizabeth, .\pril 5, 1831 ; Samuel B., Jidy 17. 
1834; Charles, r)ecember 28, 1837; Edward 
C, November 27, 1840; George G., mentioned 
below : Francis L., August 24, 1846. 

fVIII) Dr. George Gary WMiitakcr. son 



of James Whitaker, was born in Inilton, 
New York, April 5, 1842. He attended the 
public schools of his native town and Falley 
Seminary. He began to study medicine in the 
office of Dr. C. G. Bacon, September i, 1863, 
and he entered the University of \'ermont, in 
February, 1864, but in 1865 went to the Al- 
bany Medical College, from which he was 
graduated in December, 1865. with the degree 
of Doctor of Medicine. On January 5, 1866, 
he began to practice medicine at New Haven, 
Oswego county, New York, and continued 
until 1880 when he came to Rodman. In 
March, 1884, four years later, he moved from 
Rodman to Oswego Falls, New York, estab- 
lished the first drug store in that town and 
conducted it for ten years. In November, 
1890, he located at Bowens Corners, New 
York, and after j^racticing there for four years 
came to Fulton where he has a large practice. 
In 1876-77 he took a post-graduate course at 
the JeiYerson Medical College of Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Oswego 
County Medical Society, the Jefferson County 
Medical Society, the New York State Medical 
Society and the American Medical Associa- 
tion. He is a member of Rodman Lodge, No. 
136, Free and .Accepted Ma.sons ; a charter 
member of Beacon Light Lodge, Independent 
Order of Odd Fellows, and its first noble 
grand ; member of the Ancient Order of Cnited 
Workmen. In religion he is a l^niversalist ; 
in politics a Republican. 

He married (first), February, 1867, Ella 
M., born in New Haven, New York, daugh- 
ter of V. M. Barker. She died in September, 
1880, and he married (second), October, 1884, 
Louise A. Dean. He had one son by his first 
wife, who died in December, 1877. Children 
of second wife: Fordyce E., born March 4, 
1887: Ellen L., born August 16. 1888, died at 
three years of age; Gertrude, born Sei)teinbcr 
rs. 1890. 

(The Holbrook Line). 

The family of Holbrook is ancient and dis- 
tinguished in England. The ancient coat-of- 
arms is: A chevron between three martlets. 
Several other coats-of-arms were borne by 
diff'erent branches of the family in England. 

(I) Thomas Holbrook or Holbrooke, the 
immigrant ancestor, aged thirty-four, of Broad- 
way. England, with wife Jane, aged thirty- 
four, and children John, aged eleven, Thomas, 
aged ten, Anne, aged five, and Elizabeth, aged 
one, came from Wevmouth, England, about 



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1628. He settled at Weymouth, Massachu- 
setts, in 1640, and was on the committee to lay 
out the way from Braintree to Dorchester. He 
was admitted a freeman in May, 1645. He was 
selectman for several years. His will was 
dated December 31, 1669, with codicil, De- 
cember 31, 1673. He died 1674-76. His widow 
Jane died before April 24, 1677, when admin- 
istration of the estate was granted to his son 
John. Children: John, born 1617; Thomas, 
mentioned below; Captain William, died 1699, 
lived at Scituate ; Ann, married Rey- 
nolds ; Elizabeth, married Walter Hatch ; Jane, 
married Drake. 

(H) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (i ) Hol- 
brook, lived at Scituate, Weymouth and Brain- 
tree, Massachusetts. In 1653 he bought a farm 
of fifty-three acres in Braintree, and later be- 
came the owner of much real estate. He mar- 
ried Joanna , who survived him. He 

made his will July 25, 1695, and administra- 
tion on his estate was granted his widow, .Au- 
gust 19, 1697, and his eldest son Thomas. In 
the will he mentions Thomas as his eldest son, 
and Peter, to whom he gives "all that estate of 
lands and meadows in Mendon which he had 
formerly purchased of his brother William." 
Children : Thomas, buried at Braintree, De- 
cember 20, 1728; John, born October 15, 1653, 
at Braintree ; Peter, mentioned below ; Joanna, 
October 30, 1656; Susanna, married Andrew 
VVillet, of Boston; Joseph, born February 12. 
1660, died young. 

(HI) Deacon Peter Holbrook, son of Thomas 
(2) Holbrook, was born September 6, 1655, 

died 1712-13. He married (first) .\lice , 

who died April 29, 1705. He married (sec- 
ond) Elizabeth Pool, who survived him and 
married (second) Robert W'are, of Wenham, 
and died 1724. He settled in Mendon, where 
he inherited lands from his father, most of 
which were afterwards included in Bellingham. 
He was an important man in his time. His 
will was made January 16, 171 1-12, and proved 
May 29, 1713. Children: John, bom Septem- 
ber 24, 1679, at Braintree; Peter, October 16, 
i68i, at Mendon; Silvanus, August 15, 1685; 
Joanah, March 7, 1686-87; Richard, May 30, 
1690; Eliphalet, mentioned below; William, 
March 28, 1693-94; Samuel, February 27. 
1695-96; Mary, October 14, 1702. 

(IV) Eliphalet, son of Deacon Peter Hol- 
brook, was born January 27, 1691-92, died 
October 19, 1775, at Bellingham. He is called 
yeoman. He married, November 17, 17 16, 



Hannah Rockwood, born August 15, 1692. 
Children: Ebenczer, born June 3, 1718, at 
Mendon; Seth, February 26, 1721, at Belling- 
ham ; Eliphalet, mentioned below ; Noah, De- 
cember 6, 1727; Caleb, January 14, 1731 ; Eli- 
jah, Alay 6, 1736, died May 2, 1740; Joanna, 
July 21, 1738. 

(\') Eliphalet {2), son of Eliphalet (i) 
Holbrook, was born October 25, 1725. He 
died intestate, and administration was granted 
to his son Henry, on whom the homestead was 
settled, April 10, 1778. He married, Novem- 
ber 26, 1753, Abigail Wight, who died Sep- 
tember 3, 1808. Children: Olive, born April 
4. 1755 ; Henry, August 27, 1756; Martha, Oc- 
tober II, 1758; Caleb, November i, 1760; 
Peter, November 23, 1762; Seth, mentioned 
below; Nathan, July 24, 1768; Peruda, March 
24, 1770; Elias, February 20, 1772, died Octo- 
ber 16, 1775; Eliphalet, F'ebruary 9, 1774, died 
October 15, 1775; Abigail, June 9, 1776, died 
aged six weeks; Abigail. 

(VT) Seth, son of Eliphalet (2) Holbrook, 
was born July 19, 1765, died December 11, 
1833. He married Hannah Bates, who was 
born in April, 1776, died November 19, 1868, 
of Mendon, sister of Mrs. Peter Holbrook. 
They settled in Swanzey in 1800. Children : 
Lucretia, born April 14, 1800, married James 
Whitaker, of New York state (see Whitaker 
\7I) ; Chiron, born April 11, 1803. 



The late Judge Maurice L. 
WRIGHT Wright, an accomplished law- 
yer and able jurist, was born 
in the town of Scriba, Oswego county. New 
Y'ork, November 27, 1845, son of David Parks 
and Betsey (Woodworth) Wright, members 
of pioneer families. He was a lineal descend- 
ant of Samuel Wright, who emigrated from 
England with the Winthrop colony to Massa- 
chusetts in 1630, and of Walter Woodworth, a 
native of Kent, England, who settled in Massa- 
chusetts prior to 1635. He was also of revolu- 
tionary ancestry on both the paternal and ma- 
ternal sides. 

Judge Wright received his education at Fal- 
ley Seminary, Fulton, New York, and at Mex- 
ico (New York) Academy, from which he was 
graduated in 1864, in his nineteenth year. In 
August of the same year he enlisted in the 
United States navy for service in the civil war. 
and was assigned to the gvinboat "Valley City," 
and was engaged in some of the most notable 
naval operations of the war period, acquitting 



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himself with fidelity and courage. His vessel be- 
longed to the North Atlantic Squadron, under 
command of Admiral Porter, and took part in 
the famous Roanoke expedition following the 
sinking of the rebel ram, "Albemarle," by the 
heroic Gushing. Being honorably discharged 
at the close of the war, Judge Wright returned 
home and read law in the office of the Hon. 
John C. Churchill, of Oswego, member of con- 
gress. He completed his professional studies 
in the Columbian Law School, Washington, 
District of Columbia, from which he was grad- 
uated in 1870, with the degree of Bachelor of 
Laws. In the same year he was admitted to 
the bar of the District of Columbia. In 1871 
he was admitted to the bar of the state of Xew 
York, and located in Mexico, where he formed 
a partnership with Hon. T. W. Skinner, under 
the firm name of Skinner & Wright, and fol- 
lowed his profession with usefulness and suc- 
cess for a period of twenty years, removing to 
Oswego in 1892. 

Judge Wright became engaged in public life 
soon after locating in Mexico. He was electeu 
village president, and his administration was 
so successful that he was twice reelected. His 
abilities attracted the attention of the entire 
county, and in 1883 he was elected county 
judge and was reelected in 1889. During this 
period (in 1890) he was appointed by Gov- 
ernor Hill to membership on the commission 
charged with the revision of the judiciary sec- 
tions of the state constitution. This last term 
was cut short by well-deserved promotion. His 
record on the bench brought him into general 
nf)tice so widely and favorably that his name 
was brought before the nominating convention 
for a supreme court justiceship, at L'tica, Sep- 
tember 22, 1891. His nomination featured the 
most prolonged contest known in the judicial 
history of the state. The opposing candidates 
were the late Judge Watson M. Rogers, of 
Watertown ; former Supreme Court Justice 
\V. E. Scripture, of Rome ; C. A. Mareness, of 
Lewis county, and A. M. Mills, of Herkimer 
county. The convention balloted for three days 
without a choice, and an adjournment was 
then taken to Syracuse, where the convention 
reconvened on October i, when Judge Wright 
was nominated on the one hundred and thirty- 
si.xth ballot, and at the ensuing election he was 
elected for a term of fourteen years. 

During his term upon the bench Judge Wright 
trie 1 many inijjortant cases, and presided with 
dignity, ability and tact, preserving the esteem 



and confidence of the entire bar. During his 
incumbency he was appointed by Governor 
Morton to hold a term of the supreme court 
in the city of Xew York, and there adjudicated 
many notable cases, winning the admiration of 
the bar and receiving many encomiums from 
the public press. After the expiration of his 
judicial term he resumed law practice in part- iJ 
nership with his son, Avery S. Wright. He |1 
entered largely into the business and social 
life of his town, and was known as one of the 
most courteous and companionable of men. 
He was a member of the Oswego Bar Asso- 
ciation : the Frontier City Lodge, Free and 
Accepted Masons, and of the Fortnightly Club. 
In politics he was a Republican. 

Judge Wright married. Xovember 3, 1869, 
Mary Cirace, daughter of Judge .\very Skinner, 
of Cnion Square. Judge Wright died October 
14, 191 1, and is survived by his widow and 
their only son, Avery S. W'Vight, a well-estab- 
lished lawyer, who has succeeded to the father's 
practice, .\very S. Wright married Jessie Skin- 
ner, of Ilion, Xew York, and has one child. 
Dorothv. 



Manister Worts was born in Lon- 
WORTS don. England, October 10, 1825. 
In 1830 he came with his parents 
to .America. The family located in Detroit, 
Michigan, and five years later came to Oswego. 
Xew York. He was educated in the public 
schools, and learned his father's trade of baker. 
In 1853 Mr. Worts and Charles T. Radcliflf 
bought the business established by the father 
of Mr. Worts. Three years later Mr. W'orts 
bought the interest of his partner and after- 
ward incorporated the business under its pres- 
ent name of The Worts Company, of which he 
was president until he died, March 21, 1909 
He was an able and successful business man, 
and was also prominent in public and social 
life, holding many positions of trust and honor 
in the community. 

He became a member of the First Methodist 
Episcopal Church in 1850. He was elected a 
member of the board of trustees in 1854 and 
became president of the board in 1862 and con- 
tinued in that office as long as he lived. His 
record in the church and Sunday school was 
])robably unequalled in the entire state. He 
served as superintendent of the Sunday school 
from 1864 until he died. He was for many 
years active and prominent in all the depart- 
ments of the church, and was a liberal con- 




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tributor to all the church benevolences and 
activities. In 1840 he joined the old volunteer 
fire department and at one time was foreman 
of Hose Company, No. 5, and member of the 
Volunteer Firemen's Association from the time 
of its organization in 1887. He was supervisor 
of the town, and an influential member of the 
board of supervisors from 1859 to 1867 and 
its chairman in 1866. He was county clerk of 
Oswego county for three years. From 1882 
to 1886 he was fire commissioner of Oswego, 
and from A])ril 12, i886, to January i, 1896, 
chief assessor of the city. In 1900 he was 
appointed a member of the fire council and 
held that office until the time of his death. 

Mr. Worts was made a Free Mason in 1856 
and was the oldest Mason in point of member- 
ship in ()swego Lodge when he died. He join- 
ed the Independent Order of Odd ['"ellows in 
February, 1847, and was a member of Oswe- 
gatchie Lodge, No. 156, until the time of his 
death. He was a trustee of the Oswego Coun- 
ty Savings ['ank froin June, 1875, to August, 
1895, and from May, 1900, until he died, and 
at one time was vice-president. He was a 
trustee of the Home for Homeless from the 
time of its organization in 1872. and a trustee 
of the Oswego Orphan Asylum from 1872; a 
member of the chamber of commerce from the 
time of its organization; trustee anrl treasurer 
of the Dem])ster Camp ( Irounds from the be- 
ginning ; honorary member of the Oswego 
Yacht Club from 1884; lay delegate for more 
than thirty years to the annual conference of 
the Methodist Episcopal church, and in 1880 
delegate to the general conference which met 
at Cincinnati, Ohio, representing the Northern 
New York Conference. He was one of the 
organizers of the Thousand Island Park Asso- 
ciation and for several years was trustee and 
treasurer. .\t the time of his death, one who 
knew him wrote : 

In the death of Manister Worts, Northern New 
\'ork has lost a strong and useful citizen, a man 
who had been active along many and varied lines 
since he came to Oswego and whose name will be 
remember long in the history of the city. A Meth- 
odist, he was from the early days and for many 
years he was considered the strongest representative 
of his faith in this part of the state. He was inter- 
ested in his home, his home chnrcli and did much for 
it and the Sunday School. He was interested in the 
work of the Camp Meeting at Dempster and when 
the Methodists started their annual meetings at 
Thousand Island Park, he at once became greatly 
interested in that association. As a business man 
he worked up from a small bakery until the names 



of Worts and Worts bread were known throughout 
Northern New York. His word was taken as his 
bond and he made the products of his business as 
good as his word. He was of the finest type of a 
clean upright business man. With all his activities 
in church and business he always found time to serve 
the people of the city and the county in his many 
official capacities, and like everything else that he 
was connected with performed his duties as a public 
servant honorably and well. He was also a man who 
liked close associations with his fellowmen, as is 
proven by his fraternal affiliations. It is truly said 
about i\Ir. Worts that he lived well his life and his 
character was such that while a man of strength he 
died without a single enemy, a m;m whom everyone 
loved and honored. 

lie married (first) Sarah A. Dofferty, of 
Sterling, in 1846. He married (second), in 
1857, Mary A. Dofiferty, sister of his first wife. 
He married (third) Ann Parkinson, in 1866. 
She died in July, 1898. Children: i. Manister 
C. 2. R. Fred, resides at Toledo, Ohio. 3. 
George, deceased. 4. Charles A., died in Sep- 
tember, 1910. 5. Albert K., mentioned below. 
6. Anna, married Charles Allen, secretary of 
the Oswego Young Men's Christian Associa- 
tion. Four other children dieil in infancy. Mr. 
Worts left two brothers, John J. Worts, of 
Toledo, Ohio, and George, also of Toledo, 
Ohio, also one sister, Mrs. .Albert Kirk, of 
Toledo, who died in December, 1907. 

(II) Albert K., son of Manister Worts, was 
born January I, i860. He was educated in 
the public schools. He is now president and 
manager of The Worts Cornpany and is con- 
ducting with much success the bakery that his 
father established, in the same building which 
has been occupied by the concern since 1874. 
This company has the largest plant and the 
greatest j)roduct of any concern in this line of 
business in the city of Oswego, consuming two 
thousand five hundred barrels of flour annually 
and em])loying a score of bakers regularly, con- 
dticting a wholesale and retail business. He 
is a member of Oswego Lodge, Free and Ac- 
cepted Masons, and Oswegatchie Lodge, Inde- 
pendent Order of Odd Fellows. In religion he 
is a Methodist, and in politics a Republican. 



William Hart, of an old New Eng- 
1 1 .ART land family, was born near Clinton, 
Oneida county. New York, Janu- 
ary 6. 1786, died at .Adams, November 7, 1833. 
He came from Oneida county, to Adams, Jef- 
ferson county, New A'ork, in 18 10, and made 
his home there. He was one of the first mer- 
chants of the town, and was r)nc of the found- 



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ers and incorporators of the Jelifersoii County 
Bank in 1824. He married Delia Willis. Among 
their children were : William Dwight, born 
June 7, 1819; George, died in 1893; Henry, 
who lived to be a young man : John J., men- 
tioned below. 

(II) John ]., son of William Hart, was born 
in Adams, New York, March 4, 1830. He 
commenced his business life as clerk in a dry 
goods store in his native town, and was a dry 
goods merchant practically all of his active 
life. In politics he was a Republican ; in relig- 
ion a Congregationalist. He died in 1896. He 
married Mary E. Gidley, born January i, 1840. 
She is now living with her daughter, Mrs. 
Smith Alott Bostick, in Syracuse, New York. 
Mrs. Hart's mother married a Mr. Mathews 
for her second husband and Mrs. John J. Hart 
was known as Mary E. Mathews. Children : 
George D., resides in Detroit, Michigan ; Mary 
E., married Smith Mott Bostick, of Syracuse, 
New York; James M., mentioned below ; Fred- 
erick M., lives in Oswego, New York. 

(III) James M., son of John J. Hart, was 
born in Oswego, New York, September 18, 
1862. He attended the public schools of his 
native town, the Oswego high school and the 
Hamilton Boys' and Classical College of Os- 
wego. His first business experience was gain- 
ed in the employ of his father as clerk in his 
dry goods and caqjet store in Oswego. In 
1895 he became secretary of the Sanitary ]\Ioss 
Company and continued in that business until 
1900, and since then has been engaged in the 
wholesale and retail ice business in the city of 
Oswego, conducting business under the name 
of the Peerless Ice Company and having con- 
trol of the entire ice business of the city. In 
addition to the business of supplying the ice 
to consumers in the city and vicinity he ships 
large c|uantities to other points. In politics he 
is an Independent. 

He married, October 20, 1886, Sophia, born 
in Oswego, January 26, 1863, daughter of John 
and Susan (Shepard) Ould. Children, born 
in Oswego: i. John J., born July 25, 1887; 
educated in the Oswego high school and the 
State Normal School in Oswego; began his 
business career in the employ of his father ; 
spent a year in New Y'ork City and in New 
Haven, Connecticut, and since then has been 
associated with his father. 2. James Shepard, 
born June 15, 1889; educated in the Oswego 
hich school and the Culver Cavalry Military 
School in Indiana. 3. Susan C, born February 



10, 1890; educated in the public schools, the 
State Normal School at Oswego and the 
Wheaton Seminary, at Wheaton, Massachu- 
setts. 



John M. Schuler, son of Julius 
SCHULER Schuler, was born in Oswego, 
New York, May 15, 1857. He 
received his early education in the public 
schools. At the age of twelve years he began 
to work on the coal dock. A year later he 
became an apprentice of R. J. Oliphant, a 
printer and book binder. Thirty years later 
he bought the book bindery of his employer 
and engaged in business on his own account, 
adding a stationery deiiartment to the business 
two years later in the store at 217 West Fourth 
street. Oswego. His trade has grown rapidly 
and in eight years has attained a most prosper- 
ous condition, being the largest book bindery 
in the city of Oswego. Mr. Schuler is a thor- 
ough antl painstaking craftsman, an energetic 
and industrious business man, fully deserving 
the success he has achieved in life. He is a 
self-made man, starting in life without capital, 
never borrowing nor asking for credit. In 
politics he is a Republican ; in religion a Luth- 
eran. 

He married, October 24, 1881, Jeanette, born 
in Oswego, .August 23, 1859, daughter of 
George Atkinson, a master mariner, who com- 
manded lake vessels for many years, having 
been one of the best-known and most highly- 
respected men in the service ; he died in Os- 
wego. September 13, 1909. Mr. and Mrs. 
Schuler have one child, Richard J., born in 
Oswego, October 26, 1882; graduated from 
the Oswego high school with high honors ; is 
a gifted musician ; is junior partner of John M. 
.Schuler & Son. 



Rev. Thomas Hubbard, a de- 
1 IL'BBARD scendant of an old New Eng- 
land family, was a preacher 
in the Methodist church. 

(II) .Amos, son of Rev. Thomas Hubbard, 
was a resident of Scriba, Oswego county. New 
York, where for many years he followed his 
trade as shoemaker. He was educated in the 
public schools. He married Toby. Chil- 
dren: Henry M. : Harry T. ; Hernando D. ; 
Flora: daughter, died in early life. 

(III) Harry T.. son of .Amos Hubbard, was 
born at Scriba. 1843. and was educated there 
in the public schools. He learned the trade of 



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cooper when a young man, and afterward en- 
gaged in business as "a carpenter and builder. 
In politics he is a Democrat, and in religion a 
Baptist. He married Eliza Laird, who was 
born in the town of Celina, New York. Chil- 
dren : Dr. Ralph B., mentioned below; Bertie 
Munro, born August 27, 1876, a machinist, 
married Albertina Busky. 

(IV) Dr. Ralph B. llubbard, son of Harry 
r. Hubbard, was born in Scriba, Oswego coun- 
ty. New York. December 6, 1871. He attend- 
ed the public schools of his native town, and 
was graduated from the Fulton high school. 
He entered the Pennsylvania College of Dental 
Surgery, from which he was graduated in the 
class of 1895. For two years he practiced den- 
tistry in Syracuse, New York, and for two years 
at riujenix. New York. Since October, 1899, h^ 
has practiced his profession with notable suc- 
cess at Fulton, New York. He is a member of 
the Derigo Lodge, No. 249, Knights of Pythias, 
and the Modern Woodmen of America. In 
politics he is an Independent, in religion a Bap- 
tist. 

He married, in 1895, Lillian Lake, born in 
Canada, daughter of Dr. D. E. and Dr. Jennie 
iM. Lake. Dr. and Mrs. Hubbard have had 
one daughter, Frances, born October, 1897. 
<lie<l in infancy. 



William H. Mansfield was 
.MANSFIELD born in Waterford, Ireland, 

in 1842, and came to this 
country at the age of thirteen. He began work 
as a cobbler's apprentice in a Bowery shop. 
New York City. He took advantage of his 
opportunity, however, and in the course of 
time opened a retail boot and shoe store in 
New Brunswick, New Jersey, where he built 
up a large and profitable business. His son 
William is now in ])artnership with him, and 
they have one of the finest stores in the city. 
He married, at New Brunswick, Mary Fitz- 
gerald, born in Waterford, Ireland, in 1848, 
died in New Brunswick, in 1905. Children: i. 
William, born in 1864. resides with his father, 
with whom he is in ]«rtnership. 2. Dr. James 
Edward, mentioned below. 3. ^lary, married 
Judge Peter F. Daley, resides in New Bruns- 
wick. Three children now deceased. 

fll) Dr. James Edward Mansfield, son of 
William H. ^Iansfield, was born at New Bruns- 
wick, New Jersey, .\ugust 22, 1866. He at- 
tended the public schools of his native town : 
St. Charles College, Baltimore, Maryland, and 



Sacred Heart College at Yineland, New Jersey, 
from which he was graduated with the degree 
of bachelor of arts in the class of 1888. He 
received his medical education in the Dart- 
mouth Medical College, from which he was 
graduated in 1896. He opened an office at 
Oswego, New York, in 1897, and soon won an 
excellent practice. He has a large general 
l)ractice, and is in much demand as a surgeon. 
He is surgeon of the Oswego Hospital ; the 
National Starch Factory at Oswego ; the New 
York Central & Hudson River Railroad Com- 
pany, and the Delaware, Lackawanna & West- 
ern Railroad Company. He is a member of 
the Academy of Medicine of the city of Os- 
wego; the Oswego County Medical Society: 
the New York State Aledical Society, and the 
American Medical Association. He belongs 
to the orders of Elks, the Knights of Columbus 
and the Eagles. In politics he is a Democrat. 
He is a communicant of the Roman Catholic 
church. For several years he was a member 
of the board of health, and in 1904 and 1905 
was mayor of the city of Oswego. His admin- 
istration was eminently satisfactory to the 
people of the city and creditable alike to his 
ability and integrity. 

He married, December 20, 1900, Mary Mor- 
rissey, who was born in Oswego, November 19. 
1880, daughter of Daghlan and Mary Morris- 
sey. Her father was a hotel proprietor, born 
at Waterford, Ireland, in 1852 ; died at Oswe- 
go, October 19, 1907. Her mother was born 
in Oswego, .-Vugust, 1857. Her brother, Thomas 
Morrisse\-, resides in Oswego, and is the fire 
marshal of the city: her brother, Daghlan J. 
Morrissey, is a grocer in Oswego ; her brother. 
Patrick Morrissey, born in Oswego, is engaged 
as an electrician. One sister, Harriet, resides 
with Mrs. Mansfield. Daghlan Morrissey Sr. 
was an earnest and influential Democrat, never 
seeking office for himself but always working 
effectively and strenuously for his party, and 
friends who were candidates for office. Chil- 
dren of Dr. James E. and Mrs. Mansfield: 1. 
William D., born November 26, 1901. 2. Cath- 
erine, born June 2, 1904. 3. James Edward, 
born January 20. 1908. 4. Margaret, born 
Septeiuber 3. 1909. 



.\ccording to the first federal cen- 
MILLS sus, at Halfmoon.and other towns 

of Albany county. New York, Ben- 
jamin, Daniel, George, John, Isaac and Tim- 
othy were heads of the Mills family. Family 



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traditions says that tive brotliois canu' over 
from England. Three settled in \e\v York 
state, one went to Canada, and the other went 
west. For thirty-three years the Mills famil\- 
has held a reunion, once a year, at \\'eeds]5ort. 
New York, on August 31. 

(I) Henry Mills was born in Albany coun- 
ty, New York, or perhaps Schoharie count}-. 
New York. He was a farmer. In politics he 
was a Republican, and in religion a ^lethodist. 
He married Roily Bates. Children : .\braham ; 
William H., mentioned below: James; Mar- 
garet; .Sally; Mary (or Maria) ; Louisa; Julia 
Ann. 

(H) William H.. son of Henry Mills, was 
born in Schoharie county, New York, July 3, 
1808. He moved with his parents to Cato, 
New York, where he was among the promi- 
nent men. At first he was a farmer, but later 
he ran a saw- and grist mill. For seventeen 
years he was postmaster, and for over thirt)' 
years he was justice of the peace. In religion 
he was a Methodist, attending the Methodist 
Episco]ial church. In politics he was a Re- 
publican. He was a lieutenant in military 
service. He married Lvdia, daughter of John 
and Polly (Court) Welch. The Welch family 
came from Scotland. Chiklren : William, born 
May I, 1833; Clarinda, October 29, 1834; 
Hettie Maria, August 14, 1836; John Henry, 
April 14, 1839; Eliza Jane, July 4, 1841 ; David 
.M., mentioned below ; Mary Frances, May 5, 
1846; Japhet Newton, May 8. 1849. 

(Ill) David Martin, son of WiUiam H. 
Mills, was born in Cayuga county. New York, 
in the town of Cato, February 18, 1844. He 
received his education in the public schools, 
and then ran a farm for some time, working 
in his father's saw and grist mill in the winters. 
1 le was a clerk and deputy postmaster for ten 
years. His present business, which he started 
himself, is puni]) manufacturing, and he has 
been very successful in this. His place of busi- 
ness is Fulton, New York, where he ranoved 
in 1883. In politics he is a Republican. He 
was town collector for Cato for one term. In 
religion be is a Methodist. 

He married, November 10, 1869, at Jordan, 
Cayuga county, New York. Emina L., born in 
Cayuga county, town of Brutus, New York, 
July 13, 1850, daughter of George and Hannah 
(.Abbey) I'assage; he was a farmer, and a 
speculator in cattle ; their children were : Emma 
L., Elizabeth, Laura and Martha Passage. Mr. 
and Mrs. Mills have one child. Laura lessic. 



born March 24, 1871, who graduated from the 
])rimary grades ; she married Edwin Forest 
\ an .\mburg, and their children are: Lee Mills 
:uid Ruth L. \'an .Vmburg. 



Johannes Petrus Walrad set- 
WALR.\D tied at Canajoharie, now Mont- 
gomery county. New York, and 
is said to have come thither from Germany. 
He appears to have lived at what is now the 
village of Buel, where a I'eter and Adolph 
Walrath were among the first settlers. The 
census of 1790 shows that at that time John 
Peter Walrad (or Walrath, as some of the de- 
scendants sjjell the name) had two sons under 
si.xteen and four females in his family ; Adolph, 
probably his son, had one son under sixteen 
and two females. Garret W'alrad had two 
males over si.xteen, three under that age and 
three females. There was also a William Wal- 
rad having three sons under sixteen and two 
females in his family. 

( II) One of the sons of John Peter or Jo- 
hannes Petrus W'alrad, had sons: Warner; 
Peter, mentioned below ; Charles : John, and 
William. 

(III) Peter, grandson of Johannes Petrus 
Walrad, was born in Canajoharie or vicinity, 
in Montgomery county, about 1799, and died 
July 5, 1857. aged fifty-eight years. He re- 
ceived his education in the public schools. Re- 
moving to the town of Homer. Cortland coun- 
ty. New York, in 1837, he settled on land 
where the Little York railroad station now 
stands, and followed farming the rest of his 
life. .\ citizen of prominence, actively inter- 
ested in public affairs, he was supervisor of 
the town at the time of his death. He was 
a member of the Congregational church at 
Homer. 

He married Catherine Bellinger, of Little 
Falls, New York, daughter of Christopher P. 
r.ellinger, and she died at Homer, April 8, 
1854, aged fifty-two years. Children: i. Cath- 
erine, born 1821, died October, 1893; married 
George Chamberlain, of Cortland. 2. Philo, 
lives on the homestead ; married Lois .A. Camp: 
their daughter Harriet married Charles Beach, 
of Tully, New York. 3. Harriet N., born 1830, 
died 1903 ; married S. B. Curtis, of .\'iagara-on- 
the-Lakes. Canada. 4. Calvin P.. mentioned 
below. 

(IV) Calvin P.. sou of Peter Walrad, was 
born in P.uel, Montgomery county. New York, 

\]iril 2-,. 1835. He was educated in the public 



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>chools and at Homer Academy. For five 
years he was in business as a merchant in 
Homer, and for twent)- years in Cortland, New 
York. Since i8f/), when the Cortland Savings 
I'ank was organized, he has been an officer of 
the institution; in 1866 he was elected secre- 
tary, and continued to fill that office until 1891. 
since when he has been president. In politics 
lie is a Re]niblican, and for two years he was 
])resident of the incorporated village of Cort- 
land. He is a director of the Cortland Silk 
Mill. He is an active and prominent member 
of the f'resbyterian church, and has been one 
of its trustees for the past thirty years. 

He married (first), in 1864, Sarah, daugh- 
ter of Alfred and Samantha (Boyes) Cham- 
berlain, of Cortland. She died June 2t,, 1871, 
and he married (second), September 3, 1873, 
Grace Chamberlain, sister of his first wife. 
Child of first wife: i. .Alfred C, born No- 
vember, 1867; employed in office of Wickwire 
r.rothers, Cortland: married Anna Hudson: 
children; Henry Calvin, .\lfred Hudson and 
Catherine. Children of second wife: 2. Kath- 
arine, born June 26, 1880: married Frank W. 
McKee. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and had 
a daughter, Anna, who died in infancy. 3. 
Anna, born February 22, 1883; lives with her 
])arents on the homestead at Cortland. 



Laurence Ryan was of an ancient 
RY.AX family in Ireland, where he lived 

and died. 
(H) James, son of Laurence Ryan, was 
born in Limerick. Ireland. He came to this 
country and made his home in Watertown, 
New York, in 1848. He followed the trade 
of a stationary engineer. He was a member 
of St. Paul's Church at Oswego. He married 
Mary O'Brien. He died in 1881 and his wife 
diedini87i. Children: Margaret : John ; Mich- 
ael C, mentioned below. 

(Ill) Michael C, son of James Ryan, was 
born in Syracuse, New York, Se])tember 2Ti. 
1856. He removed with his parents when a 
young child to Oswego. New York, where he 
received his education. When only eight years 
old he played the drum for the recruiting sta- 
tion at Oswego, and in 1 871 was a drummer 
boy on the revenue cutter "Chase." At eleven 
years of age he established the first soda water 
fountain in Oswego, at Dr. Kingston's drug 
.store. He worked as a newsboy for Captain 
Berriman when thirteen years old, and was 
the first boy to call out the important news on 



the street from the New ^'nrk papers. In 
1870 he cleared ten dollars a day from the 
stock of Bruce Ingersoll that was damaged b\- 
fire by selling it in prize packages, and after 
that he sold the stock from the book store of 
Cieorge Hease in the same way. He was em- 
ployed as clerk in diflferent stores in Oswego 
until 1876; then travelled with Robinson's 
Circus as a musician; in 1881 he joined the 
Kingsford Band; in 1885 he began work for 
the -Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, and in 
1890 was appointed manager of the company; 
in 1893 he engaged in the wholesale cigar busi- 
ness, and in 1898 he started the manufacture 
of berry crates at West First street, Oswego. 
He removed to Phoenix, New York, in 1901, 
and started the manufacture of hinges. He 
has been successful in this business, and has 
increased his products to general hardware and 
electric and novelty flashers, having a business 
of twenty-five thousand dollars a year. 

He married. May 20. 1911, Sarah, daughter 
(if the late \\ alter Pendergast, of West Phcenix. 



The first mention of the name 
.STL'RGIS of Sturgis or Sturges was in a 
French book published by .\bbe 
MacCroghegan, which reads: ".About the year 
815, during the reign of Conor, who reigned 
fourteen years, Turgesius, a son of a king of 
Norway landed a formidable fleet on the north 
coast of Ireland; and again, about the year 
835, a fleet commanded by the same man land- 
ed on the west side of Lough Lea, where he 
fortified himself, and laid waste Connought, 
Aleath and Leinster, and the greater part of 
Lister, and was declared king. He reigned 
about thirty years. Finally, the people revolt- 
ed, and, under the lead of Malarlin, prince of 
]\Ieath, he was defeated by a strategem and put 
to death." The first authentic mention is in 
Fnglish history when William de Turges had 
grants of land from Edward I., King of Eng- 
land, in the village of Turges. county of North- 
ampton, afterwards called Northfield. The 
coat-of-arms : Azure, a chevron between three 
crosses crosslet, fitchee or, a border engrailed 
of the last. Crest : A talbot's head or. eared 
sable. Motto: Esse qiiaiii zndcri. 

(I) Roger Sturges was of Clipston. North- 
ampton, England, and his will was dated No- 
vember 10. 1530. He married Alice . 

Children : Richard, mentioned below ; Robert : 
Thomas : Ellen ; Agnes : Clementina. 

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ried in Clipston. Children: Roger, mentioned 
below ; Jolin, living in 1579 ; Thomas, of Stan- 
nion, Northampton, England. 

(III) Roger (2), son of Richard Sturges. 
was of Clipston. His will was dated Septem- 
ber 4, 1579. He married Agnes . Chil- 
dren : Robert, mentioned below ; John. 

(IV) Robert, son of Roger (2) Sturges, 
was buried at Faxton, county Xorthampton, 
Fingland, January 2, 161 1. His will was dated 
April 9, 1610, and proved September 19, 161 1. 
He was church warden at Faxton in 1589. 
Children : Philip, mentioned below ; Alice. 

(V) Philip Sturgis (as the name is now 
spelled), son of Robert Sturges, was of Han- 
nington, county Northampton, England. His 
will was dated 16 13. He married (first) 
, (second) Anne Lewes. Chil- 
dren by first wife: Edward, mentioned below; 
Robert ; Elizabeth. By second wife : Alice, 
baptized January 17, 1608; Anne, born Sep- 
tember 29, 1609 ; XN'illiam, born October 10. 
1611. 

(VI) Edward, son of Philip Sturgis, was 
lx)rn at Hannington and came to New Eng- 
land about 1634, settling at Sandwich, Massa- 
chusetts. He was in Charlestown, Massachu- 
setts, in 1634. and in Yarmouth, Cape Cod, 
1639. He was constable at Yarmouth in 1640- 
41 ; member of the grand in(|uest in 1650; sur- 
veyor of highways in 1651 ; was admitted free- 
man, June 5, 165 1, and was committeeman on 
affairs of the colony in 1657; was constable in 
1662, and de])Uty to the general assembly in 
1672. He died at Sandwich in October, 1695. 
and was buried at Yarmouth. He married 
(first) Elizabeth . though one gene- 
alogist gave her name as Alice. She died Feb- 
ruary 14, 1691, and he married (second), 
April, 1692, Alary, widow of Zachariah Rider. 
Children, Ijorn in England : .\lice, December 
23, 1619; Maria, October 2, 162 1 ; Edward, 
.•\pril 10, 1624; Rebecca, February 17, 1626- 
2"]. Born in New England: Samuel, 1638; 
Thomas; Mary, baptized at Barnstable, Janu- 
ary I, 1646; Elizabeth, born at Yarmouth, 
April 20, 1648; Sarah; Joseph, buried March 
29, 1650, aged ten days; Hannah. Otis says 
there was a son John, born about 1624, who 
went to Connecticut ; he was ancestor of the 
Fairfield county family, and probably of the 
New York family, mentioned below. 

William Sturgis of this family was a farmer 
in the town of t'ato. New York. He married 
Martha Shearer. Children : Nathaniel ; .\lex- 



aiider ; David; George B., mentioned below: 
Mary ; Elvira ; Martha ; William. 

George B., son of William Sturgis, was born 
in the town of Cato, New York, May 25, 1833. 
He was educated in the public schools. He 
learned the trade of iron moulder and for 
many years held a responsible position in the 
foundry of the Remington Company at Ilion. 
.\ew York. He is a member of Ilion Lodge, 
Free and Accepted Masons, and Ilion Chap- 
ter, Royal .\rch Masons. In politics he is a 
Republican, and in religion a Methodist. 

He married Mary, born in Lysander, New 
York, daughter of Lawrence and Abigail Bran- 
do. Children : Ella, married M. C. Miller ; 
Clinton ; Ida, married George Eno ; Harry ; 
George Marcus, mentioned below. 

George Marcus, son of George B. Sturgis. 
was born in Ilion, New York, May 17, 1872 
He received his education in the schools of 
-Syracuse, New York. He began his business 
life as clerk in a grocery store at Syracuse, 
where he worked for three years, and then 
learned the trade of moulder and followed it 
for a number of years. In 1904 with his brother 
Harry he bought a foundry at Phcenix, New 
York. At the end of the first year his brother 
died and he was succeeded in the firm by F. M. 
Pierce, of Phoenix, the firm name becoming 
Sturgis & Pierce. The business has prospered. 
Mr. Sturgis is a member of Golden Rule Lodge. 
No. "jj, Indqjendent Order of Odd Fellows, 
and is a past noble grand. In politics he is an 
Independent, and in religion a Methodist. 

He married, April 7, 1896, Elizabeth, born 
in Phcenix, New York, daughter of Melville 
and Barbara (Keller) Sherman. Children: 
Frances, born June 8, 1897; Bessie, March 21. 
1899; Ethel, March 14, 1900. 

.Vndrew Morefield, later called 

.M I'Rl'1 1\' Murphy, was born in the north 

of Ireland, and came to this 

country when a young man, settling first in 

Canada and later in Oswego, New York. 

(II) William Bruce Murphy, son of An- 
drew Morefield, was born in Canada in 1842, 
and came to Oswego, New York, with his 
father. Here he learned the trade of a car- 
penter. He remained in Oswego the remain- 
der of his life, and died in 1905. He married 
Eliza, daughter of Thomas Roxbury. Chil- 
dren : Emma, married George Barnes, under- 
taker at Oswego: William E.. of Oswego; 
Robert P..; Jessie W., married H. R. Porter; 



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Fanny ; Charlotte, a stenographer in New York- 
City; George Wilfred, mentioned below. 

(Ill) George Wilfred, son of William Bruce 
Murphy, was born at Oswego, New York, 
March 29, 1873. He received his education 
in the public schools there. He learned teleg- 
raphy, and then began work for the Western 
I'nion Telegraph Company, working from a 
position as messenger to that of clerk in office 
work in five years. For the next four years 
he was employed by the Kings ford Starch 
Company, and in 1895 received a position from 
the New York Central railroad. He worked 
as operator on the line of the New York Cen- 
tral from 1904 to 1910, in Oswego, New York, 
and in December of that year became station 
agent at Phcenix for the New York Central 
railroad, and express agent for the American 
Express Company. In religion he is a Bap- 
tist, having been a member of the Baptist 
church at Oswego since 1890. He is a mem- 
ber of the Citizens" Club of Phcenix, New 
York. He married, in 1896, Delia, daughter 
nf Joseph and Mary Rowe. Children: Ethel, 
born September 18, 1897; Pauline, March 18. 
1899; Kenneth. September 29, 1900; Erma, 
December 8. 1906. 



Louis Philip Fox, or as it was spell- 
FOX ed formerly Fuchs. was born in Al- 
sace-Lorraine, Germany, which was 
then in France. He received a liberal educa- 
tion and held a commission as chaplain in the 
I'Vench army. He came to this country while 
in the prime of life, and followed farming at 
Rose, Wayne county. New York. His farm 
is known as the Henry Lincks place. At the 
age of fifty-six years he enlisted in the L'nion 
army in the civil war and served three years, 
taking part in the battle of the Wilderness and 

• ither important engagements. He married 
Lena Horn, who was also of German birth. 
Pioth are buried in the Ferguson burial ground 
at Rose. Children: i. George, died in Cali- 
fornia. 2. Lena, married Cornelius Barton, 
of Lyons. 3. I'red, mentioned below. 4. Louis, 
lived at Lyons, New York. 5. Siloma. married 
f )vid Jeffers, of Galen. 6. Carrie, married 
Henry Loucks. who was born in Brooklyn. 
New York, and settled on the Fox homestead 
in 1 881. 7. Louisa, married William Goetz- 
man. of Galen. 8. Charles, married Mary 
Uncks. 9. Jennie, married John W'. Stewart, 

• >f Lyons. 10. W'illiam, died aged nineteen. 
1 1. Charlotte, died young. 



(II) Fred, son of Louis Philip Fox, was 
born at Rose, New York. He was educated 
there in the public schools, and learned the 
trade of cooper. He followed farming as well 
as coopering, however, and owned one of the 
best farms in W^ayne county, ranking among 
the most successful and representative men of 
the town of Wolcott. He married Permilla, 
daughter of Ernest Falkey. Children: i. Will- 
iam H., born in Rose, dealer in produce at 
Wolcott, New York. 2. Flora B., married 
Floyd Shyder. 3. Ernest F., born in town of 
Huron ; a lawyer at Newark, New York. 4. 
Crrace M.. born in town of Huron; a teacher 
of German at Fulton, New York, in the high 
school. 3. Dr. Frank Edward, mentioned 
below. 

(III) Dr. Frank Edward Fox, son of Fred 
Fox, born in Rose, New York, November 1, 
1876. He attended the public schools of Wol- 
cott. New York. He entered upon the study 
of his profession in the Medical College of 
Baltimore, Maryland, and was graduated in 
1901 with the degree of M. D. For a time 
he was assistant surgeon of the Maryland 
Steel Company at Sparrows Point, Maryland, 
and in 1902 he came to Fulton, New York, 
where he has built up an extensive practice, 
making surgery a specialty. He has been 
president of the board of health of Fulton, and 
is a manber of the Phi Chi, a medical frater- 
nity. He is a member and has been an officer 
oi the Fifth District Medical Society, member 
and treasurer in 191 1 of the Oswego County 

■Medical Society, member of the Fulton Acad- 
emy of Medicine, the New York State Medical 
Society and the American Medical Association. 
While in college he was president of the sec- 
ond year class and at graduation was a mem- 
ber of the executive committee and of the Phi 
Chi fraternity in which he had also been assist- 
ant treasurer and secretary. He is at present 
visiting surgeon of the Albert Lee Memorial 
Hospital, and a member of Lodge. No. 830. 
P)enevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of 
I'ulton ; Derigo Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of 
Oswego; and of the Pathfinders Boat Club. 
He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
church. In politics he is a progressive Demo- 
crat. 

1 le married, 1903, Maebelle S. W'etmore, born 
in Peoria, Illinois, daughter of Samuel and 
Mary Wetmore. Children: F. Edward, born 
October 24, 1905; George I'., .\pril 22. 1907: 
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George Blake, immigrant ances- 
BLAKE tor, was born in the county of 

Buckinghamshire, England. \Vhen 
a young man he came to this country, and 
about 1858 made his home at Clay, New York, 
where he had a farm. After some years he 
removed to Schroeppel, Oswego county, Xew 
York, and continued there as a farmer all 
of his active life. He married Rebecca Lud- 
low, who was born in Buckinghamshire, Eng- 
land. She died at Schrocjipel in 1 89 1, and he 
died there in igoft. ChiUlrcn : John ; ( leorge ; 
Charles ; Henry : Sarah E. ; .Anna, married 
George W'eller ; William Stevens, mentioned 
below. 

(H) William Stevens, son of George Blake, 
was born in the town of Clay, New York, No- 
vember 16, 1869. He received his education in 
the public schools and at the high school of 
Phoenix, New York. For two years he taught 
school in the town of Schroeppel, and then he 
spent two years working in the paper mill 
there. Afterwards he rented and operated the 
mill for two years. In 1897 he removed to 
Phcenix where he started in his present busi- 
ness as a dealer in coal, lumber and cement. 
He is now one of the leading merchants of the 
town, and one of the most prominent and use- 
ful citizens. He has been one of the trustees 
of the incorporated village of Phoenix, and is 
now on the board of assessors. In politics he 
is an Independent, and he attends the Congre- 
gational church. He is a member of Golden 
Rule Lodge, No. "jj. Independent Order nf 
( )(ld Fellows. He married, May, 1897, -Anna,- 
daughter of Henry Limbeck. 



George Gladmau was horn in 
(ILAD.M.V.X England in 1801, and died in 

Canada in 1863. He was a 
leading factor in the Hudson Bay Company, 
and spent most of his life in Canada and Brit- 
ish North .-\merica. He married Harriet \"in- 
cent, a granddaughter of Governor McNabb. 
(II) Henry, son of George Gladman, was 
Iwirn at Moose [''actory, on James Bay, British 
Xorth y\merica, October 21, 1834. He was 
well educated, and studied for the ministry. 
He started to go to England to complete his 
preparation for the ministry, when he was 
taken sick and returned to Upper Canada. 
Afterward he became associated with the Hon. 
!•". C. Wood, in the management of the county 
clerk's office in County Victoria, Ontario, Can- 
ada, and was later ajipointed postmaster of 



Lindsay, Ontario, holding that office for thirty- 
five years. He married Melissa Rientord. 
Children: George J., born 1864; Harry E., 
1870: Dr. I'lverett .Mdrich, mentioned below; 
William L., 1877, '''^^1 '" infancv ; Cyril R. A., 
born 1879: Clifford L., 1881 ; Victor L., 1887. 
(HI) Dr. Everett Aldrich Gladman, son of 
Henry Gladman, was born in Lindsay, On- 
tario, Canada, October 23, 1875. He was edu- 
cated there in the public schools and at the 
Collegiate Institute at Lindsay, from which he 
was graduated in the class of 1894. He then 
began to study his profession at McGill Med- 
ical College, Montreal, and was graduated with 
the degree of M. D. C. M. in 1898. He spent 
six months in the hospital at Montreal and an- 
other six months as interne in Royal Victoria 
Hospital at Montreal. After passing the state 
e.Namination in Xew York, he entered upon 
the practice of his profession at Fulton, Os- 
wego county, November 8, 1899, and has con- 
tinued with great success in general practice 
to the present time. He is a member of the 
Fulton Academy of Medicine, the Oswego 
County Medical Society, the New York State 
^ledical Society and the .American Medical 
.Association. He is also a member of Hiram 
Lodge, No. 144, Free and .Accepted Masons, 
of Fulton, the Pathfinder Club, and the Os- 
wego County Club. In politics he is a Repub- 
lican, and in religion a Presbvterian. 



The Snyder family was among 
SXYDI^K the early settlers of New Jer- 
sey. In partnership with Nicola> 
.Sayni, Jacob Peter Snyder bought i.,3O0 acres 
of land in .\mwell township. New Jersey, of 
Elizabeth Estaugh, in 1748. Jacob Peter Sny- 
der was a cordwainer and citizen of New York 
in 1737. The Snyders also settled early in 
Pennsylvania, and the names in New Jersey 
and Pennsylvania are similar, indicating that 
the two branches of the family were related. 
-According to the family tradition, the family 
described in this article are descended from 
the New Jersey branch. Two brothers, we are 
told, settled in New Jersey, but the records of 
the first generation have not been found. 

(I) Jacob Snyder, probably the first settler, 
married Polly Leigh. 

( II) Henry, son of Jacob Snyder, was born 
in 1790, and died April 3, 1862, aged seventy- 
one years ten months. He married Rachel 
Dunlap, who died April 8. 1859. aged seventy 
vears eight days. Children, born at Boylston, 



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New York : Ransom, mentioned below ; Han- 
nah ; Jacob ; Garret H. ; William ; (lardner : 
Amy, now living at Mannsville, New York. 

(III) Ransom, son of Henry Snyder, was 
born at Boylston. Xew York, February 23, 
1829. He was a farmer throughout his active 
life. In religion he was a Wesleyan Methodist, 
and in politics a Republican. He was a sol- 
dier in the civil war, enlisting in Company E. 
One Hundred and Eighty-ninth Xew York 
Regiment X'olunteer Militia, in i8f)4, and mus- 
tered out in June. 1865, after the close of the 
war. 

He married, October i, 1848, at Boylston, 
Xew York, Abigail Calkins, born May 26, 
1829. at Boylston, daughter of Daniel and 
Hannah .So])hronia (Shaver) Calkins, grand- 
daughter of John and Syphronia (Overhizer) 
Shaver. Through the Overhizer ancestry, tra- 
dition says the family descends from May- 
flower stock. Ransom Snyder died January 
31, 1875. at Orwell, New York, and his widow 
married at Orwell, April 21, 1880. Simon 
Pruyn. She died at Lacona, New York, about 
thirty years later. Children of Ransom and 
.Abigail (Calkins) Snyder: Brainard DeForest. 
mentioned below : James Gardner, born June 
23, 1849; Ivonett. March 30, 1855; Ransom 
llenry, February 13, i860: Carroll Daniel, Oc- 
tober 7, 1873, died February 7, 1875. 

(IV) Rev. Brainard DeForest Snyder, son 
of Ransom Snyder, was born in Boylston, Os- 
wego county, New York, August 13, 1850, 
died January 2, 191 1, at Mannsville, New 
York. He attended the public schools, and at 
the age of eighteen entered W'hitestown Semi- 
nary, in which he paid his own way. He was 
converted in his fourteenth year under the pas- 
torate of Rev. John M. Waite, of the Wes- 
leyan Methodist Church, which he afterward 
joined, and at sixteen he was superintendent of 
a Sunday school. At the age of seventeen he 
determined to enter the ministry of his chosen 
denomination, and two years later had made 
such progress in his studies that he was licensed 
to exhort, and thereupon he began his life 
work in his native town. Practically his whole 
life was devoted to the church. Ife entered 
the ministry April 5. 1874, in the Syracuse 
Conference of the W'esleyan Methodist Church, 
continuing to preach in this conference for a 
period of seven years in three different par- 
ishes. In .April, 1881, he was received in the 
Northern New York Conference of the Meth- 
odist EpiscoiJal Church upon his credentials 



from the Wesleyan Methodist Church, and 
taken into full communion April 13, 1883. His 
appointments were Orwell, Gilbert's Mills. 
Brookfield and Leonards ville. Port Leyden, 
Remsen, Philadelphia, New York, Heuvelton. 
. Alexandria Bay, Norwood, Pulaski and Alin- 
etto — eleven different charges, during a period 
of twenty-seven years. Including his ministry 
in the Wesleyan Church, he served thirty-four 
years in fourteen parishes, in all of which he 
was an acceptable preacher, and a capable 
organizer, demonstrating business ability as 
well as evangelical zeal, which strengthened 
the churches of which he had charge. The offi- 
cial organ of the Northern New "N'nrk Confer- 
ence of 191 I says of him : 

"There was promptness and immLilialeiicss in 
Brother Snyder's methods. His mind was quick to 
act and grasp the situation. His faith never flagged. 
Hope strengthened his courage. He was cheerful 
under all circumstances. His manliness was appar- 
ent. He always aspired to do his best. His appoint- 
ments give an idea of the work lie did. Temporal 
affairs as well as spiritual were cared for. Evidences 
nf his handiwork can be foimd on his charges. * * * 

■'During his last year at Minctto, 1908, his vocal 
organs became so impaired that he was compelled 
to succumb to the inevitable. He retired to his 
pleasant home in Mannsville, New York, hoping by 
rest and medical attention to recover and resunu- 
work. But a very uncommon disease fastened itself 
upon him, of which he died, viz : Chronic bulbar 
paralysis, involving a progressive symmetrical paraly- 
sis of the lip, adjacent facial muscles, tongue, etc.. 
which terminated in exhaustion by starvation. Dr. 
J. C. Severance, his physician, says the remarkable 
feature of the case was the Christian fortitude 
shown by Brother Snyder through the weeks, months 
and years of his sufferings ; and adds, "this comes far 
short of the truth.' 

"Our dear brother closed his busy life in great 
peace and Christian triumph on Monday evening, 
January 2, 191 1. The funeral services were held at 
his home Thursday noon, January 5. District Super- 
intendent Rev. C. E. Miller presided, whose address 
was full of sympathy. Rev. W. M. Hydon read the 
Holy Scriptures, and Rev. S. S. Davis offered prayer 
Rev. Frederick Maunder read appreciative resolu- 
tions from the Pulaski official board. Minetto was 
represented by a delegation and floral tokens. Cheerful 
tributes to a friend and brother were added by Rev, 
George Dermott and the writer. Rev. C. V. Haven, 
(if Mannsville, spoke of Brother Snyder as a helpful 
companion and sympathetic friend; and with Mrs 
Haven sang. The interment was in the Primitive 
Cemetery, near Mexico, Xow York " 

In ]iolities Mr. Snyder was a Re]iublican. 
He married, .August 20, 1873, O'ive Di Ette 
Wyman. born at Orwell, New York. August 
5, 1856. and died January 22, 1881. at Mallory. 
New "N'ork. daughter of Rastus D. Wyman and 



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Mercy Ann (Smith) W'yman, granddaughter 
of Perley Wyman, of Orwell. Children : Fred 
W., mentioned below ; Nila J., born August 6, 
1878, at Prattville, New York, died there 
March 4, 1879; Nila Etta, born December 25, 
1880, at Lacona, New York, wife of Fred A. 
Austin, children, Julia and Helen. 

(V) Fred W., son of Rev. Brainard De- 
Forest Snyder, was born at Taylor, Cortland 
county. New York, December 13, 1875. He 
attended the public schools, Fairfield Seminary 
and Military Academy, and Ives Seminary of 
Antwerji, New York. At the age of nineteen 
he began working for the Northern Christian 
.Idvocatc, of Syracuse, New Y'ork, as book- 
keeper and stenographer. Three years later 
he began work with the Fulton Paper Com- 
pany of Fulton, New York^ and held various 
positions of responsibility and trust with this 
company, and afterward with the Eureka Paper 
Company, the Granby Paper Company, and 
the Victoria Paper Mills Company, all of Ful- 
ton, New York, and all closely associated in 
ownership and management. In 1902 he pur- 
chased a part of the stock of \N . S. Royce 
( deceased ) in the \'ictoria Paper Mills Com- 
])any and became secretary of the corporation. 
In 1908 he was elected vice-president and treas- 
urer, and since then has devoted his time ex- 
clusively to this company. 

The \'ictoria Paper Mills Comi)any was 
organized March 20, 1880, Forest G. Weeks, 
Charles S. Eggleston and Edwin R. Redhead 
being the incorporators and first board of di- 
rectors. The No. 2 Mill, erected in 1830 by 
Monroe & Case, was the only mill of the com- 
])any in the beginning, h'rom time to time tin- 
plant was enlarged and new capital was added 
to the corporation. Mr. Royce died in 1902. 
In 1893 the company began to manufacture 
]iaper liags in a small way, and soon introduced 
machinery and developed this department into 
line of great value and importance. In 190S 
])rinting presses were added to the ef]uipment 
iif the bag factory. From 1898 to 1908 the 
owners of the Victoria Company were finan- 
cially interested in the development of the 
luireka, Fulton and Granby Paper companies 
at the west end of the lower dam at Fulton. 
The s])ecialties of the com])any at present are 
rope i)apers, i^lain and printed flour sacks, 
sugar bags, nail bags, manilla and No. 2 white 
tissue papers, the daily output amounting to 
from fifteen to twentv tons. In iqiq the com- 



pany celebrated its thirtieth anniversary of 
successful business. 

Mr. Snyder is a Republican, though he is 
independent of his party in local politics. He 
is a member of Hiram Lodge, No. 144, Free 
and .Accepted Masons; high priest of Fulton 
I'hapter, No. 167, Royal Arch Masons ; deputy 
master of Fulton Council, Royal and Select 
Masters ; past patron of Elizabeth Chapter, 
No. 105, Order of the Eastern Star, and is 
past assistant grand lecturer of the Twenty- 
fourth District, Order of the Eastern Star, 
State of New York. He is also a member of 
Lake r)ntario Commandery, No. 32, Knights 
Templar, of Oswego, and of the Masonic Club. 
of Fulton, New Y''ork. 

He married, at Philadelphia. New Y'ork, Oc- 
tober 21. 1897, Frankie Scram, born at Phila- 
delphia, New York, July 26, 1876, daughter of 
George Henry and Margaret Emma (Mosher) 
Scram. Mr. and Mrs. Snyder have no chil- 
dren. 



(Ill) James Garrett, .son of 
G.KRRl-yrT John ^^■. Garrett (q. v.), was 
born in Lysander. New York, 
November 12, 1839, died June 4, 1908. He 
was a farmer. In politics he was a Democrat. 
He was a member of the Ancient Order of 
American \\'orkmen, and of the Grange, Pat- 
rons of Husbandry. He married Elizabeth 
Itlakeman, who died in July, 1909. Children: 
Ovid ].. mentioned below: John O. : Hattie : 
Frank B. 

(I\') Ovid J., son of James Garrett, was 
born at Granby, Oswego county. New York, 
December 8, 1866. He received his education 
in tlie jiublic schools, and then worked on a 
farm until he was twenty-six years of age. For 
one year afterwards he was engaged in the 
creamery business at Weedsport, New York, 
and in 1894 removed to Baldwinsville. Here 
he continued in the creamery business, forming 
a ijartnershij) with Mr. Fisher, which continued 
for two years, after which he bought out Mr. 
Fisher's interest, and in 1896 formed a partner- 
ship with John E. Snell. The firm name is 
Garrett & Snell. and their business is large 
;uk1 very successful. In politics he is a Demo- 
crat. He is a member of Mohegan Lodge, In- 
dependent Order of Odd Fellows, and of Mod- 
ern Woodmen of America. He married, 1894, 
Zoe, daughter of lames and Matilda P>uttler. 
Children: Ruth, Mildred, Olive. 



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The name Eldredge is spell- 
ELDREDGE ed variously Eldridge, El- 
dred, Eldredge, and on old 
• ecords sometimes Eldrech. The name existed 
in England before the Conquest by William 
the Norman. It is of Saxon origin and was 
borne by several of the Saxon kings before the 
Conquest. Eldred was king of Chester in 951. 
At tiie time of the Conquest the Archbishop of 
Canterbury was an Eldredge, who cursed the 
.Vorman Conqueror. The family had lands in 
Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, Gloucester. 
Shropshire and Yorkshire in 1085. John Eld- 
redge, born in 1552, was of Great Saxham, 
and was subsequently in SuiTolk, where he 
died in 1632. He was a merchant and exten- 
sive traveler, and one of the founders of Vir- 
ginia, a director many years of the Virginia 
Company. He had four sons and two daugh- 
ters, and it is presumable that the early New 
England immigrants (William, Robert, Sam- 
uel, John and Nathaniel) were connected with 
his family. Practically all families of that 
name in this country are descended from one 
'if three immigrants, who settled in Massachu- 
'-etts before 1650. Robert Eldred, or Eld- 
redge, came to New England as a servant to 
.Nicholas Synipkins, and was transferred to 
Thomas Prence for three years, May 25, 1639, 
was among the list of those in Plymouth able 
to bear arms in 1643, settled in Yarmouth ; his 
wife was Elizabeth Nickerson. Another im- 
migrant, William Eldredge, was living in Yar- 
mouth in 1645, with his wife Ann. The other 
immigrant, Samuel, mentioned below, was, ac- 
cording to B. C. Goodhue, of the firm of Cram, 
Goodhue & Ferguson, architects, 170 Fifth 
avenue, New York City, the son of Thomas 
I'Lldredge. Thomas Eldredge married a daugh- 
ter of Colonel John or Robert Dolling, of \'ir- 
ginia. Robert Boiling's wife was a daughter 
of Thomas Rolfe and Potthress (Indian) and 
granddaughter of John Rolfe and Pocahontas, 
who ilied at Gravesend, England. 

(I) Samuel Eldredge, the immigrant ances- 
tor of this branch of the family, was a resi- 
dent of Med ford, Massachusetts, before 165 1. 
In 1652 he deposed before the court that he 
was thirty-two years old. In 1646 he was a 
resident of Cambridge, and in 1659 in Rumney 
Marsh, later Chelsea. He removed to Kings- 
ton, Rhode Island, in 1668, and was of Wick- 
ford, over which Connecticut claimed juris- 
diction. He served as constable there and was 
a member of the .Ancient and Honorable Ar- 



tillery Company of Boston. October 8, 1674, 
he was granted by the general court at Hart- 
ford "the sum of twenty nobles for his good 
service in doing and suffering for this colony." 
On December 18, 1675, he was at Richard 
Smith's garrison house just before the Narra- 
gansett swamp fight, as related by Captain Ben- 
jamin Church, who says that they went on a 
night adventure with him, surprising and cap- 
turing eighteen Indians. In 1697 he deeded 
to his son John a house and a hundred acres 
of land with a right on the other side of Pequot 
Path. He died about 1697. He married Eliz- 
abeth . Children : Elizabeth, born Oc- 
tober 26, 1642; Samuel, October 28, 1644; 
Mary, June 16, 1646; Lieutenant Thomas, Sep- 
tember 8. 1648; James, died about 1687; Dan- 
iel, mentioned below; John, died 1724. 

(II) Daniel, son of Samuel Eldredge, was 
born in Kingston, Rhode Island, and died Au- 
gust 13, 1726. In 1702 he was a captain, and 
in 1707 removed to Stonington, Connecticut, 
and April 6 that year, his wife and five chil- 
dren were baptized there. His will, proved 
August 14, 1726, names wife Mary, sons 
James, Thomas and Daniel, and daughters 
Abigail, Mary, Freelove, Hannah and Sarah. 

He married Mary , who died about 

1726. Children: .Abigail, born August 19, 
1688: Daniel, mentioned below ; Mary, Decem- 
ber 6, 1691 ; Freelove, March 25, 1695, died 
young: James, December 5, 1696; Thomas, 
February 2, 1699; Freelove, March 29, 1701 : 
Hannah, March 20, 1705; Sarah. January 29, 
1706: Richard, April 9, 1712. 

(III) Captain Daniel (2) Eldredge, son of 
Daniel ( i ) Eldredge, was born March 20, 
1690, and died in Groton, Connecticut. He 
married, June 26, 171 1, .\bigail Fish, of Gro- 
ton, born 1690. daughter of Samuel Fish, of 
New London, and granddaughter of John Fish, 
of Lynn and Sandwich. Massachusetts. Among 
their ciiildren were : Charles, born November 
17, 1720: Christopher, and Hallam. She was 
admitted to the church in Stunington, Septem- 
ber 2^,. 1 7 16. In Wheeler's "Homes of Our 
.Ancestors" (1903), page 78, the Eldredge 
homestead is described : "The Eldredge house, 
later the Elisha Bennet house, owned by him, 
is still standing, low and brown, on the old 
road from the head of Mystic to Wolfe's Neck, 
^et back a little from the gaze of the traveller, 
cozily sheltered by some old apple trees whose 
boughs hang shelteringly over this old land- 
mark with its broad stone doorsteps which 



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have been trodden by so many feet in bygone 
days, for here came Captain Daniel Eldredge. 
then called Eldred, from Rhode Island, in 
1704, as the town records and Joshua Hemp- 
stead's records show, and here, at the road 
church, his children were baptized and he un- 
doubtedly built this house. Some of his chil- 
dren went back to Kingstown ( Rhode Island ) 
and James is recorded there." 

(IV) Christopher, son of Daniel (2) and 
Abigail (Fish) Eldredge. was born in 1724. 
and lived upon the paternal homestead at 
Wolfe's Neck. He married, in Kingstown, 
Mary Hempstead, born about 1725, daughter 
of Nathaniel and Mary (Hallani) Hempstead. 
The Hempstead family was founded by Rob- 
ert and Johannah (Willie) Hempstead, who 
settled about 1645 '" ^''^^^' London, where Rob- 
ert Hempstead died in 1655. His son Joshua, 
born June 16, 1649, resided in New London, 
and married Elizabeth Larrabee. Their only 
child, Joshua (2), born September i, 1678. 
was very prominent in the town for fifty years 
following 1708, and died in 1758. He was 
the author of the "Hempstead Diary," which 
gives much information regarding the history 
of the town and times. He had wife Abi- 
gail, and they were the parents of Nathaniel 
Hempstead, born January 6, 1700, in New 
London. He married Mary Hallam, and they 
were the parents of Mary Heni])stead, wife of 
Christopher Eldredge. The latter bciilt a large 
and very fine house for that day, about 1756. 
in the center of the district known as Wolfe's 
Neck, two miles north of old Mystic. Chil- 
dren born there : Christopher, mentioned below ; 
Mary, born 1761 ; Hallam and probably others. 

(V) Chri>iopher (2), oldest son of Christo- 
pher (i) and Mary (Hempstead) Eldredge, 
was born May 29, I75f>, at Wolfe's Neck, and 
(lied December 2, 1785. He was wounded in 
the face in the fight at Groton, Connecticut, 
where his brother was also in service ; their 
sister Mary was first to enter the fort after 
the fight to minister to the wounded. He was 
master of his own vessel, and lost his life at 
sea. He married Sarah, daughter of Elisha 
Satterlee, born I'ebruary 1. 1759, in Coiuiecti- 
cut, and died Sejitember 12, 1841. .\fter her 
husband's death she returned to her father's 
house and remained until 1809, when she re- 
moved to the home of her son Christo])her, in 
Binghamton, New York, and there spent the 
remainder of her life, living forty-six years 
a widow. Tliev had suns [ohn, Hallam and 



Christopher. The first, John, born i7f)6, mar- 
ried, in 1789, Susanna Chesboro, born May 18, 
1769: he was killed at Groton Bank by a fall 
from a vessel. Hallam. born 1783, in Ston- 
ington, settled in 1808, at Natchez, Mississippi, 
where he died in 1814; he married there Eliz- 
abeth .\rmstrong, of Natchez; children: i. 
Mary Ann, married (first) David Alexander, 
of Natchez ; (second) Samuel R. Montgomery. 
of the same place ; she died at Binghamton, 
New York, October 31, 1877. 2. Laura, died 
•833. 3- James, died 1815, both in Natchez. 
( \T ) Captain Christopher (3) Eldredge. 
third son of Christopher (2) and Sarah (Sat- 
terlee) Eldredge, was born June 10, 1785, in 
Stonington, and settled at Binghamton, New 
York, in 1804. He had an excellent education 
and his handwriting was very fine. He was 
an extensive reader and his mind was broad- 
ened through his own study and observation. 
I'esides cultivating a farm he was a merchant 
and dealer in lumber, and for more than fifty 
vears was prominent in the business life of 
P.inghamton. His life was exemplarv. In hi'^ 
P.ible. the Fifteenth Psalm, wherein David de- 
scribes the citizen of Zion, was found mark- 
ed at such a period of his life as to suggest that 
it was to be the rule of his conduct, antl the 
same Psalm was marked in his Prayer Book, 
and. indeed, ample proof of the practical Chris- 
tianity of the man was given in his daily life, 
for "though he promised to his loss, he made 
his jjromise good." .\lthough he took a keen 
interest in public affairs, he was averse to hold- 
ine public (iffice and never accepted but one. 
.\fter the Fifth Ward in which he lived wa> 
adfled to the incorporated village of Bingham- 
ton he was elected president of the village. 
Manv stories are told of his success as a hunter 
in the fields back of Court House Hill, now in 
the heart of the city, and he was very fond of 
liuntinsr and fishing. .\ vigorous constitution, 
assisted by wholesome exercise and rational 
living, allowed him to reach an advanced age 
T^e died in his eighty-first vcar. October 14, 
\SCiA. To the Protestant Episcopal church, of 
which he was a communicant, and'of which at 
the time of his death he was a vestryman, he 
L'nve his time and money freely. He married 
Olive, fourth daughter of Joshua (2) and 
Hannah ((Jreen) Whitney, uf Binghamton 
(see Whitney). Children; 1. Hallam. born 
February 10. 1810. died October 31. 1810. 2. 
Jane, horn November 21. iSri : married No- 
\eniber 21. 1831. James S. ITawley : children: 






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Sarah, Christopher E.. married Alay Wright ; 
Jane, married James Curtis and had James, 
Jane, OHve and Helen Curtis ; Charles, who 
married Carrie Mersereau. 3. Hallam (2), 
born August 12, 1813, died August 25, 1813. 4. 
Sarah, twin of Hallam, died August 28, 1813. 
5. Charles, born October 6, 1814, died July 3, 
1866: married Pamela Janet Waterman: chil- 
dren : Olive, married John Haviland ; Jane, 
married Baron Egmont \'on Treskow ; 
Thomas, married Caroline Frederica Lauren- 
cellc Eldredge ; Pamela Jane, married Joshua 
M. Fiero ; Charles, married Ida Sanford. 6. 
James, born December 31, 1817 : married, 1862, 
Charlotte R. Tompkins Eldredge. 7. Robert, 
born .April 20, 1820, died 1844. 8. Hallam 
(3), mentioned below. 9. John, born June 16. 
1824, died December 21, 1868. 10. Henry, 
twin of John ; married, 1849, Mary T. Cox. 1 1. 
Hobart, born December 15, 1825, died Decem- 
ber 15, i860; married Charlotte Backus Tomp- 
kins. 12. William, born December 19, 1827, 
ilied January 27. 1865. 

( V'H) Hallam, son of Christopher (3) Eld- 
redge, was born December 16, 1821, in Bing- 
iiamton. New York. He attended the public 
schools of his native town and entered Yale 
t'ollege, from which he was graduated in the 
class of 1844 with the degree of Bachelor of 
.Arts. Taking up law for his profession, he 
became a student in the office of Judge Bos- 
worth, of New York City, and in the course 
of time was admitted to the bar, after which he 
removed to Natchez, Mississippi, established 
himself in the practice of law, and became 
prominent at the bar, and as a Deinocratic 
leader in politics. In 1859 he returned to Bing- 
hamton, and continued to practice there a time, 
then retired, and died there February 20, 1893. 
Me marricil, December 19, 1851, Ann Eliza- 
beth Zaue. Children, i. Mary, married (first) 
James H., son of James H. and Alfreda (Bos- 
worth) Withington ; (second) Charles E. 
Hickey. of Binghamton. 



The surname Whitney was 
WHITNEY originally a place name. The 

parish from which the family 
t;ikes its name is located in County Hereford, 
Fngland, upon the extreme Western border, ad- 
joining Wales, and is traversed by the lovely 
Wye river. The name of the place doubtless 
comes from the appearance of the river, mean- 
ing in Saxon, white water, from hzvit, white, 
and cr, water. Thecoatof armsof the Wliitney 



family of Whitney is: .Azure, a cross chequy 
or and gules. Crest : A bull's head couped sable, 
armed argent, and points gules. The English 
ancestry of John Whitney, the immigrant whn 
settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, has been 
established by Henry Melville and presented 
in an exquisitely printed and illustrated vol- 
ume. \'ery few American families have their 
English genealogy in such well authenticated 
and satisfactory form. An abstract of the 
English ancestry is given below. 

( I ) Turstin, "the ^ Fleming," otherwise 
known as Turstin de Wigmore. probably also 
as Turstin, son of Rolf, and Turstin 
"the White," was a follower of W'il- 
liam the Conqueror. He was mentioned 
in Domesday book as an extensive land holder 
in Herefordshire and the Marches of Wales. 
He married Agnes, daughter of Alured dc 
Meleberge, a Norman baron of Ewias Castle, 
in the Marches of Wales. 

(II) Eustace, son of Turstin, was a bene- 
factor of the monastery of St. Peter, in 
Gloucester. He or one of his immediate de- 
scendants took the surname of De Whitney 
from Whitney of the Wye, in the Alarches of 
Wales, where his principal castle was located. 
The estate comprised over two thousand acres 
and remained in the family until 1893, when it 
was sold, there being no member of the familx 
to hold it. The castle has entirely disappeared, 
but it is believed to be in ruins under the Wye, 
which has in the course of years changed its 
path. The castle was probably built on an art- 
ificial inound, surrounded by a moat fed by 
the river, which gradually undermined the 
castle, which was at last disintegrated. 

(III) Sir Robert Whitnev, a direct de- 
scendant of Eustace, was living in 1242 and 
was mentioned in the "Testa de Nevill." Three 
or four intervening generations cannot be 
stated with certainty. 

- (IV) Sir Eustace de Whitney, son of Sir 
Robert, gave deed to the monastery of St. 
Peter in 1280, referring to and confirming the 
deed of his ancestors above mentioned. He 
was Lord of Pencombe, Little Cowarn and 
Whitney in 1281 ; was granted free warren by 
Edward I in 1284: summoned to wars be^'ond 
the seas in 1297; tenant of part of the tnanor 
of Huntington in 1299; in Scotch war of 1301. 
He was possibly grandson instead of son of 
Sir Robert. 

(V) Sir Eustace de Whitney, son of Sir 
Eustace, was knighted by Edward T in 1306. 



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and was a member of parliament for Hereford- 
shire in 1313 and 1352. 

(VI) Sir Robert de Whitney, son of Sir 
Eustace, was one of two hundred gentlemen 
who went to Milan in the retinue of the Duke 
of Clarence on the occasion of the latter's mar- 
riage in 1368. He was a member of parlia- 
ment for Herefordshire in 1377-79-80, and 
sheriff in 1377. 

(VH) Sir Robert Whitney, son of Sir Rob- 
ert, was sent abroad to negotiate treaty with 
the Count of Flanders in 1388; member of par- 
liament for Herefordshire in 1391. He was 
sent to France to deliver the castle and town of 
Cherbourg to the King of Navarre in 1393; 
was knight marshal in the court of Richard H : 
sent on King's business to Ireland in 1394. He 
was killed, together with his brother and most 
of his relatives, at the battle of Pilleth, 1402. 

(VIII) Sir Robert Whitney, son of Sir 
Robert, was granted the castle of Clifford and 
lordships of Clifford and Glasbury by Henry 
IV in 1404, on account of service of his father. 
He was sheriff of Herefordsliire in 1413-28- 
33-37; member of parliament, 1416-22. He 
fought in the French war under Henry V, and 
was captain of the castle and town of Vire in 
1420. He was named as one of the five knights 
in Herefordshire in 1433. "i"*' ^'^^ March 12. 
1441. 

(IX) Sir Eustace de Whitney, son of Sir 
Robert, was born in 141 1. He was head of a 
commission sent to Wales by Henry VI in 
1455, and was a member of parliament for 
i lerefonlshire in 1468. He married Jenett 
Russell; (second) Jane Clifford. 

(X) Robert Whitney, son of Sir Eustace 
(9), was probably a knight, and was an active 
jjarticipant in the War of the Roses, and was 
attainted as a Yorkist in 1459. He was prob- 
ably at the battle of Mortimer's Cross in 1461. 
He was the subject of a f)oem by Lewis Glyn 
Cothi, on the occasion of his marriage to Alice, 
great-granddaughter of Sir David Gam. He 
married (first) Alice, daughter of Thomas 
\^aughan ; (second) Constance Touchett, who 
was the mother of his sons. She was de- 
scended from William the Conqueror through 
the secontl wife of Edward I, King of Eng- 
land. 

(XI) James Whitney, son of Robert, was 
appointed receiver of Newport, part of the 
estate of the Duke of Buckingham, confiscated 
by Henry \'II in 1522. He married Blanche, 
daughter and an heir of Simon Milbourne. 



(XII) Robert Whitney, son of James Whit- 
ney, was of Icomb, and in charge of other con- 
fiscated estates. He was sheriff of Glouces- 
tershire, 1527-28-29-30. He was nominated 
Knight of the Bath by Henry VIII at the coro- 
nation of Anne Boleyn in 1531 ; was granted 
part of income of monastery of Brewern in 
1535; furnished forty men to put down rebel- 
lion in 1536; was named to attend upon the 
king's person. He died in 1541, and his will 
was proved June 11, 1541. He married Mar- 
garet Wye. 

(XIII) Sir Robert Whitney, son of Robert, 
was kniglited the day after Queen Mary's coro- 
nation in October, 1553. He was summoned 
before the privy council in 1555-59. He was 
member of parliament for Herefordshire in 
1559, antl died August 5. 1567. He maried 
Sybil Baskcrville. a descendant of William the 
Conqueror through the first wife of Edward I. 

(XIV) Robert Whitney, son of Sir Robert, 
was mentioned in the will of his father, and 
also in an inquisition taken after the latter's 
death. He married Elizabeth, daughter of 
Morgan Guillims, Duglim. 

(X\') Thomas Whitney, son of Robert, was 
of Westminster, Gentleman. Fie was buried 
at St. Margaret's, April 14, 1637. He married 
Mary, daughter of John Bray, of Westminster; 
she was buried at St. Margaret's, September 
25, 1629. Children: i. John, the American 
immigrant, settled at Watertown. Massachu- 
setts. 2. Nicholas. 3. William. 4. Richard. 
5. Margaret. 6. .A.nne. 

(The Baskerville Line). 
( 1 ) William I, Duke of Normandy, com- 
monly called William the Conqueror, married 
Matilda, daughter of Baldwin, Earl of Flan- 
ders, and granddaughter of Robert. King of 
France. 

(II) Henry I, born 1069, died 1135, son of 
William the Conqueror, was King of England. 
I loo-i 135 : married Matilda, daughter of Mal- 
colm HI, King of Scotland, granddaughter of 
Ednuuid Ironside, the last of the West Saxon 
Kings. 

(III) Geoffrey Plantagenet, Earl of Anjou. 
was son of Henry I. He married Matilda — . 

(IV) Henry II. .son of Geoffrey, was born 
1133, died 1 189. He was King of England. 
1154-89; married Eleanor, daughter and heir 
of William. Duke of ."Xquitaine, and divorced 
wife of Louis \TI, King of France. 

I \' ) Tohn. son of Hcnrv IT. was born in 



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1167, died 1215; King of England 1169-1216. 
He married Isabella, daughter of Aymer, 
Count of Angouleme. 

(VI) Henry HI, son of John, was born 
1207, died 1272; King of England 1216-72; 
married Eleanor, daughter of the Count of 
Provence. 

(VII) Edward I, son of Henry HI, was 
born in 1239, died 1307; King of England 
1272-1307; married (first) Eleanor, daughter 
of Ferdinand III, King of Castile; (second) 
Margaret, daughter of Philip III, King of 
France. 

(VIII) Elizabeth, daughter of Edward 1 
and Eleanor, married Humphrey de IJohuii. 
Earl of Hereford and Essex, Lord High Con- 
stable. He was killed at the battle of r)Orough- 
bridge, March 16, 1321. 

(IX) Agnes, daughter of Humphrey and 
Flizabeth, married Robert de Ferrers, (sec- 
ond) I'.aron Ferrers of Chartley. He was son 
of John, first Baron, and grandson of Robert, 
eighth Earl of Derby. He was summoned to 
parliament February 25, 1342, and was at the 
battle of Crecy, 1346. He died in 1347. 

(X) John de Ferrers, son of Robert, was 
third Baron of Chartley. He was in the wars 
of Gascony in 1350, and died April 2, 1367. 
He married Elizabeth, daughter of Rolf, first 
Earl of Stafford, who had a principal command 
in the van at Crecy. 

(XI) Robert de Ferrers, son of John, was 
fourth Baron of Chartley. He died March 13. 
1413. He married Margaret, daughter of 
Edward. Lord de Despenser. 

(XII) Edmund de Ferrers, son of Robert, 
was fifth Baron of Chartley, and a participant 
in most of the great victories of Henry V. He 
died in 1436. He married Eleanor, daughter 
and co-heir of Thomas, Lord Roche. 

(XIII) William de Ferrers, son of Ed- 
mund, was sixth Baron of Chartley, died 1450. 
He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Hamon 
Belknap, Knight. 

(XIV) Anne, only child of William, mar- 
ried Sir Walter Devereaux, Knight. He was 
Baron Ferrer in the right of his wife, and was 
killed at Bosworth Field, August 22, 1485. 

(XV) Katherine, daughter of Walter, mar- 
ried Sir James Baskerville, of Eardisley, 
Knight. He was several times sherifif of Here- 
fordshire ; Knight Banneret on the battlefield 
of Stoke, 1487, and Knight of the Bath at 
the coronation of Henry VII. 

(XVI) Sir Walter Baskerville, son of Sir 



James, was of Eardisley, Knight. He was 
sheriff of Herefordshire, and Knight of the 
Bath in 1501. He married Anne, daughter of 
Morgan ap Jenkyn ap Philij), of Pencoyd. 

(X\"ll) Sir James Baskerville, son of Sir 
W^alter, was of Eardisley, Knight. He married 
Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of John Breyn- 
lon and Sybil, daughter and co-heir of Simon 
Milbourne. 

(XVIII) Sybil, daughter of Sir James Bas- 
kerville, married Sir Robert Whitney. (XII I) 
mentioned above. 

(The American Line). 

(Ij John Whitney was born in England in 
1589, son of Thomas and grandson of Robert 
\Vhitney. He received for his day a good edu- 
cation in the Westminster school, now St. 
Peter's College. He was apprenticed at the 
age of fourteen by his father to William Pring. 
of the Old Bailey, London, a freeman of the 
Merchant Tailors' Company, then the most 
famous and prosperous of all the great trade 
guilds, numbering in its membership distin- 
guished men of all professions, many of the 
nobility, and the Prince of Wales. At the age 
of .twenty-one John W'hitney became a full- 
fledge<l member and his apprenticeship expired. 
Fie made his home in Isleworth-on-Thames. 
eight miles from Westminster, and there three 
of his children were born. There, too, his 
father apprenticed to him his younger brother. 
Robert, who also served his seven years. Soon 
afterward John Whitney left Isleworth and 
doubtless returned to London and lived in Bow 
Lane, near Bow Church, where his son Thomas 
was born. In September, 163 1, he placed his 
eldest son. John Jr., in the Merchant Tailors' 
School, where according to the register he re- 
mained as long as the family was in England. 
Early in .April, 1635, John Whitney registered 
with his wife Eleanor and sons John, Richard. 
Xathaniel. Thomas and Jonathan, as passen- 
gers in the ship "Elizabeth and Ann," Roger 
Cooper, master, landing a few weeks later in 
New England. He settled in Watertown in 
Tune, and bought the sixteen-acre homestall 
of John Strickland, at what is now Belmont 
and East Common streets. This homestead 
descended to his son Joshua Whitney, of Gro- 
ton. who sold it October 29, 1697, to Nathan 
Fiske. Whitney was admitted a freeman 
March 3, 1635-36, and was appointed constable 
June I, 1641 ; was selectman 1638-1655, in- 
clusive, and town clerk in 1655. He was one 



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of the foremost citizens for many years, and 
was grantee of eight lots in Watertown. He 

died June i, 1673. His first wife, Eleanor . 

born 1599, died in Watertown, May 11, 1659. 
He married (second), in Watertown, Septem- 
ber 29, 1659, Judith Clement, who died before 
her husband. His will was dated April 3, 
1673. Children: i. Mary, baptized in Eng- 
land, May 23, 1619; died young. 2. John, 
."September 14, 1621 ; prominent citizen of Wa- 
tertown. 3. Richard, baptized in Isleworth, 
January 6. 1623-24; married Martha Coldam. 
4. Nathaniel, baptized 1627. 5. Thomas, born 
in England, 1629 ; married Mary Kettell. 6. 
Jonathan, born in England, 1634; married 
Lydia Jones. 7. Joshua, mentioned below. 8. 
Laleb, born in Watertown, July 12, 1640: died 
1640. 9. Benjamin, born in XVatertown, June 
6. 1643. 

(H) Joshua, sixth son of John and Eleanor 
Whitney, was born July 5, 1635, in Water- 
town, the first of the family born in America. 
He was one of the original proprietors and set- 
tlers of Groton, where he was a deacon of the 
church and resided until the town was burned 
by the Indians. Returning to Watertown, he 
died there August 7, 1719, and was buried at 
Groton. He was elected selectman of the lat- 
ter town in 1681-1683- 1 684-1 687-1702 : in 1680 
was a member of the committee on building a 
meeting house: in 1684 was constable: in 1693 
was overseer of highways: in 1701 chairman 
of committee to arrange for lieating the meet- 
ing house. April 22, 171 5, he resigned as dea- 
con of the church on account of his age. He 
married, September 30, 1672, Abigail, probably 
a daughter of Thcimas and Mary Tarball. of 
Watertown. Children: Joshua, Sarah, Mary, 
William, Comfort, David, Martha, Elizahctli. 
Abigail, Alice, Hannah and Elinor. 

(HI) William, second son of Joshua and 
.\bigail ( Tarball ) Whitney, was born Eeb- 
ruary 28, 1678, in Groton. where he resided 
until his marriage. On April 4, 1710, he 
bought land in Killingly, Connecticut, and 
about 1720 settled in what is now Plainfield, 
Connecticut, where he made his will in 1751. 
In 1754 he deeded land, and soon afterward 
died. He married (first) in Chelmsford, Mas- 
sachusetts, March, 1700, Eydia Perham, born 
[•February 19, 1673, died in Groton August 24. 
1716; (second) in Newton, April 25, 1717. 
Margaret Mirick, born after 1692, daugliter 
of John and Elizabeth (Trowbridge) Mirick. 



Children of first wife : W'illiani, Lydia, Joshua ; 
of the second wife: John, Elizabeth, Caleb. 

(IV) William (2), eldest child of William 
( I ) and Lydia (Perham) Whitney, was born 
May 5, 1701, in Groton, and was very young 
when the family removed to Connecticut. 
About 1753 he removed to Canaan, Connecti- 
cut, where he was a cooper and farmer. He 
was supervisor of Killingly in 1728. He mar- 
ried July 16, 1723, in Killingly, Mary Wliitte- 
more : children : \\'illiam, Thomas and Abigail. 

( \' ) Thomas, second son of William (2) 
and Mary (Whittemore) Whitney, was born 
February 28, 1727, in Killingly, and settled 
in Cannan, where he received a deed of land 
from his father November 5, 1750. In 1761 
he was a resident of Claverack. Columbia 
county. New York, at which time he deeded 
back the land in Canaan to his father. He was 
a farmer in Noblcstown and Illsdale, Columbia 
county, where he died June 26, 1766. He was 
active in the strife between Massachusetts and 
New York over the jurisdiction of Livingston 
Manor, and was shot in what were known as 
the anti-rent riots, causing his death. He mar- 
ried Elizabeth Boardman, a native of Shef- 
field, Massachusetts, who died before 1793, in 
Chenango, New York, where she re- 
sided with her son Joshua. Children : Joshua. 
John, William and Elizabeth. 

( \T ) Joshua (2), eldest son of Thomas and 
Elizabeth ( Boardman ) Whitney, was born No- 
vember 27, 174S. jirobably in Noblestown, and 
resided in Chenango until 1785, when he set- 
tled at what is now Flinghamton, where he 
was a merchant. While returning from Phila- 
delphia with a stock of merchandise he died of 
vellow fever at \\'ind Gap. Peimsylvania, Sep- 
tember 26, 1793. In 1787, with his brother 
William, he located on the west side of Che- 
nango river at what was known as "Whitney 
Flat." He was known by the title of captain, 
probably gained in militia service. He married 
Hannah Green, born September 14, 1748, died 
.August 17, 1723. Children: Joshua, Sarah, 
Thomas, John. I laniiah, Lucy, Olive. Ebenezer 
and \\'illiam. 

(\'1I) Joshua (31, eldest child of Joshua 
(2) and Hannah (Green) Whitney, was born 
August 24. 1773, at Noblestown, and was a boy 
when he removed with his father to the present 
site of Binghamton, where he was destined to 
become a distinguished and very useful citizen, 
and where he died .April 13. 1845. He was 




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early accustomed to assist his father in busi- 
ness operations, and when only twenty years 
old was sent by the latter to Philadelphia with 
a herd of cattle. Having disposed of the stock 
he purchased merchandise for the store at 
Binghamton, and with much difficulty trans- 
ported it to that town. It was first carried 
in wagons to a point on the Suscjuehanna river, 
whence it could be taken up stream in barges. 
Employing several assistants the barges were 
propelled to Owego, New York. The barges 
being propelled by poles in the midst of float- 
ing ice, as winter was upon the land, young 
Whitney with his assistants were often forced 
to stand in the water in order to propel and 
control their unwieldy craft. In 1798 he was 
appointed postmaster, and in 1800 became 
agent for \\'illiam Bingham, proprietor of the 
land where Binghamton now stands. A set- 
tlement had been started about two miles above 
the present city, and General Whitney (who 
acquired his title in militia service) 
laid out the present city of Binghamton, and 
made preparations for the construction of a 
bridge over the Chenango river. He purchased 
old buildings in Chenango and removed them 
to his town site, and through his energy and 
business ability succeeded in making that the 
important point, where rapidly sprang up a 
thriving village. On July 4, 1800, he received 
a deed from liinghani of two hundred and fif- 
teen acres, and built his house tin the north side 
of Court street, about ojjposite the present 
Water street, which then extended to Court. 
General Whitney attracted the attention of 
P.ingham while in Philadelphia, and the lat- 
ter was so impressed with his business capacity 
tliat he appointed him as agent for handling 
lands. 

General Whitney married ( first 1 Rhoda 
Jewell, who died January 21, 1823; (second) 
Julia Crooker. Children : Pemelia, married 
1 Ion. Thomas G. Waterman, and resided in 
P.inghamton ; \ irgil, lived to the age of ninety- 
three years, in Binghamton : Mncent, was a 
jirominent citizen of Binghamton, serving as 
brigadier-general of militia and representative 
in the state assembly: George, a citizen of 
Chenango ; Washington, resided in Piingham- 
lon, as did also Franklin and Joshua, the lat- 
ter a farmer ; Rhoda, died in infancy ; William. 
Mary Amelia and Charles, lived and died in 
Binghamton ; Robert, died in infancy. .\11 
were children of the first wife. 

(VII) Olive, fourth daughter of Joshua 



(2j and Hannah (Green) Whitney, became 
the wife of Christopher Eldridge. of Bingham- 
ton (see Eldredge \T). 



The Taft families of America are 
TAl-'T descended from Robert and Mat- 
thew Taft, who came from Ireland 
and settled in Mendon Massachusetts. The 
name in Ireland was spelled Taatife, and is not 
found m Scotland. In England only the de- 
scendants of the Irish family are found with 
this name. Sir William Taat?e was a knight 
of Protestant faith. He was a grantee at the 
time of the Scotch emigration to Ulster Prov- 
ince, Ireland, by order of King James, and in 
1610 he had a grant of one thousand acres of 
land in the parish of Castle Rahen, County 
Cavan. Sir Thomas Ashe held one thousand 
five hundred acres of land here, and in 1619 
also had the grant of Taft's, as well as one 
thousand five hundred acres in the neighboring 
parish of Tullaghgarvy. It may be that Sir 
William TaafYe remained in Louth, and that 
his sons lived on his grant, where there w'as 
"an old castle new mended and all the land 
was inhabited by the Irish." County Lnuth is 
in the province of Leinster, on the northern 
coast of Ireland, and was made a county in 
1210. 

Robert Taft, immigrant ancestor, was born 
;.b(>ut 1640 in Ireland, and came to .\merica. 
where he had a lot of land in Braintree, Alas- 
sachusetts, in 1678. He bought his first land 
in Mendon about 1679, and sold the land in 
Braintree, November 18, 1679, to Caleb Ho- 
bart. He bought much land around Mendon 
Pond, and evidently was prominent and well- 
to-do from the beginning, as he became one of 
the largest property owners in the neighbor- 
hood. In 1680 he was one of the first board 
of selectmen of the organized town of Men- 
don, and also was on the committee to build 
the minister's house. He was a housewright 
b}- trade, and evidently a strong Puritan. He 
was among the purchasers of the land on 
whicli the town of Sutton was formed. He 
and liis j-ons built the first bridge across the 
river Mendon and his sons built the second 

bridge. He married Sarah . Children : 

Thomas, born 1671; Robert. 1C174: Daniel, 
foseph, •680: lienjamin, 1684. 

(I) Matthew Taft, immigrant ancestor, 
came from Scotland with his wife, .\nna 
I Quintain) Taft, in 1728. and was the first 
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He bought the land of Harvard College, which 
owned at that time over thirteen thousand 
and ninety-four acres in that vicinity. He was 
one of the proprietors and most prominent 
citizens of the town. He served as moderator. 
1741, town treasurer in 1748-49, and select- 
man in 1739-56. He married (second) Janet 
Craig, of Wrentham, Massachusetts, in 1749. 
The intention of marriage was declared Oc- 
tober 21, 1749. Children, born in Upton, by 
first wife : James, mentioned below ; John. 
April 7, 1736; Anna, twin, April 2"], 1739; 
Matthew Jr., twin, of Anna ; Robert, captain 
of Upton company in the revolution. Probably 
other children. 

( H) James, son of Matthew Taft, was born 
in 1733. He removed from Worcester county 
to Shelburne, Massachusetts. He had four 
sons: I. ^Matthew-, born March 13, 1762: had 
three sons and five daughters. 2. Aaron, June 
30, 1765; had two sons. 3. James Jr., was 
at Fort Ann, New York, in 1790, and had a 
son Aaron, born in 1792. 4. Eben, mentioned 
below. 

(HI) Eben, son of James Taft, was born 
in June, 1771. He settled in South Shafts- 
bury, Vermont, and had eleven children, 
among them Matthew, John and probably 
Ebenezer. .Xaron, Elijah, born 1797, at Shafts- 
bury, died January 4, 1881, and Stephen H.. 
mentioned below. 

CIVj Stephen H., son or nephew of Ebcii 
Taft, was born at Shaftsbury, Vermont, about 
rSoo. \\'hen he was twenty-one years old he 
removed to Oswego county. New York, and 
took up a tract of land which he prepared for 
a lomestead. He afterward returned to Mas- 
sachusetts to be married and with his wife 
made his home permanently in Oswego county. 
He w.is an enterprising and successful farmer. 
He married Elmina Legg. Children, born at 
Constantia. Oswego county. New York: 
George, Hiram, Leonard, Leander, mentioned 
below. 

(V) Lr-ander, son of Stephen H. Taft, was 
born in Constantia, Oswego county. New York, 
in 1837, died there at the age of seventy-one 
years. He was a farmer and shijjbuilder. He 
designed and built many of the first boats that 
j)lied on the Erie canal. In religion he was a 
Methodist and in politics a Republican. He mar- 
ried, in 1859, Dorcas Stratton, born in Vermont, 
1838. (-hildren: Mina Eucia, born in August, 
1861, married Frank L. Marsden, a merchant 



of Long i-land, New York; Charles W'esle) . 
nieiitioi.cd below. 

iW) Charles Wesley, son of Leander Taft. 
was born in Constantia, New York, May 4. 
1866. lie received his early education in the 
distrii^r scliools of his native town and at the 
Colkgc of Pharmacy of New York. During 
the summer seasons from 1879 to 1883 he 
vv-orked on the lakes and the St. Lawrenct 
river. He engaged in business as a druggist 
in Oneida in 1879 and since tlien during a 
greater part of the time he has continued in 
that line of business. He w-as the owner of a 
drug store at Williamstown, Oswego county. 
New York, for fifteen years. In politics he is 
a Republican. He has taken a leading part in 
|niblic affairs in the county and in 1908 wa^ 
elected sheriff' of Oswego county for a term of 
three years: in 1909 he was elected chairman 
of the county Republican committee, term ex- 
piring in 1912. Lie is a member of Amboy 
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; of Os- 
wego Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; of Os- 
wego Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order 
of Elks ; Redfield Lodge, Independent Order 
of Odd Fellows ; Oswego County Grange. 
Patrons of Husbandry, and the Maccabees. 

He married, June 6, 1906, Mabel, born Feb- 
ruary 20, 1871. daughter of P>urton H. and 
Frances (Woodruff) Wells. Her father is a 
veteran locomotive engineer on the Ohio & 
Western railroad, and is still in active service 
at the age of seventy-two years. 



The Lamoree or Lamoreau.x 
LAMOREE families are descended from 

a French Huguenot pioneer 
who came early to Albany county. New York. 
James Lamoreaux, who was born in 1738, set- 
tled in Rensselaerwyck, New York, and the 
house he erected there was at last accounts 
still standing. His son James was born in 
Rensselaerwyck in 1774, died in 1824. He 
married Harriet Faulkner, a descendant of 
Conradt Ten Eyck, who came from Holland 
in 1650. Peter Lamoree, of the Albany county 
family, was born in t8i2 at New Baltimore, 
New York, died .April 6, 1892. He was a ship 
carpenter by trade. In 1827 he came to Os- 
wego, New York, and afterward joined John 
Lee in the firm of Lee & Lamoree, proprietors 
of the shipyard . formerly owned by George 
Goble. This firm built many vessels, and after 
the firm was dissolved Mr. Lamoree continued 









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in business alone and was one of the leading 
ship builders of Oswego. He was the builder 
of the first tug built at Oswego. He was a 
member of the first fire company and of the 
old Oswego Guards, prominent in public af- 
fairs, a useful and influential citizen. 

(I) James Lamoree, grandfather of John J. 
Lamoree, was born in 1775, in Hackensack, 
New Jersey, died in 1847 •" Oswego, New- 
York. He was a ship carpenter by trade, 
which line of work he followed for many 
years. He married (first) Amy Thorne, of 
Quaker descent, died in 1828. Children: Uriah, 
John, mentioned below ; Caroline, James, 
Peter. He married (second) Alary Allen Cas- 
ter. Children : Andrew, Jane Ann, Cornelia. 

(H) John, son of James and Amy 
(Thorne) Lamoree. was born in Coxsackie, 
New York, in 1802. He was a ship builder by 
trade, which occupation he followed through- 
out the active years of his life. His death oc- 
curred at the age of eighty-one years. He 
married (first) Electa Hungerford, of New 
Hartford. New York. Children: i. Electa, mar- 
ried Leonidas Rood, of Kalamazoo, Michigan; 
children : William, Fletcher and Mary E. Rood. 
2. John J., mentioned below. The mother of 
these children died when they were infants. 
Mr. Lamoree married (second) a Miss W'il- 
marth, who bore him two sons : Cvrus and 
James A. 

(Ill) John J., son of John and Electa 
( Hungerford) Lamoree, was born in the town 
of Richland, now Mexico, Oswego county, 
New York, September 12, 1833. His early life 
was full of toil on the farm in summer, and in 
winter he attended the district school, travel- 
ing long distances to and from the old school- 
house, earning money in the meantime by car- 
ing for the schoolhouse to pay for his course 
in the academy. After a few terms in Mexico 
Academy he began to study law in the office of 
Levi Downing, in the village of Mexico, and 
in the course of time qualified himself to prac- 
tice. He was duly admitted to the bar in 1859, 
and from then until 187 1 engaged in general 
practice with an office in Mexico. At this time 
he removed to Oswego, where he practiced 
until eleven years prior to his death. His last 
years were occupied in managing his invest- 
ments and caring for his private interests. As 
a lawyer Mr. Lamoree took a prominent place 
and held high rank during his long and suc- 
cessful career as an attorney. The same ster- 
ling ciualities that led him to educate himself 



brought success in the fields of law antl busi- 
ness. For a number of years he was the at- 
torney of the federal government appointed 
by the secretary of the treasury to prosecute 
violations ot the internal revenue laws, and he 
was actively and successfully engaged in the 
duties of this office for four years. After he 
resigned he formed a partnership with Cyrus 
Whitney, and this firm continued for a num- 
ber of years. During his residence in the vil- 
lage of Mexico he served as postmaster for 
four years, also as justice of the peace for 
seven years. 

Mr. Lamoree became district attorney of 
Oswego county, January i, 1873, having been 
elected at the state election the November 
preceding, and he won further honor and dis- 
tinction in this important office, in which he 
served for six years. It became his duty to 
conduct three murder trials, the most nota- 
ble of which was that of Nathan Orlando 
Greenfield, who was tried three times on an 
indictment for murdering his wife. Against 
Mr. Lamoree in this case was that other legal 
giant of his day. Judge Sylvanus C. Hunting- 
ton, of Pulaski, New York. The first trial 
resulted in a disagreement of the jury, nine 
standing for conviction and three for acquittal. 
L'pon the second trial Greenfield was con- 
victed, but the defense secured a new trial 
upon technicalities, and a change of venue to 
Syracu.se. The third trial resulted in convic- 
tion of murder in the first degree and the 
murderer was duly executed. Mr. Lamoree 
also conducted the \'an .\uken and Gift'ord 
murder cases with equal success. 

In politics he was a Rejiublican, and during 
the factional struggles between the Stalwarts 
and Half-I!reeds in New York he supported 
President Arthur. In 1882 President Arthur 
appointed him collector of customs of the 
port of Oswego, an office he filled efficiently 
for four years. He was an earnest and faith- 
ful member of the Congregational church, to 
which he gave freely of his time and money 
and in the activities of which he took a leading 
part. He was a member of no secret societies, 
devoting himself to his family and home dur- 
ing his leisure hours. 

Mr. Lamoree married (first), February 22. 
1859, Elizabeth A. Hadley, of Mexico. She 
died in May, 1869. He married (second), De- 
cember 13. 1870, Mary A. Hetzel. born in 
Florida. Orange county. New York. July 9. 
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(Ketchum) Hetzel. ller great-grandfather 
on the paternal side was small of stature, but 
vigorous and energetic. In religion he was a 
rigid Episcopalian, and often he walked to 
church from Florida to Goshen, a distance of 
seven miles, to attend services, the church in 
Goshen being the nearest of this faith. He 
took great pleasure in teaching his grandchil- 
dren the German language and the praj'ers of 
the Episcopal church in German. He was 
buried in Florida, New York, in the ceme- 
tery where representatives of five generations 
rest. Joseph Hetzel (father) was born March 
I, 1810, died March 14. 1895, in the house in 
which he was born, this having been the home 
of the Hetzels for more than a century. He 
was a farmer by occupation, his entire life hav- 
ing been passed on the farm on which he was 
born. He was educated in the Florida Acad- 
emy and was a schoolmate of Hon. William 
H. Seward, secretary of state in President 
Lincoln's cabinet. He married, December 4, 
1833, Stella PI. Ketchum, born November 17. 
1810. All of the children of Mr. and Airs. 
Hetzel were educated in the Seward Institute 
at Florida, New York. Children of Mr. 
Lamoree by first wife: i. Marshall H., who 
was a graduate of the Philadelphia College of 
Dentistry, and who practiced his profession 
for nineteen years in Grand Rapids, Michi- 
gan. He was very prominent among his 
professional brethren, was highly esteemed by 
his numerous patrons, and was actively iden- 
tified with the social afTairs of the commun- 
ity. He married Lena R. Strutz, who bore him 
one daughter, Mildred H., a student in Drew 
Seminary at Carmel, New York. Marshall H. 
Lamoree died in 1907. 2. Elizabeth J., a very 
successful school teacher in New York City. 
Children of Mr. Lamoree by second wife were 
two sons who died in infancy. 

Mr. Lamoree died in Oswego, New York, 
November 6, igio. He won the respect aud 
confidence of the community by his faithful- 
ness to duty, his uprightness as a man and his 
fidelity and integrity as a citizen. He was 
true to his friends, indefatigable in the inter- 
ests of his clients and in the discharge of 
public and private trusts. 



The surname Sweetzer is 
SWITZER identical with Sweetser and 

Switzcr, both of which are 
still in use in various branches of the family. 
.•\ native of .Switzerland was called a Switzer, 



but the term was used especially for one of the 
hired guards, and in general came to be used 
for a mercenary soldier. It has been a com- 
mon name in England for many centuries. 

(I) Seth Sweetzer. the immigrant ancestor 
of the American family, was born in England 
in 1606. and came from Tring, Herefordshire, 
England, a place about thirty miles from Lon- 
don, in 1637. That year he was admitted an 
inhabitant of Charlestown. He was admitted 
to the church there, January 8, 1636, and a 
freeman, March 14, 1638-39. He was a shoe- 
maker by trade, and a Baptist in religion. A 
letter from his cousin, Daniel Field, dated at 
Tring, May 10, 1642, has been preserved. It 
mentions his cousin Grace, father, aunt, 
brothers and sister Elis. It notified him that 
he was to receive a butt of leather for which he 
was to pay ten pounds to Thomas Welch or 
Goodman Fowler. It conveyed a message of 
love to William Phillips and his wife. He 
made a deed of gift to his son Benjamin in 

1660. He died May 27, 1662, and his will was 
dated May 24, 1662, proved June 17 follow- 
ing. He beciueathed to his wife Elizabeth, 
daughter Sarah, son Samuel Blanchard and 
his wife Mary, daughter Hannah Fitch and to 
his wife's three children by an earlier mar- 
riage. His son Benjamin and Edward Drink- 
er were executors ; Mr. Richard Russell and 
"my brother Thomas Gold" overseers. His 
first wife was admitted to the church, Septem- 
ber 9. 1639. He married (second), April, 

1661, Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Oakes, of 
Cambridge. His widow married (third) Sam- 
uel Hayward. Children: Benjamin, mentioned 
below ; Sarah, Mary, Hannah, baptized Jan- 
uary 12, 1638-39; Elizabeth, born January 
27, '1642-43. 

(II) Benjamin, son of Seth Sweetzer, was 
born in Tring, England, about 1632, died July 
22, 1716. He came to Charlestown with his 
parents when an infant, and inherited the 
liomestead. He followed his trade of lastniaker 
in Charlestown. He was a prominent Bap- 
tist at the time that denomination was being 
oppressed by the Puritans, and he was fined 
fifty pounds and imprisoned for being a Bap- 
tist. His will is dated May 5. 1716, and proved 
.\ugust 12, 1718. He bequeathed to his wife, 
to sons Benjamin. Samuel, Joseph and Wig- 
glesworth. He married .\bigail Wiecrlesworth, 
born 1632, died Julv 22. 1718. Children, bom 
at Charlestown: Abigail, Bethiah, Benjamin, 
born .\pril 24. 1666: Seth. July 7. 1668; Jo- 



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seph, January 14, 1670 ; Samuel, August i . 
1673 ; Wigglesworth, May 29, 1677. 

(Ill) Benjamin (2) Switzer (Sweetser or 
Sweetzer, as variously spelled), son of Ben- 
jamin (i) Sweetzer, was born April 24, 1666. 
at Maiden, died there September 23, 1720. He 
married, Elizabeth Phillips, who married (sec- 
ond) William Paine. Children, as given in the 
Charlestown history : Elizabeth, born June 24, 
1694; Benjamin, March 5, 1695-96; William, 
October 19, 1697: Henry, April 30, died July 
25, 1699; John, July 21, 1700; Jonathan, No- 
vember 22, 1702, died young; Phillips, May 2, 
1704 (a Phillips died at Marlboro, according 
to Wyman, August, 1798, aged seventy-six, 
but this record has not been found at Marl- 
boro) ; Mary, December 5, 1706; Henry, Octo- 
ber 8, 1710; Mehitable, September 2, 1712. 

(V) Henry, grandson of Benjamin (2) 
Switzer, was son of Henry or Phillips Switzer. 
The grandfather's family appears to have 
been scattered and the records have not been 
found to complete the identification of the 
parents of Henry Switzer. He was in West- 
borough, Massachusetts, formerly part of 
Marlborough, as early as 1761, when his inten- 
tions of marriage dated August 26 were re- 
corded at Westborough. He was of West- 
borough. .April 2, 1763, when he bought a farm 
at Western, now the town of Warren, Worces- 
ter county, Massachusetts, of Benjamin Flood, 
and soon afterward he made his home tliere. 
He bought more, land, January 12, 1765, in 
Western of Simon Blackmore, and at that time 
was described as of Western. He bought more 
land there in 1769 of Peter Damon, of West- 
ern. He was a soldier in the revolution in 
Captain John Bannister's company. Colonel 
Job Cushing's regiment, September 7 to No- 
vember 29, 1777, from Worcester county. An- 
other Henry Switzer was at the time an officer 
in a Hampshire county regiment, credited to 
Shutesbury. 

Henry Switzer married (intention at West- 
borough) August 29, 1 761, Rebecca Liver- 
more. About the same time Jacob Switzer, 
November 17, 1763, married at Marlborough, 
iif which Westborough was originally a part, 
Mary Brigham. It is likely that they were 
brothers. A Jacob Sweetser, an older man, 
died at Paxton, leaving wife Susanna (not his 
first) and children, Elizabeth Parsons, Mary- 
Moore, Ann Ward, Jacob, Benjamin and 
Sarah, named in will dated June 3, 1783. Tlie 



Marlborough Jacob died in the twenties, ap- 
parently at Lancaster, mentioning in his will 
his late brother John and his own children : 

Henry, John, married Charlotte , and 

had John, Margaret, Charlotte and Ann; Ben- 
jamin C, who had a son Jacob; Sally, married 
Peter Thurston ; Catherine, Fanny Spear and 
Mary Carlton. In the census of 1790 we find 
both Henry and Henry Switzer Jr., heads of 
families in Warren (Western). The elder 
Henry had three males over sixteen, none un- 
der that age, and three females in his family, 
while his son, Henry Jr., had two sons under 
sixteen and two females in his family. This 
indicates that Henry Sr. had five children liv- 
ing at home in 1790. Their names have not 
been found. 

Henry Switzer's wife Rebecca died at War- 
ren, F'ebruary 15, 1806, aged seventy-two 
years, and he died September i, 1818, in the 
same town, aged ninety-four years. Children, 
recorded at Warren: Anna, born October 15, 
1762; Henry, mentioned below; Leah, August 
6, 1768; Nathan, April 5, 1770; Silas, men- 
tioned below. The two latter were living in 
1790, but their children are not recorded at 
Warren. 

(VI) Henry (2), son of Henry (i) Swit- 
zer, was born at Warren, July 10, 1766. He 
married Molly Brooks ( intention dated March 
10, 1787). Children, born at Warren: Eber, 
October 2, 1788; Timothy, December 28, 1789; 
Henry, December 20, 1791 ; Rial, September 
19- '793 • Amasa, August 29, 1795; Almon, 
April 8, 1797 : Nathan, January 25, 1799; Eph- 
raim. May 20, 1801 ; Polly, March 29, 1804; 
Rebecca Livermore, July 29. 1805; Freeman, 
January 18, 1807; Horace, June 24, 1809. 

(VI) Silas, son of Henry (i) Switzer, was 
born at Warren, Massachusetts, September 8, 
1773. died, according to a coffin plate preserved 
by descendants, August 8, 1831, aged sixty- 
two. His age was a few years less, if the town 
record of birth is correct, but experience 
shows that this was a common error on the 
part of families that had removed from the 
))lace of birth of deceased. Silas settled in 
Warren, and probably moved to New York 
state, as the record of death does not appear 
in Warren and his estate was not settled in 
Worcester county, nor do any deeds of land 
appear to show that he lived there in his later 
years, as might be expected if he lived until 
1831. Children; Thomas. Sophron (or So- 



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fron), Simon and perhaps others who grew to 
maturity. The following extract from a let- 
ter written by Joseph Switzer, son of Thomas, 
to his sister Weltha on May 22, 1877, from 
Springfield, Massachusetts, is of interest: "I 
went down to Warren, that is 24 miles farther 
east of here last Saturday night and came 
back Monday morning. I found Uncle Sophron 
and Simon. They are ciuite old men. Uncle 
Sophron looks some like father (Thomas), 
except light eyes and light complexion and 
more fleshy. Uncle Simon is most as tall as 
I am and not quite so heavy. He had two 
daughters, but one is dead, the other lives 
near Boston. Uncle Sophron has no children, 
this second wife has a son that is married and 
lives with them." Sophron, born 1798, is 
buried at Warren; married (intention dated 
August 28, 1825), Persis N. Barnes, who died 
June 13, 1849, daughter of John and Phebe 
Barnes ; their children died in infancy, one No- 
vember 18, 1832, and another, a son, died June 
22, 1842. Sophron, Simon and Miriam H., wife 
of Simon, deeded land to Joseph F"ields in 1825. 
Simon Switzer married (intentions September 
II, 1824), and had two children there: Eliza 
Ann, born January 8, 1829; Harriet Nye, born 
June II, 1 83 1. Simon died at Warren, June 24, 
1879, leaving a widow, Miriam H., and one 
daughter, Harriet N., wife of Joseph Kings- 
bury, of Waltham, Massachusetts, to whom 
he left by will all his property. 

(VH) Thomas, nephew of Henry (2) .Swit- 
zer, and believed to be a son of Silas Switzer, 
removed to New York state when a young man. 
He married Amy Clark. .Among his children 
were: Simon, mentioned below; Joseph, Silas, 
.'\nn, Weltha, Caroline, Miriam, Elizabeth. 

(VHI) Simon, son of Thomas Switzer, 
was born in 1823 in New York state, died Jan- 
uary 14, 1877. He had a common school edu- 
cation, and was a carpenter and joiner by trade. 
He married Mary E. Phelps, born in Eaton, 
Madison county. New York, July 24. 1826. 
They have six children, living in 191 1: Fred- 
erick P., of Holland Patent, New York ; Hat- 
tie R. Clark, of Oneida, New York; Frank J., 
of Fulton, New York, a grocer and dealer in 
flour, feed and grain; Matie J. Tayntor, of 
Morrisville, New York ; Carrie E. Shejiard, of 
Frankfort, New York; William B., mentioned 
below. 

(IX) William ]'>.. son of Simon Switzer. 
was bom in Madison countv. New York, No- 



vember r, 1857. He was educated in the dis- 
trict schools, working during the summer 
months and during his spare time in winter 
while attending school. At the age of twenty- 
five he engaged in business as a carpenter and 
contractor, having learned his trade of his 
father. He continued in this business until 
July, 1891. During the remainder of that sea- 
son he devoted himself to breaking and hand- 
ling young horses, and in the fall he entered the 
Ontario Veterinary College of Toronto, Can- 
ada, from which he was graduated March 24, 
1893. He began to practice his profession at 
Williamson, Wayne county. New York. While 
a student in the veterinary college he also 
studied in the Toronto V'eterinary Dental 
School, from which he received a diploma, 
February i, 1893. From 1893 to 1899 he was 
located at Williamson, and since then he has 
practiced in the city of Oswego, New York. 
He has built up an extensive business extend- 
ing outside the city for a radius of twenty 
miles. He is secretary and treasurer of the 
Central New York Veterinary Medical Asso- 
ciation and a member of the Genesee X'alley 
Medical Veterinary .\ssociation and the New 
York State Medical Association, of which he 
is vice-president. Dr. Switzer is a self-made 
man ; starting without capital or advantages, 
he has educated himself and won a flourishing 
practice and high standing in the community. 
He has a well-e<|uipped and coiumodious hos- 
pital, designed by himself and maintained in 
accordance with the best modern ideas of sani- 
tation. In religion he is a Congregationalist, 
and he is at present one of the deacons of the 
church. In politics he is a Republican. He 
is a member of the Knights of Pythias and 
Maccabees. 

Dr. Switzer's oftice is at 50 East Seventh 
street, Oswego. Naturally he is fond of horses 
and has owned a number of fine specimens. At 
the present time he owns the mare, "Lassie," 
which won a blue ribbon twice at the Madison 
Square Garden Horse Show, and other first 
prizes at the New York State Fair at Syra- 
cuse, New York. She has a very promising 
yearling colt (1911). 

Dr. Switzer married, April 20, 1882, Hattie 
J., born in Wayne county, New York, Novem- 
ber 3, 1855, daughter of Amos Skellenger, of 
Marion, Wayne county. New York Their son, 
Merritt .'\. Switzer, was born in Williamson, 
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graduated from the Law School of Syracuse 
University, and is now located in the practice 
of law in Oswego, New York. 



In the early records of Massa- 
TARBELL chusetts this name is found as 

Tarball, Tarbel and Tarbell. 
Its representatives have spread over New Eng- 
land, New York, and the regions beyond. It 
was active in the pioneer settlement of Cen- 
tral New York, and is still ably represented 
in this state. 

(I) Thomas Tarbell, born 1618, probably in 
England, died June 11, 1678, in Charlestown, 
Massachusetts. .\s early as 1647 he was a 
landowner in \\'atertown. Massachusetts, his 
property being valued at twenty-five pounds. 
He sold a house and thirty acres of land be- 
sides four acres of meadow adjoining Cam- 
bridge, March 30, 1663, and removed to Gro- 
ton, Massachusetts. He was granted twenty 
acres of land at Groton in association with 
three others, in 1665, as an inducement to build 
a mill which was to be e.xempt from ta.xation 
for twenty years and no other in the town was 
to be permitted to build a mill unless on his 
own land. .\t the time of King Philip's war 
he moved with his family to Charlestown for 
safety, and there his death was caused by 
smallpox at the age of sixty years. His first 
wife, Mary, born 1619-20, died at Groton, 
April 29, 1674, and he married (second), in 
Charlestown, August 15, 1678, Susanna, 
widow of John Lawrence. Children, all bom 
of first wife: Thomas, Mary, Sarah, .\bigail, 
John, Elizabeth, William, Martha. 

(II) John, second son of Thomas and Mary 
Tarbell, was born about 1654, in Watertown. 
died in Danvers, March 25, 1715. He resided 
first in Charlestown, whence he removed to 
Salem village (now Danvers), Massachusetts, 
and there resided until the end of his life. Be- 
cause of the persecutions of his wife's family 
and others by the deluded believers in witch- 
craft he withdrew from membership and at- 
tendance of the church, and was subsequently 
active in procuring the dismissal of Rev. Sam- 
uel Parris, its pastor. \Vhile residing in 
Charlestown he enlisted as a soldier in King 
Philip's war, and was known by the title of 
ensign which was probably earned at this time. 
(_)n account of this service, in 1728, his heirs 
received a grant of land in Narragansett No. i, 
then under the jurisdiction of Massachusetts, 
now .Amherst, New Hampshire. He married, _ 



in Salem, October 25, 1678, Mary, daughter of 
Francis and Rebecca Nurse, the latter the un- 
fortunate Rebecca Nurse who was hanged in 
1692 as a witch. Children: John, Mary, Cor- 
nelius, Jonathan, Elizabeth, Sarah. 

(Ill) John (2), eldest child of John (i) 
and Mary (Nurse) Tarbell, was born August 
9, 1680, in Salem village, where he was bap- 
tized .April 27, 1690, after the witchcraft 
troubles were over. His birth is recorded in 
Salem. He resided in Salem village until 1727, 
when he removed to Billerica, Massachusetts, 
and there died, February 5, 1757. He married, 
in Salem, .August 21, 1705, Hannah, daughter 
of John Flint, born 1685, died December 14, 
1779, in Billerica, having been over twenty 
years a widow. Children : William, John, 
Thomas, Hannah, .Anna. Elizabeth, Mary, 
Jonathan, David. 

(I\') Jonathan, fourth son of John (2) 
and Hannah (Flint) Tarbell, was born Sep- 
tember 15, 1726, in Danvers, Massachusetts, 
baptized at Lynnfield, September 25, of the 
same year, and died April 9, 1788. in Chester, 
\'ermont. He was living in Billerica in 1755, 
but before -April 25, 1757, had removed to that 
part of Dunstable which is now Nashua, New 
Hampshire. In 1761 he had a child baj^tized 
in Groton. Massachusetts ; was in Westminster, 
\'ermont, in 1765, and four years later in the 
adjoining town of Rockingham. Before 1772 
he settled in Chester, Vermont, where he was 
road commissioner in that year, and in 1775 
was lieutenant of a military company from 
Chester, which served in the revolutionary 
army. His first wife Mary (surname un- 
known) was the mother of two children. He 
married (second) Anna, widow of Thomas 
Patch, of Hollis, New Hampshire, daughter of 
Joseph Gilson, of Groton. Massachusetts, 
where she was born July 25. 1722. Children: 
John, Reuben, Jonathan. Mary, P.enjamin. 
Peter, Isaac, Sarah. 

(V) Isaac, sixth .son of Jonathan Tarbell, 
and youngest son of his second wife, Anna 
(Gilson-Patch) Tarbell, was born October 9, 
1763, probably in Groton, died in March, 1841. 
His will made October 21, 1837, stated that he 
was of Houn'sfield, Jefferson county, New- 
York. He resided in Groton and Chester. Ver- 
mont, before his removal to Houndsfield. He 
married (first) Joanna (^leason, born 1770 71, 
died April 22, 1808, in Chester, where he mar- 
ried (second) Februarv 8, 1809, Mrs. Lydia 
Wilson. The latter died January 3, 1832. 



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Children of first wife: i. Isaac, born in Graf- 
ton, died 1832, in Smithville, Chenango county, 
New York. 2. Eli, mentioned below. 3. Jon- 
athan, born in Chester, Vermont, died in Illi- 
nois. 4. John, died near Portsmouth, \'ir- 
ginia. 5. William, resided in Orleans, New 
York, and Allerton, Iowa. 6. Henry, died 
young. Children of second wife: 7. Thomas, 
died at Three-Mile-Bay, JelTerson county. 8. 
Henry, resided in Lyme, same county, died un- 
married. 9. Joanna Gleason, married Dr. 
Rufus Thayer and died in Smithville, New 
York. 10. Sarah, wife of William Thayer, 
brother of Dr. Thayer, resided in Dimmock. 
Pennsylvania. 

(VI) Eli, second son of Isaac and Joanna 
(Gleason) Tarbell, was born September 25. 
1790, in Vermont, died October 4, 1845, in 
Smithville, New York. In 1813 he settled on 
lot 48 in Smithville, which he purchased for 
one and one-quarter dollars per acre, and from 
1820 to 1844 kept a hotel and store at Smith- 
ville Flats. At the time of his death he was 
the owner of six hundred acres of land. He 
married Sybil Parker, born March 7, 1798, 
died September 22, 1879, in Smithville. Chil- 
dren: Sewell, Laura, John Seymour, Mary, 
Charles Parker, George L., Francis, James 
Henry. 

(VII) Charles Parker, third son of Eli and 
Sybil (Parker) Tarbell, was born in Smith- 
ville, where he passed his life, and died at the 
old homestead, on May 15, 1908. He was a 
progressive, hard-working farmer, of the old 
school, and always took a great interest in 
everything that was of benefit to his town and 
county. He was particularly interested in the 
town and county fairs, believing that they fur- 
nished a stimulus that led to better farming 
and more care and attention in the all-import- 
ant matter of breeding farm animals. He was 
a staunch advocate of the public school system 
and believed that the very best thing that could 
be done for the children oi our country was 
to give them a good education. He married 
Mabell M., daughter of .Abraham and Lucy 
Tillotson, born July 7, 1824, died at the old 
homestead, March 24, 1905. She was a most 
remarkable woman in every way, a great 
reader, thoroughly informed on all the public 
questions of the day, a reasoner and debater 
of extraordinary ability, and a woman of ster- 
ling character and integrity. She was a 
staunch believer in the rights of women, and 
always predicted that woman suffrage wotdd 



become general in the United States for many 
reasons, but particularly because it was right. 
Children : Charles Tillotson, born June 25,. 
1854; Gage Eli, mentioned below; Frank 
Parker, September 11. 1859, died March 11, 
1880; Bessie Mabell, ^larch 3, 1862; all born 
at Smithville Flats. 

( \ III ) Gage Eli, son of Charles Parker and 
Mabell M. (Tillotson) Tarbell, was born Sep- 
tember 20, 1856, at Smithville Flats. He was 
educated at Clinton Liberal Institute, where he 
graduated in 1876. He taught school one year 
and then commenced the study of law at 
Greene, New Y'ork. Was admitted to the bar 
at the general term of the supreme court in 
Ithaca, New Y^ork, in 1880, and soon there- 
after located at Marathon, Cortland county. 
New York, and practiced in state and United 
States courts until 1884, when he removed to 
Ringhamton, New York, to become general 
agent of the Equitable Life Assurance Society 
for the southern tier of counties. In 1886 he 
went to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as state agent 
for the same company, and from there was 
transferred to Chicago, January i, 1889, to be- 
come a partner in the management of the 
Equitable for the northwestern department, 
embracing nine .states. The growth of the 
business under his management was .so great 
that two years later he was appointed resident 
secretary of the company, his headquarters re- 
maining at Chicago, and in 1893 was elected 
third vice-president of the Equitable Life As- 
surance Society and removed to New York, 
where he had charge of the agencies through- 
out the United States and Canada. In 1899 
he was elected second vice-president, a position 
which he held until he resigned in 1907. The 
growth of the Equitable's business under his 
management was phenomenal and attracted 
world-wide attention. He still remains a di- 
rector of the society. Since 1907 he has been 
operating in real estate. He has also been 
connected with other large financial institu- 
tions, including the Mercantile Trust Company 
and the Equitable Trust Companv, of New 
York. 

Some years before the death of his jjarents, 
with a view to making their remaining year.'i 
as comfortable and interesting as possible, Mr. 
Tarbell purchased the old homestead at Smith- 
ville Flats and several adjoining farms and in- 
stituted a vigorous and progressive system of 
improvement thereon. This included the con- 
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the installation of underground drainage, a 
large modern poultry plant, the systematic ro- 
tation of crops, the building of macadam 
yards and macadam roads, a modern 
creamery, an extensive boarding-house 
with all conveniences for the help, 
etc. The farm has been stocked with pure 
bred Guernseys, Dorset and Shropshire sheep. 
Angora goats, Cheshire hogs, and various 
kinds of poultry. It now consists of some two 
thousand acres and is regarded as one of the 
show places of Chenango county. In fact, 
good judges have pronounced the farm build- 
ings among the most complete, modern and 
sanitary in the United States. 

Mr. Tarbell married, December 21, 1881. 
Ella, daughter of George L. and Louisa Swift, 
of Marathon, New York. Children: Swift, 
born November 30, 1882 ; Louise, Februarv 
18, 1886. 



Also written Clarke, Clerk, 
CLARK Gierke and Clearke, is a name of 
great antiquity in England. Orig- 
inally any person who could read and write 
was given the name, and it came to be the sur- 
name of learned persons generally, but partic- 
ularly of officers of ecclesiastical courts and 
parish churches who were entrusted with re- 
cording and preserving the records. In medie- 
val days the name was one to be respected, 
hence it is of frequent use in Domesday Book, 
either written in one of the various spellings 
given above or Clericus, "clerk or clergv'man,'" 
"one of the clerical order." In the early settle- 
ment of New England by the English Puri- 
tans, 1625 to 1640, we find men of the name 
who became founders of large and distin- 
guished families, not only in the New Eng- 
land Colonies, but in \ irginia, Maryland and 
New York, the name in the southern section 
of the L'nited States generally adopting the 
spelling with a final "e." The most numerous 
of the Christian names appears to have been 
William, with John. Thomas and Samuel in 
abundant evidence. Irish emigrants to 
America have added to the name either from 
Scotch-Irish or from the families of O'Clery 
or O'Clersach, not only common but distin- 
guished names in the Emerald Isle and literally 
indicating "the son of the clerk."' 
. ( I ) Samuel Clark appeared in Wethersfield 
in 1636, "one of the company of restless and 
dissatisfied men" numbering twenty who for- 
sook the colony and bound themselves, Mav 



16, 1640, to establish for themselves a home at 
Rippowamus, now Stamford, Connecticut. 
Samuel Clark was born about 1619 in Devon- 
shire, England, and his name appears on each 
of the first three lists mafle of settlers in 
Wethersfield. They purchased the land at 
Stamford from the Indians, for thirty pounds, 
in July, 1640. The first assignments of land 
were made October 19, 1641, and Samuel 
Clark was allotted seven acres. He appears 
among the lists of that town to the end of 
1642 and is supposed to have lived in Milford, 
Connecticut, in 1669. Thence he moved to 
Hempstead, Long Island, was in New Haven 
in 1685. and died about 1690. He married 
Hannah, daughter of Rev. Robert Fordham, 
and seems to have had a large family of chil- 
dren. Nothing is definitely known of these 
except sons, Samuel and William. 

(II) William, son of Samuel and Hannah 
( Fordham ) Clark, was born in 1645 in Stam- 
ford, died in Bedford, New York, 1712, aged 
about sixty-seven years. He was one of the 
original proprietors of part of the township of 
Bedford, W^estchester county. New York, hav- 
ing been associated with fifteen others in the 
purchase from the Indians of the land where 
Bedford now stands, on the twenty-third of 
December, 1680. In 1690 thirty-one inhabi- 
tants were in the township, two of whom bore 
the name of William Clark, probably being 
father and son. On the last deed given by the 
Indians is the name of Nathan Clark, the son 
of William, as witness ; this was July 24, 1703. 
Bedford was often called "the hop lands." 
There were many conveyances of land to Wil- 
liam Clark Sr., but there is no mention of his 
wife, although it is certain he had three sons. 
William, Nathan and Joseph. 

nil) Nathan, second son of William Clark. 
was born about 1666, and was one of the 
twenty-nine landholders of Bedford to whom 
Queen Anne confirmed twenty-three thousand 
acres of land, April 8, 1704. He is named 
among the freeholders of Bedford in 1714. 
June 22, 1700, "the town by maiger vote doth 
mack choice of Richard Holmes and Nathan 
Clarck for survairs, for this year ensewing." 
At the time of making his will, April 29, 1726, 
he was too feeble to sign his name and must 
have been near death. He married (first) 

about 1700, Clemence, who died about 

1709. He married (second) about 17 10, 
Children of first wife: Stephen, Na- 



than, Silvanus, Sarah, Elizabeth and Martha. 



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twins, died young. Children of second wife: 
Jehiel, Joseph, Nathaniel, Elizabeth. Deborah, 
.Vbigail, Esther, Comfort. 

(IV) Joseph, son of Nathan Clark and his 
second wife, was born in March, 1713, in the 
town of Bedford, New York, where he died 
of paralysis, April 18, 1791. After his marriage 
he settled at Copp's Bottom, about one mile 
west of the village of Bedford, where he and 
his wife spent the remainder of their days. He 
married, in 1735. Sarah, daughter of Jacob 
Smith ; she died in April, 1796, having sur- 
vived him about five years. They were 
brought up together as neighbors. Children : 
Ezra, James, Abigail, Anna, Joseph, Nathan. 

(V) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (i) and 
Sarah (Smith) Clark, was born in 1753, in 
Bedford, tlied there in 1821, aged sixty-eight 
years. He married Hannah Clock, of Stam- 
ford, Connecticut, born 1760, died in 1825, 
aged sixty-five years. Her name is on the 
records of the Presbyterian church of Bedford 
in 1786. They had tliirteen children, ten of 
whom reared families, among whom were : 
Bertha, Ezra. John, died young; Clara, Phoebe. 
Lewis. Hannah. John. Joseph. Anna, Ira. 

(VI) Ezra, son of Joseph (2) and Hannah 
(Clock) Clark, was born September 15, 1779. 
baptized 1786. in Bedford, died May 24. 1858. 
at Sidney. Delaware county, New York. He 
settled in Sidney in 1810, being one of the 
earliest to locate in that town, where he cleared 
ui) land and engaged in agriculture. He mar- 
ried (first), in May. 1799. Polly Banks, born 
January 23. 1779, died May 5, 1806, in Bain- 
bri''sje, New York. He married (second), 
April 26, 1807, Marv Eoote, born September 
24, 1776, died May 8, 1858, in Sidney. There 
were four children of the first marriage and 
six of the second, namely: Samuel, Sally, 
Hiram, Mary, Elizabeth R.. Joseph Eoote. 
.Susan. Harriet, Henry A., Catharine J. 

(VH) Joseph Eoote. son of Ezra and Mar)' 
(Eoote) Clark, was born July i. 1810. in Bain- 
bridge, died June 2=;. 1877. in Binghamton, 
Mew York. He resided many years at Smeth- 
port. Pennsvlvania. was subsequently in Brad- 
ford and Shijipen, same state, and nassed his 
last vears at llinghamton. New York. He 
iparried. September 26, 183^. Laura Louisa 
F^helps. born .\ugust 29, 1809. daughter of 
Rop-er (2) and Anna (Jones) Phelps, of 
Hebron. Connecticut (see Phelps IX). Chil- 
dren : Theodore Mortier. Junius Randoljili, 



Charles Ludolf, Edward Kissam, Ellen Clar- 
issa and Mary Elizabeth, all born at Smethport 
except Mary, who was born at Shippen. 

(\TII) Edward Kissam, son of Joseph 
Eoote and Laura Louisa (Phelps) Clark, was 
b(jrn January i, 1841, at Smethport, Pennsyl- 
vania. He was admitted to the bar, 1862, and 
settled at Binghamton, New York. He mar- 
ried. June 12. 1867, Martha Jane Seymour, 
of \'estal. Broome county. New York, born 
May 28. 1846. daughter of Charles and Han- 
nah (Halsey) Seymour, of that town. Chil- 
dren: Roger Phelps, born March 14, 1869; 
Laura Louisa, January 8. 1872; Charles Sey- 
mour. June 13, 1873, died in his third year; 
.Anna Whitman, .\ugust 30, 1875; Joseph 
Eoote, July i. 1878: Edward Kissam. July 14, 
1880: Vernon Seymour, November 17, 1882; 
Elorence Evangeline, May 27, 1885, died in 
her sixth year; Mary Elizabeth. July 10. 1887; 
Lewis Seymour. March 29, 1890. 

(The Phelps Line) 
The Phelps family dates from Lombardy, 
northern Italy, where the ancestors were called 
Wolf. In the eleventh century they migrated 
to Cermany and changed the name to Guelph. 
In the sixteenth century they crossed to Scot- 
land and the name became Phelps. The Royal 
House of Hanover, to which Queen Victoria 
belonged, was of the Wolf lineage, and her 
father has been distinctly traced back to the 
city of Padua. The English seat of the family 
was in Tewke,sbury, Gloucestershire, and be- 
neath the old Abbey Church there remain the 
lettered tombstones of the ancestors. The 
name has been variously spelled Philps. Phe- 
lipps. Phelpes. Philipp. Philippes, Philipps, 
Phellips, Phillippes, Phillipp, Phellips, Phyl- 
ipi^es. Phelyp, Phelpse and Eelpes. The word 
Phelps has its root Pilos, Greek for friend. 
The escutcheon of the American branch was 
"]ier ]iale, or and argent a wolf salient azure 
with anorle of eight crosses-crosslet and fitchie 
and gule. crest a wolf's head erased, azure 
collard or. the collard charged with a martlet 
sable." Interpreted this is supposed to mean' 
The parting per pale indicates that a fortifica- 
tion had been placed by ancestor in face of an 
enemy. The wolf signifies courage and endur- 
ance, the crosses-crosslets fitchie being em- 
blems of the second crusade, shows that it was 
in that campaign the arms were earned. The 
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of Palestine, and infers that the ancestor has 
been on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, in ad- 
dition to having been in the second crusade. 

(I) James Phelps was born about 1520. 
The name of his wife was Joan. According 
to the prerogative court of Canterbury, admin- 
istration was granted on his estate, May 10, 
1588. His children, baptized in the Tewkes- 
bury Abbey church, were : William, Thomas, 
George, Alice, Edward, Keneline, Richard. 
Robert. 

(H) William, eldest son of James and Joan 
Phelps, was born August 4, 1550. His wife 
was Dorothy (surname unknown). Adminis- 
tration was granted on his estate, September 
28, 161 1, and his wife died in 1613. Ciiildren : 
Mary, Mary. Thomas, who was the progen- 
itor of the Irish Phelps; Dorothy, William, 
mentioned below ; Elizabeth, George. 

(HI) William (2), second son of Wil- 
liam ( I ) and Dorothy Phelps, was born 
August 19, 1599, and emigrated to the new 
world, sailing from Plymouth, England, March 
30, 1630, in the ship "Alary and John." Captain 
Squeb, with one hundred and forty passen- 
gers, landing at Hull, Massachusetts, May 30, 
1630. With him was his wife and six children. 
The original intention of the party was to lancl 
on the bank of the Charles river, but a misun- 
derstanding arose between the captain and his 
passengers and they were unceremoniously 
put ashore at Hull, where they had to shift 
for themselves. The cruel captain, however, 
had to settle in damages for the uncivil act. 
William Phelps was made a freeman, October 
19, 1630, served on the first jury impanelled 
in New England. September 27, was made 
constable, was one of the committee to estab- 
lish tlie boundary line between Boston and 
Roxbury, was on a committee to see about the 
enlargement of Boston, and in 1635 was mem- 
ber of the eeneral court. That year he went 
with Rev. Mr. Warham and his parishioners 
to settle Windsor, Connecticut, which was first 
called New Dorchester. He was one of seven 
appointed by the Alassachusetts company, for 
it was then supposed it belonged to the Massa- 
chusetts government, to govern the colony. It 
was later learned that the colony was out of 
the Massachusetts jurisdiction, and the several 
colonics in Connecticut met at Hartford and 
adopted a constitution. In the work of draft- 
ing this document \\'illiam Phelps had a part. 
The principles enunciated in that constitution 
form the body of the organic law of Connecti- 



cut today. These simple pioneers in the wil- 
derness builded better than they knew. He 
held the office of magistrate fourteen years, 
and was one of the committee to treat with the 
Phenicke Indians. His residence in Windsor 
was on the road running northerly and later 
continued to Poquonock and a short distance 
north of the mill in the mill-river valley. He 
was drowned out in the great flood of 1639, 
after which he moved to the highlands. Alarks 
of the cellars of the old house may still be seen. 
The first wife of Mr. Phelps died in 1635, 
before he left Dorchester, Massachusetts. He 
married (second), in 1638, Mary Dover, who 
was a passenger on the same ship with him. 

( IV) Timothy, youngest son of William (2) 
Phelps, was born September i, 1639. He was 
his father's successor on the homestead in 
Windsor, purchased from the Indians. He 
was made a freeman, May 2, 1664, and in May, 
1690, was chosen lieutenant in the "Trained 
Band," and promoted to captain six years 
later. In 1695 he went to the "Great Ealls" 
in Massachusetts, against the Indians, having 
then the rank of sergeant in the colonial troops. 
The general court commissioned him lieuten- 
ant in 1707, under Colonel William Whiting, 
in Captain Matthew .\llyn's comjiany, in Queen 
Anne's war. He died in 17 19. lie married, 
March 19, 1661, Mary, daughter af Edward 
Griswold. of Killingworth, Connecticut. She 
was born in Windsor, baptized October 13, 
1644, died some years before her husband. 
Their children were : Timothy, born Novem- 
ber I. 1663; Joseph, mentioned below; Will- 
iam, February 4, 1669; Cornelius, April 26, 
1671 ; Mary, August 14, 1673: Samuel, Janu- 
ary 29, 1675; Nathaniel, January 7, 1677; 
Sarah, December 27, 1679: Abigail, June 3, 
1682; Hannah, .August 2, 1684; Anne, October 
2. 1686; Martha. November 12, 1688. 

(V) Joseph, second son of Timothy and 
Mary (Griswold) Phelps, was born Septem- 
ber 27, 1666. in Windsor, died August 30, 
1 7 16, nearly fifty years old. He owned a large 
amount of land in Hebron, Connecticut, and 
probably removed there late in life, about 
1710, some of his children at that time being 
located there. His will was made two weeks 
previous to his death and was probated in 
Hartford. His widow was appointed an exec- 
utrix and ten children were mentioned. The 
inventory of the estate made in October, 1716, 
gives the ages of most of the children : Ed- 
ward, eighteen ; John, sixteen ; Mary, thirteen ; 



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Abel ; Ichabod, nine. Samuel and William 
Phelps were appointed guardians, while the 
mother was appointed guardian for Jonathan 
and Abigail. Joseph Phelps married, Novem- 
ber i8, 1686, Sarah, daughter of John and 
Phillury (Thrall) Hosford. She was born 
on the same day as her husband in Windsor. 
Her father, John Hosford, was a man of con- 
siderable property and had a large family. At 
his death he left to Mrs. Phelps one hundred 
pounds. She died probably in Hebron. Chil- 
dren : Sarah, Mary, Joseph ; Abigail, died 
young; Edward, Reneni, John, .\bel, Daniel, 
Ichabod, Jonathan. Abigail. 

(VI) John, fourth son of Joseph and Sarah 
(Hosford) Phelps, was born September 20, 
170.^, in Windsor, and settled in Hebron, where 
he died February 10, 1796. He married (first) 
February 11 or 14, 1725, Anna, daughter of 
Obadiah and Mindwell (Phelps) Hosford, 
born February 23, 1705, in Windsor, died in 
Hebron, 1740. Her mother was of the sixth 
generation in descent from George Phelps. 
He married (second) in 1742. Alindwell Hos- 
ford. sister of his first wife. There were six 
children of the first marriage and four of the 
second, namely : Aaron, died young ; Anna ; 
John ; Sarah, died young ; Amos ; Roger ; 
Aaron ; Mindwell : Sarah ; Nathan. 

(VII) Captain Roger Phelps, fourth son of 
John and Anna (Hosford) Phelps, was born 
December 24, 1738, and baptized January 4, 
following, in Hebron, where he settled and was 
a farmer. He was a soldier of the revolution, 
serving eighteen days as lieutenant on the 
Lexington alarm and afterward enlisted again 
in Hebron, I'^ebruary 22, 1809, in his seventieth 
year. He married, .April 24, 1760, .Vbigail 
Filer, born April 10, 1733, in Hebron, where 
she died January 22, 1825, in her ninety-sec- 
ond year. Children : Mary ; Roger ; .\bigail, 
died voung: Susannah; David; .\bigail ; .Anna. 

(VIII) Roger (2), eldest son of Roger (i) 
and Abigail (Filer) Phelps, was born Octo- 
ber 7, 1762, in Hebron, died there September 
8, 1846. He was a prominent citizen of his 
town, serving many years as selectman and 
several times as representative in the state 
legislature, and was delegate to the convention 
for revising the state constitution. He mar- 
ried, Februarv i, 1787, Anna, born March 20, 
1765, in Saybrook, died February 2, 1821, in 
Hebron, daughter of Ezekiel Jones. Children : 
Anna, Betsey, Maria, Henry Jones, Rachel, 
Clarissa, Roger L., Laura and Louisa (trip- 



lets, the last named two died young) and Laura 
Louisa. 

( IX ) Laura Louisa, youngest child of Roger 
(2) and Anna (Jones) Phelps, was born Au- 
gust 29, 1809, in Hebron, died April 28, 1882, 
in Binghamton, New York. She married, Sep- 
tember 26, 1833, Joseph Foote Clark, whom 
she survived nearly five years (see Clark YII). 



Maurice Lane, the first of the fam- 
LANE ily in this country, was born in Ire- 
land. During the great emigration 
from Ireland to America, in the middle of the 
nineteenth century, he came with his family, 
being then well advanced in years. He died 
in this country. Children : Thomas, mention- 
ed below; Catherine; Mary; Nora; Ellen, and 
Johanna. 

(JI) Thomas Lane, son of Maurice Lane, 
was born in county Clare, Ireland, in 1824; 
died in Lafayette, New York, in February, 
1889. He came to this country with the fam- 
ily in 1848, and with the exception of ten years, 
which he spent in Cayuga county. New York, 
he lived the rest of his life at Lafayette, New 
York, and was engaged in farming. He mar- 
ried Mary Horan, born in Ireland, about 1837, 
died July 5, 1887, daughter of John Horan. 
Children: i. John. 2. Maurice. 3. Michael 
\'., mentioned below. 4. Ellen, married James 
Conan, of Lafayette. 5. .Anna, married John 
Shea, and lives in Cortland, New York. 6. 
Mary Agnes, died young. 7. Thomas B., re- 
sides at Fort Wayne, Indiana. 

(Ill) Michael \'., son of Thomas Lane, was 
born in the town of Newhope, Cayuga county. 
New York, December 9, i8(56, and was edu- 
cated there in the public schools. From the 
age of eighteen to twenty-two he followed 
farming. In 1888 he came to Cortland and 
was in the employ of the Cortland Wagon 
Company from that time until 1895. He then 
began to learn the trade of plumbing in the 
emjjloy of T. T. Bates, and after working as a 
journeyman for a number of years, in 1904 
embarked in business on his own account, in 
])artnership with Mr. Cronan, under the firm 
name of Cronan & Lane. The firm carried on 
a plumbing and heating busine.ss in Cortland. 
.Afterward he did business under the firm name 
of the Lane Plumbing and Heating Company 
for two years. In 1908 the business was in- 
corporated under this name and Mr. Lane is 
now secretary, treasurer and general manager 
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eral plumbing, heating, gas fitting and tinning 
business, and carries a full line of pumps, 
pipes and fittings, sheet-iron, tin conductors 
and eave-troughs. In the showrooms are speci- 
mens of the latest styles in porcelain and other 
bath tubs, sinks, urinals, and also the most 
efficient apparatus for heating. A specialty is 
made of the Spencer steam and water heat- 
ers. The plant is at 9 East Court street. The 
company was the first in the city to use an 
automobile delivery wagon in its business. It 
has been well said that there is not a more 
thorough and practical man than Mr. Lane in 
this line of business. He is not only well 
versed in every branch of the science and trade 
of plumbing, heating and ventilation, hut his 
personality attracts business, anil his efficient 
and honorable methods of carrying out con- 
tracts of all kinds, large and small, serve to 
retain customers once secured. 

Mr. Lane is a member of the board of police 
commissioners of the city of Cortland, and 
vice-president of the Emerald Hose Company. 
He is a member of the Catholic Men's Benev- 
olent Association, the Knights of Columbus, 
and the Benevolent and Protective Order of 
Elks. He married, in 1900, Agnes J. Keenan, 
of Summer Hill, New York. Children, born 
at Cortland: Mary Agnes, born in 1902; 
Theresa Frances, born 1904; Elmer Michael, 
born 1907. 

It is said the surname Carver is 
CARVER derived from the occupation of 

wood carving, and some of the 
work in the cathedrals of East Anglia is at- 
tributed to the progenitors of this Carver fam- 
ily. The names Adam Le Carver or Karver, 
and Richard le Kerver, are in the Hundred 
Rolls, and various Carver families in later 
centuries are found in England. John Carver, 
first governor of Plymouth colony, New Eng- 
land, was son of James Carver, of Lincoln- 
.shire, England. A nephew of John Carver, 
Robert, son of Isaac Carver, was born in Bos- 
ton, Lincolnshire, England, in 1594, and set- 
tled early at Marshfield, Plymouth colony. 
Richard Carver, the third of the family coming 
with the pioneers of New England, was sixty 
years old when he sailed April 11, 1637. Rob- 
ert was the only one having male descendants 
in this country. It appears likely that the fam- 
ily of this sketch is of the same English stock. 
CI) Richard Carver was born at Dravcott. 



England. He married and among his chil- 
dren was Richard, mentioned below. 

(II) Richard (2), son of Richard (i) Car- 
ver, was born in Draycott, England. He was 
educated in his native place and learned the 
trade of mason there. He came to this coun- 
try, in 1867, and settled at Skaneateles, New 
York, where he followed his trade for many 
years. In religion he is a Methodist. He 
married Mary Williams, born in England, 
daughter of Robert Williams. She died in 
1891. Children: Lillie, deceased; William J.; 
Egbert J. ; George R. ; Ivah M. ; Harry E. 

(III) Egbert J., son of Richard (2) Car- 
ver, was born at Skaneateles, New York, July 
20, 1873. He was educated there in the public 
schools. He learned the trade of mason, and 
since 1900 has made his home in Fulton, New 
York. He had charge of the mason work on 
the Battle Island mill ; then took the contract 
for building the mason work on the Fulton 
public library building. He also was the mason 
contractor of the hospital buildings at Fulton, 
and of the new savings bank building. He 
has been very successful in business, and be- 
sides the public buildings mentioned has had 
many important contracts for residences and 
other structures in Fulton and vicinity. He is 
one of the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal 
church of Fulton. In politics he is a Pro- 
hibitionist, and in 1905 was the candidate of 
his party for the office of mayor of Fulton. 
He married, September 9, 1903, Lena, daugh- 
ter of Sanford Wells, of Fulton. Children: 
Mary L., born September 6, 1905 : Richard W., 
July 20. 1907. 

Noah P. Newell, descendant of 
NEWELL an old New England family, 

was one of the pioneers of Os- 
wego, New York. He married — — — Perrj'. 
(II) George Sherman, son of Noah P. New- 
ell, was born in Oswego, New York, March 
12, 1818. He was educated in the public 
schools of his native town, and followed farm- 
ing there during his active life. In religion he 
was a Baptist, and in politics a Republican. 
He was collector of taxes of the town of 
.VrgA'le for one term. He married, at South 
West Oswego, November 22, 1841. Catherine 
Ann McCoy, born July 11, 1823, daughter of 
Joseph H. and Nancy (Beattie) McCoy. Jo- 
seph H. McCoy was born on the voyage to 
this country. His parents came from Scot- 



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land and settled in Washington county, New 
York. Catherine was born in the town of 
Argyle, Washington county. When she was 
ten years old her parents crossed New York 
state from Washington county to Oswego, 
traveling in wagons which not only furnish- 
ed them transportation but dining-room and 
sleeping quarters, and locating in Oswego. 
Mrs. Newell is now (1911) living at Oswego. 
When the McCoy family came to Oswego they 
found a small village consisting of a few 
houses on the east side of the river. They 
located at South West Oswego, where Mr. 
McCoy followed farming during a long and 
useful life. He built the house on the farm 
which he bought and cleared, now occupied by 
his grandson, U. W. Lewis. Children of 
George Sherman and Catherine Ann Newell : 
William Payne, born May i, 1842; Charles 
Sherman, mentioned below ; Sarah Adelaide, 
born August 13, 1846; Martha Jane, July 5. 
1848; Mary Elizabeth, October 28, 1850; Ed- 
ward Lawton, January 20, 1851, of Oswego; 
Joseph Carswell, February 13. 1854, of De- 
troit; Catherine Elizabeth. November 21, 1857; 
.-\ndrevv Lytle, July 8, 1859 ( ?) ; Jessie, May 
5, 1864. 

(Ill) Charles Sherman, son of George Sher- 
man Newell, was born November 5, 1844, in 
South West Oswego, Oswego county. New 
York, at the home nf his grandfather, Joseph 
H. McCoy. He died at Oswego, Sunday, Feb- 
ruary 19, 191 1, and the first six months of his 
life was .spent in this house. He attended dis- 
trict school No. 9, of South West Oswego, be- 
ginning at the age of three years and continu- 
ing until he was twelve. During the ne.xt three 
or four years he attended only the winter terms 
of school, working on his father's farm during 
the summer. His first employment away from 
home was at farming, and his wages were six 
dollars a month. When he was nineteen years 
o\(\ he enlisted in the Union army and served 
in i8''i4-65, in Company C, One Hundred and 
Eighty-fourth Regiment, New York \'olunteer 
Infantry, Colonel W. G. Robinson. He took 
part in the battle of Bermuda Hundred, and 
in other engagements on the James river. He 
was mustered out at City Point, Virginia. 
.\fterward he joined the militia, and from 1874 
to 1882 was first lieiitcnnnt of the Separate 
Troop Cavalry, Twenty-fourth Brigade, Sixth 
Division, New York National Guard. 

Upon returning from the war service he 
learned the trade of brickmason in the em])loy 



of Jonathan Horton, of Oswego. While still a 
young man he engaged in business on his own 
account as a contracting mason, and became 
one of the most prominent builders of Os- 
wego, erecting many of the most important 
structures in the city in his day. He was the 
contractor and built the Oswego State Normal 
School, the Arcade Block, the Rome, Water- 
town & Ogdensburg railroad shops, and other 
public buildings and many residences. In 1881, 
when thirty-five years old, he was appointed 
superintendent of the Oswego City Almshouse, 1 j 
and filled that position most efficiently and ] 
satisfactorily during the rest of his life. Dur- I ; 
ing this long period of thirty years, no com- 
plaint was filed and no dissatisfaction discover- 
ed in the institution. For several years be- 
fore he died he desired to resign, but the mem- 
bers of the board in charge, the commissioners 
of charity, persuaded him to remain at his post. 
He was well qualified by natural ability and 
experience to administer this charge. His 
early training on the farm and his knowledge 
of men and affairs acquired in the contracting 
business fitted him exceptionally well to man- 
age the farm and care for the inmates success- 
fully. He had an even temper, a kindly dis- 
position and great executive ability. He at- 
tended the West Baptist Church, and was a 
member of Frontier Lodge, No. 432, Free 
Masons, and of Oswego Lodge, Benevolent 
and Protective Order of Elks. He was well 
known in business circles and financially inter- 
ested in a number of corporations doing busi- 
ness in the city of Oswego; a stockholder in 
the Reid Hardware Company, the Oswego Oil 
& Fuel Company and of the New Hotel Cor- 
poration, and was trustee of the City Savings 
liank. He was a prominent member of Post 
O'Brien, Grand Army of the Republic. In 
politics he was a lifelong Republican, earnest, 
influential and loyal in supporting the prin- 
ciples and candidates of his party. He served 
in the common council of the city and repre- 
sented the Fourth Ward in the board of alder- 
men in 1875-76. The following minute on the 
city records expresses the public sentiment 
toward Mr. Newell: 

"On Sunday, February 19, 191 1. in the death of 
Charles S. Newell, there closes a life of more than 
ordinary usefulness. The community has lost one of 
its best citizens, and our city one of its most faithful 
and courteous officials. Especially is the Department 
of Charity bereft in the death of one who had for 
thirty years most acceptably filled the exacting posi- 
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had been performed in such a careful and pains- 
taking manner that he has ever enjoyed the complete 
confidence and esteem of the members of the depart- 
ment, as well as the greatest respect of those who 
were placed in his care. 

"Therefore, be it resolved, that we, the members 
of the Department of Charity, take this means of 
expressing our deep sorrow in this our bereavement, 
that this memorial have a place on our records and 
that a copy of same be forwarded to Mr. Newell's 
family. (Signed by VV. W. Buck, J. N. Lee Tulep. 
Frank Schilling, Arthur F. Kelly, Commissioners of 
Charity." 

Mr. Newell married, March 3, 1864, at Han- 
nibal, Oswego county, New York, Addie E. 
Blodgett, who was born August 28, 1844, i" 
Hannibal, daughter of Madison J. and Mary 
A. (Lockwoodj Blodgett. Her father was 
a farmer and butcher at Hannibal. She had a 
brother, Eugene M., and five sisters, Hannah 
A., Eliza E., Leonora, Alberta and Adelle 
Blodgett. For many years Mrs. Newell served 
as matron of the Oswego City Almshouse, and 
she was a great favorite with the old people 
who lived there. She was well qualified for 
the trying duties of her position, and took 
great pride in the institution, which was imder 
the management of her husband. She was 
tender and kindly in her treatment of the un- 
fortunates committed to her care. She died 
very suddenly at the home of her sister, Mrs. 
Horton, during a visit. Mrs. Newell's mother, 
Mary A. (Lockwood) Blodgett, was born in 
Hannibal, New York, May i, 1816. Her father 
was born in Marcellus, Onondaga county. New 
York, and for a period of si.xty-one years her 
parents lived together as husband and wife. 
Mrs. Blodgett was a member of the West 
Baptist Church of Oswego, a devout Christian, 
a loving and devoted wife and mother. Those 
who knew her loved her for her beautiful 
character. She was married in February, 1834, 
and died February 13, 1895. Madison j. Blod- 
gett, born 181 1, died in 1898. One son and 
five daughters survived them : Eugene M. Blod- 
gett, of South West Oswego ; Mrs. H. A. Dun- 
more, of Morgan Park, Illinois : Mrs. Robert 
McMillen, of South Chicago, Illinois: Mrs. J. 
Horton, and Mrs. L. B. Smith, of Oswego. 

Children of Charles Sherman and Addie E. 
Newell: i. Gertrude L., born February, 1867, 
(lied aged si.x years. 2. Cora E.. born October 
'.^- 1875; educated in public and high schools 
of Oswego : married. September 21, 1898, Na- 
thaniel Lester Wright : children : Newell Na- 
thaniel Wright, born September 9, 1899, and 



Hazel Leonore Wright, born August J2, 1901. 
3. Ruth, died at birth. 

David Lee was born in county Lim- 
LEE erick, Ireland, about 1821. The Lee 
family originally came from Scotland 
to Ireland. David Lee came to America in 
1844, and made his home in Truxton, Cortland 
county, New York, where in 1869 he was kill- 
ed by a falling tree. He was a farmer. He 
married Joannah Lane in Ireland, where she 
was born. Children: i. Mary, lives in Cort- 
land, New York ; married John Mack, and has 
children ; Anna, Catherine, David. 2. Mar- 
garet, married William Council, of Truxton. 
3. Thomas, of Cortland. 4. John Francis, 
mentioned below. 5. David, lives in Cortland, 
and is a plumber. 

(II) John Francis, son of David Lee, was 
bom in Truxton, New York, October 8, 1854. 
He received a public school education there. 
When he was twenty years of age he went to 
Otselic, Chenango county. New York, where 
he became engaged in the making of butter and 
cheese. After about fourteen years there, he 
removed to Norwich where he was engaged in 
the trading of butter, cheese and farm products 
for ten years, and now (1911) is engaged in 
the real estate business. He is a member of 
Lodge, No. 211, Knights of Columbus, al.so 
Ancient Order of Hibernians, and was former 
president of the Utica Dairyman's Board of 
Trade, which meets at that city every Mon'ay. 
He married. January i, 1883, Mary, daughter 
of Matthew Bulger, of Norwich. Children: i. 
David Francis, mentioned below. 2. Matthew, 
born January 4, 1886: a civil engineer of 
Watertown, New York. 3. Kathryn A., born 
September 30, 1888; music teacher. 4. John 
C, February 2, 1890: a student at Syracuse 
L'niversity. 5. Robert J., born July 30, 1895. 
6. Marian J., born October 7, 1899. 

(III) David Francis, son of John Francis 
Lee, was born in Otselic, Chenango county. 
New York, January 19. 1885. He attended 
the public schools of Norwich in which he 
fitted for college. He studied law in Syracuse 
L^niversity and was graduated with the degree 
of LL. B. in 1907. In the same year he was 
admitted to the bar. For a time he was clerk 
in the office of Edward W. Murphy, a promi- 
ent New York lawyer. In the spring of 1908 
he began to practice on his own account with 
offices at 216 North Broad street. Norwich, 



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one-half of Louisville and about one-half of 
what is now the town of Norfolk, then Louis- 
ville, Mr. Mac\'icar e.xchanging land in Louis- 
ville for what Mr. Miller owned in Turin. He 
superintended lumbering interests for Mr. Mac- 
Vicar, and had a one-quarter interest in the 
proceeds, and had power as agent for the pro- 
prietor to sell and contract sales of land. Tim- 
ber sawn into three-inch planks (called deal) 
was run down Grasse river to Massena Point, 
then rafted and run down the St. Lawrence 
to Quebec, and he continued this business until 
1837. George Redington bought the interests 
of Mr. Mac\'icar in 1837, including his lumber 
interests and gristmill, also all lands, for $10,- 
000. and upon his death in 1849, twelve years 
later, he was reputed to be worth $303,000. 
After the purchase by Mr. Redington, ^Ir. 
Miller ceased to act as agent. Mr. Miller was 
a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal 
church, and preached on every alternate Sun- 
day when able. lie was instrumental in the 
laying out and construction of the Methodist 
Episcopal church at Louisville, called for him 
the Millerville Church, built in 1840, and being 
also a carpenter and one of the trustees, he 
practically furnished the greater part of the 
means for the same, his son, Levi Jr., having 
the contract for the building. Mr. Miller was 
one of the trustees of the church for many 
years. 

Mr. Miller married, January i, 1805, Polly 
Doud, born in Connecticut, December 28, 1787, 
daughter of P>enjamin Doud, died January i, 
1875. Children, all except the last two born 
in Turin, those born in Louisville : i. Amanda, 
born October 20, 1805, died 1859, married 
Israel G. Stone. 2. Levi, June 20, 1807, died 
September 4, 1890. 3. Rana, May 12, 1810, 
married Rev. A. E. Munson. 4. William, 
April 26, 1812; this William and two children 
not named died in infancy. 5. John, January 
2T^, 1816; attorney at law and county clerk of 
St. Lawrence county, New York ; died at Chi- 
cago, Illinois, 1899. He had one son, John 
S., who became celebrated as attorney in the 
famous Illinois Central Lake Front case, and 
as attorney for the Standard Oil Com])any and 
the large packing houses in Chicago, and was 
the inventor of the now famous "Immunity 
Bath." 6. William, October 7, 1818; living at 
Fort Ann, New York. 7. Rufus II., May 7, 
1821, died January 29, 1907. 8. Mary M., 
October 14, 1824: married Elias Powers, died 
August 10, 1866. 9. James, mentioned below. 



(VII) James, son of Levi Miller, was born 
January 16, 1830, in Louisville, St. Lawrence 
county. New York. He attended the district 
schools and later Gouverneur Academy. As a 
young man he was a farmer by occupation, and 
hved on the homestead settled by his father. 
He also owned a mill and store and conducted 
them both for several years. In February, 
1887, he removed to Potsdam in order to give 
his children better educational advantages. He 
acted as bookkeeper for his nephew, Nathan 
L. Stone, in 1887, and January i, 1888, bought 
G. W. Cayley's interest in a general store at 
Massena, and removed thither March i, 1888. 
He had as partner his son-in-law, Frank E. 
Bailey, and they conducted a general store until 
May. 1896. On September 6, 1894, he was 
waylaid and robbed on the sidewalk near his 
home by a highwayman, Edson McCue, who 
was sent for a term of thirty years to Danne- 
mora state prison, but was later transferred to 
the prison at Auburn, New York, where he is 
now confined. Since then Mr. Miller has been 
indisposed at different times and is now re- 
tired from active pursuits. He was collector 
of customs at the port of Louisville for several 
years, resigning December i, 1886, on the eve 
of his removal to Potsdam. Fle also served as 
supervisor in Louisville twice during the civil 
war period ; as justice of the peace for twenty 
years in Louisville and four years in Massena, 
New York ; and also served as township clerk of 
Louisville. He is a Methodist in religion, hav- 
ing served as trustee of that church in Louis- 
ville, and was superintendent of the Sunday 
school of the Methodist churches both at Louis- 
ville and Massena for many years. He is a 
Republican in politics. He is a member of 
Massena Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, 
and has also been its master. 

Mr. Miller married. February 13, 1855, Sa- 
maiitha .A. Thomas, born in Louisville, April 
24, 1830. died April 12, 191 1, at Massena, New 
York, daughter of Henry B. and Anna Car- 
penter Thomas. Children : i. James L., born De- 
cember 10, 1855, in Louisville; for six months 
during the year 1878 he was in Cresco, Iowa; 
in 1879 went to Augusta. Wisconsin. From 
there he went to Emmettsburg, Iowa, then to 
Fern Valley, Iowa, then to Janesville, Wiscon- 
sin, where he remained six months, studying 
telegraphy, thence to Ashby, Minnesota, where 
he served as teleeraph operator three months, 
then to Minneapolis. Minnesota, January. 1881, 
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in the commission house of Gamble, Robinson 
Company, 222 to 226 North Sixth street, Minne- 
apolis. He married (first) Nettie Strunk, Oc- 
tober 23, 1886; she died May 27, 1887; no 
children. He married (second), February 25, 
1891, at Minneapolis, Jennie f^almer. Chil- 
dren: Bernice Lydia, born November 4, 1892; 
James Harold, born March 11, 1897. 2. Helen 
A., born October 18, 1857. died September 11, 
1890; married, at Louisville, October 23, 1878, 
John A. Oliver, who died March i, 1896, aged 
forty-five years. Children : George, born Sep- 
tember 7, 1879; James Andrew, February 2, 
1881 ; Jay Elton, October, 1886; Jennie Helen, 
September 7, 1890. 3. George A., born May 
18, i860; educated at Potsdam Normal School 
and Law College of Syracuse LIniversity ; em- 
ployed as bookkeeper for Oak Knitting Com- 
pany from September 14, 1903, to May 14, 
1910; now salesman for a Central New York 
company, with headquarters in Union build- 
ing, Syracuse, New York. He married, June 
24, 1901, Eva Dell Gardner; one child, Selma 
Louise, born June 15, 1902. 4. Anna Eliza- 
beth, born February 13, 1862; married, May 27, 
1884, Frank E. Bailey, of Louisville, whence 
he removed to Massena, where he is a mer- 
chant. Children : Mabel Frances, born August 
4, 1886, died August 2^, 191 1 ; Jennie Florence, 
October 21, 1888; Ruth, July 20, 1893, died 
March, 1895: James Miller, July 31, 1896; 
Charles Ansel, September 6, 1898; Frank E. 
Jr., July 31, 1904. 5. Jennie AL Miller, born 
January 5, 1865; educated at Potsdam Normal 
School ; has been engaged in newspaper re- 
porting; reporter for IVatertoivn Daily Times, 
also typesetting machine operator ; was with 
the Binghamton Herald, 1898-99 ; Peekskill 
Evening Ncivs, 1900, and with Massena Ob- 
server for about fifteen years; resides in Mas- 
sena. 6. John PL, mentioned below. 

(VHI) John Herbert, son of James Miller, 
was born in Louisville, New York, July 7, 
1869. He attended the public schools and the 
Potsdam Normal School, from which he was 
graduated in the classical course. He then 
studied law in the office of Judge John A. 
Vance, surrogate of St. Lawrence county, and 
was surrogate's clerk under Judge Vance until 
the fall of 1893, when he entered the law col- 
lege of the LIniversity of Michigan, where he 
took the two years' law course in one year and 
graduated in 1894 with the degree of LL. B. 
That same year he was admitted to the circuit 
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and supreme courts of Michigan, lie then 
returned east, and during the school year of 
1894-95 taught school in Chenango county. 
New York. In January, 1896, he was admit- 
ted to the bar in New York state at a regular 
term of the appellate division of the supreme 
court held at .Albany. He came to Marathon, 
New York, in May of that year, and bought 
out the library and business of an old practi- 
tioner and began the practice of his profession. 
He was admitted to practice in the district and 
circuit courts of the L'nited States at Utica, 
New York, November 4. 1898. His work 
consists chiefly of general practice in United 
States and all state courts. He has attained a 
large measure of success, and has a reputation 
as a safe counselor and careful practitioner, 
and is employed in many ini])ortant causes. In 
politics he is a Republican, and a great admirer 
of the policies of ex-Governor and present 
Justice Hughes and Colonel Theodore Roose- 
velt. In his early practice he was a justice of 
the peace in Marathon. He is a member of 
Marathon Lodge, No. 167, Independent Order 
of Odtl F'ellows, and of the Good (Government 
League of Marathon. In religion he is a Meth- 
odist, and is chairman of the board of trustees 
in that church. He is popular with the fel- 
low members of his profession, and has besides 
a large circle of friends and ac(|uaintances. 

Mr. Miller married, June 2, 1897, Jessie A., 
daughter of William and Melissa (Nichols) 
Arnolds, of McDonough, Chenango county. 
New York. At the time of her marriage Mrs. 
Miller was at the head of the senior inter- 
mediate department of the Marathon high 
school. They have two children: Ruth Vir- 
ginia, born January 16, 1902; Herbert .Arnold. 
May 5, T904. 

There is ample record that 
THOMPSON several of this name were 

among our earliest seven 
teenth century settlers. Sir William Thompson, 
of England, was the owner of property about 
Boston and his coat-of-arms has come down 
through many generations, but ijatient research 
has failed to establish the exact connection be- 
tween the English and American houses. Ed- 
ward Thompson came over in the "Mayflower" 
in 1620; John, brother of the preceding, came 
over from England in 1643 ; Archibald settled 
in Marblehead in 1637 ; Edward Thompson 
settled in Salem in 1638 : Dr. Benjamin Thomp- 



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son settled in Braintree and was town clerk in 
1696, and left at his death eight children and 
twenty-eight grandchildren. 

(I) David Thompson was one of the three 
men who came from England in 1623 under 
the auspices of Mason and Gorges, making 
the first settlement in Xew Hampshire, between 
Portsmouth and Dover. David Thompson 
came from London and is said by Belknap to 
have been a Scotchman. He established a 
fishery at Portsmouth, and was the builder of 
Mason's hall. After a few years he removed 
from New Hampshire and settled on an island 
in Boston harbor, which was granted to him 
by the Massachusetts Bay Colony. This is 
still known as Thompson's Island, and was a 
part of Dorchester until 1834, when it was an- 
ne.xed to Boston. David Thompson married, 
in England. Amyas Coles, and brought chil- 
dren with him on coming to America. He died 
soon after settling on Thompson's Island, and 
his widow subsequently inarried Samuel Mav- 
erick, born 1602, in England, a son of Rev. 
John Maverick, of Dorchester. For his loyal 
and good service to the crown Samuel Mav- 
erick was granted a house and lot in the city 
of New York at the point now known as No. 
50 Broadway. 

(II) John, son of David and Amyas (Coles) 
Thompson, was born about 1620, came over 
with his father as an infant, and on attaining 
manhood resided for several years in Wey- 
mouth, Massachusetts. In 1663 the town of 
Mendon, in Worcester county, which com- 
prised several of the present towns of that 
commonwealth, was granted to thirteen men of 
Braintree and ten of Weymouth. One of the 
latter group is described as "Goodman Thomp- 
son." In the early records of Mendon he is 
called John Thompson and John Thompson, 
Senior, and was selectman of that town in 
1667-7 1 -73-80-8 1. In 1674 he was granted 
leave to keep an inn and joined with his towns- 
men in 1681-85 i" petitions to the general court. 
He died November 9, 1695. The baptismal 
name of his wife was Sarah and they had chil- 
dren: John, mentioned below; Sarah, married. 
June 9. 1670, John Aldrich ; Mehitable. mar- 
ried. November 28. 1666, Samuel Ilayward. 
He had other children not on the record. 

(III) John (2), eldest child of John (i) 
and Sarah Thompson, was born about 1643 
probably in Weymouth, and removed to Men- 
don with his father. He is referred to in the 
records of that town as Ensign John Thomp- 



son ; was selectman several years, and an active 
and honored citizen. When the second meet- 
ing house was built in 1694 he bought the old 
building, but we are not informed what use he 
made of it. He owned a considerable amount 
of land, and his name as grantor and grantee is 
often found in the land records of his time. 
He married, in 1665, Thankful Woodland, 
baptized August 9, 1646, in Dorchester. Mas- 
sachusetts, daughter of John and Martha Wood- 
land, of that town, later of Mendon and Brain- 
tree. In 1670 the town of Braintree voted to 
send Widow Woodland to Mendon to her son 
Thompson, "who kindly oiifers to receive and 
keep her." Ensign John Thompson died Sep- 
tember 18. 17.39. Children: John, mentioned 
below: Sarah, born May 12. 1669; Ebenezer, 
baptized October 14. 1677. at Braintree; Sam- 
uel. February 4. 1679; Woodland. January 27. 
1681. settled in L'xbridge ; Benjamin, Septem- 
ber 17. 1684; David, May 24, 1687. 

(I\") John (3), eldes't child of John (2) 
and Thankful (Woodland) Thompson, was 
born December 25, 1667, in Mendon. He re- 
sided in that town and Medfield until after 
1696. and then in Bellingham, dying in the last 
town, March 6. 1749. He married, about 1688, 
Hannah, daughter of Samuel and Hannah 
(.Albee) Wight, of Medfield, born in 1667, 
died November 24, 1759. Her parents were 
married in 1663. the father being a son of 
Thomas Wight, who came from the Isle of 
Wight with his wife .Mice, and their three sons, 
locating in Watertown. Massachusetts, in 1636; 
was later in Dedham, made a freeman in 1640, 
and was one of the thirteen original proprietors 
of Medfield. where he settled in the latter part 
of T652. Children : John, born December 28. 
1689: Hannah, .April 20. 1692; Mary. March 
16, 1694; Samuel, July 2, 1696; Joseph. Octo- 
ber 19, 1698; Jonathan, tnentioned below; 
Benjamin, April 28. 1703; Martha, March 28, 
1705: Peter. March 20, 1708: .Abigail. 

(\') Jonathan, second son of John (3) and 
Hannah (Wight) Thom])son. was born Octo- 
ber 23. 1700. in Medfield, and resided in Bell- 
ingham. Massachusetts, where he died June 7. 
1782. in his eighty-third year. (Private rec- 
ords say he died in 1783). His wife, Hannah, 
(lied Mav 20. 1761. according to private rec- 
ords, .'^even children were recorded in Bell- 
ingham : Eunice, born November 21. 1726, died 
unmarried, March 24, 1823; Hannah, Novem- 
ber 28. 1728: Jonathan. September 6, 1731, 
married. .Ajiri! 10. 1754; Jemima Baxter; .Abi- 



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gail, September Jj, 1735; Caleb, mentioned 
below; David, March 21, 1740, married (first) 
Lucy Blake, (second) Eunice Blake: John, 
June 8, 1744. 

(\"I) Caleb, second son of Jonathan and 
Hannah Thompson, was born November 5, 
1737, in Bellingham. He served as a private 
in Lieutenant John Trask's company, Colonel 
David Leonard's regiment, of the revolution- 
ary army, enlisting February 26, 1777, and was 
discharged April 10, of the same year, having 
served forty-four days in the expedition to 
Ticon;leroga, including travel (one hundred 
and eighty miles) home. He died in 1828, 
probably at Monson, Massachusetts. He mar- 
ried, December 21, 1768, in Bellingham, Lydia, 
daughter of Rev. Noah Alden. The last named 
was born May 30, 1725, in Middleboro, Massa- 
chusetts, moved to Stafiford, Connecticut, in 
1749. and in 1766. to Bellingham, where he 
died Alay 5, 1797, aged seventy-two years. The 
church records say he died May 6. and the town 
records give the date as May 5. He died in the 
forty-third year of his public ministry, thirty- 
one of which he spent in Bellingham. He was 
a descendant of the Puritan, Hon. John Alden. 
through the following : Joseph, son of John 
and Priscilla ( Mullins ) .Alden, married Mary 
Simmons, and their son John married Hannah 
White, he and his wife becoming parents of 
Rev. Noah Alden, who was received into the 
Middleboro Congregational Church, March 7. 
1742, dismissed to the Congregational church 
at Stafford in 1749, and a member there until 
■753' when he changed his religious views and 
became a Baptist minister, being ordained in 
Stafford, June 5, 1755, and in Bellingliam, No- 
vember 12, 1766. He was a member of the 
convention for adopting the constitution of 
.Massachusetts in 1780. and of the convention 
which adopted the constitution of the United 
States in 1788. He is spoken of in various 
records as a pious and worthy man. He was 
one of the four ministers who formed the 
Warren association in 1767. His marriage 
with Joanna (or Mary) \'aughn is recorded at 
Middleboro, March 4, 1744. They had chil- 
dren as follows : Joanna,, Lucy, Ruth. Elisha. 
Israel, Noah, Lydia, and perhaps others. Chil- 
dren as follows were born to Caleb and Lydia 
Thompson, as recorded at Bellingham : Joel, 
February 13, 1770; Silence, June 21, 1771, 
died June 22, 1771 ; Hannah, June 3, 1773. 
died in 1788; Freelove, June 10, 1776: Zenus, 
mentioned below; Rhufus. born in Alendon. 



July 9, 1782; Susanna, October 21. 1785 ; Han- 
nah, October 7, 1789. 

(VH) Zenus, second son of Caleb and 
Lydia (Alden) Thompson, was born March 9, 
1779, as recorded in the Bellingham records, 
which say he was born in the adjoining town of 
Milford. He had but limited opportunity for 
education, and during his minority learned the 
trade of shoemaker with his brother Joel at 
Providence, Rhode Island. For a short time 
he resided in the town of Monson, Massachu- 
setts, and subsequentlv in the adjoining town 
of Stafford. Tolland county. Connecticut, 
whence he removed in 1805 to Butternuts, Ot- 
sego county. New York, where he was one of 
the pioneer settlers. In 1827 he removed to 
East Freetown, Cortland county, and settled 
on a farm at the Corners, subsetiuently remov- 
ing to Lapeer, Cortland county, and there died 
November 12, 1851. He married (first), De- 
cember 25, 1803, Sarah, daughter of .Abner and 
Betsey (Cross) Wood, of Stafford, Connecti- 
cut, born in 1779, died March 2^, 1837. Abner 
Wood was an ensign in the revolutionary army. 
He married (second), June 19, 1839, Mrs. 
Patience Church, of Lapeer, born in 1799, in 
Brattleboro. \'ermont. died in 1876. When he 
removed to Otsego county he purchased a 
farm, east quarter of lot No. 59, consisting of 
fifty acres, for one hundred dollars, having on 
it a log house and a few acres of clear land. 
While residing at East Freetown he engaged 
in farming and upon his removal to Lapeer 
purchased a small farm there. In 1802 Mr. 
Thompson became a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal church, and soon after his marriage 
his wife also became a member. His body 
was deposited in the Loop burying ground on 
the road leading from East Freetown to Solon. 
Children of the first marriage: i. Rufus Al- 
den, mentioned below. 2. Elmira T., born 
October 10, 1806: married Lyman Peck, and 
died in 1896. 3. Apollus Z.. 1808, died 1874. 
4, Laurinda S.. 1810: married (first) Henry 
Cameron, ( second) William Raymond, died 
in 1883. 5. Hiram, 1812. 6. Mary P., May 6, 
181-1: married (first) Nathan Peck, (second) 
David Randall. 7. Julia Freelove. 1818: 
married Henry Loomis, died 1848. 8. Betsey 
Belinda, October 27, 1821 ; married (first) 
.Stephen N. Peck, (second) Henry Loomis. 
There was one child of the second marriage, 
.Augusta, who married Lee Johnson, of La- 
peer. 

(ATI!) Rufus .Alden, eldest son of Zenus 



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and Sarah (W'ood) Thompson, was born Jan- 
uary 7, 1805, in Stafford, Tolland county, Con- 
necticut, died April 18, 1890, in Sidney, New 
York. About 1822 he went to Masonville from 
Butternuts, New York. There he learned to 
be a tanner, currier and shoemaker, and car- 
ried on the business. He bought out Mr. 
Ketchum and for several years carried on the 
manufacture of leather, boots and shoes. In 
1829 he built a tannery and residence at Solon 
Corners, Cortland county. New York, where 
he carried on the tanning business until 1835, 
when he returned to Masonville. He contin- 
ued tanning and shoemaking and then settled 
on a farm some two miles from Unadilla, in 
Delaware county, New York. In 1855 he sold 
his farm to his son, Foster W. Thompson, and 
continued farming at Masonville until 1882. 
He then removed to Sidney, where the remain- 
der of his life was passed. From early man- 
hood Mr. Thompson was a member of the 
Methodist Episco])al church, consistent in his 
Christian life. His life impressed all who 
were acquainted with him. His honesty of 
purpose in all matters, his integrity, his con- 
scientious regard for the rights of others and 
his uniform courtesy and kindness of heart 
made him respected wherever he dwelt. 

He married (first), January 11, 1828, Pru- 
dence Emiline Wells, born 1812, died 1843, 
daughter of Levi Wells, a farmer of Mason- 
ville, and Electa, his wife. 

He married (second), in 1847, Sylvia S., 
born January 20,' 1 82 1, died October 18, 1894, 
daughter of Joseph Allen and Eleanor (Fos- 
ter) Clark, of Masonville. There were three 
children of the first marriage: i. Foster Wells, 
born 1830, died December 4, 1895; resided on 
the paternal homestead, and was a leading 
farmer and citizen of I'nadilla. He married. 
January 15, 1835. Sarah Dewey, born Jan- 
uary 4, 1833, daughter of Daniel Dewey, born 
October 18, 1789, and Bethane (FoUett) 
Dewey, born August 4, 1800, married August 
28, 1822. Children: i. Clara, born April 7, 
1858, married, November 22, 1881, Frank 
White, born May 6, 1858, now residing at Una- 
dilla, New York ; children : a. Samuel N., 
born August 22, 1882; b. Earl Foster, born 
October 6, 1888; c. Ruth, born July 23, 1892, 
died August 18, 1894; d. Sarah Amelia, born 
December 23, 1895; e. Marion Louise, born 
December 21, 1899. ii. Charles E. Thompson, 
D. D. S., born January 30, 1860: now residing 
at Oxford, New York ; married Florence 



Wheeler, born May 2"], 1862; children: a. 
Paul Wheeler Thompson, born December 7, 
1888, graduate of Cornell University, class of 
1910, now one of the faculty; b. Julia Atwood 
Thompson, born May 27, 1894, student of 
Wells, New York. 2. Electa Olivia, born 1832, 
died 1840. 3. Sarah Emeline, born 1837; 
married ■ Gardner L. Rider, of Masonville ; 
children: i. Fred, now residing at Alasonville. 
New York ; ii. Edith, married Arville Dean, 
both deceased. Children of second marriage: 
4. Ellen Almira, born 1848; married (first) 
Jeremiah Ward, (second) Silas Pindar, of 
Bakersfield, California, now living at Sidney, 
New York. 5. Dr. Rufus Allen, mentioned 
below. 6. Florence Edith, born 1856, died 
June 22, 1892 ; married Charles H. Culver, of 
North Walton, New York ; children : i. Cur- 
tis, residing at Oneonta, New York; ii. Lulu, 
married and residing at Walton, New York. 
7. Chauncey Clark, born 1859, died 1880. 

(IX) Dr. Rufus Allen Thompson, second 
child of Rufus Alden and Sylvia S. (Clark) 
Thompson, was born November 30, 1853, in 
Sidney, New York. He received his degree, 
M. D., from the University of New York in 
1879. He practiced medicine at Sidney and 
Franklin. New York, until 1886. After a 
course of special study he located in Norwich, 
New York, in 1888, where he now resides, 
engaged in the active practice of his profession. 
He married, December 25, 1878, Rosa Belle, 
daughter of James Henry and Huldah A. 
(Peck) Moulton (see Moulton IX), Dr. 
and Mrs. Thomjison have one daughter, Eliza- 
beth Moulton, born October 13, 1886; she is 
a graduate of Syracuse University, class of 
1909, and is now one of the faculty of the 
Norwich high school. 

(The Clark Line). 

The family herein mentioned does not seem 
to have any connection with the numerous 
other Clark families early planted in America. 
With the usual tendency for adiling an "e" to 
every word on the part of the early immi- 
grants that letter was frefiuently used as a 
termination of this name in the New Eng- 
land records. It has been discarded, however, 
by later generations. 

(I) Richard Clarke, of Rowley, Massa- 
chusetts, probably came with the party of 
Rev. Fzekiel Rogers from the East Riding of 
Yorkshire. England, in 1638, and settled in 
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1643 Richard Clarke purchased a lot of one 
and a half acres on Bedford street, which was 
owned by his descendants as recently as 1883. 
In 1661 he was allowed one and a half "gates" 
in the division of common land. In 1656 and 
1660 he was overseer, and selectman in 1666. 
He died before May 31, 1674, when his will 
was proved, and as this document does not 
mention his wife she was ])robably not living 
when it was executed. His marriage was the 
second in the town, August 6, 1643, but the 
family name of his wife, Alice, is not men- 
tioned in the record. They had children : 
Judah, Hester, Mary, John, Martha. Only 
two of these were living when his will was 
made. Hester, wife of Jonathan Hopkinson, 
received by will one-third of his estate, the 
remainder going to his son, John. 

(H) John, son of Richard and Alice Clarke, 
was born May 26, 1650, in Rowley, died there 
December 21, 1736, referred to in the church 
record of his death as "a good old man." He 
married, January 10, 1672, Mary, born Decem- 
ber 12, 1653, daughter of John Poore, of 
Newbury. John Poore was born in Wiltshire, 
England, about 161 5, and came to America 
in 1635, settling on the neck in Newbury on 
the road from Newbury to Rowley. No record 
of his wife appears. John Clarke had chil- 
dren : Sarah, Richard, John, Judah, Mary, 
Hester, Martha, Ebenezer, Jonathan. Joseph, 
Henjamin. 

(IH) Richard (2), eldest son of John and 
Mary (Poore) Clarke, was born November 
10, 1677, in Rowley, and died there of small- 
pox, July II. 1730. His will made nine days 
■before his death disposed of real estate valued 
at nine hundred and ninety-four pounds, five 
shillings, and personal property to the value 
of eighty-three pounds, ten shillings and two 
jience. This estate was subsequently increased 
by one hundred and fifty pounds, and the de- 
duction of debts proven left a net value of one 
thousand pounds and four shillings. This 
was one of the largest estates in Essex county 
at that time. He married (first), December 2, 
1702, .Abigail, daughter of John and Abigail 
Wickom, who died October 17, 1722. He mar- 
ried (second), Aug^ist 9, 1729, Abigail, daugh- 
ter of Joseph Kilborn. Children of first wife: 
Abigail, John, Richard, Thomas, Simon, Eben- 
ezer, and two infants who died unnamed. 
There were two infant children of the second 
wife, who died unnamed. The second perished 
from small-pox. 



( I\') Simon Clark, fourth son of Richard 
(2) and Abigail (Wickom) Clarke, was born 
November 4, 1714, in Rowley, and settled in 
Stafford. Connecticut, in the spring of 1738. 
He received a deed of one hundred acres of 
land there. March 28, of that year, and in De- 
cember of the following year he sold one-half 
of this to his brother, Ebenezer, who resided 
in Mansfield, Connecticut. Simon Clark mar- 
ried Ruth Taylor, of Scituate, their intentions 
recorded in Rowley, May 13, 1738. 

(V) Simon (2), eldest son of Simon (i) 
and Ruth (Taylor) Clark, was born about 
1739, in StafYord, and undoubtedly passed his 
life there. 

(\T) Simon (3), eldest son of Simon (2) 
Clark, was born May 18, 1760, in Stafford, 
died January 9, 1840, in Masonville, New 
York. He married Sarah Allen, born May 13, 
1764, in Mansfield, Connecticut, baptized May 
12, 1765, died December 16, 1840, in Mason- 
ville, New York, daughter of Hezekiah and 
Sarah (Cushman) Allen, of Massachusetts. 
Children : Joseph .Allen, Daniel, Seth, Thomas, 
John, Mary. 

(VH) Joseph Allen, son of Simon (3) and 
Sarah (Allen) Clark, was born June 14, 1792, 
in Stafford, died May 17, 1875, i" Bennetts- 
ville. New York. He was a farmer and lum- 
berman and a Baptist in religion. The family 
were stalwart both physically and mentally, 
progressive and enterprising. He married 
.April 23. 181 5, Eleanor Foster, born October 
12, 1795, in Cherry Valley, New York, died 
October 8, 1862, in East Masonville, New 
York, daughter of Nathan and Eleanor (Mor- 
ris) Foster. Children: Eucy L., born Febru- 
ary 24, 1817. died May 18, 1904; Sarah, No- 
vember 2, 1819, died April 14, 1896; Sylvia 
S.. January 20, 1S21, died October 18, 1894; 
Cynthia, December 10, 1822, died January 17, 
1908; Milo P., November 30, 1824, died 
March 27. 1901 ; Betsey, March 4. 1827, died 
February 9, 1905; Robert W., July 5, 1829, 
livina: in East Masonville, New York ; Simon, 
.April I. 1831, died February 26, 1906; Joseph 
.A., September 5, 1833, died October 13, 1904; 
JTulda, June 8^ 1836, died March 27, 1865^; 
{;eoro-e D., August 8, 1845, died in infancy. 

(\'ni) Sylvia S.. daughter of Joseph 
.Allen and Eleanor (Foster) Clark, was born 
January 20, 1821, died October 18, 1894, in 
Sidney. New A^ork. She married, March 30. 
1847, Rufus Alden Thompson, of Sidney, 
New York (see Thompson VHI). 



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(The Moulton Line). 
In the year 1066 a Norman follower of Wil- 
liam the Conqueror named Thomas Multon, 
or (le Multon, accompanied his chief into Eng- 
land, and after the battle of Hastings was re- 
warded for his services with large grants of 
land in Lincolnshire. Here he built castles 
and religious establishments, maintained a 
retinue of soldiers, laborers and priests, and 
lived the life of a feudatory of the king. From 
this Norman the Moultons of England and 
America are said to have sprung. Between 
the time of the first Sir Thomas and the pres- 
ent, twenty-five generations of Moultons have 
been born, and through nine generations, from 
the battle of Hastings, there continued to be 
some brave knights bearing the name of Sir 
Thomas, who were ready to respond to the 
King's call to arms. Sir Thomas of the fourth 
generation was sheriff during the ninth and 
tenth years of King John's dynasty, and in 
the fifteenth year of his reign attended the king 
in his expedition to Poitou. Two years later 
he was taken into arms with the rebellious 
barons and imprisoned in the castle of Corfif. 
This was the Sir Thomas Moulton whose 
name appears upon the magna cliarta as one of 
the English barons who wrung this great muni- 
ment of liberty from an unwilling king. The 
fiftli Sir Thomas de Moulton, Sir Walter 
Scott took as a leading character in his dra- 
matic story, "The Talisman." Being a trusted 
friend of Richard Coeur de Lion, and pos- 
sessing great physical jxiwer, he was the ad- 
miration and envy of the knights at the great 
tournaments of England. In the Holy Land 
he was a leading crusader, and was of all the 
knights the nearest to the king. Indeed, when 
Richard's sickness laid him low, Sir Thomas 
was the ruler de facto. Sir Walter Scott 
claims that in "The Talisman" some parts 
are fanciful, but that so far as King Richard 
and Sir Thomas Moulton are concerned he 
has followed English history. From such 
men as the.se are the American Moultons of 
this day, and among them are many who are 
the peers of their ancestors or of their fel- 
low citizens in those qualities of head and 
heart which make men leaders and trusted 
companions of other men. "All branches of 
the Moulton family had arms with devices 
somewhat different from each other in minor 
details, yet alike in the main, viz : :\ plain field, 
either of silver or blue; crossed by three hori- 
zontal bars, generally red, sometime sable. 



This continued several hundred years, down 
to the arms which were granted in 1571 by 
the records, described as follows : Argent, 
three bars (gules) between eight escalloped 
shells, sable, three, two, two and one. Crest ; 
On a pellet a falcon rising argent. Granted in 
1 57 1." The name appears in various forms, 
as Multon, Muleton, Moleton, Moulson and 
Moulton. Three Moultons — Thomas, John 
and William, supposed to be brothers, settled 
at Winnacunnett, now Hampton, New Hamp- 
shire, and from these all or nearly all the 
Moultons of New England are descendants. 

( I ) Robert Moulton came from England 
in 1629 accompanied by his brother, James, 
and son, Robert, in the ship "George Bona- 
venture," in the fleet sent with supplies to 
Governor Endicott. He was a ship builder 
and was in charge of the tools and supplies 
on the vessel, and was em])loyed by the Lon- 
don Company to build ships for the Massa- 
chusetts Bay Colony. He settled first at Sa- 
lem, Massachusetts, and jjrobably carried on 
his ship building at the present Fowler and 
Boston streets at the head of North river. He 
died at his residence there in 1655. He was 
made a freeman, May 18, 1631, and had a farm 
in Salem village, now Peabody. From 1630 
to 1635 he resided in Charlestown, near the 
Charlestown end of the Chelsea bridge, at a 
place still known as Moulton Point, where he 
owned a house. This is the point at which 
the British forces landed when they made 
the attack on Bunker Hill. The name is also 
still preserved by Moulton street. Robert 
Moulton was a very prominent and influential 
citizen, and represented both Salem and 
Charlestown in the general court, being deputy 
from the latter town in 1634. He had chil- 
dren : Robert and Dorothy. The latter be- 
came the wife of an Edwards. By his will his 
farm was left to his son and grandson Robert, 
and to his daughter twenty marks and two pil- 
lowbers. 

(II) Robert (2), son of Robert (i) Moul- 
ton, was an adult when he accompanied his 
father to Salem, and was grantee! land by the 
town in .Salem village, where he lived and died 
in the fall of 1665. He was rector of an Epis- 
copal church at Salem in 1640, but the contin- 
uance of this church was prevented by Gover- 
nor Endicott, who considered it contrary to 
public policy. He married, in the spring of 
1641, .\bigail Goode, a niece of Emanuel 
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husband. Children: Abigail, Robert, John, 
Samuel, Joseph, Alariam, Mary, Hannah. 

(III) Robert (3), eldest son of Robert (2) 
and Abigail (Goode) Moulton, was baptized 
June 23, 1644, in Salem, in which town he 
made his home and died in 1731. He married 
there, July 17, 1672, Mary Cook, and had 
children : Mary, Robert, Ebenezer, Abigail, 
Samuel, Martha, Hannah. 

(IV) Robert (4), eldest son of Robert (3) 
and Mary (Cook) Moulton, was born Septem- 
ber 3, 1675, in Salem, where he resided until 
about 1708, when he removed to Windham, 
Connecticut. In 1721 he removed thence to 
Brimfield, Massachusetts, where he died 
.'\ugust 25, 1756. He was a distinguished in- 
habitant of the town, and its first representa- 
tive in the colonial legislature. At the first 
town meeting in 1731 he was moderator and 
was chosen town clerk and chairman of the five 
selectmen. He was also moderator in 1733, 
and both selectman and assessor in 17^2-^;^. 
He married, April 12, 1698, in Beverly, Han- 
nah Groves, of that town, who survived him. 
Children : Hannah, Robert, Mary, Abigail, 
Lois, Lydia, Ebenezer. ]ilehitable, Samuel, Su- 
sanna, Joseph, Freeborn, John. 

(V) Samuel, third son of Robert (4) and 
Hannah (Groves) Moulton, was born June 15, 
1714, in Windham, and resided in Brimfield 
and Monson, Massachusetts, adjoining towns. 
He became the ])roprietor of a tract of land 
which he cleared up and whereon he erected 
a log cabin before taking a wife. Not long 
after his marriage he exchanged properties 
with his brother, Ebenezer, and became owner 
and occupant of what is termed the "Old 
Wales Tavern Stand," where he opened and 
for several years kept the first inn in the town. 
He married, January 30, 173Q, Mary Haines, 
and both were living in i7r)8. Children: Sam- 
uel, Robert. Mary, Lois, Dorcas, Lydia, Solo- 
mon, John. 

(\''I) Robert (5), second son of Samuel 
and Mary (Haines) Moulton, was born about 
1744, in Brimfield. and resided in South Brim- 
field, now Wales, ]\Iassachusetts, and removed 
thence after his children were born to the 
nearby town of Stafiford, Connecticut. He 
married Judith Morgan and had children : 
Mary. Patty, Samuel, Rosa, Robert, Horace. 
Nye. Solomon. 

( Vn ) Samuel, eldest son of Robert (5) 
and Judith (Morgan) Moulton, was born 
Augu.st 22. 1784, in South Brimfield, and re- 



sided for a time in Stafford, Connecticut. 
About 1805 he settled in the town of Butter- 
nuts, Otsego county. New York, where he died 
May 3. 1844. He married .\sidna Hendricks, 
who died June 19, 1850, aged sixty-three years. 
Their children were: Samuel, Ascenith, Caro- 
line, Hannah, Jared, Justin, Jane, Elizabeth. 
James Henry. 

(\1II) James Henry, son of Sanniel and 
Asidna (Hendricks) Moulton, was burn No- 
vember 17, 1818, in Butternuts, died October 
17, 1866, in the same town. He married, De- 
cember 25, 185 1, Huldah Albina Peck, born 
February 5, 1829, died September 28, 1907, 
daughter of Enos and Condice (Sweet) Peck. 
Children of James Henry and Huldah Al- 
bina (Peck) ^loulton are: i. Ella Jane, born 
August I, 1853; married, January 25, 1870, 
Cyrus Henry Graves ; now residing at Mt. 
Cpton, New York; child: Lulu Grace, born 
January 18, 1875; married, September 16, 
i8g6, Fred Shepard Rockwell, of Mt. Upton. 
New York ; they have one son, Howard Cyrus, 
born December 10, 1905. 2. James Henry, 
Jr., born March 22, 1856, died Alarch 4, 1863. 
3. Rosa Belle (see forward). 4. Will Cassius. 
born November 15, 1859; attt)rney-at-law ; 
married Ruble Coon, born September 4. 1863: 
children: \\'illiam Connell, born April 7,1888; 
Genevive Rose, .\ugust 15, 1889; Robert Stan- 
ton, July 24, 1890, died August 19, i8gi ; Har- 
old Meredith, January 5, 1892; Winifred, 
.\ugust 18, 1894; Clifi^ord, February 24, i89(). 

(IN) Rosa Belle, daughter of James Henry 
and Huldah .-Klbina ( Peck) Moulton, was born 
.November 18. 1857. in Gilbcrtsville, and was 
married December 25. 1878, to Dr. Rufus Al- 
len Thomiison, then of IMasonville, New York 
(see Thompson IX). 



The surname Mersereau 
M i'".RSl''RR \r was originally spelled 

Mercereau, and is of an- 
cient I'Vencli origin, .\fter the Revocation of 
the Edict of Nantes in 1685 and the jiersecu- 
tion of the fluguenots following, there was a 
general exodus of the French TVotestants. Se- 
cretly and by night, often in strange disguises, 
fraught with great suffering and beset by 
dangers on every side, they fled in great num- 
bers to Switzerland, Germany and England, 
and not a few made their way to .\merica. 
Among the latter was the widow of Captain 
John Mersereau, who with her three sons. 
Joshua, Paul and Daniel, and two daughters. 



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Mary and Elizabeth, Hed to England in 1685. 
Of these children, Paul remained in England, 
the other four with their mother continued 
their flight to this country. Their father, a 
man of great force of character and energy, 
a son of General Joshua Mersereau, had died 
many years before. They intended to settle at 
Philadelphia, but were driven by stress of 
weather to New York and found a home on 
Staten Island. There the mother died, and was 
buried in the old French churchyard. Eliza- 
beth married Pierre Masse; Mary married 
John La Tourette, and was at Schenectady, 
New Y^ork, at the time of the massacre of 
1690; her husband and children were slain and 
she was scalped and left for dead, but recov- 
ered and spent the rest of her life in the home 
of her elder brother Joshua, on Staten Island, 
wearing a cap to conceal the nakedness of her 
skull. 

(II) Joshua, sou of Captain John Merser- 
eau, married July 16, 1693, Marie Chedaine. 
He resided on Staten Island and died there. 
May 23, 1756, aged ninety-three years. Chil- 
<lren: Marie, Paul, [oshua, mentioned below: 
David. 

(III) Joshua(2), son of Joshua (i) Mer- 
sereau, was born in New Y'ork City, May 18, 
1696: married, October 21, 1727, Mary, daugh- 
ter of Colonel Jacob Corsen, of Staten Island, 
born October 21. 1704, died July 28, 1763. 
Children, born at Staten Island : Joshua, men- 
tioned below; Jacob. April 25. 1730: John, 
March 2, 1732; David, November 10. 1735; 
Cornelius, July 27, 1739; Paul, February 2T,. 
1741; Elizabeth, November 2'S. 1743: Rachel. 
Februarv 27, 1746. 

(IV) 'Joshua (3). son of Joshua (2) .Mer- 
sereau, was born on Staten Island, New Y'ork, 
September 26, 1728, and died in Union, New 
York, June 10, 1804. He was educated at 
Kings College (now Columbia), and practiced 
law in New York City. He and his brother 
John ran the first line of stage coaches between 
New York and Philadelphia. John introduced 
the first postcoach into the country from Eng:- 
land. \\'hen the revolution broke out the 
stages belonging to the brothers were stopped 
and the horses turned over to the American 
service for the army. Joshua assisted in rais- 
ing a company for the Quebec expedition in 
the autumn of 1775. .^n edict issued from the 
liritish head(|uarters proclaimed John Merser- 
eau a "Rebel." and set a price of five hundred 
guineas on his head, dead or alive. He was a 



member of the provincial assembly of New 
York state which met at Kingston and Pough- 
keepsie during 1777-86, representing Rich- 
mond county. He was also deputy commis- 
sary of prisoners. General Boudinot being his 
superior oflficer, with headquarters at Rutland, 
Massachusetts, and afterward at Elizabeth- 
town, New Jersey. His service was continu- 
ous in various capacities throughout the war. 
His name appears in the Staten Island records 
of transfers of land from 1762 to 1789, and 
then with other soldiers he received a grant 
of land for his service in the western part of 
the state. After the war he removed with his 
family to Tioga county. New Y'ork, where he 
was one of the earliest judges. He married 
(first) Sophie La Grange, of French-Hugue- 
not ancestry; (second) Ann Roome, of New- 
York City, of Dutch descent; (third) Esther, 
widow of Richard Christopher. Children by 
first wife: Joshua, born 1758; John, 1760; 
So])hie. P.y second wife: Captain Lawrence, 
January 4, 1773, died January 24, 1873. mar- 
ried Hannah Christopher : ]\Iary, mentioned 
below; Cornelius, born July 12, 1777. 

(V) Mary, daughter of Joshua (3) Mer- 
sereau, was born on Staten Island. May 23, 
1775, and died at L'nion, New York, May i, 
1855. She married (first) W'illiam \'an 
Name, born January 15, 1763, died November 
25, 1825, and removed to Union. She mar- 
ried (second) George Harper. Children by 
first husband (\'an Name) : Joshua, Cornelius, 
W'illiam. John, Mary, Hester, Ann, mentioned 
below; Hannah. Pamelia. Catherine, Rachel 
and P'lizabeth. 

(\'l ) .Ann. daughter of William and Mary 
(Mersereau) \'an Name, was born September 
6, 1795; married, December 25. 1815. .Arthur 
(Iray. Jr. (see Gray). 

(The Gray LinoV 

(I) David Gray lived in Elizabethtown, 
New Jersey. He and his brother, tradition 
says, were officers in the British army in the 
revolution, and served under General Corn- 
wallis. 

(II) .Arthur, son of David Gray, was born 
about 1755. After the revolution he settled 
at Binghamton. New York, and became the 
owner of a large tract of land which he after- 
ward traded with Captain Stowe for a still 
larger tract in L'nion, New York, about 1825. 
He married, in 1778, Mary, daughter of Daniel 
and i'.uphemia (Reid) Reading (see Sands). 



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Children: i. William, born April 3, 1779; mar- 
ried Lanning. 2. Daniel, April 9, 

1781 ; married Lydia Bevier. 3. Euphemia, 
June 27, 1782; married Samuel Dean. 4. 
Theodosia, January 15, 1784; married Rich- 
ard Lowe. 5. Anastasia, March 31, 1786; 
married Jonathan Ogden. 6. Catherine, mar- 
ried James McKinney. 7. Mary, married Ly- 
man Page. 8. Jasper, June 22, 1792. 9. 
Eleanor, twin of Jasper. 10. Arthur, men- 
tioned below. II. Isaac, May 21, 1797; mar- 
ried Sarah Williams. 12. Barzillai, May 17. 
1801 ; married H. A. Shaw. 

(IIL) Arthur (2), son of Arthur (i) Gray, 
was born October 9, 1794. He married, De- 
cember 25. 1815, .\nn, daughter of William 
and Mary (Mersereau) \'an Xame (see Mer- 
■^ereau). He died June 13, 1864, and was bur- 
ied in the Gray plot in Spring Forest Cemetery, 
Binghamton. Xew York, by the side of his 
wife, who died at Williamsport, Pennsylvania, 
May 20, 1893, aged ninety-eight years. Chil- 
dren: I. Isaac, born August 13, 1817, died 
March 25, 1863; married, December 3, 1851, 
Rebecca G. Sayer. 2. William, September 30, 
1819: married (first), February 28, i860, 
Sarah Rounds ; (second) Ellen Storer : he died 
December 24, 1905. 3. Charles, August 11. 
1821, died August 5, 1850. 4. Elizabeth Ann, 
July 20, 1823, died March, 1898; married, July 
23, 1844. Abel Du Bois, of Tioga, New York. 
5. Mary Jane, April 21, 1826. died March 26, 
1887 : married, October 1 1. 1848, Charles Man- 
ning, of Berkshire, New York. 6. James, 
February 18, 1828, died October, 1852. 7. 
Arthur, July 19, 1830, died May 14, 1834. 8. 
Euphemia Catherine, June 18, 1833 ; married, 
October 9, i860, Joseph Du Bois, of Tioga, 
-Mew York. 9. Christopher, mentioned below. 

(IV) Christopher, son of Arthur (2) Gray, 
was born October 30, 1835, died August 22, 
191 1, buried in Spring Forest Cemetery. He 
married, in Union, New Y'ork, May 29, 1865, 
Lucy Baxter Richards, daughter of Jesse and 
Mary Richards; she died April 21, 1892. Chil- 
dren, born in LTnion, New York: i. Mary 
Richards, born June 3, 1866. 2. Alice Eliza- 
beth, April 28, 1868; married, February 11, 
1903, in Binghamton, New York, James Val- 
entine Beazley, a native of London, England. 
3. Arthur Richard, May 3, 1870: married, April 
13, 1898, Flora Green; child, Arthur Leverett, 
born September 9, 1901. 4. Helen Sayer, 
July 27, 1873. 5. Jesse Richards, April 6, 
1880; married Phebe Lane, January 9, 1908. 



(The Sands Line). 

(II) Samuel, son of Captain James Sands 
(q. v.), was born in 1666; married Dorothy, 
daughter of Simon and Mary Ray, of Block 
Island. Me lived at Cow Neck. His will was 
proved in Rhode Island in 1716. Children: 
Sybil, married Jonathan Rogers ; Mercy, mar- 
ried Richard Stillman ; Ann, married 

Kermann : Sarah, married Nathan Selleck ; 
-Samuel, Jr., married Pell; Mary, men- 
tioned below. 

(III) Mary, daughter of Samuel Sands, 
married, December 17, 1721, Colonel John 
Reid, of Hortensia, New Jersey, who was born 
July 27, 1686. She died in October, 1776; he 
died June i, 1777. Children: Mary, born No- 
vember 28, 1722, married, 1749, Thomas 
Kearney; Anna, born February 18, 1724, mar- 
ried, 1748, Obadiah Bonne; John, January 2, 
1726; Helena, March 9, 1728, married Thomas 
Bonne; Margaretta, March 29, 1730, married 
James Kearney ; Augustine, December 28. 
1731, married Sara Reading; Catherine. 
August 14, 1733, married Richard Reading; 
Euphemia, mentioned below ; Samuel, March 
12, 1737; Theodosia, November 24, 1738, mar- 
ried. 1767, Jasper Smith. 

(IV) Euphemia, daughter of Colonel John 
and Mary ( Sands ) Reid, was born May 24. 
1735. She married (first), in 1755, Daniel 
Reading; (second), March, 1772, Peter Im- 
ley. Children of Daniel and Euphernia Read- 
ing: Mary, born March 31, 1756; married, 
1778, Arthur Gray (see Gray) ; John, May 20, 
1757; Euphemia, May 16, 1761 ; Daniel, 
March, 1763: Samuel and Helena, twins, Feb- 
ruary, 1765. Children of Peter and Euphemia 
(Reid) Imley: Peter and William Imley, 
twins, 1773. 

.Sampson Mason was the immi- 
M.\SON grant ancestor of the family. He 
was a soldier in Cromwell's army 
and came to .\merica about 1650. The earliest 
record found of him in America is in the Suf- 
folk record of the settlement of the estate of 
Edward Bullock, of Dorchester. His will was 
dated July 25, 1640, and a debt is mentioned as 
due to Sampson Mason for his wife's shoes. 
In 1651 Sampson Mason bought a house and 
land in Dorchester of William Botts, and after- 
ward sold it to Jacob Hewins. He removed 
to Rehoboth where by vote of the town, De- 
cember 9, 1657, he was given permission to 
buy land and settle there. He was a Baptist, 



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and the records show that he, Luther and other 
Baptists became prominent in the town in spite 
of the fact that they were only allowed to live 
there, without the privilege of being made 
freemen, by the Puritan inhabitants. He ob- 
tained grants of land south of Rehoboth from 
the Indians, in the town of Swansea. His 
name is among the original associates and a 
founder of the town, and one of the original 
proprietors of the "North Purchase," later 
Attieborough, Massachusetts. He died in 
1676 in the midst of Indian wars, and his 
widow settled that of the estate which was 
left after the ravages of the Indians. 

He married Mary Butterworth, and she died 
August 29, 1714. Children: Noah, born prob- 
ably in Dorchester ; Sampson, born in Dorches- 
ter ; Samuel, born about 1656, in Dorchester ; 
John, born in Dorchester; Sarah, February 15, 
1658, in Rehoboth; Mary, February 7, 1660; 
James, October 30, 1661 ; Joseph, March 6, 
1663-64; Bethia, October 15, 1665; Isaac, July 
15, 1667; Pelatiah. mentioned below; Ben- 
jamin, October 20, 1670; Thankful, October 
27. 1672. 

(II) Pelatiah, son of Sampson Mason, was 
born in Rehoboth, April i, 1669. He married. 
May 22. 1694. Hepsibeth, daughter of Tim- 
othy and Mary (Russell) Brooks. She was 
born about 1673, doubtless in Woburn, Mas- 
sachusetts, and died August 24. 1727, in Swan- 
sea, Massachusetts. Tradition says that he 
married four times, living w'ith his fourth 
wife for twenty-one years, but there is record 
of only his first marriage. He was a tanner 
and shoemaker by trade. His home was on the 
way to (ireat Bridge, now Myles Bridge, lead- 
ing to Mattapoisett, now Gardner's Neck, in 
Swansea. Before his death he distributed his 
projierty among his sons, and so made no will. 
He seems to have been an active member of 
the Sccon<l Church, and held several town 
offices. On April 28, 1724, he conveyed forty 
acres of land to his son Job, and August 31, 
1747, he conveyed lands to his sons Job, Rus- 
sell and John. He died March 29, 1763. and 
was buried in the small family burial lot. a 
little more than a mile northwest from the 
meeting house of the Second Church, and his 
grave still bears its stone. Children, born in 
Swansea: Job, born February 28, 1695; E^lilui. 
January i, 1696-97: Elisha, January 11, 1698- 
99; Samuel, January 30, 1701, died 1709; 
Aaron, March 8, 1703; Anne, June 9, 1705: 
Elizabeth. Jtuie 18. 1707: Hci)zihah. Decem- 



ber 19, 1709; Pelatiah, December 16, 1711; 
Russell, mentioned below ; John, October 4, 
1716. 

(Ill) Russell, son of Pelatiah Mason, was 
born in Swansea, April 21, 1714, died Janu- 
ary 8, 1799. He was a carpenter by trade. He 
was chosen elder of the Second Church, Sep- 
tember 21, 1752, and was ordained November 
2, 1752, serving until his death. He married 
(first), June 5, 1736, Rhoda, daughter of Na- 
thaniel and Christian (Cole) Kingsley. She 
was born in Swansea, February 2, 1720-21, 
died October 29, 1779. He married (second), 
.August 13, 1780, Alary Munroe, who died aged 
ninety years, March 26, 1828. and was buried 
in the old cemetery of the Second Church. He 
was buried in the old family burying ground 
of the present Kingsley family in Swansea. 
His will was dated January 2, 1786, proved 
June 4, 1799, and in it he mentioned his wife 
and children. Children, born in Swansea by 
first wife: Brooks, born October 2, 1737; Bar- 
bara, August II, 1739; .Andrew, May 20, 1741 ; 
Malachi, February 24. 1743; Philip, mentioned 
below: Russell, November 4, 1746: Rhoda, 
.August 29, 1748; Joseph, November 15. 1749; 
Phebe, January 8, 1753; Nathaniel, Alay 29. 
'755' Ringslev, June 20, 1759, died October 
23, 1761 ; Zerviah, March 3, 1761, ilied Sep- 
tember 26, 1768: Hannah. March 5, 1763. 
Child of second wife: Content. 

(I\') Philip, son of Russell Mason, was 
born in Swansea, January 29, 1744-45, died 
July 21, 1813, and was buried in the old cem- 
etery in Cheshire, Massachusetts. His will 
was proved .\ugust 3. 1813. .\bout 1770 he 
removed to .Adams, Massachusetts, and before 
then he probably hved in Providence, Rhode 
Island, for a few years. He married (first) 
Mercy Scott, who died October 30, 1808, and 
he married (second) Phoebe . Chil- 
dren by first wife: Joanna, born May 18, 1767, 
jirobably in Providence ; Russell, mentioned 
below; Scott, August 2, 1770, probably in 
.Adams; Rhoda, in Adams. .April 10, 1772; 
lames, .April 3, 1774, in Adams; Abraham, 
September 14. 1775, in Adams, died young; 
Mercy. September 10, 1780, in Adams; .Amy, 
fune 8, 1782, in .Adams; Sarah. August 20, 
"1784, in Adams; Ruth, September 6. 1788, in 
.\dams; .\dams. died young. 

(V) Rus.sell (2), son of Philip Mason, was 
born at Providence. Rhode Island, February 
-25, 1769, died at Warren. Herkimer county. 
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in the schools of Adams, Massachusetts. He 
married, December 30, 1792, Ruth Lapham, 
born in Smithfield, Rhode Island, April 4, 
1769, died at Warren, New York, March 18, 
1829. Cliildren : i. Philip, born in Adams, 
Berkshire county, Massachusetts, December 
10, 1793. 2. Almond, mentioned below. 3. 
Horatio, born in Fairiicld, New York, June 
29, 1797. 4. Stephen, born in Fairfield, New- 
York, September 8, 1801. 5. Mary, born in 
Fairfield, New York, April 10, 1803. 6. 
Mercy, born in Warren, New York, February 
23, 1804. 7. Hiram, born in Warren, New 
York, September 17, 1805. 8. Isaac, born in 
Warren, New York, March 15, 1808. 9. 
Nancy, born in Warren, New York, Septem- 
ber I, 1809. 

(VI) Almond, son of Russell (2) Mason, 
was born May 11, 1795, in Fairfield, New 
York. He was a farmer at Palermo, New 
York. He married Lydia Thompson, born 
November 16, 1796. Children; i. Russell, 
born June 2, 1816. 2. Mary Ann, December 
19, 182 1. 3. Nancy Jane, January 28, 1823. 
4. Scott, June 2, 1826. 5. Stephen P., men- 
tioned below. 6. Amos Thomas, May 27, 
1828. 

(VII) Stephen P., son of Almond Mason, 
was born August 15, 1827. He was educated 
in the public schools, and during his active 
life he was a farmer in Palermo. He mar- 
ried Henrietta Sternburg. Children : Madge 
and Maude, twins ; Burr, mentioned below. 

(VIII) Dr. Burr Mason, son of Stephen P. 
Mason, was born at Palermo, New York, 
1861, died September 3, 1890. He was edu- 
cated in the public schools of his native town, 
and studied the profession of dentistry at the 
University of Pennsylvania. He came to 
Phoenix, New York, and for nine years en- 
joyed a large and successful practice. He was 
a member of Callamachus Lodge, Free and 
Accepted Masons ; the Chapter, Royal Arch 
Masons, at Phoenix. He was president of the 
Fifth District Dental Society and of the Syra- 
cuse Dental Society, was secretary of the 
Phoenix L'nion Agricultural Society, and a 
prominent and influential citizen of Phoenix, 
In religion he was a Congregationalist and in 
politics a Republican. He married, 1881, 
Olive, born in Constantia, New York, daugh- 
ter of W. Jesse and Ellen Jones, of Constan- 
tia, New York. They had one child. Dr. Burr 
Thomas, mentioned below. 

(IX) Dr. Burr Thomas Mason, son of Dr. 



Burr Mason, was born at Phoenix, New York, 
April 15, 1882. He attended the public schools 
of his native town, and the Philadelphia Den- 
tal College, from which he was graduated in 
the class of 1908. Before he studied for his 
profession he worked as clerk in the Syra- 
cuse Dry Goods Company's store for one year. 
Since 1908 he has had his office in Fulton. 
New 'S'ork, and has built up an excellent prac- 
tice. He is a member of the Garretsonian So- 
ciety, the Fifth District Dental Society, 
Gamma Chapter of the Xi Psi Phi fraternity, 
the Callamachus Lodge, No. 369, Free and 
Acce])te(l Masons, and Fulton Chapter, No. 
idr. R(i\al Arch Masons. 



John Hand, the ancestor, was 
HAND born in England in 161 t, and came 

from county Kent, about 1634, 
making his home on Long Island. Children : 
John, Stephen, Joseph, Shangar, Benjamin, 
Thomas, James, mentioned below ; Mary. 

(II) James, son of John Hand, was born 
on Long Island, in 1651, and died in 1732. He 

married (first) Bishop, who died May 

2, 1706; married (second) Elizabeth Dibble. 

(III) Elias, son of James Hand, was born 
on Long Island in 1700. He married (first) 
Esther Osborne, who died April 25, 1727. He 
married (second) Experience Miller. Chil- 
dren by first wife: Phebe, Lemuel, mentioned 
below. 

(IV) Lemuel, son of Elias Hand, was bap- 
tized in 1724. He married Hannah, daughter 
of John Thomas, who was a soldier in the 
King's service in the French and Indian war, 
from Durham, Connecticut. Lemuel died in 
1802. Children born at New Lebanon, New 
York: Nathaniel, born 1739; Abraham, 1741, 
married Ruth Southworth, and died in 1815; 
Statia, married Daniel Treat ; Darius, married 
Elizabeth Catlin : Lenuiel, mentioned below ; 
Nathan, married Lois Donbleday ; Polly, mar- 
ried Nathaniel Warden ; Phebe, married Jo- 
seph Hubbard ; Esther, married Titus Hart ; 
Hannah, married Asa Pease. 

(V) Lemuel (2), son of Lemuel (i) Hand, 
was born November 12, 1763. at New Lebanon, 
New York, and died there December 25, 1842. 
He married, September 16, 1798, Lydia, born 
November 15, 1771, daughter of Elisha and 
Hannah (Bailey) Doubleday. He was a 
farmer by occupation at New Lebanon. In 
politics he was a Whig; in religion a free- 
thinker. Children born at New Lebanon : 



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Elisha, born 1799, died in infancy; Samuel, 
1800, married Hannah Sherman; Elisha, 1804, 
died in infancy; Hosea, 1805, married Caro- 
lina Bassett ; Stephen Decatur, mentioned be- 
low; Jared, 1808, married Dorcas Montrose; 
Osborn, August 27, 1810, died February i, 
1 886, married November 6, 1884, Maria 
Cowles; Nathaniel, born 1816, married Mary 
Palmer. 

(VI) Dr. Stephen Decatur Hand, son of 
Lemuel (2) Hand, was born October 6, 1806, 
at New Lebanon, Columbia county, New 
York, and died March 10, 1879, at Bingham- 
ton, New York, where he was for many years 
a physician and surgeon. He married, April 8, 
1832, at New Lebanon, Elmina Hay ward, born 
in Huntington. Massachusetts, January 29, 
1808, died at Binghamton, May 20, 1897, 
daughter of Edward and Lydia (Granger) 
Hayward. Solomon Haj^ward, father of Ed- 
ward, was born August 2, 1755, son of Edward 
Hayward, born July 24. 1689, and grandson 
of Deacon Joseph Hayward, who was the son 
of Thomas Hayward, the first ancestor of this 
family, who came from England to Massa- 
chusetts in 1635. Dr. Hand was a Presby- 
terian in religion and a Prohibitionist in pol- 
itics, and was nominated by his party for gov- 
ernor. Children: i. Edward, born Jaiuiary 
II, 1833. died January 28. 1835. 2. Edward, 
.\pril 21, 1837. died May 6, 1837. 3. Edward, 
August 27, 1838, died April 16, 1839. 4. 
Julia Elmina, December 25, 1839, died Jan- 
uary 13, 1844. 5. George Frederick, men- 
tioned below. 6. Charles Edward, August 18, 
1845, <l'e'l March 16, 1846. 7. Walter Martin, 
■August 9, 1850. The latter graduated with 
the first graduating class of the Binghamton 
high school, of which he was valedictorian. 
He then entered Hamilton College, from which 
he was also graduated as valedictorian of his 
class, after which he studied law. was ad- 
mitted to the Broome county bar, and prac- 
ticed up to the time of his death, October 9, 
1906, twelve days after the death of his 
brother. Dr. George F. 

(VH) Dr. George Frederick Hand, son of 
Dr. Ste])hen Decatur Hand, was born in Bing- 
hamton, New York, November 28, 1842. .\fter 
receiving such education as the public schools 
of Binghamton afforded, he attended the sem- 
inary and graduated at the age of sixteen, 
when he began the study of medicine in New 
York City, and being naturally inclined to this 
study, he had, at twenty-three years of age, 



received degrees from both the Homoeopath 
and Allopath Colleges. Returning to Bing- 
hamton he began the practice of his profession 
in company with his father, and after the lat- 
ter's death he continued alone up to his death, 
September 2"], 1906. He was a member for \ 
many years and president of the Homoeo- 
pathic Society of Broome county ; was largely 
interested in church work, being a member of 
the West Presbyterian church, and was the 
first superintendent of its Sunday school. He 
married (first), October 31, 1867. Emily H., 
born at Belfast, Maine, July 21, 1846, daugh- 
ter of John and Mary E. (Simpson) Cald- 
well. She died October 29, 1874, and he mar- 
ried (second). May 11, 1880. S. Delia Gif- 
ford, who was born at Wellsville, Allegany 
county. New York, December 30, 1857, daugh- 
ter of William and Clarissa j\L (Jones) Gif- 
ford (see Miles VHI). Children by fir.st wife: 
I. George Frederick, born November i, 1871. 
died July 20, 1872. 2. Julia E., December 30, 
1872; was for a number of years a mission- 
ary in Japan ; married April 30. 1907, Freder- 
ick S. Bronson, of Geneva, New York. 3. 
John Caldwell, October 20, 1874; died August 
10, 1875. Children by second wife: 4. George 
Giiiford. born April 15, 1882; is with the Iro- 
quois Sash and Door Company, New York 
City; married, March 31, 1907, Winifred 
Cady ; children : George Frederick, born Feb- 
ruary 18, 1908, and Wilford Cady, born 1910. 
5. Stephen Walter, February 3, 1886; died 
September 4, 1887. 6. Irving Forrest, March 
24, 1888; was reared in Binghamton, educated 
in the public schools there, graduated from 
I'nion College, igio, and is now in the lumber 
business in Binghamton, New York. 

(The Miles Line). 
Richard Miles, the American ancestor of 
this family, came from England with a com- 
pany of pioneers who arrived in Boston, July 
26, 1637. After an exploring expedition in 
the fall of that year they set sail from Boston. 
March 30, 1638, for Quinnipiac. afterward 
called New Haven, in Connecticut, and arrived 
about a fortnight later. Part of them located 
at Mil ford, Connecticut, and among them was 
Miles. His name is sixth on the list of free 
I)lanters under the date of November 20. 1639, 
on the first page of the town records of Mil- 
ford. He was appointed a commissioner t® 
try small causes, one of the earliest magis- 
trates. Before 1643 ^^ removed to New 




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Haven. He married Ratherine Constable, 
probably his second or third wife, before leav- 
ing England, and she had children by a former 
marriage. Miles died in New Haven in 1663; 
his wife in Wallingford, January 27, 1683, 
aged ninety-five years. A memorial block 
erected to their memory has been suitably in- 
scribed and placed on the Milford bridge. 
Children of Richard Miles: Richard, Martha, 
Mary, Anne, Samuel, Hannah, John, men- 
tioned below. 

(H) John, son of Richard Miles, was born 
in 1644, in Connecticut. In 1686 he removed 
from New Haven to \\'allingford, Connecticut. 
He served as lieutenant under Major Robert 
Treat in the Great Swamp Fight in King 
Philip's war, and was captain of his company 
at the time of his death, December, 1704. He 
married (first), April 11, 1665, Elizabeth Flar- 
riman, and (second), November 2, 1680. Mary 
Alsop. Children : John, mentioned below ; 
Mary, Richard, Samuel, Hannah, Daniel, 
foseph. 

(HI) John (2), son of John (i) Miles, 
was born at New Haven, January 9, 1667-68 : 
married about 1686-87, Abigail Thompson. 
Children : Thomas, John, mentioned below : 
Joseph. 

(IV) John (3), son of John (2) Miles, was 
born about 1687, probably at Wallingford. He 
married, August 2, 1710, Sarah, daughter of 
John and Sarah (Glover) Ball. She was born 
September 16, 1687, and died November 25. 
1760. Children born at Wallingford : Samuel, 
Sarah, Daniel, Susanna, Esther, John, men- 
tioned below ; Mehitable. 

(\') John (4), son of John (3) Miles, was 
born at \\'allingford, October 4, 1723 ; married, 
November 14. 1743, Martha Curtis. Children 
born at Wallingford : John, mentioned below ; 
Simeon, born April 4, 1746; Sarah, September 

30, 1749- 

(VI) John (5), son of John (4) Miles, was 
was born at \^'allingford, August 31, 1745; 
married, January 23, 1768, at Wallingford, 
Abigail Perkins. Pie died in 1818; his wife in 
1826. He was a soldier in the revolution as 
first lieutenant in Colonel Lamb's regiment, 
commissioned January 6, 1777; was commis- 
sioned captain, October 26, 1779, serving in 
the army until 1783. Children born at Wal- 
lingford: Brundage, born November 5, 1766; 
Eunice, July 3, 1768: Simeon, .•^pril 13, 1770; 
Moses, April 18, 1772; Patty, .\pril 16, 1774: 



.\bigail, March 22, 1776; John, September 12. 
1777; Russell, June 8, 1779; Sally, mentioned 
below ; Samuel, March 7, 1785 ; Roxy, Septenv 
ber 7, 1787. 

(VII) Sally, daughter of John Miles, was 
born February 3, 1783, at Stonington, Connecti- 
cut ; married January 17, 1802, Benjamin (3) 
Jones, born in 1757, son of Benjamin, Jr, and 
Mehitable (Tyrrell) Jones, who were married 
May 6, 1756. His father, born in 1726, wa> 
son of Benjamin Jones, born in 1696, mar- 
ried Patience , and grandson of Benoni 

Jones, who married, in 1689, Hester (Inger- 
soll) Gurley, widow of William Gurley. Grif- 
fith Jones, father of Benoni, was the, pioneer 
of this family. Children of Benjamin and 
Sally Jones: Sally, born May 2"], 1803; Ben- 
jamin, October i, 1805; Roxy, May 6, 1S07: 
Zenas, May 10, 1810; Luman, September 24, 
181 1 : \\'illiam, April 10, 1813; Lamando. July 
15. 1814; Louisa, September 29, 1820; Clar 
issa, mentioned below. 

( \"III ) Clarissa, daughter of Benjamin and 
-Sally ( Miles) Jones, was born September 29. 
1822, still living in Binghamton, New York, 
an own daughter of the revolution ; marric.i, 
September 29, 1839, W'illiam Gifford, son of 
Hanuel Honeywell and Polly (Gowdy) Gif- 
ford. Hanuel Gifford was a son of Dinah 
Cushman. William Gifford was educated in 
Oneida, New York, and was a man of schol- 
arlv attainments. He settled at Wellsville. 
Allegany county. New York, and was in busi- 
ness as an architect, contractor and builder. 
He erected a number of churches, school 
buildings and other important edifices, for all 
of which he drew the plans. He was presi- 
dent of the board of education and held vari- 
ous other offices of trust and honor. He was 
a member of the Congregational church. His 
last years were spent in Binghamton, New 
York. Children of William Gifford. i. 
Louisa, died young. 2. Herbert, died in in- 
fancy. 3. Elizabeth, married Eugene B. 
Smith, of Binghamton, New York ; children r 
Bertha M., William C, Claremont, Eugene, 
Delia G., and Gertrude F. 4. Mary Frances, 
married Frederick D. Schweiker ; children : 
Margaretta K., who married Harvey Gerard 
Moore and has one daughter, Marjorie: sons: 
Lawrence W., married Ada Brining; Frederick 
Gifford. married May Rook : Robert. 5. S. 
Delia, married Dr. George Frederick Hand 
(see Hand VII). 



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Family records state that Jehiel 
KING King hailed from Marlborough, Co- 
lumbia county, IVIassachusetts. Co- 
lumbia county is not in ^Iassachusetts, but Co- 
lumbia county, New York, is near the Massa- 
chusetts line, and New Marlborough, Massa- 
chusetts, is near Columbia county. In 1790 we 
find the King family prominent in New Marl- 
borough. John, John Jr., Amos, Fenner. 
Reuben, George and Jonah were heads of fam- 
ilies there, according to the first federal census. 
This family was not from Marlborough, Mas- 
sachusetts, but was probably from Suffield, 
Connecticut, or Middletown. In 1790 Joseph 
King was reported from Middletown. 

(I) Jehiel King, of Chatham, had children: 
Betsey, married Dr. Norton; Eunice, married 
Mr. Langdon ; Moses, Amos, Reuben, Luther 
and Jehiel. 

(II) Jehiel (2) King, son of Jehiel (i) King, 
settled in Chatham, Connecticut, where he was 
born January 22, 1774. Chatham was formerly 
in Middletown. He married, I\Iay 14, 1797, 
Judith Lay, born February 9, 1797. He died 
October 2, 1823; she died in 1863. Children: 
I. Rena, born July 4, 1798 ; died April 8, 1842 ; 
married John Cody. 2. Laura, born July 1 1 , 
1800; died 1866; married Joshua W'illard. 3. 
Candace, born July 21, 1802; died March 2"], 
1892; married (first) Harvey Roe; (seconcL* 

Hutchins; (third) Warner: 

(fourth) Frank W. Slack. 4. Andrew, Feb- 
ruary 27, 1805; died November 5, 1805. 5. 
-Andrew L., mentioned below. 6. Eunice, 
June 2, 1810; married Alexander Welton. 7. 
Reuben L., born .April 3, 181 1; died .August 
12, 1833. 8. Jonathan W., August 25, 1813: 
died July, 1863; married (first) Mrs. E. I'.ens- 
field ; (second) Margaret Welton; (third) 
Mrs. Margaret Hogan. 9. Henry, born De- 
cember 31, 1815; died January 6, 1896: mar- 
ried Susan L'tley. 

(III) .Andrew L., son of Jehiel (2) King. 
was born in \'ernon, Oneida county. New 
York, May 19, 1807. He received the limited 
education that could be obtained at the dis- 
trict school. He was apprenticed to learn the 
trade of cabinet maker, and after serving his 
apprenticeship he came to I'.inghamton, New 
York, to work at his trade. He started in 
business on his own account as a chair manu- 
facturer, but in a time of financial stringency 
failed, and after turning his property over to 
his creditors he moved to Kirtland, Ohio, and 
worked as a journeyman cabinet maker, sav- 



ing his wages and sending money back to Bing- 
hamton until he had paid every dollar of his 
indebtedness. From Kirtland he moved to 
Cincinnati, Ohio, which was then the prin- 
cipal city of that state, and started in busi- 
ness again as a manufacturer of chairs. .After 
several years he became junior partner in the 
wholesale dry goods, firm of King, Corwin & 
Company, of which the senior partner was his 
younger brother, J. W'. King. In the fall of 
1861 the firm was reorganized and he with- 
drew. Early in 1862, in partnership with two 
others, he opened a wholesale dry goods store 
at Leavenw^orth. Kansas, under the name of 
Fairchild, King & Higinbotham. The partners 
were not harmonious, and Mr. King sold his 
interest and became a partner in the wdiole- 
sale dry goods firm of Thompson & Woodruff, 
the name becoming at that time Thompson, 
Woodruff & Company, of which Mr. King was 
buyer, and the business was flourishing and the 
prospects very proniising when Mr. King was 
attacked with pneumonia and died March 25, 
1865. He was of untiring industr}-, devoted to 
his family, perfectly upright in all his dealings, 
and of most exemplary character. He was 
held in high esteem in the community in which 
he lived. His widow returned to Binghamton 
after he died, bought a house at the corner of 
Chenango and Warren streets, and lived there 
the rest of her days. He married, June 10, 
1833, in Binghamton, New- York. Eliza L. 
Congdon. born July 8, 1814, daughter of Jo- 
seph and Sarah (Hinds) Congdon. Her father 
was a son of John and Betsey (Crary) Cong- 
don. Joseph Jr., father of John Congdon, 
married Susan Turner. His father, Joseph 
Congdon Sr., married Martha Wells. Benja- 
min Congdon, father of Joseph Sr., was a son 
of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Albro) Congdon, 
the first settlers. Children of .Andrew L. King: 
r. John Sheldon, born .April i, 1834, died Feb- 
ruary 10, 1842. 2. Willard C, born April 25. 
1837. died .August, 1887; married, November 
18, 1875, Kate Hues. 3. Gilbert Hinds, born 
September 2, 1839; died October 11, 1884; 
married, July 2, 1873, Elizabeth King. 4. 
Howard I'.enton, born July 26. 1 841 ; died June 
21. 1843. 5. Ellen, born September 9, 18.13: 
married, August 18, 1868, A. P. Woodworth. 
6. George Andrew, born September 16, 1845; 
died July 4, 1903: married, December 25, 1867, 
Mary ]\IcCracken. 7. Eugene Frederick, men- 
tioned below. 8. Lewis Cass, born February 
25, 1S50; died February 21. 1900: married 



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(first), (October 20, 1880, Laura T. Brooks; 
(second), June 25, 1885, Kittie Bruen. 9. 
f^ucy, born June 13, 1852; died September 27, 
1897; married, June 11, 1869, John H. East- 
man. 10. Carrie, born December 29, 1854; 
married, October 25, 1898, Stoddard Ham- 
mond. II. Lizzie, born July 25, 1857; mar- 
ried (first), September 18, 1878, Henry S. 
Crandall ; (second), August 2, 1887, James E. 
Hoyt; (third), November 26, 1902, Albert 
Holcomb. 

(I\ ) Eugene I'Vederick. son of Andrew L. 
King, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 28, 
1847. He attended the public schools of his 
native town until 1863, when the family moved 
to Leavenworth, Kansas. By that- time he 
was nearly through the second year in the high 
school. The trip to Leavenworth was by steam- 
boat from Cincinnati to St. Louis, Missouri, 
where a change was made to another steam- 
l)oat, which took them to Leavenworth. It 
was a pleasant way to travel, and the recollec- 
tions of the trip have always been a pleasure 
to him. Being desirous of earning his own 
living, he became clerk in a small country store 
at Farley, Missouri, six miles from Leaven- 
worth, in the employ of John R. Swain, and 
stayed there from September, 1863, to July i, 
1864. It was so short a time after the border 
warfare over the admission to the L'nion of 
the state of Kansas that there was still much 
bitterness, and while there he saw many bush- 
whackers and many scenes of violence. L'pon 
returning to Leavenworth he became clerk in 
the dry goods store of Daniels & Millington. 
In October, 1864. the Confederate General Price 
made a raid into Missouri and threatened Kan- 
sas City and Independence. The militia of 
Kansas and Missouri was called out in defence. 
Mr. King was then but seventeen years old 
and could not be enrolled in the service with- 
out the consent of his father, but he secured 
the necessary consent and joined Company 
H. Captain Scott, First Regiment of Home 
Cuards, Colonel Robinson commanding. The 
regiment marched out to Seven Mile Creek. 
October 8, and to Olathe the next day, a dis- 
tance of thirty-five miles. As the men were 
not accustomed to hard marching, being just 
out of stores and factories, and as they had to 
carry a heavy musket, ammunition, blankets 
and other impedimenta, the experience was 
severe and long to be remembered. When the 
regiment reached the state line between Mis- 
souri and Kansas, the men were informed that 



the colonel could not order the regiment into 
another state, but that every man who loved 
his country could volunteer to defend her, and, 
asking all who would to follow him, he drew 
his sword and advanced into Missouri, but only 
thirty-two out of eight hundred men followed 
him. the others returning to Leavenworth. The 
colonel and his small following proceeded to 
Kansas City and thence to the scene of the 
battle, arriving in time to see some of the fight- 
ing, and to see the Confederates retiring pur- 
sued by Cnion cavalry. Many dead were left 
on the field. Mr. King and his brother George 
were with the colonel's band, and were on duty 
two weeks, returning on a steamboat from 
Kansas City to Leavenworth. 

Mr. King came to Binghamton with his 
mother August i, 1865, and in September that 
year he became a clerk in the dry goods store 
of D. M. & E. G. Halbcrt, remaining until 
July I, 1869, when he went west to visit his 
brother at Leavenworth, and remained there 
about a year. He bought a share in the store 
of his brother-in-law, A. P. W'oodworth, at 
Robinson, Illinois, and continued in the part- 
nership until 1874, when owing to ill health 
he withdrew from the firm antl returned to 
Binghamton. After his marriage he entered 
into partnership with J. W. Berkeley and his 
brother G. H. King in the retail dry goods 
trade, with a store at Lexington, Kentucky, 
under the firm name of Berkeley, King & Com- 
l)any. After a time, too close attention to 
business again affected his health and he was 
advised, if he wanted to live, to engage in some 
business that would keep him out-of-doors. 
In partnership with his brother, Lewis C. King, 
in the firm of E. F. & L. C. King, i" the spring 
of 1879 he erected a plant for the manufacture 
of acetate of lime, wood alcohol and charcoal, 
in Sullivan county. New York. A small vil- 
lage grew up in the vicinity of the works, and 
it was named Acidalia. Mr. King is post- 
master of this village, appointed first in Janu- 
ary, 1882. and serving continuously to the 
present time. In this business his health im- 
proved, though he never has enjoyed good 
health since. He has always been an advocate 
of clean politics and of temjierance. Within a 
circle of twenty-five miles oi this village there 
were some thirty factories of the same kind, 
and the workmen in all of them were much 
addicted to drink. Mr. King used every means 
in his power to induce his men to keep 
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money. As a consetiuence, no less than twen- 
ty-five of his employees own their homes. 
None of the other factories can make so good 
a showing, largely for the reason that liquor 
was so easily obtainable in the other factory 
villages. In 1890 Mr. King bought the inter- 
ests of L. C. King, exchanging for it his share 
in the business of L. C. King & Company, of 
New York City. He admitted to the firm 
.Albert Holcomb, and the name became King 
& Holcomb. In 1900 the business was incor- 
porated as the Sullivan Chemical Company. 
Mr. Kinp- married, June 2. 1875, Louise E. 
Pratt, daughter of Hallam E. and Elizabeth 
Ripley (Lathrop) Pratt (see Pratt). She is 
descended from Mayflower ancestry in the Rip- 
ley line. Elizabeth Ripley Lathrop, who mar- 
ried Hallam E. Pratt, was daughter of Horace 
and Eunice (Ripley) Lathrop, granddaughter 
of Captain Ralph and Ruth (Huntington) Rij)- 
ley. Joshua Ripley Jr., father of Ralph, was 
a son of Joshua Ripley and grandson of Joshua 
and Hannah (Bradford) Ripley. Hannah was 
a granddaughter of Governor William Brad- 
ford, of the Plymouth colony, a "Mayflower" 
immigrant, governor of the colony. John Rip- 
ley, father of the first Joshua, was a son of 
the immigrant William Ripley. 

(The Pratt Line). 

(I) Lieutenant William Pratt, the immi- 
grant ancestor, came over it is supposed with 
Rev. Thomas Hooker, and settled at Newtown, 
now Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1633. He 
removed later to Hartford, Connecticut. Ik- 
was a deputy to the general court for the twen- 
ty-third and last time, at the session which 
convened at Hartford, May 9, 1678. He mar- 
ried, in June, 1636, Elizabeth, daughter of 
John Clark, first of Saybrook and afterward 
of Wel-ford. He died about 1678. Children: 
Elizabeth, born February i, 1641, at Hartford, 
married, May 11, 1660, Lieutenant William 
Backus ; John, mentioned below ; Joseph, Au- 
gust I. 1648, at Saybrook (?), married (sec- 
ond) Sarah Chapman, died August 12, 1703; 
Sarah, .Xpril i. 165 1, Saybrook; Will, May 14. 
1653, Saybrook, married Hannah Kirtland : 
Samuel, October 6, 1655, Saybrook; Nathan- 
iel, married (first). May 2, 1688, Sarah Beau- 
mont, (second), January 21, 1718, Sarah Will- 

ard, (third) Rebecca ; Lydia, January 

I, 1659. 

fll) Ensign John Pratt, son of Lieutenant 
William Pratt, was born February 20, 1644. 



and died in 1726. He was a large landholder 
in Saybrook and Hebron, Connecticut. He 
first settled on land in the old parish of Say- 
brook, which had been given him by his father, 
in 1672. In 1678, on the death of his father, 
the paternal homestead on Essex Point came 
to him and he removed to the latter place. He 
was a blacksmith by trade, and frequently ap- 
pears upon the records with the title ensign, 
but more commonly with that of Sergeant John 
Pratt (smith), to distinguish him from Ser- 
geant John Pratt (tailor). He was a man of 
distinction, and several times represented the 
town in the general assembly, October 9, 1684, 
August 29. 1689, and May 14, 1691. He mar- 
riefl, June 8, 1699, Sarah, daughter of Thomas 
Jones, of Guilford, Connecticut. An inventory 
of his estate was presented in court, August 
31, 1726, which amounted to £119 i6s. 3d., not 
including his lands. Children : John, born Sep- 
tember 5, 1671, Saybrook, married, November 
20, i'^97. Hannah \\'illiams, died about 1744; 
Elizabetli. April 3, 1673, Saybrook, married, 

April 13, 1693, Benjamin Lord, (second) 

Whittlesay ; Thomas, October 28, 1675, died 
August 5, 1694, at Hartford; Isaac, mentioned 
below; Sarah, June 5. 1680, Saybrook, mar- 
ried Jose])h Dudley ; Lydia, September 18, 
1692, married. July 27, 1710. Rev. Phineas 
Fiske, died July 14, 1765; Mehitable, Septem- 
ber 6, 1685, married ■ — Hough; Alary, 

born 1688, married, May 22, 1713, John Worth- 
ington, died October 29, 1759. 

(HI ) Isaac, son of Ensign John Pratt, was 
born January 16, 1677, and married Mary 
Taylor. He died in 1733. Children: Isaac, 
born July 21. 1705, Saybrook, died May 27, 
1787, married. May 31, 1733, Mary Jones; 
Timothy, January 20, 1713. Saybrook, married 
Sarah Balmer ; Mary. September 8, 1715, Say- 
brook. died January 11, 1794, married Thomas 
Ingraham ; Humphrey, mentionedbelow ; James, 
1725. Saybrook, married (first) Deborah W'alk- 
er, (second) Anna Jones: Elizabeth. 

(IV) Humphrey, son of Isaac Pratt, was 
born May 16, 17 16, in Saybrook, and married, 
November 30, 1746. Lydia, daughter of Will- 
iam and Tulley, born July 24, 171 1, 

died July 31, 1791. He died August 20, 1797. 
Children: Humphrey, born December 5. 1748, 
Savbrook, married (first), June 6, 1773, Mercy 
Tulley, (second), January 16, 1777, Mary Dor- 
rance: \^'illiam, November 22, 1750, died Feb- 
ruary 25. 1850. married, November 3. 1773. 
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revolution; Lydia, July 25, 1752; Elias, men- 
tioned below; Andre, November 8, 1756, mar- 
ried (first), March i, 1780, Nancy Dorrance, 
(second), 1780, Elizabeth Wheples, (third) 
June 12, 1796, Harriet Andrews. 

(V) Elias, son of Humphrey Pratt, was 
born April 21, 1754. He was a soldier in the 
revolution, and was in the battles of Monmouth 
and Germantown, and several skirmishes at 
other places. He was made an orderly ser- 
geant, and received an honorable discharge 
shortly before the surrender of Cornwallis. 
He married Patience Clark, and lived in Bing- 
hamton. New York. Children : Artemas, born 
May 5, 1781, died in Kentucky, 1811; Zenas, 
mentioned below ; Laura. March 25, 1787, mar- 
ried January 8, 1802, Zopher Adams; Mav- 
erick, Alay 9, 1794, died November 3, i86y. 
married, January (>, 1820, Saniantha Hyde; 
flarriet Augusta ; Nathaniel Proctor, Septem- 
ber 6, 1802. married, October 5, 1828, Hannah 
Murch. 

(VI) Zenas, son of Elias Pratt, was born 
December 22, 1763, and married, July 3, 1810, 
Sally Sabine, who died December 24, 1876. He 
was a cabinet maker by trade and lived in 
Ringhamton. He ilied October 16, 1861. Chil- 
ilren : i. Robert M., born March 21, 181 1 ; mar- 
ried Mary Wheaton, died August 31, 1880; a 
portrait painter, and lived in New York City. 
2. Hallam E., mentioned below. 3. George, 
January 14, 181 5, dietl .\pril 26. 1884; mar- 
ried Elizabeth Bradbury. 4. Francis M., May 
5. 1817, died June 27, 1864; served in the civil 
war. 5. Frederick W., May 30, 1819; married 
Elizabeth Covert. 6. James A.. July 30, 1821. 
died September 30, 1850. 7. William H., March 
17, 182s, died 1891 ; married (first) Eunice 
Saunders, (second) Ellen Conklin. 

(VH) Hallam E., son of Zenas Pratt, was 
boni in Binghamton, New York, August 23, 
i8i2, and died May 28, 1885. He married 
Elizabeth, daughter of Horace and Eunice 
(Ripley) Lathrop, born May 2^. 1822. He 
was educated in the schools of his native vil- 
lage. In early youth he became engaged in the 
dry goods business but soon changed to the 
book and stationery business. To the latter 
he was well adapted by his literary tastes and 
acquirements. For many years he conducted 
one of the best known book stores in the town. 
He served for many years on the city school 
board, and in 1867 was elected county clerk. 
In politics he was a Republican, and an un- 
compromising anti-slavery partisan and pro- 



hibitionist. In religion he was a Presbyterian. 
Children: i. P'rances, born December 5, 1841 ; 
married, June 16, 1863, Charles 11. Smith; 
cliikiren : Annie, Charles, Hallam, Louise, 
Sarah, Bessie. 2. Sarah, August i, 1844; mar- 
ried, June 6, 1866, Asa R. Tweedy; children: 
Asa; Harry Hallam, professor of practical 
theology, Yale University ; Raymond L. ; Ken- 
neth King. 3. Louise E., April 6, 1848 ; married, 
June 2, 1875, Eugene F. King (see King). 4. 
George H., January 4, 1852; married, Janu- 
ary 24, 1876, Elizabeth Chaffee; child: Carroll, 
deceased. 5. Horace L., married, February 

18, 1891, ; children: Hallam E.. 

Donald Lathrop. 

(The Sabine Line). 

(I) William Sabine, or Sabin, the immi- 
grant ancestor, was born in France or Eng- 
land, and settled as early as 1643 in the town 
of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, being among it; 
founders. Tradition has it that he came from 
W'ales or the south of England, taking refuge 
there, but it is more likely that his parents or 
grandparents left France on account of relig- 
ious trouble. He was evitlently English-speak- 
ing, and must have been educated in England. 
He became one of the leaders of the town and 
church. He was a miller by trade. He mar- 
ried first , (second) Martha, 

born December 11, 1641, daughter of James 
and Anna .Mien. He died February 9, 1687. 
His will, dated June 4, 1685, proved at Bos- 
ton, July 17, 1687, bequeathing to sixteen of 
his twenty children. Children of first wife, all 
born in Rehoboth except the two eldest : Sam- 
uel ; Elizabeth, 1642; Joseph, May 24, 1645: 
Benjamin, May 3, 1646: Nehemiah, May 28, 
1647; Experience, June 8, 1646; Mary or 
Mercy, May 2^, 1652 ; Abigail, September 8. 
1653; Hannah, October 22, 1654; Patience, 
last of February, 1655; Jeremiah, January 24, 
1657; Sarah, July 27, 1660. Children of sec- 
ond wife: James, January i, 1664-65; John. 
August 27, i(566; Hezekiah, April 3, 1669; 
Noah, March i. 167 1 ; Mehitable, May 15, 
1673; Mary, September 8, 1675; Sarah, Feb- 
ruary 16, 1677; Margaret, April 30, 1680. 

( II) Benjamin, son of William Sabine, was 
born at Rehoboth, May 3, 1646. In 1675 he 
removed to Roxbury, Massachusetts, and in 
1686 was one of the thirteen pioneers who set- 
tled at Woodstock, Connecticut, and joined 
the same year in purchasing a tract of land 
just south of Woodstock, Mashamoquoit, now 



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Pom fret. He lived in Woodstock until 1705, 
when he moved to Pomfret, and died there 
Jul}- 21, 1725. He married (first) Sarah, born 
June 2, 1650, daughter of John and Rebecca 
Polly, of Roxbury; (second), July 5, 1678, 
Sarah Parker, vi'ho died January 22, 1717-18. 
Children of first wife: Josiah, born in Reho- 
both, October 11, 1669; Ebenezer, at Reho- 
lx)th, mentioned below ; Benjamin, at Reho- 
both, December 2, 1673; Mehitable, at Rox- 
bury, September 7, 1677. Children of second 
wife, born at Roxbury, except two youngest; 
Sarah, August i, 1679; Nehemiah, January 10, 
1681 ; Patience, May 3. 1682 : Jeremiah, March 
II, 1684; Experience, l-'ebruary, 1686; Ste- 
phen, at Woodstock. May 30, 1689; Timothy, 
1694. 

(HI) Ebenezer, son of Benjamin Sabine, 
was born at Rehoboth, December 10, 1671. 
He resided at Woodstock. In 1700 he was 
ensign in ex])edition against Canada. He died 
September 18, 1739. He married Susanna 
. Children, born at W'oodstock : Eben- 
ezer, July 8, 1696; Joseph, January 27,, 1701 ; 
Susanna, April 5, 1704; Joshua, mentioned 
below; Mehitable, July 21, 171 1; Seth, Octo- 
ber 21, 1714. 

(IV) Joshua, son of Ebenezer Sabine, was 
born at \\'oodstock, May 26, 1706. He mar- 
ried, January 22, 1734, Mary . Chil- 
dren, born at Pomfret: .Xbishai, September 10, 
■735 ; Susanna, .August 23, 1737 ; Joshua. June 
6, 1740; Mary, May 6, 1742; Sylvanus, Janu- 
ary 14, 1744; Phethena, January 6, 1747: Lucy. 
August 9, 1749; Walter. February 12, 1752; 
Alice, April 20, 1754; Elizabeth, September 
6, 1756. 

(V) Walter, son of Joshua Sabine, was born 
,it Pomfret, February 12. 1752. He was a sur- 
veyor, and moved to Xew York state. His 
daughter Sally, born November 28, 1780. died 
December 24. iSjft. married Zenas Pratt (see 
Pratt). 

In 1790 the federal census shows that Wal- 
ter Sabine was of Chenango town, Montgom- 
ery county, New York, and had four females 
in his family. No other Walter is reported in 
the census from any state. 



This branch of the Bartlett 
K.XRTLETT family came from Stojiham. 

county Sussex, England. In 
the ancient Norman church of this period is 
seen the marble slabs with figures of brass in- 



laid, in memory of the Bartlett ancestors, show- 
ing a regular lineage from John Barttelot, who 
died in the year 1428, to Colonel (ieorge Bart- 
lett. who died in 1872. The ancient form of 
the name (Barttelot) dates back to the Nor- 
man conquest. The coat-of-arms is : Sable 
three sinister falconer's gloves argent, arranged 
triangularly two above and one below, pendant 
bands around the wrist and tassels or. About 
the close of the fifteenth century the castle was 
granted as a crest to John Barttelot, and in 
the sixteenth century the Swan crest was grant- 
ed in commemoration of the right granted the 
family by William the Conqueror to keep 
swans in the river Arun. 

I 1 1 .Adam Barttelot, an esquire, came with 
the Conqueror from Normandy, and had his 
seat at {"erring, county Sussex. 

( II ) William Barttelot de Stopham. son of 
Adam, was buried at Stopham Church, as was 
his son. John (III), and his son, Richard, Esq. 

( \ ) Thomas, son of Richard, was a native 
and resident of Sussex county, Englantl. His 
name ajjpears as Bartlett. 

(\T) Robert, son of Thomas Bartlett, was 
the immigrant ancestor of the American branch 
of the family. He was born in Sussex county, 
England, in 1606, and came in the ship "Ann," 
in 1623. He was a cooper by trade, and set- 
tled at Plymouth, Massachusetts ; was admit- 
ted a freeman in 1633. and served on the jury 
and as a town officer. His will, proved Octo- 
ber 29. 1676, devised his entire estate to his 
wife. His name is inscribed on the tablet at 
Hartford Church as one of the founders of 
that town. He married, in 1628, Mary, daugh- 
ter of Richard Warren, who came in the "May- 
flower," and her marriage portion was con- 
firmed to him, March 7, 1636: Children: Ben- 
jamin, born 1638; Joseph, of whom further; 
Rebecca, married, December 30, 1659, Will- 
iam Harlow; Mary, married (first). Septem- 
ber 10. 1661, Richard Foster, of Plymouth, 
(second), Jonathan Morey ; Sarah, married, 
December 23, 1661, .Anthony Sprague. of 
Plymouth; Lydia, born June 8, 1647, married 
(first) James Barnaby. (second) John Nelson; 
Mercy, born March 10, 1650, married, Decem- 
ber 25. 1668, John Ivey, of Boston. 

(\Tr) Joseph, son of Robert Bartlett, was 
born in Plymouth, in 1630. and married Han- 
nah, daughter of Gabriel Fallowell. Children : 
Joseph, of whom further; Robert; Elnathan ; 
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Mary, married John Barnes ; Sarah, married 
EHsha Hohnes. 

(VIII) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (i) Bart- 
lett, was born in Plymouth, in 1665. He mar- 
ried, 1692, Lydia Griswold. Children: Joseph, 
of whom further; Samuel, born i(3y6; Lydia, 

1698, married Lazarus Le Baron; Benjamin, 

1699, married Lydia Merton ; Sarah, 1703, 
married (first) Francis Le Baron, (second) 
Joseph Swift. 

(IX) Joseph (3), son of Joseph (2) Bart- 
lett, was born in 1693; married, 1717, Eliza- 
beth Bartlett. Children: William, born 1718; 
Sylvanus, of whom further; Jerusha, born 
1721 ; married Joseph Croswell ; Lydia, born 
1722, married Jonathan Parker; Zacheus. born 
1725; Betty, 1727, married Benjamin Rider: 
Joseph, 1729, married Lydia Cobb. 

(X) Sylvanus, son of Joseph (3) Bartlett, 
was born in Plymouth, in 1719. He married, 
1743, Martha Wait. Children, born in Plym- 
outh: Wait, 1744; Elizabeth, 1749, married 
Thomas Bartlett; Sylvanus, of whom further; 
Mary, 1753, married Joseph Bartlett; Abner, 
1755, married Anna Hovey ; Martha, 1757; 
Jerusha, 1759; Joseph, 1761 ; Francis; Sophia, 
married Benjamin Drew; Jesse, 1772. 

(XI) Sylvanus (2), son of Sylvanus ( i ) 
Bartlett, was born in 1751, in Plymouth, and 
settled in the adjoining town of Plymjiton. He 
was a soldier in the revolution, a private in 
Captain John Bradford's company. Colonel 

Theophilus Cotton's regiment ; also in Captain 
Thomas Samson's company. Colonel Thomas 
Lothrop's regiment, in December, 1776. during 
the alarm at Bristol. Rhode Island; also in 
Captain Sprague's company, in 1777. He mar- 
ried, at Plymouth or Plympton, Sarah Loring ; 
she died October ifi, 1822, and he died in Feb- 
ruary, 1827. Children, probably not in order 
of birth : Bathsheba ; Martha : Sylvanus ; Sarah ; 
Isaac; Betsey: Alvin ; Joseph; Loring; Igna- 
tius; Jerusha. married Nathaniel Holmes; 
Isaac, of whom further ; Lvdia : Thomas : Dan- 
iel. 

(XII) Lsaac, son of Sylvanus (2) Bartlett, 
\\as born at Plympton, about 1775. He mar- 
ried, October 29, 1801, Hannah Stevens, of 
Duxbury, Massachusetts. Children: i. Eliza, 
born August 23, 1802. 2. Joseph, June 11. 
1804; married Deborah Cafferty. 3. Alvin, 
October 21, 1806, died 1816. 4. Robert S.. 
born December 18, 1808; married Dorcas M.. 
daughter of Colonel Loring Bartlett, of Salis- 
bury, Connecticut, son of Sylvanus and Sarah 



Bartlett. 5. Abigail, born December 20, 1810; 
married James W'eed. 6. Isaac L., of whom 
further. 7. Jerusha. born May 24, 1815; mar- 
ried Chester Manning. 8. \Villiam B., born 
October 14. 1818, died young. ' 9. Charles, 
born Augu.st 25, 1822. 

(XIII) Isaac L., son of Isaac liartlett, was 
born June 20. 1813. He married, in 1846, 

Emily, daughter of Joseph Jessup and 

(Sherwood) Banks. Children, born in Bing- 
hamton. New York: i. Arthur S., of whom 
further. 2. Laura B., married Herbert E. 
.Smith ; children : Emily S., married Richard 
DeWitt, and IHorence S. 3. Isaac L., Jr., 
died in 1872. 4. Charles J., died in 1886. 5. 
Emily B., married Sidney T. Clark ; children : 
Charles J. (deceased), and Sidney T., Jr. 

(XI\') Arthur Strong, son of Isaac L. 
Bartlett, was born in Binghamton, New York, 
.April 2, 1847. He attended the public schools 
of his native town, and was among the first 
graduates from the high school, completing 
the course at the age of si.xteen years. After 
a course in a business college he entered the 
employ of his father in the lumber business, 
and after a time he and his brother were ad- 
mitted to partnership, under the firm name of 
Bartlett & Company. After his father died he 
continued to carry on the business, which is 
now one of the most extensive in its line in 
the city of Binghamton. Mr. Bartlett is presi- 
dent of the Board of Commerce, and a director 
of the First National Bank, and of the Chen- 
ango X'alley Savings Bank. He is a Republican, 
and has served the city several years as a park 
commissioner. In religion he is an Episco- 
palian, and he is a member of the Binghamton, 
Press and Dobson clubs. He married, in Mon- 
ticello. New York, October 27, 1882, Kate, 
daughter of James B. and Sarah R. (Teller) 
Mapledoram. 

(The Teller Line). 

( 1 ) Willem Teller, son of Romanus Teller, 
was the first ancestor of the family in New 
.Vetherland. He was born in 1620. According 
to a deposition made July 6, 1698, when sev- 
entv-eight years of age he arrived at New 
^'ork in the summer of 1639, and was sent by 
Governor Kieft to Fort Orange, where he 
served as corporal, and afterward was made 
wachtmeister of the fort. He lived in Albany 
from 1639 to 1692. with small intermissions in 
voyages to New York, Delaware, and one to 
Holland. He was a trader about fifty years in 
.\lbany, from whence he moved with his sons 



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to New York in iby2. He was one of the 
earliest proprietors of Schenectady in 1662, but 
probably never resided there, and was one of 
the five patentees named in the first patent of 
the town, in 1684. He died in 1701. ]n his 
will, made March 19, 1669, he mentions six 
children as living: Andries, Helena, Elizabeth, 
Willem, Johannes and Jannetje. Although a 
prosperous merchant, the inventory of his 
property only amounted to 910 pounds, 10 shil- 
lings 2 pence. There is reason to believe that 
he distributed most of his property to his chil- 
dren before making the will. He married Mar- 
garet Duncassen, who died before 1664, in 
which year he made a marriage contract ( A])ril 
9) with Maria V'arlett, widow of I'aulis 
Schrick. She died in 1702, and her estate in- 
ventoried one thousand two hundred and sev- 
enty-five pounds twelve shillings and nine 
pence. He and his wife were among the first 
members of the old Dutch Church at Fort Or- 
ange (Albany), their names being on the first 
records of tlie church. He endowed it with 
funds to maintain it. In the church tower a 
panel of glass bore his coat-of-arms. Children : 
I. Andries, for many years a magistrate in 
Albany; married Sophia, daughter of Olofif 
Stevense \'an Cortlandt, May 6, 1671, in New 
York, whither he soon after moved. 2. Hel- 
ena, married (first) Cornelius Bogardus, who 

died 1666; (second) \'an Ball; (third) 

Francis Rombouts. 3. Maria, married (first) 
Pieter Van Alen, who died 1674; (second) 

Lookermans; (third), 1677, Carrett 

Van Ness. 4. Elizabeth, or Lysbeth, married 
(first) Abraham Van Tricht ; (second) Mel- 
gert Wynantse Van der Pool. 5. Jacob, mar-' 
ried, October 24, 1683, Christina W'essels, ofl 
New York, where he was living in 1686, in 
Whitehall street; was master of sloop "Hope- 
well." i)lying between New York and Esopus. 
6. William, of whom further. 7. Johannes, 
settled in Schenectady ; married, August 18, 
1686, Susanna Wendell: was taken prisoner by 
Indians at burning of Schenectady in 1690, 
taken to Canada by the French, and redeemeil 
by his father, who tleeded to him, June 20, 
1700, two lots of forty-seven acres in Schenec- 
tady, received under patent from Governor 
Stuyvesant, June 29, 1667. 8. Jannetje, mar- 
ried Arent Philippse Schuyler, November 26, 
1684. 

The records show that the above-named Wil- 
lem Teller was a strong figure. In 1656 he 
and Evert Wendell were collectors of taxes. 



July 26, 1670, his wife Maria had a suit against 
Dominie Schlaetz, as to the ownership of a 
negro slave. In 1678 Willem Teller acci- 
dentally killed an Indian squaw with a gun he 
had taken from the wall as she entered the 
door. A trial was held May 16, 1678. There 
were several Indian witnesses. During the 
trial he was confined at his house. He was 
acquitted. On May 21, 1681, his stepdaugh- 
ter, Susanna Schrick, married Captain An- 
thony Brocksholes, commander-in-chief of the 
inilitary forces of the colony, and who acted 
as governor during the absence of Governor 
,\ndros. On December 9, 1681, Willem Teller 
has a dispute with the magistrate as to Gab- 
riel's house, where powder was stored. In 
1684 the town was divided into six wards, and 
he was chosen representative, the election being 
held in the court house, June 3. On October 
7, 1684, he was continued as a justice of the 
I)eace. 

(II) William, son of Willem Teller, mar- 
ried, November 19, 1686, Rachel, daughter of 
Dr. Hans an<l Sarah ( Bogardus) Kiersted. 
her mother being a daughter of Dominie Ever- 
ardus Bogardus and Anneke Jans. Soon after- 
ward he removed to New York, where he made 
his will. June 25, 1 7 10. He owned large tracts 
I )f land in Westchester county : one was above 
the town of Ossinning. a part of it projecting 
into the Hudson river, and was known as Tel- 
ler's Point. Children baptized in New York: 
Margarita, born .-\ugust 17, 1687: William. 
September i, 1689, married Mary Kenniff; 
John, of whom further; Margarette, April 3, 
1696, married Jacobus Stoutenburgh ; Jacobus, 
October 29, 1703. 

(III) John, son of William Teller, w-as born 
in 1693: married .\ulie V'ermilyea. Children: 
Eukc, of whom further : Rachel, Catherine, 
Abram, John, Jonas. 

(1\') Luke, son of John Teller, married, 
October 16, I7C)3, Sarah Snediker. Children: 
James, Elizabeth, Sarah, Abram, Rachel, Cath- 
erine. Richard, John, of whom further, Auley, 
Theodora. 

(V) John (2), son of Luke Teller, married 
Deborah Waring. Children : William Waring, 
of whom further; James, married Elizabeth 

Devoe; Harriet, married Van Sclioick ; 

Solomon, born April 6, 1793, died November 
2f), 1852, married Cynthia Groo; Luke, mar- 
ried Julia Remsen ; Stephen, married Abigail 
Smith. 

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Teller, was born in 1794. and died in Monti- 
cello, New York, October 4. 1862. He mar- 
ried Amy Hall, born September 23, 1799, died 
June 9, 1878. Children: Deborah, married 
Alexander Black ; Lucinda, married James 
Johnston ; David, born Ajiril 18, 1821, married, 
September 2, 1843, Elizabeth Black: John, 
married Minerva Kniffin : Richard, married 
tlliza Chase ; Sarah B., of whom further ; 
Xancy, married Levi Devoe : Elizabeth, married 
William \'an \'alkenburgh ; Daniel, married 
Mary Hoyt ; James, married X'esta Dunham ; 
Horace. 

(VH) Sarah B., daughter of William War- 
ing Teller, was born January 22. 1831, and died 
July 28, 1907. She married. September 18, 
tSsi, James B. Mapledoram, born December 
t8, 1827, at Blagdon, near Bath, England. Chil- 
dren : Ida, born July 3, 1852, married, October 
16, 1872, John J. Linson : Ira, twin of Ida, 
married, October, 1883. Cora Pinney; Myron, 
born October 2, 1854; Kate B.. born May 2, 
1856, married. October 2"/, 1882. .'\rthur S. 
Rartlett (^see Bartlett XIV). 



Frederick Hale was born in Con- 
FI.ALE necticut about 1789. died in Nor- 
wich, New York, in 1855. He 
came to New York state some time between 
1808 and 1812. and lived for some time in New 
Lisbon, Otsego county. New York, where all 
his children were born. For many years in his 
youth he ran a peddler's cart on the road, and 
later in life settled in Pharsalia. where he was 
a farmer. He came to Norwich in 1851. when 
he retired from active life. He married, in 
(Otsego county. New York, .\bigail Warner, 
born in 1789, died in 1854. Children born in 
New Lisbon: Warner E., Elam. Henry. Hiram, 
mentioned below ; Eliza. William H., Samuel. 
(II) Hiram, son of Frederick Hale, was 
horn in New Lisbon, September 27. 181 7. died 
in Norwich. New York, 1899. He attended 
the public schools at New Lisbon, and the Old 
Norwich Academy, Chenango county, where 
he came with his parents in 1835. For some 
years he taught school in the winters, and was 
a farmer at Pharsalia until 185 1, when he went 
to Norwich, living on what is now the old 
Hale farm. In 1896 he removed to the village 
of Norwich, where he retired from active life, 
and where he residetl until his death. In pol- 
itics he was a "Black Republican," and served 
•several terms as assessor. For many years he 
was deacon and trustee of the First Baptist 



church. He married, in 1844, .Abigail M. 
.\ewton, born in Preston, New York, July 17. 
181 7, died May 28, 1907. daughter of Jedutha 
Newton, of Guilford, X'ermont, and Martha 
Maria (Smith) Newton, daughter of Elisha 
Smith, a first settler of Norwich, who built 
the stone mill on West Main street in 1806. 
Children: i. Hiram Oscar, mentioned below. 
2. Martha Maria, born 185 1 : married F. W. 
Foster, a Baptist minister, of Omaha, Ne- 
braska, now western manager of Penn Life In- 
surance Company ; children : Robert, Harold, 
Mildred. 3. Eliza Jane, married Milton 
Brown, deceased ; children : Henry Hale, Grace 
Hull, married Henry Skidmore, one child, Do- 
rothea Hale Skidmore ; William R., Ray, Reed. 
4. Charles Newton, died aged two. 

(Ill) Hiram Oscar, son of Hiram Hale, 
was born in Pharsalia. Chenango county. New 
York, July 16, 1848. When he was about three 
years old he removed with his parents to Nor- 
wich. New York, and has made his home there 
since that time. He attended the Norwich 
public schools and the Eastman Business Col- 
lege at Poughkecpsie, New York. Until 1894 
he followed farming for his occupation on a 
place that his father bought in Norwich in 
1 85 1, known to the present time as the old 
Hale farm. In 1894 he engaged in business in 
Norwich as a dealer in flour, feed and grain, 
and has built up a large and flourishing trade. 
He has taken an active part in town affairs 
and has been honored with various offices of 
trust and responsibility. He has been assessor, 
overseer of the poor and apjiraiser in bank- 
ruptcy under the new federal bankrupt law. In 
politics he is a Republican and for several years 
has been a member of the Republican town com- 
mittee. He is a director of the Norwich ?Ios- 
pital Association and trustee of the First Bap- 
tist church. For ten years he was secretary of 
the Chenango County Agricultural Society. He 
is a member of the Independent Order of Odd 
Fellows, of Norwich. 

He married. September 22. 1872, Delia 
Franklin, of Norwich, daughter of W^illiam B. 
and Eunice (Walworth) Franklin, and grand- 
daughter of Elisha Franklin, of \'ermont. Chil- 
dren : I. Charles F., born at Norwich, Novem- 
ber 4, 1873; educated in the district and high 
schools of Norwich : associated with his father 
in farming on the homestead and now in part- 
nership with him in the grain business : mar- 
ried Florence Lemly, of Norwich, New York : 
children: Frederick Oscar, born May 11. 



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1907 ; Howard, April 16, 1909. 2. Grace, born 
February 23, 1875, died May 21, 1876. 3. 
Frederick Oscar, born May 7, 1878, died Sep- 
tember 28, 1897. 4. Harry William, born Sep- 
tember 27, 1884; was educated in the Norwich 
public schools and was graduated from the 
Rensselaer Polytechnic School in the class of 
1907 ; now engaged in barge canal work at 
Mechanicsville, New York, where he has 
charge of a contract amounting to a million 
and a half dollars; married, in 1907, \'iola 
Lake, of Troy, who died December 11, 1910: 
child, Russell, born ^lay 17, 1909, now living 
with his grandfather. 



Nathaniel Wales, immigrant an- 
WALES cestor, was born in England as 
early as 1600 and came to New 
England in the ship "James," a fellow passen- 
ger of the famous Rev. Richard Mather, who 
left an interesting description of the voyage 
in his journal printed in "Young's Chronicles." 
Nathaniel Wales, who was the progenitor of 
all the colonial families of the name, settled 
in Dorchester, of which he became a proprie- 
tor. He was admitted to the church there and 
made a freeman. November 2, 1637. He was 
a weaver or vvebster by trade. He removed 
to Boston in 1650, and was received into the 
church there with his wife, Susan, March 2. 
1651-52. She was a daughter of John Green- 
away, a millwright of Dorchester. Isabel, 
whom some records give as the name of his 
wife, may have been his first wife. He de- 
posed, February i, 1661. that his wife's name 
was Susan. Nathaniel Wales died at Boston, 
December 4, 1661, and his will was dated June 
20, i65i. bequeathing land at Dorchester and 
Boston to his wife and three sons, daughters 
Priscilla and Sarah, and grandchild, Timothy 
Wells, Jr. His widow died without admin- 
istering his estate, and Jerifah Wales was ap- 
pointed administrator. July 6, 1719. Children: 
Nathaniel, mentioned below ; Timothy, lived at 
Dorchester : John, of Dorchester : Priscilla, 
Sarah, daughter, married Timothy Wells. 

fll) Nathaniel (2). son of Nathaniel (i) 
Wales, was born about 1625, doubtless in Eng- 
land, died May 10, 1662, at Boston. His will 
was dated May 18, 1662, and proved May 27, 
following. He married Isabel Humphrey, who 
was baptized at Winwick, England, January 
23, 1630, daughter of Major General Humph- 
rev .Athcrton, of Dorchester, one of the most 
distinguished men of the first generation in 



Massachusetts. His wife died shortly before 
his death. Children born in Boston : Nathan- 
iel, mentioned below ; Samuel, Mary, Jonathan, 
killed in King Philip's war. 

(Ill) Elder Nathaniel (3) Wales, son of 
Nathaniel (2) Wales, was born about 1650, 
died at Braintree, March 23, 1718. He settled 
early in life in Braintree, formerly Mount 
WoUaston and part of Boston. He was there 
as early as 1675, and he bought twenty acres 
of land, September 6, 1684, of the old iron 
works property at Braintree. then called Mon- 
toquod. He was chosen deacon of the Brain- 
tree church and ordained ruling elder there, 
February 27, 1700-01, by Rev. Mr. Fiske, Rev. 
Peter Thacher. of Milton, and Elder John 
Rogers, of W'eymouth. He married, Joanna 
Faxon, who died ATay 11, 1704, daughter of 
Thomas Faxon, of Braintree. She was less 
than fifteen years old, we are told, when her 
first child was born. Children : Elizabeth, born 
February 10. 1675-76; Joanna, Ajjril 18, 1679; 
Sarah. March 11. 1680; Nathaniel, December 
29, 1681 ; Joanna, December 19, 1683; Elk- 
anah, December i, 1685; Deborah, October 
16, 1687; Thomas, October 6, 1689; Mary, 
.\pril I, 1691 ; Samuel, June 23, 1693; Thomas, 
mentioned below; Joseph, April 29. 1697; 
John, May 25, 1699; Rachel, October 15, 1701 ; 
.\therton, March 8, 1704. 

( I\^) Deacon Thomas Wales, son of Elder 
Nathaniel (3) Wales, was born in Braintree, 
April 19, 1695. He married (first), January 
J3' I7'9- Mary Belcher, who died January 30, 

1 74 1. He married (second), September 7, 

1742, Sarah Belcher, widow of Samuel 
Belcher. Children of first wife, born in Brain- 
tree: Samuel, November 3, 1719; Atherton, 
Februar}' 11, 1721 ; Mary, November 21, 1722; 
Ephraim, October, 1725, died young; Ephraim, 
November 3, 1727; Moses, December 20, 1728; 
Nathaniel, October 26, 1729; Deborah, March 
27, 1731; Thomas, August 24, 1733; Mary. 
Februar}' 27, 1736; Thomas. February 20. 
1738: John, March 3, 1739-40. Children of sec- 
ond wife : Joanna, May 9, 1746 ; Ephraim, twin 
of Joanna, mentioned below; John, February 
14, 1747, died young. 

(V) Dr. Ephraim W'ales, son of Deacon 
Thomas Wales, was born in Braintree, May 9, 
1746. He graduated from Harvard College 
in 1768, and fitted himself for the medical 
profession. He practiced medicine in South 
Braintree for many years and was eminently 
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on the Lexington alarm, in Captain Seth Tur- 
ner's company, Colonel Benjamin Lincoln's 
regiment. He married Beale. Chil- 
dren : Dr. Thomas Beale, graduate of Harvard, 
1795, resided in Boston; Dr. Ephraim. horn 
about 1780, succeeded his father: Emily, Ira, 
mentioned below. 

(\T) Ira, son of Dr. Ephraim Wales, was 
born about 1789, died about 1883. He settled 
in Schoharie county, Xew York, where he 
was for many years a lumber dealer and 
farmer. He married Catherine Moore. Chil- 
dren : I. Harvey, married (first) Smith, 

(second) Sarah Eldredge. 2. John, married 
Hannah Rappelye. 3. Sidney, mentioned be- 
low. 4. Ira, married ( tirst ) Polly Bennett; 
(second) Mary Ann Evans. 5. Harmon, mar- 
ried Eliza .Andrews. 6. Catherine Maria, mar- 
ried Jacob \osburg. 7. Sally Ann, married 
Daniel Bean. 8. Clarissa, married Charles 
Walker. 

(\TI) Sidney, son of Ira Wales, was born 
in Schoharie county, Xew York, about 181 5, 
died about 1871. He married Loretta, daugh- 
ter of Peter Brewer. Children:!. Helen, born 
1834 : married Solomon Butterfield, and had 
one son, Edward Butterfield. 2. Charles 
Brewer, mentioned below. 3. Esther Ann. 
born April. 1838; married John Lambert. 4. 
John, died in childhood. 5. Ira, killed in the 
service in the civil war. 6. Henry, soldier in 
the civil war. 7. Albert. 8. Nomian. 

(VTII) Charles Brewer, son of Sidney 
Wales, was born in Schoharie county, Xew 
York, Auril 13, 1836. He went with his par- 
ents to Clarkson, Xew York, and later to Tioga 
county, Xew York. He was educated in the 
public schools. In 1861 he removed to Bing- 
hamton, Xew York, where he followed farm- 
ing and the lumber and canal business. After- 
ward he was the proprietor of the Chenango 
House, in Water street. Binghamton, for many 
years, and the Warner House, which he owned 
in partnership with Robert Wilson, .\fter 
this firm was dissolved he continued as sole 
proprietor of the Warner House for four years 
more. In 1884 he bought a fann in Conklin, 
where he lived for two years. Returning to 
Binghamton, he built the Wales Hotel and 
conducte<l it until he retired from active busi- 
ness in 1 89 1. He invested in real estate in 
Binghamton and built various buildings, in- 
clucling the \\'ales Block. He was actively in- 
terested in the welfare and growth of the 
citv, and at one time served as street commis- 



sioner. He married Emmeline, daughter of 
Ira ^^'ales, mentioned above, son of Ira (VI). 
Children: Augustus G., born May i, 1858, 
married Eva Osborne ; Charles S., mentioned 
below ; Fred S., died in childhood ; Gordon D., 
died in infancy ; Judge B. Roger, born July, 
1879. 

(IX) Charles S., son of Charles Brewer 
Wales, was born in Binghamton, Xew York, 
December q, 1863. He received his education 
in the public schools of his native town and 
graduated from the Binghamton high school. 
During his youth he worked on a farm and 
afterward entered the employ of his father as 
clerk in the Wales House, and was associated 
with his father in the management of the 
hotel until 1896, when he and his brother. 
.Augustus G. \Vales. bought the property. In 
i8i;6 Mr. W'ales bought his brother's interest 
and since then he has been sole proprietor of 
the hotel. In politics he is a Republican, and 
in 1905 and 1909 was an alderman of the city. 
He married Alice E., daughter of Ira and El- 
mira (Pardee) Gardiner. Children born at 
Binghamton: Lulu, .August 20, 1884, died Oc- 
tober, 1891 ; Wellington, December 24, x8Sf> : 
( irville. May 21, 1892. 



This name is soiuetimes now 
ELMER written Aylmer and Elmore, and 

has representatives scattered over 
a wide area in this country. The name has 
been prominently identified with the settlement 
of Orange and Tioga counties, and has been 
conspicuous in adjoining sections of Xew Jer- 
sey. 

(I) Edward Elmer, a native of England, 
was enrolled June 22. 1632, among those de- 
siring to emigrate to the American colonies. 
He sailed in the ship "Lion," and arrived at 
Boston, September 16, 1632. settling in Xew- 
town (Cambridge) where he remained until 
1636. In that year he joined the colony of 
Rev. Thomas Hooker in a settlement at Hart- 
ford, Connecticut, where he continued to re- 
side until 1654. In that year he was one of 
the first settlers of Xorthaiupton. Massachu- 
setts, and was a witness to the In<lian deed 
obtained by Mr. John Pynchon for the Hart- 
ford Company to territory now comprising the 
town of Hadley, Massachusetts. He returned 
to Hartford about 1660. and that year obtain- 
ed possession of a large tract of land on the 
east side of the Great River, at Podunk. now 
in the town of South Windsor. He immed- 



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lately began tlie improvement of this tract, and 
his sons John and Samuel were there in 1666. 
In 1669 he was the only freeman of the name 
on the records of the town of Windsor. In 
1672 his sons, Edward and John, were among 
those appointed with the father to work the 
roads. During King Philip's war, he was kill- 
ed by the Indians in June, 1676, while at Po- 
dunk, or on the way from Hartford. He con- 
tinued to retain his property in Hartford, and 
a part of his land in East Windsor is still held 
by his descendants. His wife Mary was born 
April 16, 1607, and is supposed to haye married 
(second) Thomas Catlin. of Hartford. Chil- 
dren : John, Samuel, Elizabeth, Edward, Jo- 
seph, Alary and Sarah. 

(II) Samuel, second son of Edward and 
Mary Elmer, was baptized March 21, 1647, 
at Hartford, where he probably died about 
1691. His wife Elizabeth, born 1654, mar- 
ried (second), September 8, 1693 (called of 
Northampton), at Enfield, Connecticut, Simon 
Booth. Her death is recorded in the church 
records of Windsor, "Samuel Elmer's wife," 
January 26, 1727. Children: Samuel, Abi- 
gail, Edward, Deacon lonathan and Rev. 
Daniel. 

(III) Deacon Jonathan Elmer, third son of 
-Samuel and Elizabeth Elmer, was born 1685, 
and baptized at the Center church in Hartford 
May 8, 1687. About 1712 he removed to Nor- 
walk, and in 1746 settled at Sharon, Connecti- 
cut, where he died June 5, 1778. His wife 
Mary, born 1790, died at Sharon, January 22, 
1783. Children: Elizabeth, Eliakim, Martin, 
Colonel Samuel, Mary, Daniel, Abigail, David, 
Rev. Jonathan and Dr. Nathaniel. Rev. Jona- 
than Elmer, born June 4, 1727, graduated at 
^'ale at the age of twenty years, and was for 
some time pastor of a church at Florida in the 
town of Warwick, Orange county. New York ; 
he married Amy Gale. 

(IV) Dr. Nathaniel Elmer, youngest child 
of Deacon Jonathan and Mary Elmer, was 
born February 17, 1733, in \\'indsor. and pre- 
pared for the ])ractice of medicine. He set- 
tled before 1738 at Florida. New York, where 
he practiced many years, and died in December, 
1797, in New York City, and was buried in 
-St. Paul's churchyard. He was captain of the 
Florida company of militia under Colonel Jon- 
athan Haythorn, of Warwick, in 1775. and 
served as surgeon of state militia until his 
death. He married Anna, daughter of Wil- 
liam Thompson, who settled in the southern 



part of Goshen, two miles from Florida, at a 
very early date. Children: i. William, men- 
tioned below. 2. Jesse, born June 11, 1764, 
married Sarah Minturn. 3. Samuel, died 
181 5. 4. Mary, died at the age of forty. 5. 
Asa, died young. 6. Temperance, married 
Judge Robert Armstrong. 7. Julia, married 
Richard Roe. 8. Nancy, married (first) John 
Smith, (second) Joshua Conkling; died at 
ninety years. 9. Nathaniel, M. D., died in his 
thirty-fourth year. 

(V) Dr. William Elmer, eldest child of Dr. 
Nathaniel and Anna (Thompson) Elmer, was 
born January 19, 1758, at Florida, New York, 
and died in Goshen, May 24, 1816. He was a 
soldier of the revolution, in the Fourth regi- 
ment of Orange county militia, enlisting as a 
private at the age of seventeen. Subsequently 
he pursued the study of medicine and prac- 
ticed at Goshen, where he was long held in 
high esteem. Like his father, he was surgeon 
of the militia until his death. He married, 
June 29, 1779, Mary, daughter of General Wil- 
liam and Mary (Jackson) Allison. General 
.Mlison was born 1738, in the town of Goshen, 
(r)range county, son of Joseph Allison, who 
came from Southold, Long Island, in 1725, 
and settled in Goshen, where he died thirty 
years later. He was a member of the first, 
second, third and fourth provincial congresses, 
leaving the latter in 1777 to take part in the 
operations along the Hudson river, to prevent 
the ascent of that stream by the British forces, 
lie was made colonel in 1775, and was taken 
prisoner at Fort Montgomery, and held by the 
British until December, 1780, when he was re- 
leased. In 1783 he was made a brigadier-gen- 
eral of state militia, and in the same year was 
elected a member of the state senate, serving 
initil 1786. He died in 1804. Children of Dr. 
William Elmer: Micah Allison, mentioned be- 
low; Horace, born September 23, 1783, mar- 
ried Susan Stewart; Sarah Maria, 1796, mar- 
ried Mahlon Ford. 

(\T) Micah Allison, senior son of Dr. Wil- 
liam and Mary (.'Mli.son) Elmer, was born 
May 13, 1 781, in Goshen, and engaged in 
farming in that town, near Minisink, whence 
he removed to Wantage, Sussex county. New 
Jersey. He died December 31. 1849, in LTnion- 
ville, and was buried at Ridgebury, New York. 
He married. February 4, 1804, Elizabeth, 
daughter of Richard and Ann (Ketchum) Al- 
lison. Children: I. William, died young. 2. 
Julia .Xnn, born April 13, 1806, died in Ches- 



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ter, New York. 3. Richard Allison, nieiitioned 
below. 4. Isaac, died young. 5. Henry De- 
Lancey, born February 18, 1812, died at Ches- 
ter. 6. Nathaniel, January 3, 1816; was a 
F'resbyterian clergyman, and died in Middle- 
town, New York. 7. Teresa A., November 
6, 1819 : married Isaac \V. Allison, and died 
in Chester. 

(VII) Richard Allison, second son of 
Micah Allison and Elizabeth Elmer, was born 
August 28, 1808, in Wantage, and died in \Va- 
verly. New York, August 8, 1867. In early 
life he engaged in farming, and became inter- 
ested in western land. He decided to remove 
to the west, and on the way visited his brother. 
Rev. Nathaniel Elmer, pastor of the Presby- 
terian church at Waverly, who persuaded him 
to remain there. He located in that town in 
November. 1850, and there continued until the 
close of his life. He was much interested in 
the growth and development of the town, in 
schools and churches, and all good works. He 
married, September 11, 1832, Charlotte Bai- 
ley, born February 23, 1809, in Minisink, Or- 
ange county. New York, died September 4. 
1882, in Waverly, daughter of Colonel Jona- 
than and Catherine (Stewart) Bailey, of ^Va- 
wayanda. Orange county. New York. Chil- 
dren : Howard, mentioned below ; Mary, died 
unmarried, in Waverly, 1909; Richard .\., 
mentioned below : .Antoinette, residing in Wa- 
verly, unmarried. 

(Vni) Howard, senior son of Richard A. 
and Qiarlotte (Bailey) Elmer, was born April 
2, 1833, in Wawayanda, and died in Waverly. 
September 9, 1892. He prepared for college at 
Ridgebury and Goshen academies, but the deli- 
cate state of his health prohibited his taking 
up the college course. At the age of seven- 
teen he went to W^averly, where he soon took 
a position in the Waverlv Bank, and was later 
connected with the Chemung Canal Bank, El- 
mira, and the First National Bank of Wa- 
verly. He was among the founders of the 
last-mentioned institution, of which he was 
cashier until 1868. after which time he was 
pircsidcnt until his death. A farsighted busi- 
ness man, he took a prominent position in the 
community, and was active in fostering many 
interests of that section. In association with 
his brother and others he purchased about one 
thousand acres of land in the Susquehanna 
Valley, on which the present city of Sayre, 
Pennsylvania, is located. The panic of 1873 
tended to discourage operations, but he had 



abounding faith in the future of the section, 
which was fully justified by subsequent events. 
The proprietors secured the location here of 
the Pennsylvania & New York and Eehigh 
Valley railroad shops, and also the location of 
foundries and other industries at Sayre and 
adjoining village of Athens. Mr. Elmer be- 
came president and manager of the Sayre 
Land Company. He was one of the first to 
conceive the idea of founding a town ; he form- 
ulated the plans, purchased several farms and 
platted the village of Sayre, which beautiful 
and thrifty village owes its birth almost wholly 
to Howard Elmer. He was also president of 
the Sayre Water Company and the Cayuta 
Wheel & Foundry Company. He was also a 
director of the Pennsylvania & New York, and 
Geneva, the Ithaca & Sayre Railroad Com- 
panies, and treasurer of the Buffalo & Geneva 
Railroad Company. The various industries 
which he founded brought him ultimately a 
most satisfactory return, and especially in the 
develo])ment of his landed interests. In 1875- 
76 he was receiver of two railroad companies, 
whose affairs he handled with skill antl abil- 
ity. While Mr. Elmer took the intelligent in- 
terest which every good citizen feels in the 
progress of public concerns, he steadfastly I'e- 
fused to be a candidate for any office. He 
married, October 10, 1865, Sarah Perry, 
fourth daughter of George A. and Julia A. 
(Shepard) Perkins, of Athens. Pennsylvania 
( see Perkins). 

(\'III) Richard .Allison (2), junior son of 
Richard .Allison (i) and Charlotte (Bailey) 
Elmer, was born June 16, 1842, in Wawa- 
yanda, and died October i, 1888, in New A'ork 
City. He was eight years of age when his 
father removed to Waverly. and his primary 
education was supplied by the public scIiof)ls of 
that town, including the high school. Enter- 
ing Hamilton College at Clinton, New York, 
he was graduated in 1S64; he subsequently 
pursued the study of law- and was admitted 
to the bar, but the death of his father changed 
his plans and he launched into what proved an 
extraordinarily successful business career. In 
1868 he became cashier of the First National 
Bank of Waverly, succeeding his brother, who 
at that time became president, and to his far- 
sighted business capacity must be attributed 
much of the successful business which that 
institution handled. Beside being director of 
the bank, he was interested in many of the in- 
dustries of Sayre, being a director of the Sayre 



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Land Company, the Sayre Water Company 
and the Cayuta Wheel & Foundry Company. 
While busily engaged in caring for his exten- 
sive business interests, he was also active in the 
social, charitable and political interests of the 
community, but never himself sought office. 

In 1879 he was prominently mentioned as a 
candidate before the Republican state conven- 
tion for the nomination for state treasurer, 
but did not seek or foster this movement. His 
exceptional executive capacity was, however, 
known to many people of the state, and upon 
the accession to the presidency of James .\. 
Garfield, in 1881, many friends of Mr. Elmer 
suggested to the president his employment in 
some official capacity. Accordingly he was ap- 
pointed second assistant postmaster general, 
and confirmed by the senate ]\Iay 5, 1881. The 
star route and steamboat service came under 
his jurisdiction, and he immediately set about 
the reformation of many abuses which had 
grown up in this department of the public 
service. To the neglect of his own afifairs he 
gave his time, energy and business talent to 
this work, and after accomplishing the desired 
end he resigned in February, 1884, in order 
to give more attention to his own business af- 
fairs, and retired with the thanks of President 
.\rthur and the postmaster general. During 
the first year of his service in the postoffice 
department he accomplished a saving of 
$1,778,000 to the government, and in each of 
the succeeding years while he served this re- 
trenchment exceeded $2,000,000 in amount. As 
a result of this and other progressive move- 
ments of the administration, the postc)ffice de- 
partment became self-supporting for the first 
time in thirty years. .At the same time, largely 
through the labors of Mr. Elmer, the rate of 
postage was reduced from three to two cents. 
For two years succeeding his resignation Mr. 
Elmer su fleered greatly in health as the result 
of his close application and tireless labors. 
About this time he organized the American 
Surety Comijany of Xew York, and became its 
president, in which capacity he continued to 
serve until his death. After a rigid examina- 
tion by the authorities, the plan of this insti- 
tution was found to be sound and stable, and 
is has grown to be tlie leading organization 
of this class in .Xmerica and probably in the 
world. Mr. Elmer became a director of the 
Wabash, Atlantic & Danville railroad, the 
Phoenix Insurance Company and various other 
New York and New F.ngland corporations. 



He married, June 16, 1870, Sarah Foster 
1-rance, daughter of J. Foster and Isabella 
(Sears) France, of Middletown, Xew York. 
Children: i. Robert France, liorn July 3, 
1871 ; married, October 17, 1911, Rachel Rob- 
inson, of Ferrisburg, \'ermont, daughter of 
Rowland E. and Anna (Stevens) Robinson; 
he resides in Xew York City. 2. Richard Alli- 
son, born November 10, 1875. 3. Charles 
Howard, born January 29, 1878; tlie two 
last named reside with their mother in Xew 
^•ork. 

(The Perkins Line). 

Peter, being one of the twelve Apostles, his 
name was a favorite one for centuries among 
Christians. It assumed the form of Pierre in 
France, whence it found its way into England 
and there took the diminutive form of Perkin. 
This gradually and naturallv became Perkins. 
Many of the name were among the early set- 
tlers of New England, and their descendants 
have borne honorable part in the development 
of its modem civilization. 

(I) John Perkins was bc>rn in Xewent, 
Gloucestershire, England, in 1590. On De- 
cember I, 1630, he set sail from Bristol in the 
"Lyon," William Pierce, master, with his 
wife (Judith Gater), five children, and about 
a dozen other companions. They reachetl 
Xantasket. February 5, 163 1, and settled in 
I'.oston. He was the first of that name to 
come to New England, and was one of the 
twelve who accompanied John Winthrop Jr. 
to settle in Ipswich, where he was made free- 
man May 18, 1631. On April 3, 1632, "it 
was ordered" by the general court "that noe 
pson wtsiever shall shoot att fowle upon Pullen 
Poynte or Noddles Ileland ; but that the sd 
places shalbe reserved for John Perkins to 
take fovvle with netts." Also, November 7, 
1632, John and three others were "appointed 
by the court to sett downe the bounds betwixte 
Dorchester and Rocksbury." He at once took 
a prominent stand among the colonists, and in 
1636 and for many years afterward, repre- 
sented Ipswich in the general high court. In 
1645 he was appraiser, and signed the inven- 
tory of the estate of Sarah Dillingham. In 
1648-52 he served on the grand jury. In 
March, 1650, -"being above the age of sixty, 
he was freed from ordinary training of the 
court." He made his will (probate office, Sa- 
lem, Massachusetts), March 28, 1634, and died 
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house in Ips\vich*was near the river, at. the en- 
trance of Jeffe Neck, on what is now East 
street. Children: John, born 1614; Thomas, 
1616; Ehzabeth, 1618; Mary, 1630; Jacob, 
mentioned below ; Lydia, 1632. 

(II) Jacob, third son of John and Judith 
(Gater) Perkins, was born in England in 1624. 
He was chosen sergeant of the Ipswich mili- 
tary company in i6f)4, and was afterward 
known as Sergeant Jacob Perkins. By his 
father's will he came into possession of the 
homestead and lands upon his mother's death. 
At this place there is a well still known as 
"Jacob's Well." He was a farmer, and his 
name frequently appears in the records of 
conveyances of farming lands. He died in 
Ipswich, January 27, 1700, aged seventy-si.x 
years. He married (first) Elizabeth (Lovell?) 
about 1648, by whom he had nine children. 
She died February 12, 1685, at about fifty 
years of age, and Jacob afterward married 
Damaris Robinson, a widow, who survived 
him. His house was struck by lightning on a 
Sunday in 1671, "while many people were 
gathered there to repeat the sermon, when he 
and many others were struck down, and had his 
waistcoat pierced with many small holes, like 
goose-shot, and was beaten down as if he had 
been dead for the present." Children : Elizabeth, 
born April i, 1649; John, July 3, 1652, died 
1718; Judith, July 11, 1655; Mary, May 14, 
1658 ; Jacob, August 3, 1662 ; Matthew, June 
23, 1665; Hannah, October 11, 1670; Joseph, 
mentioned below; Jabez, May 15, 1677. 

(III) Deacon Joseph Perkins, fourth son of 
Jacob and Elizabeth Perkins, was born June 
21, 1674, in Ipswich, and died September 6, 
1726, in Norwich, Connecticut. He removed 
to Norwich in early life, and with his brother 
Jabez purchased about one thousand acres of 
land for seventy pounds. This was in that 
part of Norwich now the town of Lisbon, and 
lies in the forks of the Quinebaug and She- 
tucket rivers, and known as "Perkins Crotch." 
This land continued in the family until about 
the middle of the nineteenth century. Deacon 
Perkins was prominent in both town and 
church affairs and an influential citizen. He 
married in Norwich, May 22, 1700, Martha 
Morgan, of Preston, daughter of Joseph and 
Dorothy Morgan, born 1680, died October, 
1754. She married (second), in 1727, Joseph 
Lathrop. Children of Deacon Joseph Perkins: 
Elizabeth, bora 1701, died 1703; Mary; Dr. 
Joseph, 1704, died 1794; Martha, 1706; Cap- 



tain John, mentioned below; Jerusha, 1711. 
died 1741; Matthew, August 31, 1713; Deb- 
orah (twin), 1715; Ann, twin with Deborah, 
died 1731 ; Hannah, 1717; Simon, 1720, died 
1725-26; William, 1722. 

(I\') Captain John (2) Perkins, second son 
of Joseph and Martha (Morgan) Perkins, was 
born October 5, 1709, in Norwich, and died 
there .April 16, 1761. C3n account of his large 
size he was kniown as the "Great Perkins." He 
was possessed of a large property, including 
650 acres in the Hanover Society, 347 acres 
in Windham county, and a jjartnership inter- 
est in 358 acres in Canterbury township, be- 
sides fifteen slaves, blacksmith's and shoe- 
maker's outfits, and other propert}'. He mar- 
ried (first) Elizabeth, daughter of Caleb Bush- 
nell, of Norwich; (second) Lydia, daughter 
of Solomon Tracy. Children of first marriage : 
John, born 1736, and Elizabeth, wife of Jo- 
seph Woodward. Children of second wife: 
Lydia, married Nathaniel IJishop ; Ruth, un- 
married ; Levi, Civil, Eliphalet, Abijah, a rev- 
olutionary soldier, died while a prisoner; Dur- 
den. 

(\') Captain John (3) Perkins, eldest child 
of Captain John (2) and Elizabeth (Bush- 
nell) IVrkins, was born in 1736, and died in 
1800. He was a large landholder, and en- 
gaged extensively in exjiorting live stock to the 
West Indies. A typical Puritan in character, 
he was very strict in observance of the Sab- 
bath, and was widely esteemed and respected. 
He served as a soldier in the revolutionary war 
and resided in Hanover, Connecticut. He mar- 
ried, in 1750, Bethia (Baker) Kingsley, a 
widow, born 1737, died 1820. She was the 
mother of two Kingsley children, who removed 
to Ohio. Children by John Perkins: Martha, 
John (died young), Pollydore, ApoUos, John, 
Elizabeth, .Augustus, .\n.son, Abijah, Philetus, 
Dyer and two who died in infancy. 

(\T) Augustus, son of Captain John (3) and 
Bethia (Baker) (Kingsley) Perkins, was born 
in [uly, 1773. in the ])resent town of Franklin. 
Connecticut, and died in 1831, at Ithaca, New 
York. He was extensively engaged in com- 
merce with the West Indies, and became one 
of the wealthiest men in Norwich. The war 
of 1812 damaged his business very greatly, 
but he continued in it until his death. About 
1819 he removed from Norwich to Ithaca, and 
there continued the remainder of his life. He 
married (first), September 20, 1795, Lucy, 
daughter of Felix and Ann (Perkins) Hunt- 



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ington, born February, 1774, in Norwich, died 
1822, at Ithaca. He married (second) Re- 
becca, sister of his first wife, born May 12, 
1776, died June 10, 1838, in Ithaca. Children 
of first wife: John Augustus, George Apollos, 
Mary Brown. Rebecca Huntington, Isaac 
Huntington, Edward Henry, Simeon Abijah, 
Sarah Anne. 

(VII) Cicorge Apollos, second son of Au- 
gustus and Lucy (Huntington) Perkins, was 
born September 18, 1798, in Franklin, and 
died at Athens, Pennsylvania, July 31, 1884. 
I le was an apothecary in Athens, and was 
highly esteemed as a man of very fine charac- 
ter. He married May i, 1823, Julia Ann Shep- 
ard, a daughter of John and Ann (Gore) 
Shepard, the latter a daughter of Judge Oba- 
diah Gore, who was a soldier in Sullivan's rev- 
olutionary campaign. Mrs. Julia Ann (Shep- 
ard) Perkins was author of "Early Times on 
the Susquehanna," a valuable history of early 
conditions, and devoted much time to writing 
for periodicals and magazines, both prose and 
|)oetry, all of which show much ability. 
Children: Lucy Huntington, died aged seven- 
teen; John Augustus, born February 11, 1826, 
resided in California; Anna Shepard, Febru- 
ary 3, 1828, became wife of Dr. E. I. Ford, 
of Ringhamton ; George Bushnell, May 26, 
1S30, lived in Lock Haven, I'eiuisylvania ; Re- 
becca Huntington, died aged twenty years; 
Isaac Prentice, died in second year ; Sarah 
Perry, mentioned below ; Edward Shepard, 
died in bis thirty-third year, a soldier in the 
civil war. 

(VIII) Sarah Perry, fourth daughter of 
(jeorge ."X. and Julia A. (Shepard) Perkins, 
was born December 6, 1837. in Athens, and 
married October 10, 1865, Howard Elmer, of 
Waverly, New York, whom she survives (see 
Rimer). 



The name Munroe is an an- 
MUNROE cient clan name, and has been 
variously spelled Monrow, 
.Vlunrow, Munroe and Alonroe. Donald Mon- 
roe the founder of the ancient house of Fow- 
lis, was the son of O'Cathanman, Irish chief, 
and Prince of Ferranagh. He is suiijiosed to 
have flourished toward the latter end of the 
reign of Malcolm II, King of Scots, to whom 
he rendered material aid in his contests with 
the Danish invaders. For the service thus 
rendered Donald received from the hands of 
his grateful sovereign the lands between Ding- 



wall and the river Aneron, ^r Alnesa water. 
The lands received the name of Fearann- 
Damhnuill, anglicized Ferindonaod, that is, 
"Donald's lands." A portion of them was sub- 
sequently erected into the barony called the 
Barony of Fowlis. Donald is supposed to have 
died about 1053, and to have been succeeded 
by his son, George Munroe. 

(II) George Munroe, son of Donald Mun- 
roe, or Georgius de Munroe, is said to have 
assisted Malcom III, "Caann Nor," in his 
connections with Macbeth for the crown of 
Scotland, between 1054 and 1057. According 
to tradition he lived to an advanced age and 
died about iioi. 

(HI) Hugh, son of George Munroe, is the 
first of the family to be designated Baron of 
Fowlis. That barony has ever since formed 
the title and been the chief residence of the 
head of the house, which for nearly eight hun- 
dred years has existed in uninterrupted de- 
scent in the male line, a fact said to be unex- 
ampled in the aimals of Scotland or England, 
and only paralleled in the succession of the 
Lords Kingsale, Premier Barons of Ireland. 
Hugh is said to have increased the family es- 
tates by the acquisition of the lands of Logie- 
Wester and Findon, county Ross, of which the 
Earls of Ross were at that time the superiors. 
He died about 11 26. 

(I\') Robert Munroe, Second P)aron of 
J-"owlis, was a loyal subject of David I and 
Malcolm VI., of Scotland. According to family 
tradition he married Agnes, daughter of Angus 
Mnr ?iIacdonald I\', of the Isles, by a daugh- 
ter of Sir Colin Campbell, of Glenurchy. This, 
however, cannot be true, from the fact that 
.\ngus Mor, who lived between 1255 and 1300, 
was not born in Robert's time, or for a cen- 
tury after, his death having occurred in the 
latter year. Robert died in 1164, and was in- 
terred in the Chanonry of Ross, which contin- 
ued thereafter to be the family burying place 
for more than four hundred years. He mar- 
ried and had children. 

(V) Donald, son of Robert Munroe, third 
Baron of the name, is said to have built the 
old Tower of Fowlis as early as 1154, during 
the life of his father. He is said to have 
served under William the Lion, when the lat- 
ter came to su|)])ress the lawlessness and re- 
bellion which prevailed in Scotland, in 1179, 
and to have rendered him material assistance 
at that time. He married and had children: 
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whom it is alleged the family of Mackaye, or 
"Mac Dhaibhidhe," at one time in Tarradale, 
were descended; Allan, progenitor of the Alac- 
Allans, of Perindonald. Donald died in 1 192. 
at his Tower of Fovvlis, and was buried in the 
Cathedral church of Chanonry, where the 
Bishops of Ross had their episcopal seat from 
prior to 1 130 until the Reformation. 

(V'l) Robert, son of Donald Munroe, 
fourth Baron of the name, married, between 
1 194 and 1214, a daughter of Hugh Fecskyn 
de Moravia. He died in 1239, and was buried 
in the Chanonry of Ross, leaving among others 
a son George, who succeeded him. Robert is 
said to have married a daughter of the Earl 
of Sutherland. 

(VII) George, son of Robert Munroe, was 
the fifth Baron of the name, and the first of 
the family of whom there is any authentic 
historical record. He witnessed a charter by 
William, Earl of Sutherland, to the Arch- 
bishop of Moray, dated 1232-7, and had his 
Rosschiero lands confirmed to him by a char- 
ter from .Alexander 11, before 1249 (?). He 
died about 1269. 

(VIII) Robert, son of George Munroe, was 
the sixth liaron, and was placed under the 
guardianship of the Baron of Ross and Suth- 
erland until he attained his majority in 1282. 
After 1290 Robert joined the party of Bruce, 
and continued steadfast in his support througn- 
out the varying fortunes of that family. When 
quite advanced in years he raised his clan and 
took part in the memorable battle of Ban- 
nockburn. Here, his eldest and apparently 
only son, was slain, along with many more of 
his followers. Robert lived for nine years 
after his return home, and died in 1323. His 
son, George, who fell at Bannockburn, had 
married a year before his death a daughter 
of the Earl of Sutherland, and had children : 
George, who succeeded his grandfather; 
John. 

(IX) George, grandson of Robert Munroe, 
and seventh Baron, was a steadfast supporter 
of the Bruce dynasty, and a firm upholder of 
the interests of his native country. He was 
killed at the battle of Halidon Hill, in 1333, 
while fighting bravely at the head of his clan. 
He married a daughter of Hugh, Earl of Ross. 

(X) Robert, eighth Baron, succeeded his 
father when he was a mere child. During his 
minority his estates were carefully managed by 
his uncle John, who during his guardianship 
redeemed portions of the ancestral possessions 



which had been mortgaged by his ancestors, 
lie is mentioned in various charters, dated 
1 34 1, 1362, 1368-72. He married (first) Joan, 
daughter of Hugh Ross I, of Balnagowan, on 
record in 1350-66, by his wife Margaret Bar- 
clay, niece of Queen Euphenia, second wife of 
Robert II. King of Scotland. By her he had 
one son, Hugh, his heir and successor. He 
married (second) Grace, daughter of Sir 
Adam Forrester, of Corsterjjhine. Children : 
Thomas, lohn, who is mentioned in a charter 
dated July 22, 1426; John, of whom nothing 
is known. Robert was killed in a clan fight 
in 1361;, and was succeeded by his eldest son, 

(XI) Hugh, son of Robert .Munroe, was the 
ninth Baron. He obtained several charters, 
dated 1369-70-94. He married (first) Isa- 
bella, daughter of John Keith, second son of 
Sir Edward Keith, great marischal of Scot- 
land by his wife. Marietta, daughter of Sir 
Reginald Cheyne, of Inverugie. They had one 
son, (ieorge. the heir and successor. He mar- 
ried (second) Margaret, daughter of Nicholas 
(son of Kenneth, fourth Earl of Sutherland, 
and brother of William, the fifth Earl) by his 
wife Mary, daughter of Reginald le Cheyne, 
and Mary. Lady of Duft'us. Children: John, 
Janet, Elizabeth. Hugh died in 1425. and was 
succeeded by his eldest son, George. 

(XII) George, son of Hugh Munroe, and 
the tenth Baron, is on record as "George Mun- 
ro of Fowlis," in charters of the years 1437- 
38-39-40-49. He was killed with several mem- 
bers of his family and many of his followers 
at the battle of "Beallach-nam-brog," in 1452. 
He married (first) Isobel, daughter of Ross of 
Balnagown, by whom he had a son, George, 
who was killed with his father at the above- 
mentioned battle. He married (second) 
Christian, daughter of John MacCulloch, of 
Plaids ; children : John, who succeeded to the 
estates and chiefship of the clan; Hugh, Wil- 
liam. 

(XIII) Hugh, son of George Munroe, of 
Fowlis, by his second wife. Christian, was the 
first of the Munroes of Coul and Balcony. His 
lands were in the parish of Alness, and he is 
on record in 1458. He is said to have mar- 
ried (first) Eva, daughter of Ewen Maclean 
II. of Urquhart. chief of the "Siel Thear- 
laich," who subsequently removed to and 
owned the lands of Dochgarroch. Children: 
John, his heir and successor ; Hector, Andrew. 
He married (second) Jane, daughter of Du- 
gal Cattanach of Craignish. Children : Alex- 



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ander, Donald, Robert, George. He married 
(third) "a daughter of Keith Marschall's," by 
whom he had one son, John. 

(XIV) John, son of the Hugh Munroe des- 
ignated as "Mr. John Munroe, of Balcony," 
studied for the church and took his M. A. de- 
gree at Aberdeen University. In 1492 he was 
presented to the vicarage of Logie-Urquhard, 
apparently Logie-Wester and Urquhart, in the 
I'.lack Isle. In 1551 Queen Mary presented 
William Munroe, second son of Sir Williana 
Munroe, to the chaplainry of Saint Monan, 
on the lands of Balconie, vacant by the de- 
cease of "Master John Monro." He married a 
daughter of Mackenzie Strathconon ; children: 
John, his heir and successor; Hugh, William, 
.\ndrew, David, Donald. 

(X\') John Mor Mum-oe, son of John 
.Munroe, was the third of Coul and the second 
of E5alconie. He married Katberine, daughter 
of John Vane, of Lochslinn, by his wife Eliza- 
beth, daughter of Thomas Urfjuhart of Cro- 
marty. Children : John, his heir and successor ; 
Hugh, Robert, Farquhar, David, Margaret, 
Catherine. John died about 1660, and was suc- 
ceeded by his eldest son, John. 

(XVI) Farquhar Munroe, son of John Mor 
Munroe, married Catherine, daughter of Wil- 
liam MacCullocb of liadcall. Children : John, 
Robert. 

(XVII) Robert, son of Fartjuhar Munroe, 
married ; children : Robert, George, William, 
Sir Benedict, Elizabeth. 

(XVIII) William, son of Robert Munroe, 
was born in 1625, in Scotland, and fought at 
the battle of Worcester, was taken prisoner 
and banished by Cromwell from London, No- 
vember II, 1651, to Boston, Massachusetts, 
along with several others. He ultimately set- 
tled at Lexington, Massachusetts, where he 
married and became the progenitor of a large 
family of Munroes. He married (first), 
about 1^)65, Martha, daughter of John George, 
of Charlestown, a prominent Baptist, who was 
fined, imprisoned and finally ordered out of 
the town for heresy. Martha died before 1672, 
and in or about the same year he married 
(second) Mary Ball. She died in .\ugust. 
''^O.l. aged forty-one years, and he married 
(third) Elizabetii, widow of Edward Dyer, of 
Charlestown. She died December 14, 1715, 
aged seventy-nine years. Children of first 
wife: John, mentioned below; Martha, born 
November 3, 1667; William, October 10, 1669; 
George. Children of second wife: Daniel, 



August 12, 1673; Hannah, Elizabeth, Mary, 
June 24, 1678; David, October 6, 1680; Elea- 
nor, February 24, 1683 ; Sarah, March 18, 
1685; Joseph, August 16, 1687; Benjamin, 
.-\ugust 16, 1690. 

(XIX) John, son of William Munroe, was 
born May lo, 1666. He was admitted to the 
church February i, 1699. He subscribed to the 
building fund of the meeting house in 1692, 
and was on the tax list of 1693. ^^^ became 
a very prominent citizen, serving the town as 
assessor in 1699, 1714-20; constable in 1700, 
selectman in 1718-19-26, treasurer 1718-19-20. 
He held many positions of trust and honor. 
He was lieutenant of the militia there. He re- 
ceived a grant of nine hundred acres of land 
for his services in the battle with the Indians 
at Lamproy river, June 6, 1690. In addition to 
his many other offices and duties he was sex- 
ton of the church and rang the bell for years 
in the first church in Lexington to call the 
worshippers to service. His death occurred 
September 14, 1753. He married Hannah 

— , who died April 14, 1753. Children: 

John, Hannah, Constance, Jonathan, William, 
Elizabeth, Susannah, Jonas, mentioned below ; 
Martha, born December 6, 1710; Marrett, De- 
cember 6, 17 13. 

( XX ) Jonas, son of John Munroe, was born 
in Lexington, Massachusetts, November 22, 
1707. He was a lieutenant of the Lexington 
militia company. He married (first), August 
3, 1733, Joanna, daughter of Joseph and Mary 
(Hoad) Locke; she w-as born February 2, 
1713, died .September 17, 1748. He married 
(second), 1750, Rebecca White, of Qielsea. 
He died November 9, 1765, and his widow 
married, April 19, 177^, John Muzzy, of Lex- 
ington, grandson of the first settler, and as 
his second wife. Children of first wife: Jonas, 
born November 2, 1735: John, February i, 
1737; Stephen, October 25. 1739; Jonathan, 
May 25, 1742; Joanna, April 12, 1747. Chil- 
dren of second wife: Ebenezer, mentioned be- 
low ; Rebecca, June 17, 1755 ; Martha, Septem- 
ber 12, 1758. 

(XXI) Lieutenant Ebenezer Munroe, son 
of Jonas Munroe, was born April 20, 1752, 
and was in the Lexington company of minute- 
men who turned out April 19, 1775, and he is 
said to have fired the first shot on the Ameri- 
can side. He also took part in the Jersey cam- 
paign in 1776, after which he retired w^ith the 
rank of lieutenant. He removed to Ashburn- 
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zen. His home was in the south part of the 
town. In 1787 he was lieutenant of militia, 
and subsequently was moderator of town 
meetings and selectman for several years. He 
died Alay 25, 1825. He married, April 10, 
1780, Lucy (Aluzzey) Simonds, of Woburn. 
Children : Charles, mentioned below ; Eben- 
ezer, February 25, 1785; Jonas, May 27, 1790: 
John, October 4, 1793; Rebecca, June 7, 1798; 
Kerrick, November i, 1802; Lucy, November 

1. 1802. 

(XXH ) Charles, son of Ebenezer Munroe, 
was born in Lexington, September 12, 1781, 
and went with the family to Ashburnham, 
Worcester county, Massachusetts. He was a 
member of the Ashburnham light infantry, 
and served in the war of 18 12. His home 
was in the south village. He was one of the 
pioneer chair manufacturers of the town, and 
with this industry, which was intimately asso- 
ciated with the growth and prosperity of Ash- 
burnham, he was an influential factor. He 
died October 26, 1834. He married, June 9, 
1808, I,ydia, daughter of John Conn ; she died 
March 9, 1837. Children born at Ashburn- 
ham: I. Lydia, .\ugust 30, 1809, died Novem- 
ber 21, 1835: married June 21, 1832, Sylvester 
VVinship, of Westminster, and had a son John. 

2. John, born December 24, 181 2. 3. Mary 
Farwell, born May 3, 1814; married, Septem- 
ber 14, 1833, John Winship, and had Mary 
Jane, born December 21, 1834: Ellen Susan, 
October 19, 1846; Sarah L.. May 16, 1847. 4. 
Charles, November 19, 1817: removed to New 
York state, where he died in 1882. 5. Lucy, 
born March 5, 1820; married, July i, 1840, 
Sylvester Winship, and had : Charles M., No- 
vember 15, 1840, died May 30, 1843; Lydia. 
February 2~, 1843; Harriet E.. October 26, 
[850; Susan M., June 10, 1852. 6. Ivers, 
May 30, 1823. 7. Loring. mentioned below ; 
8. Harriet Arvilla, born July 20, 1829: mar- 
ried, September 19, 1853. Timothy .\ddison 
Tenney, and had: Lucia, June 23, 1854: Hat- 
tie E., April 3, i860, and Charles H. Tenney, 
January 23. 1864. 

(XXHI) Loring, son of Charles Munroe, 
was born in Ashburnham, June 12, 1826. He 
was left an or])han when a boy, and worked 
for three years as a farm hand. He attended 
the district schools of his native town and the 
academy at Ashburnham. For a short time he 
taught school. When he was twenty years old 
he went to Cleveland, Oswego county. New 
York, where he became financially interested in 



the manufacture of glass, and afterward was 
an owner in the American Glass Company, 
the factory of wdiich was at Bernhards ISay, 
New York. In 1861 he purchased the Dun- 
barton glass plant at Verona, New York, and 
for si.xteen years conducted it successfully. In 
the meantime he became a partner in the firm 
of Barnes, Stark & Munroe. bankers, of 
Oneida, and so continued for five years. For 
a number of years he was trustee of the Oneida 
Savings Bank. He came to Oneida in 1877, 
and lived there the remainder of his life. He 
built and owned the building occupied by the 
Farmers and Merchants' Bank, of which he 
was president, and he also owned much valua- 
ble real estate in the village. In politics he 
was a Republican, and he served the town of 
Leno.K in the board of supervisors, and the vil- 
lage in the board of trustees. He was one 
of the original stockholders of the First Na- 
tional Bank of Oneida. Mr. Munroe accumu- 
lated a fortune entirely by his own exertions 
and wise investments, and was always liberal 
and public spirited. In 1898 he built a Me- 
morial Chapel and presented it to the Glen- 
wood Cemetery Association, of Oneida. He 
married Jane Corwarden, born in Jackson, 
New Jersey, ; she died December 5, 1904. He 
died January 2'^, 1901. Children: George L., 
mentioned below ; Charles I.. Anthony B., El- 
len, died in 1875, aged twenty-one years; Jen- 
nie and Martha, died in childhood. 

(XXI\') George L., son of Loring Munroe. 
was born in Cleveland, Oswego county. New 
York, March 25. 1850. He received a common 
school education, and after leaving school 
worked for several years as an apprentice in 
the manufactory of window glass at Dun- 
barton, and in 1877, in partnership with his 
brother Charles, Henry Felker and O. H. Hess, 
engaged in the manufacture of glass under the 
firm name of Munroe & Company, and con- 
tinued until 1888, when his business became 
a part of the I'nited Glass Coni])any. Mr. 
Munroe became superintendent of the factory 
at Dunbarton. In 1898 he retired. He is a 
member of F. & A. M. IMasonic Lodge and 
Chapter, and of the Methodist church. In 
politics he is a Republican. He married, Sep- 
tember 21, 1870, Clara L. Hees, born at State 
Bridge, \'erona. Oneida county. New- York, 
December 15, 1849, daughter of Archibald L. 
Hees. Children:!. Jennie H., born at \"erona, 
Tune 15. 1 87 1, died February 18, 1S98; mar- 
ried. January 5, 1892, Dr. Thomas E. Bam- 



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ford. 2. Daisy Cook, born August 22, 1872; 
married, December 28, 1901, William A. Rob- 
erts, of Oneida; children: Wellesely, born Oc- 
tober 9, 1902; Lucille Clare, April 15, 1905; 
Cordelia Ketchum, November 29, 1906; 
George Bailey, July 7, 1908. 3. Ella May, 
born July 29, 1874; married, November 17, 
[906, Roy F. Hicks, of Canastota. 4. Maud 
F., born July 17, 1876, died September 19, 
1877. 5. Cora I., born February 26, 1878. 6. 
Alice Pearl, born October 9, 1880. Mrs. Mun- 
roe and her daughters are Daughters of the 
American Revolution, and members of the 
Twentieth Century Club and the Madison 
County Historical Society. 

(XXIV) Charles I., son of Loring Mun- 
roe, was born in Cleveland, Oswego county, 
August 19, 1851. He attended the public 
schools of his native town. He went with his 
father to Dunbarton and served an apprentice- 
ship as a glasscutter, and for a time worked 
at that trade as a journeyman. He engaged in 
business as a glass manufacturer on his own 
account, and afterward succeeded his father 
in business, and continued until 1883, when he 
sold out. He returned to work as a journey- 
man for a time, and in 1897 entered partner- 
ship in the firm of Baldwin & Munroe, in the 
undertaking business, and continued in that 
firm to the end of his life. He was a member 
of Oneida Lodge, No. 270, Free Masons, and 
he and his wife belonged to the Order of the 
Eastern Star. He was also a member of the 
Lodge of Odd Fellows, of the Elks and the 
Knights of Pythias. In politics he was a Re- 
publican. He married, November 18, 1874, 
Barbara Miller, born on Tilden Hill, X^erona, 
Oneida county. August 29, 1854, daughter of 
George and Barbara (Sprang) Miller. Her 
father was a native of Alsace, Germany. Chil- 
dren : I. Loring M., born 1875, died April 17, 
1897 ; was a banker. 2. Charles Frederick, 
mentioned below. 

(XXV) Charles Frederick, son of Charles I. 
Munroe, was born March 7, 1878. and received 
his early education in the public schools of 
Oneida. He studied dentistry, and was grad- 
uated from the Dental School of Buffalo Uni- 
versity in the class of 1901. He practiced his 
profession in Buffalo until 1907. He was then 
in business for a time as a wholesale baker. 
After his father died he succeeded to the un- 
tlertaking business, which has since been con- 
ducted at Oneida under the firm name of 
Munroe & Dunbar. Mr. Munroe is president 



of the Porter Cable Machine Company, of 
Syracuse. He is a member of Oneida Lodge, 
No. 270, of Free Masons, of the Elks and sev- 
eral college fraternities. He married, June 
25, 1904, Mary Gwynn Ross, born at Auburn, 
January 8, 1876, daughter of Napoleon and 
Jennette (Stanley) Ross. They have one 
child, Helen Ross, born May 9, 1905. 

(XXIV) Anthony B., son of Loring Mun- 
roe, was born in Bernhards Bay, Oswego 
county. New York, March 13, 1861. He re- 
ceived his education in the public schools, and 
when a young man became assistant secretary 
of the Oneida Savings Bank. After several 
years he resigned to engage in the clothing 
business in the firm of ]\Iunroe & Parsons, and 
in this business has been very successful. He 
is president of the Farmers and Merchants' 
State Bank of Oneida. In politics he is a 
Republican. He is a member of the Pres- 
byterian church. He married, October 24, 
1884, Louise M. Walrath, born in Oneida, 
(laughter of C. A. and Mary G. (Stevens) 
Walrath. Children : Marjory L., married Earl 
M. McGuinness ; Stewart W. 



John Clarke, of Westhorpe, 
CL.\RKE county Suffolk, England, died 

in 1559, and was buried March 
3> 1559- Children; John, mentioned below; 
Thomas, born [anuary 4, 1543, buried May 10, 
1588. 

(II) John (2). son of John (i) Clarke, 
was born at Westhorpe, county Suffolk, Eng- 
land, and baptized February 1 1, 1541. He died 
.April 4, and was buried April 7, 1598. He 
married Catharine, daughter of John Cooke; 
she was baptized February 11, 1541, died 
March -z"], burieil March 30, 1598. Children; 
John, born .April 25, 1569; Thomas, mentioned 
below; baptismal dates; Carewe, August 17, 
1572; Christopher, December 6, 1574; John, 
March 17, 1577; Margaret, June 8, 1579; 
Mary, September 21, 1581. 

(III) Thomas, son of John (2) Clarke, was 
born at Westhorpe, England, November i, 
1570, All Saints' Day, and baptized Novem- 
ber 3, 1570. He died July 29, buried July 30, 
1627. He married Rose Herridge (or Ker- 
idee), who died September 29, 1627. Children; 
Margaret, born February i, 1600; Carewe, 
immigrant, February 3, 1602; Thomas, immi- 
grant. March 31, 1605; Mary, baptized July 
17, 1607; John, immigrant, born October 8, 



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1609; William, baptized February 11. 161 1: 
Joseph, mentioned below. 

(IV) Joseph, son of Thomas Clarke, was 
the immigrant ancestor in this line, and came 
from Westhorpe, county Suffolk, England, 
about 1637. He was born December 9, 16 18. 
and baptized December 16, 1618. He died 
June I. 1694, at Newport, Rhode Island. He 
married (first) , and (second) Mar- 
garet , who died at Newport, 1694. He 

settled in Rhode Island, being admitted an in- 
habitant of the island Aquidneck, Newport, 
1638. He was present at the general court of 
election in 1640, and was made freeman March 
17, 1641. He became one of the original mem- 
bers of the First Baptist church of Newport 
in 1644. In 1648 he was a member of the 
court of trials ; in 1655 a freeman of the col- 
ony ; commissioner, 1655-57-58-59 ; assistant 
in 1658-63-64-65-78-80-90. His name was on 
the charter granted to Rhode Island by King 
Charles II. July 8, 1663. He was made free- 
man at \\'esterly in 1668, and was deputy to 
the general assembly, 1668-69-70-71-72-90. 
On May 18, 1669, he was on the list of inhabi- 
tants of Westerly, and in 1677 he was on the 
court of justices of the peace, to attend to a 
matter of injurious and illegal acting of the 
Connecticut Colony. In 1679 he was one of 
thirty-three who gave the oath of allegiance to 
Westerly. In 1680 he was taxed in Newport. 
On September 25, 1685, he and his wife Alar- 
garet, of Newport, sold to Francis Brinley, of 
Newjjort, a 1-154 part of Coanicut Island, 89 
acres and a 1-154 part of Dutch Island. In 
i6go he was one of those chosen to apportion 
taxes to the respective towns. He seems to 
have lived at Westerly for a time, and then to 
have returned to Newport. The names of his 
children were found on a memorandum to the 
will of Thomas Clarke, his brother. Children: 
Joseph, mentioned below ; William, Alary, died 
1695 ; Sarah, born January 29, 1663 ; John, Su- 
sannah, Joshua, Thomas. Carew, Elizabeth, 
married Rev. William Peckham, of Newport. 

(\'), Joseph (2), son of Joseph (i) Clarke, 
was born February 11, 1642, and died Janu- 
ary II, 1726-27, at Westerly, Rhode Island. I le 
married (first), November 16, 1664, I'ethiah, 
daughter of Samuel and Tacy (Cooper) Hub- 
bard : she was born December 19, 1646, died 
April 17, 1707 (or 1717). He married (sec- 
ond) Hannah, widow of Thomas Peckham, 
and daughter of William Weeden. She had 
married (first) William Clarke, brother of 



Joseph Clarke, her third husband. He must 
have moved early from Newport to Westerly, 
for in 1669 he was town clerk of Westerly, 
and kept that position until 1700. In July, 
1675, lie and his family went to the home of 
Rev. Samuel Hubbard, in Newport, for shel- 
ter from the Indian war. In 1680 he was 
taken by force and carried from Westerly to 
Hartford, Connecticut, where he was fined 
iio by the authorities of the colony, but was 
reimbursed £13 los. by Rhode Island assem- 
by for this payment. May 20, 1696, Benedict 
Arnold, of Newport, deeded him two hun- 
dred acres of land at South Kingston, Rhode 
Island, and this was recorded December 22. 
1707 there. On November 30, 1696, he 
deeded John Seagar one hundred acres of land 
at South Kingston, which was also recorded 
there December 22, 1707. In 1698-1700-2-4-6-8 
he was deputy to the general assembly. In 1710 
Joseph Clarke and Joseph Clarke, Jr., were 
invited by the Sabbatarian church at \\'ester!y. 
On July 20, 1715, and January 4, 1717, he 
deeded land to his son Samuel, and February 4, 
1718, land to his son-in-law Thomas Hiscox. 
all in Westerly. In March, 1722, he and his 
wife, late wife of Thomas Peckham, brought 
suit against Philip Peckham for three pounds 
annuity. October 5, 1725, he deeded land at 
Westerly to his son \\'illiam. His will was 
dated October 5. 1725, proved February 27. 
1727, bequeathed to daughters Mary Champlin. 
Judith Alaxson, Susanna Babcock, Bethiah 
Hisco.x. to grandsons, eldest sons of Joseph 
and Joshua Clarke, and a shilling each to sons 
Thomas. William and Samuel, who already 
had their portions. Children : Judith, born 
October 12. 1667: Joseph, .\pril 14, 1670; 
Samuel, September 29, 1672 : John, August 25. 
1675; Bethiah. April 11, 1678; Mary, Decem- 
ber 27, 1680; Susanna, August 31. 1683; 
Thomas, mentioned below: William, April 21. 
1688. Judith and John were born in Newport, 
the others in Westerly. 

(\'D Thomas, son of Joseph (2) Clarke, 
was born at \\'esterly, March 17, 1686, and 
died November 26, 1767, at Hopkinton, Rhode 
Island, aged eighty-two years. He married, 
in 1710, Elizabeth Babcock, daughter of Cap- 
tain James and Elizabeth (Babbett) Babcock; 
she was born February 8, 1691, at Westerly. 
Thomas Clarke was baptized in 1706, and was 
on the list of the Baptist church at Westerly 
in 1718 and 1740. February 27, 1718, he and 
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land at Westerly, and March i^,, 1718, he gave 
a deed of Stonington land. On .August 2(\ 
1735. he was ordained deacon of church. He 
deeded land to his son Thomas, February 17, 
1740, at Westerly, which had been given him 
by his father. October 2, 1750, he was chosen 
assistant elder. He deeded land in Westerly. 
January 25, 1765, to son Joseph. His will, 
dated August 10, 1766, proved January 25, 
1768, recorded at Westerly, January 25, 
1768, mentions granddaughter Alary, wife of 
Peleg Saunders, his son Joshua and Joseph 
and daughter Sarah, wife of Edward P.urdick. 
Children: Sarah, born at Westerly, May 11, 
1712; Thomas, born at Westerly, March 4. 
1715; Joshua, mentioned below; James, born 
at Westerly, March 3, 1720, died young; Jo- 
seph, born September 14, 1728. 

(VH) Rev. Joshua Clarke, son of Elder 
Thomas Clarke, was born at Westerly, April 
26, 1717, and died March 8, 1793. aged sev- 
enty-si.x. He was buried in the First Hop- 
kinton cemetery. He married, about 1738, 
Hannah Cottrell, born 1719, died November 4, 
1808, aged ninety years. December 20, 1747. 
he and his wife deeded land at Westerly to 
Thomas Lawton, and January 7, 1753, he 
deeded land there to Edmond Pendleton. He 
and his wife, April 5, 1753. deeded land at 
Westerly to Nathaniel I^ewis, of Charlestown. 
.\ugust 24, 1756, he declined to serve as deacon 
of the Sabbatarian church, fie deeded land 
in Hopkinton. where he lived, November 8. 
1757, to the colony of Rhode Island, and No- 
vember 16, 1762, he deeded land there to his 
son Joshua. He was ordained elder in May. 
1768, and in 1774 appears on the census as of 
Hopkinton with a family of four males over 
sixteen, four under sixteen, three females over 
sixteen, and one negro servant. His will, dated 
July 31, 1792, proved at Hopkinton, April i. 
1793, son Phineas executor, mentions wife 
Hannah, sons Ethan, Thomas, Arnold, Henry, 
Willett and Josei)h Bennett, daughters Hannah 
and Klizabeth Maxson. grandsons Joshua, son 
of Phineas, and Joshua C. Maxson, son of Jesse 
Maxson, and granddaughter Hannah, daughter 
of Phineas. He was a member of the legisla- 
ture and a trustee of llrown University. He 
served in the colonial and revolutionary wars. 
Children: Phineas, born I'ebruary 23, 1740; 
Joshua, .August 17, 1741, died 1764; Ethan, 
born March 7, 1745; Hannah, May 4, 1747; 
Thomas, June 10, 1749; Elizabeth, November 
14, 1751; Arnold, March 17, 1754: Plenry, 



mentioned below; Willett, October 20, 1759; 
-Xathan, February 7, 1762, died May 11, 1776; 
Joseph Hennett, May 13, 1765. 

( \ III ) Rev. Henry Qarke, son of Rev. 
Joshua Clarke, was born at Hopkinton, De- 
cember 2, 1756, and died at Brookfield. New 
York, March 22, 1831. He married, Decem- 
ber 5, 1776, Catherine I'endleton, born March 

13. 1757, at Westerly, died September 4, 1824, 
at Brookfield. He married (second) Lydia, 
widow of Elisha Burdick. Sq)tember 19. 
1776, he and Joshua Clarke were signers to the 
declaration of patriotism at Hopkinton. When 
a boy he worked on his father's farm, and 
later learned the trade of a blacksmith. June 
19. 1779- he and his wife joined the Hopkin- 
ton Baptist church. He and "Caty," his wife, 
deeded land at Hopkinton on December 9, 
1782. In 1788 he was ordained deacon, and 
an evangelist on .September 3, 1793. He lived 
over ten years at Hopkinton, and at least four 
in Stiinington, and May 2, 1795, settled in 
P)rookfield, New York, on a large farm where 
he remained thirt3'-six years. In October he 
was installed pastor of the First Seventh Day 
Baptist church of Brookfield, and kept this 
position until .Ajiril, 1822, although he preached 
in the church occasionally until his death. 
In 181 1 he published "A History of the Sab- 
batarians or Seventh Day Baptists in Amer- 
ica." Another work of his, never printed, was 
".\ Scriptural and Reasonable System of Re- 
ligion." Children by first wife born at Hop- 
kinton: Henry. December 16, 1777; Pliebe. 
September 28, 1779; Sarah, July 25, 1781 ; 
Oliver Pendleton, March 29, 1783; John \"e- 
lot, .\pril 14, 1785; Elizabeth M.-, April 30, 
1787; Ethan, mentioned below; at Stonington, 
Connecticut: Welcome Arnold, April 25, 1791, 
and Catherine, April 17, 1793; Joshua, at 
Brookfield, New York, July 20, 1795; Samuel 
Ray, November 6, 1800. 

(IX) Ethan, son of Rev. Henry Clarke, 
was born at Hopkinton, Rhode Island, March 
30, 1789, and died at O.xford, New York, Feb- 
ruary 8, 1857. He married (first), October 

14, 1810, Lucy, daughter of Reuben and Han- 
nah (Johnson) Wilcox; she died .-Xugust 30, 
18 1 2, and he married (second), September 
5, 1814. Rachel, daughter of Peter and Eliza- 
i)eth (Covvell ) Case, who died August 25, 
1854. He was a merchant in Oxford from 
about 1 83 1 until his death. For a time he 
conducted business under the firm name of 
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He had a hotel in Oxford, besides his business, 
and also owned and operated stage Hnes from 
Oxford to r.inghamton, from Oxford to Cats- 
kill and from Oxford to Sherburne. Child 
by tirst wife: Lucy Wilcox, born .Vugnst 30, 
1812. at Rrookfield. Children by second wife: 
James Willard, born at Brookfield, July 20, 
1815, died at Oxford, June 30, 1878; Eliza- 
beth Ann, at Plainfield, April 27, 181 7, died at 
Rochester, January 29, 1887, married Novem- 
ber 9, 1847. Rev. John Van Ingen ; Dwight 
Henry, at l^lainfield, March 2, 1819, died .^pril 
17. 1874; Ethan Case, at Plainfield, December 
16, 1820. died October 4, 1889; Hannah 
Henry, at Oxford, October 7, 1822, died at 
Clinton, New York, August 13, 1880, married 
.August 2. 1843, George AlcXeil ; Peter Wel- 
come, at Oxford, April 14, 1826. died at Ox- 
ford, September 10, 1889; John Ray, at Ox- 
ford, April 9, 1828, died at Binghamton, 
August 19, 1890; Francis George, mentioned 
below. 

( X) Francis George, son of Ethan Clarke, 
was born at Oxford, New York, November 22, 
1830, and died there May 12, 1910. He was 
educated in Oxford Academy and was asso- 
ciated in business with his father in the gen- 
eral store for a time, and later succeeding to 
the ownershi]) of the business, from which he 
retired in 1900. About 1885 he engaged in 
the stone business at Oxford, later founding 
the F. G. Clarke Bluestone Company, which 
continued until 1907, when its business was 
wound up. He was one of the founders and 
directors of the First National I'.ank of Ox- 
ford, and for several years its vice-president. 
His brother James was its first president. In 
politics he was a Republican. He was a mem- 
ber of Oxfortl Lodge of Free Masons and 
was a communicant and vestryman of the 
Protestant Episcopal church, and at the time 
of his death its senior warden. He married 
(fir.st), .\ugust 15, i860, Clarissa .Maria 
Bockee, born July 10, 1837, died September 13. 
1882, daughter of Isaac and Clarissa ( Ran- 
dall) Bockee. He married (second). Septem- 
ber 9, 1884, Laura P.emis Chapin. daughter of 
Thaddeus and Rebecca ( Bemis ) Chapin. Chil- 
dren by first wife : Francis Bockee, born Feb- 
ruary T7, 1863, died Sei)tember 18, 18*13; 
Henry Bockee, Sqjtember 8. 1864, died De- 
cember 23, 1889; Herbert William, mentioned 
below; James Winslow, November 7, i8f^Kj, an 
Episcopal clergyman, at present residing in 
Utica, New York. 



(XI) Herbert William, son of Francis 
George Clarke, was born April 16, 1867, at 
Oxford. New York. He attended Oxford 
.\cademy and later engaged in business with 
his father. He was a partner in the F. G. 
Clarke Bluestone Company from 1892 to 1907. 
In 1904 he came to Norwich, New York, 
where he organized the firm of Clarke, Conroy 
& Comjiany. In June, 1910, the business was 
incorporated under the name of Clarke-Con- 
roy Company, of which Mr. Clarke is presi- 
dent and treasurer. While living in Oxford 
he was a director of the F'irst National Bank 
of Oxford. He is a member of Oxford Lodge 
of Free Masons, of Oxford, and of Oxford 
Chapter, Royal Arch Masons. In politics he 
is a Republican, and he has been active in pol- 
itics and public affairs, but has never accepted 
public ofiice. 

He married, August 29, 1893, Margaret 
Stanton, of Norwich, born September 5, 1871, 
(laughter of Captain Robert .\ugustus and 
Elizabeth Packer (Pendleton) Stanton (see 
Stanton). Children: Francis Stanton, March 
22, 1898; Elizabeth Pendleton, .\ugnst 24, 
1902 ; both born at Oxford. 

(The Stanton Line). 

(II) Thomas (2) Stanton, son of Thomas 
( I ) Stanton ( q. v.). was born in Hartford, 
Connecticut, in 1638, and died in Stoning^on, 
Connecticut, .\pril 11, 1718. He married 
Sarah, ('aughter of Captain George Denison, 
of Stonington : she was born March 20, 1641, 
died December 19. 1701. Thomas and his 
brother John received their father's lands in 
Preston. He was chosen by the commission- 
ers of the L'nited Colony of New England, 
with his brother John, as an interpreter of the 
Indian language, to teach it at Harvard Col- 
lege. 

(III) William, scm of Thomas (2) Stan- 
tim. was baptized May 6, 1677. He married. 
May 7, 1 701, Anna, daughter of Robert and 
foamia (Gardiner) Stanton: they lived in 
Stonington. 

(I\') Joshua, son of William Stanton, was 
born June 26, 1721, and died at Stonington, 
October 25, 1819. He married, in 1746, 
1 fannah, daughter of John and Dorothy (Cott- 
rell ) Randall; she was born January 13, 1728. 
He married (second) Mary Davis, by whom 
he had a son I^odowick. He had nine children 
by the first wife. 

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born in 1756 in Stonington, and died October 
25, 1819. He married Martha Davis, who died 
December, 1844, at Caton, Steuben county. 
New York. 

(VI) Nathan Davis, son of Henry Stan- 
ton, was born at Stonington, May 3, 1792, and 
died January 2, 1865, in Norwich, New York. 
He served in the New London mihtia in tlie 
war of 1812. He married. January 18, 1817, 
Phoebe Lewis, who died February 22, 1864. 

(VH) Robert Augustus, son of Nathan 
Davis Stanton, was born Sunday, April 29, 
1838, at Norwich, and died September 5, 1886. 
In July, 1 861, he was mustered into the Sev- 
enty-fourth Regiment New York X^olunteers, 
and was soon promoted to second lieutenant. 
He was wounded at the second battle of Bull 
Run, in 1862; later was promoted to first lieu- 
tenant, and soon afterward captain. He was 
a lawyer. He married August 27, 1868, at 
Oxford, New York, Elizabeth Packer, born 
March 4, 1846, died June 9, 1887. Children: 
Edith, born December 2, 1869; Margaret, born 
September 5, 1871, married, August 29, 1893, 
H. W. Clarke (see Clarke) ; Nathan Pendle- 
ton, born August 10, 1872; Charles Robert. 
Decanber 2, 1875. 



John Sweet, the immigrant an- 
SWEET cestor, was doubtless of Welsh 

origin, and he was the progenitor 
of the Sweets of Warwick and Kings Town. 
He came to this country as early as 1632, ac- 
cording to the records, and in 1637 had a 
grant of land in Proviclence, although before 
then he had lived in Salem, Massachusetts, and 
after his death in 1637 his widow returned 
and had a grant of land there. His widow 
Mary married (second) Ezekiel Holliman. 
Children: John, mentioned below; James, of 
Warwick and Kings Town; Meribah, whose 
name was changed to Renewed by Mr. Holli- 
man after his marriage to Mrs. Sweet. 

(II) John (2), son of John (i) Sweet, 
lived in Warwick in 1648, and in 1655 was a 
freeman there. In 1660 he was commissioner. 
In 1675 his grist mill at Potowotiiut was 
burned by the Indians, and in 1677 he was in 
Newport, where he died that year. He mar- 
ried Elizabeth . Children : John, Dan- 
iel, James, Henry, mentioned below; Richard, 
Benjamin, William, mentioned below ; Jere- 
miah and a daughter. 

(III) William, son of John (2) Sweet, 
lived in West Greenwich, where he settled 



after he married Thankful Hamilton. By 
trade he was a carpenter, and was very suc- 
cessful in his work. Children : Dorcas, born 
January 4, 1709; Elizabeth, November 14. 
1713; William, February 14, 1715; Priscilla, 
April 12, 1718; Rachel, May 29, 1720; Alice, 
February 18, 1722; Caleb, April 17, 1724; ' 
-Mary, October 23, 1726. 

(Ill) Henry, son of John (2) Sweet, was 
born in Warwick, Rhode Island. He married 
Mary . Children, born in East Green- 
wich : Henry, March 11, 1682; John, March 
24, 1684; Joseph, March 7, 1687; Benjamin. 
March 29, 1690; Mary, February 10, 1692: 
Johanna, February 13, 1695; William, August 
I, 1698: \\'als (Alice ?), July 10, 1700; Eliza- 
beth, February 25, 1704; Susanna, May 17. 
170(1; Grififin, mentioned below; Hannah, Feb- 
ruary 8, 171 1- 1 2. 

( l\ ) Griffin, son of Henry Sweet, was born 
at East Greenwich, September 15, 1709. He 
married, October 24, 1736, Priscilla Sweet, 
mentioned above. Children, born at East 
Greenwich: Henry, June 25, 1737; William. 
December 30, 1738; Ruth, November 17, 1740; 
Griffin, September 17, 1742, was living in Ste- 
])hentown, Albany county. New York, in 1790. 
and had one son under sixteen and one female 
in his family ; Caleb, mentioned below ; Eben- 
ezer, January 11, 1746-47; Mercy, December 
21, 1748; Jesse, August 22, 1750; Mary, April 
29. 1752; Asa, .\ugiist 18, 1754: Thankful. 
April 18. 1757. 

(\') Dr. Caleb Sweet, son of Griffin Sweet, 
was born at East Greenwich, Rhode Island, 
February 7, 1743. He was a surgeon in the Ij 
revolution, in the regiment of Colonel Goose 
\an Schaick (First New York), 1779-81. In 
1790 there were three of this name in New 
^'ork, according to the first federal census. 
.\t Cambridge, Albany county, a Caleb Sweet 
had two .sons under sixteen and one female; 
a Caleb Sweet at Stephentown in the same 
county had two females and no sons, and a 
Caleb Sweet of Canajoharie, in the Mohawk 
\'alley, had four sons under sixteen and one 
female. The latter was j)robably Dr. Sweet 
of this sketch. According to family records. 
he was a surgeon under Washington. 

(\T) Charles N., son of Dr. Caleb Sweet, 
was iKirn March 14, 1789. He came from the 
Mohawk \'alley to Clay, New York, of which 
he was one of the pioneers. He was a farmer 
and also a general merchant. Afterward he 
came to the town of Schroeppel. settling in that 



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portion which is now Phoenix, where he started 
the first general store. In pohtics he was a 
Democrat, and he was a cancHdate for the 
assembly twice, nominated by his party. He 
married Jemima Rogers, daughter of Jona- 
than Rogers. Children : Charles S., born Janu- 
ary 7, 1810; Delia S., November 7, 181 1 ; Ann 
De\\ itt, February 11, 1814; \ an Rensselaer, 
December 10, 1815; Addison Rogers, Novem- 
ber 14, 1817; Caroline, December 20, iSig; 
Gouverneur M., August 7, 1822 ; Mary R., 
l-"ebruary 6. 1825; Anthony Wayne, of whom 
further; Gerritge Eliza, August 3, 1829: Ange- 
line Minerva, May 3, 1831. 

(\ II) Anthony \\'ayne, son of Charles N. 
Sweet, was born in Clay, New York, May 22, 
1827. He came with his parents to Phoenix 
when a boy and was educated there in the 
public schools. He had a general store and 
a heading and stave mill. lie also manufac- 
tured furniture, coffins and caskets, and in 
later years manufactured paper. He was a 
very successful and enterprising man, an up- 
right, able and useful citizen. In politics he 
was a Republican, in religion a Universalist. 
He died January 24, 1905. He married Sarah 
Elizabeth Campbell, born February 12. 1844. 
daughter of James and Sally Ann Campbell. 
Children: Kirk N., of whom further; son. born 
December 16. 1866, died in infancy; Leah M.. 
born February I, 1868; Jemima R., .September 
25. 1870; Thaddeus C. of whom further. 

(\'lll) Hon. Thaddeus C. Sweet, son of 
Anthony W'ayne Sweet, was born at Phoenix, 
Xew Y'ork, November 16, 1872. He attended 
the public schools of his native town. At the 
age of eighteen years he became a clerk in the 
clothing store of H. D. Merriam & Brother, at 
I'htenix. .Afterward he was for two years a 
traveling salesman for .Albert II. Thompson, 
dealer in hats and caps, at Syracuse. In 1895. 
in partnership with his brother, Kirk N. Sweet, 
he engaged in business as a pajier manufac- 
turer, under the name of Sweet Brothers Paper 
.Manufacturing Company. The business has 
prospered and grown to large pro])ortions. The 
com]ianv makes a specialty of tissue paper, 
prcxlucing more than thirty shades of colored 
tissue, and controls the special process by 
which the paper is colored. Mr. Sweet is well 
known and highly respected in tiie business 
world. He has also been active in public life. 
For four years he was town clerk of Schroep- 
jiel, and member of the town board by virtue 
of this office. He has represented his party as 



delegate to various county, state and other 
nominating conventions.. In 1910 he was elect- 
ed from his district to the state assembly, and 
since then has represented his district in the 
legislature with ability and fidelity. In the 
first year he was a member of the committees 
on insurance, canals, labor and industry; in the 
second year, canals, labor and industry ; in the 
third year, chairman of committees on canals 
and member of committees on insurance and 
labor and industry. He is a director of the 
Oswego County Independent Telephone Com- 
])any, and treasurer of the Phoeni.x Water 
Power Owners' .Association. He is a member 
of Callimachus Lodge, No. 369, Free Masons, 
of Phcenix ; Oswego River Chapter, Royal 
.\rch Masons. No. 270, of Phrenix ; Ontario 
Commandcry. Knights Templar, of Oswego ; 
Media Temjile. Mystic Shrine, of Watertown. 
New York. In religion lie is a Baptist. He 
married. December 5. 1894, Lena M., daughter 
of John and Mary Hannah (Parker) McCar- 
thy. Children : Richard W.. born October 25. 
1895; '^'era M.. .August 25, 1897; Ruth E., 
.\ugust 5. 1900: Barton Wayne. September 6, 
1909. 

(Mil) Kirk N.. brother of Thaddeus C. 
Sweet, was born in Phcenix, New A^ork, Sep- 
tember 6, 1865. He was educated in the pub- 
lic schools of his native town. .As stated above, 
lie is a paper manufacturer in partnership with 
his brother, under the firm name of Sweet 
Brothers Paper Manufacturing Company. He 
is a member of Callimachus Lodge, No. 369, 
I'Vee Masons ; Oswego River Chapter, No. 
270, Royal Arch Masons : Ontario Command- 
ery. Knights Temi)lar. of Oswego : Media 
Temple, Mystic Shrine, of \\'atertown. New 
York. In politics he is a Republican. He 
married M. Elmina. born Se]>tember 10. 1863. 
daughter of William and Katherine Hess. Chil- 
dren: Homer Kirk, born February 28. 1891; 
Gladvs E., October 31. 1893. 



John I'uUer, the immigrant an- 
Fl'LLER cestor. was born in England. 

and died at Ipswich. Massachu- 
setts. June 4. 1666. He came to Ipswich In 
1634, and was one of General Denison's sub- 
scribers in 1648. He was town surveyor in 
1663. and commoner in 1664. He owned land 
near Rock-y Hill. He was in Lynn, Massachu- 
setts, in 1644, and in 1648 was again in Ips- 
wich. His will, proved September 25. ir>66, 



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names sons John and William, daughters Sus- 
anna and Elizabeth, sons Thomas, Nathaniel 
and Joseph, and daughter Sarah. His wife 
and son James were executors. His widow 
filed the inventory September 25, 1666, and 
March 25, 1(173. James Fuller filed an inven- 
tory of what he received from his mother on 
her second marriage. John Fuller married 
Elizabeth Emerson, of Ipswich, daughter of 
Thomas Emerson, who was ancestor of Ralph 
Waldo Emerson. His widow married ( sec- 
ond), between 1666 and 1672. Thomas Perrin. 
Children: John: William; James; Thomas; 
-Vathaniel, married Mary Jackson: Joseph, 
mentioned below. 

(II) Joseph, son of John Fuller, was born 
November i, 1661, and died August 22, 1731, 
in Ipswich. On .\pril i. 1680, he was living 
with Simon \\'ood. On March 23, 1692-93, he 
received a grant of land which he sold to his 
brother Nathaniel. In 1692 he and William 
Heywood were given permission to build a 
wharf. He was a carpenter. He had the title 
of sergeant. On November i. 1731. William 
Fuller was appointed administrator f)f his 
estate, and no widow was named ; November 
8, 1731, an inventory was filed, and again on 
March 15, 1732-33. The property was divided 
between William. John, Ebenezer, Jacob and 
Daniel's heirs, of Gloucester. He married. 
December 16. 1685. in Ijjswich. Mary Hey- 
wood. Children, born in I])swich : Joseph, .\u- 
gusl 13, ifxjo. married Elizabeth Hutchins; 
Thomas, Ajiril 6, 1692: William, March 7. 
1693-94, married Sarah Waits; John, May 16, 
1698, died September 29, 1699; John and Ren- 
janiin. twins, .\]ir\\ 22. 1701, Benjamin died 
Jime, 1703, John, mentioned below; Daniel. 
June 30, 1702, married Ann Deliver; Benja- 
min, .August 20, 1703, died 1722; Ebenezer, 
June 20, 1707, married Mary Gretman ; Jacob, 
June 23, 171 1, married Anna Harris. 

fill) John (2), son of Joseph Fuller, was 
born in li>swicli. April 22. 1701, and settled 
in Hampton. Coimecticut. The intention of 
his marriage which was January i, 1727 was 
given December 10. 1726. to Mary Howard, 
who died November 28. 1728. He married 
(second), July 29, 1730. Hannah Lord. Chil- 
dren by second wife: John, baptized May 7. 
1732, married Hannah Kimball; Samuel, ba])- 
tized January 20, 1733, married Sarah Reed : 
Daniel, bajjtizcd June T3. 1736. married Pa- 
tience Steadman ; Joseph, mentioned below ; 
William, baptized January 23, 1740. married 



Lucy Hodgekins; Hannah, baptized June 12, 
1743, married Rev. Elijah Fitch. 

(IV) Joseph (2), son of John (2) Fuller, 
was born in Ipswich, November 28, 1738, and 
died in Hampton, Connecticut, June 29, 1805. 
lie married, November 7, 1771. Mary Holt, 
who died October 23, 1824, aged seventy-two 
years. Children: Mary, born October 13, 1772 
married Dr. Thomas Fuller ; Chloe, December 
II, 1774. married Dr. Trumbull Dorrence ; 
Elijah, mentioned below ; Joseph, January 8, 
1779. married Elizabeth Fish; I^lisha, Janu- 
ary 30, 1782, married Phebe Burnham ; Har- 
vey, September 13, 1784, married Lydia Denni- 
son; Daniel, February 14, 1789, married Mary 
P.ird. 

(\') Elijah, son of Joseph (2) I'nller, wa> 
born in Hampton, Connecticut, .April 21, 1777, 
and died in Sherburne, New York, .April 30, 
1864. He came to New York state about 1805, 
to the town of Columbus, Chenango county, 
liicating on the farm lately owned by Mr. Ruth- 
erford. He built the house which is yet stand- 
ing there, and followed farming during his 
active life. He spent his last years with his 
son Fitch, at Columbus Centre, Chenango 
county, and died there at the age of eighty- 
seven years. He married, December 5, 1803. 
Ruth Robinson, who died at the age of sixty- 
eight years. Children: Laura P., born .\pril 
14, 1809, died November 14, 1 87 1, married 
Rev. .Sidney Mills; Thomas A., mentioned 
below; Marcia, born June i, 1815, married Dr. 
Erastus King, a noted physician and surgeon, 
of Unadilla Forks, New York; Fitch E., born 
July 12, 1820, married (first) Harriet M. Call. 
I second) .Adelia M. McFarland. 

( \'I) Thomas A., son of Elijah h'uller, was 
horn in Columbus. Qienango county. New 
Wirk. .September 6. 18 12, and died at Sher- 
burne, New York, in 1873. He was brought 
up on his father's farm and educated in the 
l)ublic schools. For some years he had the 
management of his father's farm. In 1842 he 
became a general merchant, buying the store 
of L. D. Newton, at Sherbin-ne, New York. 
He died .\pril 23, 1873, aged si.xty-three years, 
at his home in the village of Sherburne. He 
was a Whig in early life, later a Republican. 
He was an active member of the Congrega- 
tional church. He married. January 21, 1840. 
Harriet DeForest, born in Edmeston, Otsego 
county. New York, July 28, 1813, died Janu- 
ary I, 1899, daughter of Gideon and Hannah 
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(Iren : Charles Augustus, mentioned below ; 
Antoinette DeForest, born August 3. 1849, 
died June 15, 1862. 

(VII) Charles Augustus, son of Thomas A. 
Fuller, was born at Edmeston, New York. 
August 17, 1841. He attended the common 
schools of Sherburne village, and spent two 
terms at Madison University, Hamilton, Xew 
York. In the spring of 1861 he entered the 
law office of Boardman &: Ingersoll, of Cleve- 
land, Ohio, but he left his studies to enlist 
when the civil war broke out. He was muster- 
ed in as a private in Company C, Sixty-first 
New York Regiment, X'olunteer Infantry, Sep- 
tember I, 1861, and served two years, being 
mustered out in December, 1863. He held the 
rank of second lieutenant, being promoted in 
1863, after serving for a time as a non-com- 
missioned officer. lie took part in all the bat- 
tles of the .-Xrmy of the Potomac in which his 
regiment was engaged, including F"air (Jaks. 
Peach Orchard, Savage's Station, Glen Dale, 
White Oak Swamp, Malvern Hill, .\ntietam, 
Fredericksburg. Chancellorsville, and Gettys- 
burg. He was wounded at the battle of Mal- 
vern Hill, and at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, 
when he was shot in the left shoulder, from 
which a ])iece of bone three inches long was 
taken out. antl also shot in the left leg, which 
was amputated eight inches from the body 
while he was on the field of battle. He was 
incapacitated for further service, and nothing 
but his good constitution permitted him to re- 
cover from these injuries. In 1864 he began 
to study law in the offices of .\lfred Nichols 
and F. H. Risley, at Sherburne, New York, 
and later in the year became a student in the 
.■\lbany Law School. He was admitted to the 
bar in 1865, and formed a partnership with 
E. H. Risely. with offices at Hamilton, New 
York. In the spring of 1866, Mr. Fuller re- 
turned to Sherburne village and opened a law 
office. From 1871 to 1873 he was in partner- 
ship with .Stephen I lolden. and then practiced 
alone until i(>o6, when he became a ])artner in 
the firm of I'uller & Truesdall. His partner 
is Ward N. Truesdall. 

Mr. Fuller has had a notable pulJic career. 
In politics he is a strong and earnest Re])ub- 
lican. From 1867 to 1887 he was postmaster 
of Sherburne; in 1888 he represented his dis- 
trict in the state assembly, and was a delegate 
to the state constitutional convention in 1894. 
He has been trustee of the incorporated village 
and president for several terms. He ha< been 



a member of the board of education for many 
years and president for several years. He has 
also been justice of the peace of the town, and 
holds a commission from the governor as not- 
ary public. He is a member of Weaver Post, 
Grand .\rmy of the Republic, of Smyrna, and 
is i^ast commander of Plumb Post. He is a 
faithful member of the Congregational church. 
He married, June 23, 1869. Mary E. Mathew- 
son. born at Norwich, New York, May 8, 1845, 
daughter of .Vlbert T. and Mary (Blair) 
Mathewson. Children: i. .Addie Louise, born 
September 9, 1870; married .March 13, 1895, 
Charles L. Carrier, of Sherburne, New York ; 
children : Harriet DeForest, born September 
12. 1898: Rush Fuller, born January 24, 1000. 
2. .Mary .\ntoinette DeForest, born August 21. 
1873, died May 16, 1875. 3. Marion DeP'orest, 
born Mav 10, 1882; married, October 16, 1906. 
\\ ard N. Truesdall, law partner of .Mr. Fuller : 
child, Robert Fuller Truesdall, born Novem- 
ber 7. i<)07. 

(The DeForest Line). 
The DeForest family first ajjpears in .Vves- 
nes. France, but they were driven from their 
home on acc<iunt of their religious belief. .\ 
])art of them removed to Leyden, where four 
brothers of the name were living in 1606. 

(I) Jesse DeForest, one of the brothers, 
and the immigrant, endeavored to found a 
"Walloon Protestant Colony" in N'irginia in 
1(121, but his terms were rejected by the \'ir- 
ginia Company, so he applied to the Dutch 
governor, and .\ugust 27, 1622, he was com- 
missioned to enroll colonists and families for 
settlement in .\merica. The first .ship sailed 
in March, i''>23, and reached New .\msterdam 
later in the same year. The second ship brought 
Marie, daughter of Nicane de Cloux, whom 
Jesse DeForest had married at Leyden, Sep- 
tember 2^. 1 60 1. He died in Xew Nether- 
lands about 1625. Children: Jean; Henry; 
Rachel ; Jesse : Isaac, mentioned below ; Israel : 
Phillip])e. 

( 11 ) Isaac, son of Jesse Del-'orest, was born 
at Leyden, Holland, July 10, i6t6, and came 
to .America, October i, 1636. with his elder 
brother. Henry. He married, June 9, 1641. 
.Sarah, daughter of Philij) and Susannah de 
(Chiney) Trieux, at .New .Amsterdam. Chil- 
dren: Jesseu ; Susannah; Gorrit ; Marie and 
Michael, twins; Jan; Philip; Isaac; Hend- 
rick ; David; David: Marie: David, mentioned 
below. 

(HI) David, ^on of Na;u- l)el-'<.rest. was 



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baptized September, iUmj, at New York. He 
married, 1796, Martha, daughter of Samuel 
and Mary Blagge. They moved to Stratford, 
Connecticut, 1693-96, and there his wife died, 
February 7, 1740-41. He died April 20. 1721. 
Children: Mary, born January 27, 1696; Sarah, 
November 9, 1697; Martha, born April 13, 
1700; David, born April 24, 1702; Samuel, 
mentioned below: Isaac, April 14, 1706; Ed- 
ward, July 25, 1708; Henry, July 4, 1710; 
Elizabeth, June 4. 1714; Benjamin, May 8, 
1716. 

(IV) Samuel, son of David DeForest, was 
born April 4, 1704. He married Abigail Peat, 
December 30, 1725. Children: Martha, born 
November 24, 1726; Mary, baptized T'ebruary 
3, 1728-29; Joseph, mentioned below; Hep- 
ziba, May 29, 1734 ; Elizabeth, March 28, 1737 ; 
-Samuel, November 18, 1739; Nehemiah, Janu- 
ary 24, 1743: David, July 9, 1745; Josiah, died 
young. 

(V) Joseph, son of Samuel DeForest, was 
born November 17, 1731. He married, Au- 
gust 18, 1757. Susanna Mills. Children: Sam- 
uel, born July 15, 1758: Abel, April 28. 1761 : 
Mills, May 24, 1763 ; Gideon, mentioned below ; 
Sally, October 3, 1767: Eliliu. I'^el^ruarv 6. 
1771. 

(VI) Gideon, son of Joseph Deborest, was 
born September 14, 1765. He married, about 
1794, Hannah Birdseye. and during 1795 he 
settled in Otsego county. New York. He, with 
Samuel, Abel and Mills, his three brothers, 
served in the revolutionary war. Children : 
.\bel Birdseye, born December 30, 1795; Lee, 
August 7, 1798; Sally, March 9, 1800, mar- 
ried Alonzo S. Campbell, of Columbus. Ohio ; 
Cyrus Hawley, March 30, 1804, died March 
7, 1888, lived in Buffalo; Maria, born July 
20, 1806, married Rev. Henry Snyder; Charles 
.\ugustus, October 25, 1808, lived in Albany; 
Tracy Robinson, February 2, 181 1, of Cleve- 
land, Ohio; Harriet, July 28, 1813. marrieil 
'Thomas A. Fuller (see Fuller). 



Robert Smith, the immigrant an- 
SMITH ce.stor, born in 1623-26, probably 
in England, was an early settler 
of Bo.xford, Massachusetts. FTe owned land 
there as early as t66i, and died there August 
30, 1693, intestate. His inventory amounted 
to /200. His son Samuel was appointed ad- 
ministrator October 3, 1698. He married 
Mary . Children : Phebe, born August 



26. 1661 ; Ephraim. nieiitioiieil below; .Sanuiel. 1 



January 26, 1666, lived in Boxford, married 
Phebe Howe and Rebecca Curtis, was progeni- ' 
tor of Elder Joseph Smith, founder of the 
Latter Days Saints (Morman church) ; Amy, 
.\ugust 16, 1668; Sarah, June 25, 1670, died 
-August 28, 1673 ; Nathaniel, September 7, 
1672 ; Jacob, January 26, 1674, has descendants 
in Bo.xford: Maria, December 18, 1677. 

(II) Ephraim, son of Robert Smith, was 
born in Boxford, October 29, 1663. He set- 
tled in Boxford, and married, September 6, | 
1694, Mary, daughter of John and Elizabeth 
( Perkins) Ramsdell. of Boxford. Children, 
born in Boxford: Elizabeth and Hannah, twins, 
-March i, 1696; Ephraim, mentioned below; 
Lydia, -September 8, 1699 ( ^) • Hepsibah, 
March 25, 170 — ; John, November 18, 170 — ; 
Priscilla, August 14, 1702; Nathan, baptized 
July 1, 1710; Daniel, baptized -\ugust31, 1712; 
-\bijah, ba[)tized October 24, 1714. 

(HI) Ephraim (2), son of Ephraim ( i ) 
Smith, was born January 30, 1698-99. It is 
possible that there were two Ephraims in the 
family, and that the first died young. This 
E])hraim married, in Shrewsbury, Massachu- 
setts. Hannah, daughter of Daniel Rice, Au- 
gust 16. 1733. They owned the covenant Ma)' 
10, 1736. [lis death is not found on the rec- 
ords. In 1790. his widow, aged seventy-seven, 
married Jedediah Tucker, aged seventy-eight. 
Children : Daniel, mentioned below ; Ephraim 
and .\aron, twins, born June 22, 1736: Moses, 
January 23. 1739; A\'illiam, January 30, 1742; 
-\sa. October s. 17-14: Elizabeth. February 17, 
1748. 

(I\) Daniel, son of Ephraim (2) Smith, 
was born in 1733. and baptized May 10, 1736. 
He married Lucy, daughter of Captain Dan- 
iel Howe, January 19, 1758: she died July 31, 
1802. aged sixty-six years. They lived in 
Shrewsbury. He married (second), 1803, Abi- 
gail Putnam, a widow of Sutton. He died 
December 12. 181 1, aged seventy-eight. Chil- 
dren of first wife: Lewis, born March 2, 1758; 
-\shcr, mentioned below ; Stephen, born Au- 
gust 24, 1761 : Thaddeus, September 30, 1763; 
Catharine, February 7. 1765; Daniel, Decem- 
ber 28. 1766; Mary, November 23, 1768; Lucy, 
-November 14, 1770; probably Bridget, who 
married .\bijah Shumway. perhajis of Oxford, 
.'September Ji. 1800: William. 

(A) .\shcr, son of Daniel Smith, was born 
in Shrewsbury, October 4, 1759. He married 
-\nna, daughter of Jedediah Tucker Jr., Octo- 
)er 19, 1791. The .Shrewsbury history states 



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that they removed to New Salem, Massachu- 
setts, and died tliere. He was a soldier in the 
revolution, from Shrewsbury, in Captain John 
Maynard's company, Colonel Job Cushing's 
regiment, in August, 1777; also in Captain 
Ebenezer Ingalsbce's company, Colonel Job 
Cushing's regiment, in 1777, and in Captain 
Daniel Bowker's company. Colonel Webb's 
regiment, August 30 to December 4, 1781. He 
was also in Captain Isaac Martin's company, 
Colonel Josiah Whitney's regiment. March 4 
to July 4, 1777. in Rhode Island; in Captain 
Asa Rice's company. Colonel Cushing's regi- 
ment, nine months in 1778, when records state 
that he was eighteen years old, five feet ten 
inches tall, of dark complexion : also in 
Ca])tain William Warner's company, Colonel 
Thomas Marshall's regiment, 1778-79; also six 
months in 1780, when he was reported as twen- 
ty years old, five feet eleven inches tall, of 
ruddy complexion. In the census of 1790 he 
was reported from Litchfield county, Connecti- 
cut, possibly in what is now Massachusetts, 
and as having two males over sixteen, two 
under sixteen, and three females in his family. 
According to family tradition he lived in Salem, 
Connecticut, but that town is in New London 
county, and was not incorporated until after 
1820. New Salem, Massachusetts, is doubt- 
less the town of his residence before 1790 and 
after 1805. .According to family tradition he 
was taken ]jrisoner during the revolution and 
held at Quebec. He is said to have had a 
grant of land in \'ermont from the govern- 
ment on account of his services in the revolu- 
tion, but it is not known that he ever settled 
there. Among the children of his first wife, prob- 
ably born at New Salem, the records of which 
are lost, was Samuel Asher, mentioned below. 
Children of second wife, Anna, born at Shrews- 
bury: Nahum, December 5, 1791 ; Joanna, May 
17, 1794. died 1797; Gilbert. February 18, 
1796, died 1798; Mary, April 18, 1798; Gil- 
bert, December 18, 1799; Lyman, April 14, 
1801 ; Tubal, .\pril 17, 1803; Amos, May i, 
1805. 

(\ I) Samuel Asher, son of Asher Smith, 
was born at New Salem, February 22, 1782, 
and died at Guilford, Chenango county. New 
York, March 23, 1863. He came to Guilford 
in 1805. and was one of the pioneers of that 
town. He took an active part in public afl:'airs ; 
was member of the New York assembly, and 
sheriff of Chenango county. Until the Re- 
l)ublican party was organized he was a Demo- 



crat, but in later years he was a Rei)ublican, 
and supported the government in the civil war. 
He was a communicant of the Protestant Epis- 
copal church. He married (first) Wealthy 
Phelps, born October 18, 1783, at Bolton, Con- 
necticut, died September 18, 1822; (second) 
Hannah (Mills) Thompson, a native of Nor- 
folk, Connecticut. Children by first wife: 
Erastus Phelps, mentioned below ; Sally La- 
vinia, born October 18, 1809, died August 16. 
1855, married Orrin Merchant: .\bigail Eliza, 
born May 17, 1812, died February 24, 1879, 
married Nathan Delavan, of Connecticut; 
Lucius -Augustus, born February 12, 1815, died 
March 13. 1817: Lucia Ann, born October 22, 
1816, died April 21, 1906, married Dr. John 
Clark, of Guilford, New York ; Wealthy May, 
born October 17, 1818, died February 25, 1902, 
married (first) Lawrence Bryant, (second) 
Fred liolles; William .Augustus, born March 
31, 1820, died August 4, 1892. 

(\"II) Erastus Phelps, son of Samuel Asher 
Smith, was born in Guilford, New York, No- 
vember 23. 1806, died February 9, 1876, in 
Hamilton. New York. He attended the public 
schools of his native town and Oxford Acad- 
emy, but he was largely self-educated and was 
a man of great natural ability and force of 
character, and held in high esteem in the com- 
munity. He held the offices of loan commis- 
sioner and supervisor of the town, and was in 
much demand as a public speaker. In later 
years he was ordained in the ministry of the 
Protestant Ejiiscopal church. His fir.st charge 
was at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he was 
located for two years. For about three years 
he was in charge of a parish at Sodus, Ontario 
county. New Y'ork, and afterward at Hamil- 
ton, New \'ork, where he died. .Altogether he 
was in the ministry for ten )ears. He married 
(first), .\pril 15. 1829, Betsey Mills, born in 
Litchfield county, Connecticut, February 3, 
1803, died IMarch 23, 1843, daughter of .-^biram 
and Esther (Harris) Mills; (second), Septem- 
ber II. 1843, ^I'"^- ^lary (Bradbury) Cable, 
died March 6, i860; (third), June 5, 1861, 
Mrs. Nancy (Eckson) Han ford, died August 
23, 1881. Children by first wife: Homer L.. 
mentioned below; Esther K., born May 21, 
1834, married Edward S. Bradley, and had one 
son. Dr. Bradley, of Norwich. New York ; 
Laura Arthusa, born February 29, 1840, mar- 
ried Rufus Mills, of Guilford. New York, and 
had daughter Mary. Children by second wife: 
Betsey B.. born September 17. 1844, married 



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Harvey Shelton, and had Mary. Laura, Grace 
and Julia Shelton. 

(VIII) Homer Lucius, son of Erastus 
Phelps Smith, was born in Guilford, August 
22, 1830. He received his early education in 
the district schools, and worked on his father's 
farm at (iuilford until he was seventeen years 
old. Then he was employed as clerk in a store 
at Guilford several years, after which he be- 
came bookkeeper for the firm of Thorp & 
Chapman, at Oxford, New York, for two 
years. In 1851 he came to Norwich, and two 
years later went to New York City. He was 
clerk in various stores there, and salesman and 
bookkeeper. For a number of years he was 
in business as a produce and commission mer- 
chant on his own account in New York City. 
In 1869 he formed a partnership with a Mr. 
W'hite to manufacture butter and cheese at 
Sherburne, New ^'ork, under the firm name 
of White & Smith. In 1880 he sold out this 
business and engaged in business in New York 
City for five years. In 1885 he returned to 
Sherburne, and in 1890 came to Norwich again. 
Since then he has resided at Norwich, where 
he has been engaged in business as a dealer in 
dairy supplies and as a manufacturer of rennet 
extracts. He built the building in which his 
business is now located in 1903. His is one 
of the large houses in this line of bi:siness in 
Central New York. He manufactures rennet, 
and handles all sundry sujjplies for dairies. 
His store is on Birdsall street. Norwich. In 
politics he is a Republican, in religion an K\ns- 
copalian. 

He married, September 12, 1855. Carrie 
Carroll, of New York City, born December 2, 
1836, daughter of Edward and Caroline Car- 
roll. Children: i. Homer E., born June 17, 
1856; an oculist, practicing in Norwich; mar- 
ried Isabel Goodrich, of Norwich. 2. \'ictor 
Mills, born September 12, 1859, died .\pril 28, 
1893: married Ida Johnson, of Syracuse, New 
York ; child. Homer Rruce, born in Pirighton, 
England, May 10. 1890, now living in \\'ater- 
loo, Iowa. 



The surname Willard has been 
W'lLL.XRD a personal name from ancient 

times. Earlier than use as a 
surname, it was a local or place name in Eng- 
land. The coal-of-arms used by many branches 
of the family is : "Argent a chevron sable be- 
tween three fish wiers pro])er five ermine sjjots." 



Crest: "A griffin's head erased or." Motto; 
Paticnta Dnris. 

(T) Richard Willard, grandfather of the 
American immigrant, was a yeoman at Brench- 
ley, England, where he died, leaving a will 
dated September 18, 1558, proved October 4. 
1558. Children: Robert: Alexander; George: 
Richard, mentioned below ; .\ndrew ; Symon ; 
Thomas ; William ; Alice ; Agnes. 

(II) Richard (2), son of Richard (i) Wil- 
lard, lived at Horsemonden, county Kent, Eng- 
land. He married (first) Catherine , 

who was buried March 11, 1559; (second) 

Margery , who died December 12, 1608 ; 

(third). January 17, 1610. Joan Morebread, 
who was buried Eebruary 25, 1617. His will 
mentioned children George, Mary, Elizabeth, 
Margery, Catherine, Richard ; brother Thomas ; 
brother-in-law Thomas Humphrey ; son Symon 
and sister-in-law Mary Davy. Children : Rich- 
ard, died young; Thomas, baptized May 6, 
1593, buried January 15, 1608: Edward, bap- 
tized March 21, 161 1-12, buried April 16, 1612 ; 
John, baptized March 3, 1612-13, buried June 
20, 1613; George; George; Mary; Elizabeth; 
Margery ; Catherine, baptized August 30, 1607 : 
Richard ; Simon. 

(III) Major Simon Willard, son of Richard 
(2) Willard, was the immigrant ancestor, was 
born in 1605, and baptized at Horsemonden, 
county Kent, England, December 4, 1614. 
When a young man he was a soldier in Kent. 
He came to New England in April, 1634, in 
the same ship with Dolor Davis, his brother- 
in-law, who married Margery Willard. He 
was a merchant, and began to trade with the 
Indians as soon as he was fairly established at 
Cambridge. Davis, the ancestor of many dis- 
tinguished Massachusetts families, settled on 
an adjoining farm, on the Brighton side of the 
Charles river. \\'illard acquired a thousand 
acres bounded by the farm of Davis, Charles 
river, and the Boston town line. He had many 
grants of land from time to time. He was one 
of the founders and first settlers of Concord, 
and was the first dejnity to the general court 
elected in December, 1636, serving every year 
after that until 1664, excepting 1643-47-48. 
an<l was elected but decline;! to serve in the 
year 1654. He was a member of the council 
fifteen years, and for twenty-two years an 
assistant. He was given a patent by the gen- 
eral court in 1641 for trading with the Indians 
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appointed magistrate, and during his life at- 
tended between seventy and eighty terms of 
the county court, his first term beginning No- 
vember 28, 1654, his last April 4, 1676. For 
forty years he was active in military life. He 
rose to the rank of major, and commanded the 
provincial troops against the Indians. Both in 
military and civil life he became one of the 
most famous men of the province. He led 
the expedition against the Narragansetts in 
1655, and was at ISrookfield and Hadley in 
King Philip's war, leading the Middlesex regi- 
ment. The town of Lancaster invited him by 
a personal letter dated February 7, 1658-59, 
to make his home in that town, promising 
lands and privileges. He decided to locate in 
Lancaster, and sold out his Concord estates to 
Captain Thomas Marshall, of Lynn, in 1659. 
His first home in Lancaster was near the open- 
ing of the present Center road, bounded on 
two sides by the Nashua river, and command- 
ing a superb view of the valley and surround- 
ing country. He lived there twelve years, and 
in 1670-71 removed to the large farm in the 
south part of Groton, where in 1671-72 he 
served as chairman of the committee to seat 
the meeting-house. In 1673 he was chairman 
of the Groton selectmen. He had a fine farm 
at Still River, now Harvard, and doubtless 
moved to Groton in order to be nearer his 
property. He left Lancaster enjoying peace 
and good order, though King Philip's war was 
soon to come. In civil life Major Willard was 
a surveyor and was often called upon to fix 
town boundaries. He died of influenza, an 
epidemic of this occurring in 1676. He was 
one of the most conspicuous and honored men 
of his day, and he died at the close of King 
Philip's war, after receiving his greatest tri- 
umphs, April 24, 1676. He was a Puritan, 
conscientious and of sound understanding, of 
brave and enduring spirit. He was wealthy 
and gave large amounts of land to his children, 
leaving 1300 acres besides other property at 
his death. His widow petitioned the general 
court for reimbursement for losses from Indian 
wars, declarinfr that the major often said he had 
lost a thousand pounds in this way. The court 
answered this petition by a grant of a thou- 
sand acres to be divided among the six young- 
est children. He was buried .\pril 27, 1676, 
and the inventory of his estate was filed later 
by Mrs. Willard. He married (fir.st) Mary 
Sharpe, born 1614, at Horsmonden, daughter 
of Henry and Jane (Field) Sharpe; (second) 



Elizabeth, sister of Henry Dunster, first presi- 
dent of Harvard College; (third) Mary, sister 
of Elizabeth Dunster, and she married (sec- 
ond) Deacon Jose]3h Noyes, of Sudbury. His 
children, by the first and third wives: Mary; 
Elizabeth, died young : Elizabeth, died August 
29, 1690; Dorothy, died young; Josiah. Horn 
at Concord: Samuel, January 31, 1639-40; 
Sarah, June 27, 1642 ; .\bove-hope, October 30. 
1646; Simon, November 23, 1649; Mary, Sep- 
tember 7, 1653 ; Henry. June 4, 1655 ; John. 
February 12, 1656-57; Daniel, December 29, 
1658. Born at Lancaster : Joseph, January 4. 
1660-61. lived at London, England; Benjamin. 
1665; Hannah, October 6. 1666; Jonathan. 
December 14, 1669. 

(\T) Josiah, descendant of Major .Simon 
Willard, and of the si.xth generation in this 
lineage, was a native of Massachusetts. He 
was a pioneer at Oriskany Falls, now in Oneida 
county. New York. He cleared a fann and 
s])eiit his later years there. He had a daugh- 
ter Jeanette, and a son James M., mentioned 
below. 

(\'^II) James M., son of Josiah Willard, was 
born near or at Oriskany Falls, Oneida county. 
New York, and died there in 1870. He was 
a merchant, and a prominent citizen in his 
native town. In politics he was a Democrat, 
and a man of wide influence and high standing 
in the community. He owned several canal 
boats, warehouses and storehouses on the Erie 
canal, and was in business for many years 
under the firm name of James M. Willard & 
Company. He also owned a distillery at Oris- 
kany Falls. He married Angelina Hubbard, 
born in Bridgewater, New York, died March 
31, 1900, aged eighty-six years. Children: 
Nettie, died young ; Levi G. Piatt ; Ejjhraim 
Jav, mentioned below : .\mclia. married F. P>. 
Merwin ; Maria, married David Ellis. 

(\TII) Ephraim Jay, son of James M. Will- 
ard, was born at Oriskany Falls, New York, 
and was educated there in the ])ublic schools. 
He learned the trade of carpenter and fol- 
lowed it for many years. In religion he was a 
Presbyterian. He married Frances M. Ballard, 
born 1847, at Waterville, New York, daugh- 
ter of Clesson M. and Mary (ITowland) Bal- 
lard (see Howland). Children : George Harvey, 
mentioned below; Edward Clesson, born 1870. 
a printer. Frances M. (Ballard) Willard mar- 
ried (second) Milo C. Barker, of Oriskany 
Falls and had one daughter. Mabel A., married 
Albert W. Clark. 



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(IX) George Harvey, son of Ephraim Jay 
Willard, was born at Oriskany Falls, April 17, 
1866. He attended the public schools of his 
native town and the high school at Brookfield, 
Madison county. New York. For two years 
after he left school he was engaged in teach- 
ing, and then learned the printing business in 
the ofifice of F. E. Munger, in Richfield Springs, 
New York. For some time he was also local 
correspondent for the Nczo York Journal, the 
Neii' York Graphic and the Utica Doily Ob- 
scn'cr. For a period of three years he lived 
at Waterville, and for two years was on the 
staff of the Watenillc Times. He spent a year 
in \\'est ^^''infield, Herkimer county, and was 
afterward city editor of the Oneida Union, a 
semi-weekly newspaper, and the only Demo- 
cratic organ in the county. In the summer of 
i8go he returned to Richfield Springs, where 
he became editor of the Richfield Daily and 
special correspondent of the Ne-w York World. 
In the following August he removed to New 
Berlin, New York, and a year later to Nor- 
wich, where he was foreman on the Morning 
Sun and county representative of the United 
Press Association, and afterward city editor 
of The Sun. In 1893 he became foreman of 
the Citizen Publishing Company of Ilion, New 
York; in July, 1895, he bought a half interest 
in the New Berlin Ga.zette. For three years 
he was in partnership with Joseph K. Fox. 
Since 1898 he has been sole proprietor and 
publisher of the newspaper. In politics he is 
a Democrat, and he has taken a prominent part 
in public affairs. He has represented his |)arty 
and town in the Democratic county committee. 
He has been clerk of the incor])orated village 
of New Berlin and a member of the board of 
education. He is a member of Phoebus Lodge 
of Free Masons, New Pierlin ; of Hillington 
Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Morris, New 
York : and of Norwich Commandery. Knights 
Templar, Norwich, New York; of Ehren- 
breitstein Lodge, Odd Fellows, New Berlin, 
and he is a communicant of St. Andrew's Prot- 
estant Episcopal Church. 

He married, December 23, 1893, Lillie Lot- 
tridgc, born in Columbus, New York, May 26, 
1869, daughter of Henry L. and Bessie (Fen- 
ton) Lottridge. Her father was a son of Ben- 
nett Abijah Lottridge, who was born at Colum- 
bus, November 21, 181 1, and died at New Ber- 
lin, December 5, 1890; married Phebe Caro- 
line Simonds, of Rhode Island, born January 
(4. 1813. died March 15, 1889. John Lottridge, 



father of Bennett Abijah, came from Albany, 
New York, to Columbus, New York, in De- 
cember, 1799, married Polly, daughter of Cap- 
tain Garrett Reed, an officer in the revolution- 
ary war. John Lottridge died February 16, 
1853, aged seventy-eight years; his wife Polly 
died September 11, 1836, aged fifty-seven 
years. Children of George H. Willard: Henry 
Milo, born November 13, 1894; Rav Francis, 
March 8, 1897. 

(The Howlaiid Line). 

(I) John Howland, the immigrant ancestor, 
came to this country when twenty-eight years 
of age, in 1620. His name was thirteenth on 
the list of forty-one who signed the compact 
in the cabin of the "Mayflower," November 
21, 1620. Prince says that he was one of Gov- 
ernor Carver's family at the time. He was 
one of the ten who chose the place of settle- 
ment. In the records the first mention of him 
is on the list of freemen, and as third in the 
governor's council of seven. He was an asses- 
sor in 1633; in 1636 he served on a jury, in 
1666 was selectman, and deputy in 1652-56- 
58-61-63-66-67-70. June 2, 1670, was the last 
time his name was used as candidate for public 
office, as he was nearly eighty years of age, 
and refused to serve any more. He was very 
prominent, and active in jiublic and church 
work. He was manager of the colonists' inter- 
est in a trading post on the Kennebec river in 
Maine. He lived at what was called Rocky 
Nook. He died February 23, 1672-73, and his 
will was dated May 29, 1672, proved March 5, 
1673. Although it says on his gravestone that 
he married Governor Carver's daughter, the 
discovery of Bradford's manuscript has proved 
that the Governor had no daughter ; the manu- 
script says that he married Elizabeth Tilly, 
daughter of John Tilly, who died before Car- 
ver did, when Elizabeth was fourteen years 
of age. It is probably that she was taken into 
the Governor's family at that time. His wife 
died December 21, 1687, at the home of her 
daughter Lydia Brown, in Swanzey. Her will 
was dated at Swanzey, December 17, 1686. 
Children, jierhaps not in order of birth: De- 
sire, married Captain John Gorliam ; John, 
mentioned below ; Jabez ; Hope, born October 
30, 1629; Elizabeth; Lydia; Ruth; Hannah; 
Joseph; Isaac, born November 15, 1649. 

(II) John (2), son of John fi) Howland, 
was born at Plymouth, February 24, 1627. He 
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the oath of fidelity in 1657, there. In the rec- 
ords, a daughter Elizabeth is given as born 
May 17, 1655. In 1657 he was in Barnstable. 
He was a good business man, and well liked 
and respected -n the colony. He was summon- 
ed before the general court for warning 
"Arthur and the Quaker" that the constable 
were on their way to arrest them ; "Arthur" 
was his uncle, Arthur Howland. In 1674 he 
was appointed ensign of the military company 
of Barnstable. He and his brothers Joseph 
and Jacob, in 1675, petitioned for land for 
their children. He received a license to sell 
cider in Barnstable in 1685, and in 1689 was 
chosen selectman. Children : Mary, born 1652 ; 
Elizabeth, May 17, 1655; Isaac, November 25, 
1659; Hannah, May 15, 1661 ; Mercy, Janu- 
ary 21, 1663; Lydia, January 9, 1665; Experi- 
ence, July 28, 1668; Anne, September 9, 1670; 
Shubael, September 30. 1672; John, mentioned 
below. 

(III) John (3), son of John (2) Howland, 
was born in Barnstable, December 31, 1674, 
and lived there during the whole of his life. 
His son John was graduated from Harvard. 
He married (first) Abigail Crocker, accord- 
ing to one authority, and Mary Walker, ac- 
cording to another. He married (second). 
June II, 1719, Mary Crocker, born June 29, 
1 68 1. Abigail may have been the second wife, 
instead of Mary. His will, dated February 8. 
1738, proved March 29, 1738, mentions his 
children, and said "my will is that if my son 
John should fail of being brought up to col- 
lege, then he shall become an equal partner 
with my son Job in the real estate." Children 
by first wife, born at Barnstable: George Gill, 
mentioned below; Hannah, February 2, 1708; 
Mary, August 11, 1711 ; Joanna, January 26, 
1715. Children by second wife: John, Febru- 
ary 13, 1721 ; Job. June 18, 1726. 

(IV) George Gill, son of John (3) How- 
land, was born at Barnstable, December 30, 
1705. He moved with his family from Barn- 
stable to Gill, where the Indians were so hos- 
tile that they were driven from here, and re- 
turned later. He married (first) Abigail 
Crocker, who died September 5, 1732; (sec- 
ond), in Gill, . Children : Mary, 

Hannah, born August 4, 1732; Seth, March 
17. 1735; John, June 2, 1738, died aged twen- 
ty-four, unmarried; Shove, June 18, 1741 ^ 
George, mentioned below. 

(V) George, son of George Gill Howland, 
was born at Barnstable, April 25, 1743, and 



died in Gill, aged si.Nt). He married twice. 
Children of first wife: Salmon, Zimel ; children 
of second wife: Solomon, mentioned below; 
Lucius, Chester, born June 13, 1783; George. 
December 17, 1788; Mercy. 

(VI) Solomon, son of George Howland, 
was born September 25, 1780, in Gill. He 
lived in Bridgewater, New York, where he 
died September 2, 1870. He was a farmer. 
He married. January 11, 1804, Lucinda Bal- 
lard, of (Jill, born April 3, 1772, died at 
Bridgewater. July 9, 1868. Children: Chester, 
born September 6, 1804; Lucinda, December 
6, 1806; Alva, December 3, 1808; Melinda. 
November 15, 1810; Mary, mentioned below; 
.Seth, born May 27, 1816, at Bridgewater, New 
\'ork ; (leorge, July 7. 1818. 

(\'II) IMary, daughter of Solomon How- 
land, was born October 19, 1813. .She married. 
March 29. 1841, Clesson Ballard, born in Gill, 
town of .Montague. Massachusetts. October 
15. 1814. son of Tertius Ballard, who married 
.Anna Clark. Tertius Ballard died in 1820. 
and was brother of Zelotus and Amiziah. 
I'Yances M.. daughter of Clesson and Mary 
I'allard. married Ejihraim Jay Willard ; (sec- 
ond) M. C. liarker.of Bridgewater. New York. 



Jonathan Holmes, said to the 
IK )l,.\l l'!.S immigrant ancestor of this 
family, was born about 1700. 
or periiaps a few years later, and settled in 
the town of Washington, Dutchess county. 
New York. He must have died before 1790. 
for the first federal census taken in that year 
does not give his name. He appears to have 
had three sons who settled in Washington. 
The census shows that .Xbner Holmes had two 
males over sixteen, three under that age and 
one female in his family in 1790, and James 
Holmes had one son under sixteen and four 
females in the same record. Jacob's name also 
appears, as mentioned below. 

(11) Jacob, son of Jonathan Holmes, was 
born about 1740, and settled in the town of 
Washington. Dutchess county, where, accord- 
ing to the census of 1790. he was head of a 
family consisting of three males over sixteen. 
two under that age and three females. He 
removed to Bridgewater, Oneida county, late 
in life, and died tliere, aged seventy-six years. 
He was a man of integrity and highly respect- 
ed in the community. He married Anne Titus. 
Children : Titus. .Sarah. Isaac, mentioned be- 
low. 



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(III) Isaac, son of Jacob Holmes, was born 
in 1777, in Washington, Dutchess county, and 
(lied in Columbus, New York, May 5, 1863, 
aged eighty-six years. In 1802 he came to 
Bridgewater, Oneida county, from his native 
county, and settled in Columbus, of which he 
was one of the pioneer settlers in 1827. He 
cleared his farm and took an active part in 
the develo])tue!it and upbuilding of the town. 
He became well-to-do in the course of time, 
and in addition to general farming and the 
raising of grain, he conducted a hotel at North 
P>ridgewater, New York. This farm is now 
known as the Eugene Hopson place. He died 
at the age of eighty years, in Columbus, Che- 
nango county. He married Sarah Ketchum, 
who died I-'ebruary 20, 1837. Children: Elias, 
Eliza, Gilbert, mentioned below ; Jonathan. 
Jacob, Charles, Phebe, Melle, Henry, Piatt. 
Charles Holmes was a ])rosperous farmer in 
Columbus; married (first) Sarah Alerchant, 
and had Cerelia, married Charles W. Spurr ; 
Mary J., married Charles Hayw-ood, and 
James Amsby. He married (second) Lucy 
(Phillips) Sturgis, widow of Lavette Stur- 
gis, of South Otselic, daughter of Esek Phil- 
lips ; by her first marriage she had four chil- 
dren, Harlon, Myra, Amy and Minnie. Henry 
flolmes was born July 13, 1816; a farmer and 
produce dealer of Columbus ; married Lu- 
cinda, daughter of Stejihen Howard ; she died 
in 1895, <'S^fl eighty-six years; their only 
child, Alary Ann, born July 12. 1848, married 
< ). I). Larchar, a merchant, who died in 1891, 
leaving a wife and four children, Henry H., 
married Maud E. Hopson, and has one child, 
Roy ; G. Myron, married Nellie M. Lottridge, 
and has one child, Guy H. ; Dela M. and 
Cri C. 

(IV) Gilbert, son of Isaac Holmes, was 
born in Oneida count}-. Jidy 15, 1802. He re- 
moved to Columbus, Chenango county, and 
sjient luost of his active life there. He died 
in 1846, being killed by a falling tree. He was 
a distiller by occupation. In politics he was 
a Whig and in religion a Cniversalist. He 
married Asenath Finch, b(jrn May 11. 1802. 
Children: Isaac, mentioned below; Charles, 
l)i)rn February 28, 1834. died in childhood; 
Phebe, born .\ugust 27, 1837, married Oliver 
.Arnold; Melle, born December 2, 1838. mar- 
ried Henry Lewis. 

(V) Isaac (2), son of Gilbert Holmes, was 
born in Columbus, New York, May 12, 1829, 
and (lied October 16, 1910, in New Berlin, 



New York. He was educated in the public 
schools, and learned the cooper's trade, wdiich 
he followed for a period of twenty years. He 
was a skillful craftsman. Afterward he fol- 
lowed farming in Columbus until 1873, when 
he moved to the village of New Berlin and re- 
tired from active business. In politics he was 
a Republican, and he held the offices of town 
assessor and president of the incorporated 
village. Throughout his life he was active 
and interested in public afTairs, an upright and 
influential citizen. He married (first), April 
27, 1 85 1, Louisa Lottridge. born in Columbus, 
April 4, 1833. died April 3, 1872, daughter of 
W'illiam and granddaughter of John Lott- 
ridge, who came to Columbus, New York, to 
settle, in 1799, from his old home in Albany, 
New York. Her father was a Baptist clergy- 
man in early life, afterward a Universalist 
preacher, and pastor of the Universalist 
church at Columbus. Rev. Mr. Lottridge was 
also a farmer. He was the father of sixteen 
children. Mr. Holmes married (second), Sep- 
tember 2, 1873, Abigail Lloyd, born April 9, 
1831, now living in New Berlin. Children, 
all by first wife: i. Jay Gilbert, born Novem- 
ber 7. 1853, died March 7, 1906; a lawyer by 
profession, admitted to the bar in 1877, county 
clerk three terms of three years each, a thirty- 
second degree Free Mason ; married Mary 
Lamb, and had one child, who died in infancy. 
2-T,. Charles Arnold and Frank Fllswortli, 
both mentioned below. 

(\T) Charles Arnold, son of Isaac (2) 
Holmes, was born in Columbus, New York, 
November 12, 1861. He was educated in the 
public schools of New Berlin, and learned the 
jeweler's trade in Port Henry, New York. 
Since 1884 he has been in business as a jew- 
eler in New llerlin. and has enjoyed a large 
and flourishing trade. He is a director of the 
Preferred Mutual Insurance Company of New 
Berlin, and a member of Phoebus Lodge, No. 
82, Free Masons, of New Berlin ; of Hilling- 
ton Chapter, No. 224, Royal Arch Masons, of 
Morris ; of Norwich Commandery, No. 47, 
Knights Teiuplar ; of Otseningo (?) Consis- 
tory, of Binghamton, and of other bodies of 
Free Masonry to the thirty-second degree, 
Scottish Rite, and of Ziyara Temple, Mystic 
Shrine, of L'tica. In politics he is a Repub- 
lican. He married, November 25, 1885, Ella 
M. Armstrong, of New Pierlin, daughter of 
William and Gertrude ( Kinney) .Armstrong. 
They have no children. 



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(\'Ij Frank Ellsworth, son of Isaac (_2) 
Holmes, was born October 22, 1863. He re- 
ceived his early education in the New Berlin 
Academy, and at the age of sixteen began the 
study of music. In 1881 he went to Port 
Henry, New York, where he was engaged in 
band and orchestra work and in furnishing 
music at summer resorts in the Adirondacks 
for four seasons. He w'as also employed as 
clerk in the postoffice. In 1883 he went to 
I'ostiin to complete his musical education at 
the New England Conservatory of Music, and 
while there played in a noted orchestra under 
the leadership of E. N. Catlin. In 1884 he 
conducted a band and orchestra in partnership 
with T. B. Brooks, who was afterward leader 
of the famous Chicago Marine Band. In 1885 
Mr. Holmes moved to Port Henry and became 
superintendent of the Telephone Company ; 
in 1887 he returned to New Berlin and became 
a partner of S. L. Morgan, under the firm 
name of Morgan & Holmes, in the fire insur- 
ance business. Mr. Morgan died in 1890, and 
the business was continued by ]\Ir. Holmes 
until July, 1896, when he sold the agency and 
organized the Preferred Fire Insurance Com- 
pany, of which he has since been secretary 
and manager. I. L. Richer is president, and A. 
D. S])rague. treasurer of the company. The 
insurance comjiany does a large business 
throughout the state, having in force insurance 
to the amount of Sy,ooo,ooo. Mr. Holmes was 
[lostmaster of New Berlin from 1898 to 1910. 
In politics he is a Republican. He is a mem- 
ber of Phoebus Lodge, No. 82. Free and Ac- 
cepted Masons: of Hillington Cha])ter, No. 
224, Royal .\rch Masons : of Norwich Com- 
mandery. No. 47. Knights Templar ; of Zi- 
yara Temple, Mystic Shrine, of Utica, and of 
the Odd Fellows. He married. August 13, 
1889, Cora .\., daughter of Frederick and 
Xancy (Wilkinson) Jones. They have no 
children. 



Henry Pearsall, the immi- 
PM\R.*>A!-L grant ancestor, was one of 
the early settlers of Hemp- 
stead, Long Island. He died in 1667. He mar- 
ried Ann . Children : Nathaniel, men- 
tioned below ; Daniel, George, Thomas. He 
had sons-in-law, Timothy Halstead and John 
and Joseph, sons of Michael Williams. 

(II ) Nathaniel, son of Henry Pearsall, was 
a farmer and blacksmith. One of the first 
mentions of him in the records is .\ugust 28, 



1675, when, as clerk, he reported the total val- 
uation of the ta.x list for Hempstead. In Oc- 
tober, 1676, with others, he attended "an in- 
dignation meeting" in Hempstead to resist the 
supposed intrusion on Cowneck of John Corn- 
well, who, being authorized by Governor .Vn- 
dros, was making a settlement on the west 
shore of Cowneck, a little south of what is 
now Sand Point: the inhabitants of Hemp- 
stead did not know that the governor had 
granted the land to John Cornwell. Nathaniel 
Pearsall, with .\dam Mott and others, began to 
pull down the house being built, and were 
fined for the action. Not long after, Nathaniel 
became a member of the Society of Friends, 
for in 1689-90, in the disputed administration 
of Leisler. when writs were issued by the 
governor calling a provincial assembly, the 
third provincial assembly under the English 
administration of the province, to meet in New 
York, April, 1690, he was elected as a repre- 
sentative from Queens county ; but when he 
attended the assembly he refused to be sworn 
in, faithful to the Friends' testimony against 
oaths, and was not allowed to take his seat. 
In March, 1691, new writs were issued for a 
new assembly, and he was again chosen, with 
John Browne, another Fiiend, as his colleague, 
and again he refused to be sworn in and was 
not admitted. His will was dated October 20, 
1703. He married, about 1674. Martha, 
daughter of Captain John Seaman ; she died 
September 6, 17 12, and he died October 6, 
1703. Ciiildren: Nathaniel, born January 2"/. 

1676, died January 30, 1679; Thomas, men- 
tioned below : Martha, born December 10, 
1681 ; Hannah, March 22, 1684, died June 20. 
1689; Sarah, July i, 1686: Elizabeth, Octo- 
ber 28, 1688; Hannah. February 14, 1690; 
Phebe, December 20, 1693, died March 14, 
1703: Samuel, February 18, 1695: Nathaniel. 
September 11. 1699; Mary, April 30, 1703. 

(Ill) Thomas, son of Nathaniel Pearsall, 
was born June 18, 1679. He lived at Hemp- 
stead Harbor, where he was a i)ros];erous and 
diligent man. one of the Friends, as was his 
father. His will, made a few months before 
his death, was dated August 9, 1759. He, as 
well as his father, owned negro slaves, and be- 
Cjueathed them in their wills to their wives. 
To his son Thomas he left the estate at Hemp- 
stead Harbor. He married, November 25. 
1708. Sarah Cnderhill, who was eight years 
vounger than he. He was nearly thirty years 
of age when he married, and eighty-one when 



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he died. Sarah was daughter of John Under- 
liill, of Killingworth, and his wife, Mary Prior. 
Children: Son, born and died August 29, 1709; 
Thomas, mentioned below ; Nathaniel, born 
September 2, 1712; Sarah, January 6, 17 14; 
Phebe, March 7. 1717; Martha, July 9, 1719; 
Hannah, December 17, 1721 ; Samuel, Novem- 
ber 16, 1724; Mary, July 24, 1727. 

(IV) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (i) 
Pearsall, was born August 18, 1710. Children: 
Israel, born November 27, 1733; Thomas, 
mentioned below ; Nathaniel, February 22, 
1737; Mary, March 29, 1742; Martha, Novem- 
ber 23, 1743. 

(V) Thomas (3), son of Thomas (2) 
Pearsall, was born August 20, 1735. He re- 
moved to Afton about 1787. He and his sons 
Henry, Samuel and Mott, were early settlers 
of Bainbridge, Chenango county. Henry Pear- 
sall married Ann Simmons, or Seamons ; chil- 
dren : Amos, married Clarissa Nichols ; Aaron, 
married Alice Searles ; Smith, married Polly 
Searles, and had William and Hiram; Samuel, 
married Sally Thompson ; Abigail, married 
Ansel Phinney : Henry, married Samantlia 
Norton. 

Thomas Pearsall settled in the south part 
of lot 71, on the place occupied later by the 
widow of his son Robert, and died there. 
Samuel lived on the north line of Bainbridge, 
where his grandson James afterward lived, 
and had children, Samuel and Amos. Samuel's 
farm adjoined Henry's. Mott. another brother, 
lived on the west side of Thomas Pearsall's 
farm. 

(VI) Thomas (4), son of Thomas (3) 
Pearsall, was born about 1765 on Long Island, 
and came with the family to Bainbridge and 
acquired 200 acres of land there. He married 

(first) Sutton; (second) . 

By his first wife he had children: William 
Sutton, Thomas, Joseph, Gilbert, Nathaniel, 
Robert, Sally, married William Bush ; Amy, 
married Asa Warner; Phebe, married Albert 
Neally. By his second wife he had one child. 
David. 

(VII) William Sutton, son of Thomas (4) 
Pearsall, was born in Bainbridge. Chenango 
county, New York, in 1796. and died in Apa- 
lachin, New York, April, 1870. He was edu- 
cated in the public schools in his native town, 
and when a young man followed farming 
there. About i8'?3 he and his brothers, 
Thomas, Gilbert, Nathaniel and Robert, came 
to Apalachin from Chenango county. Wil- 



liam purchased two hundred acres of land 
there and built a saw mill in 1836. He en- 
gaged in lumber business on a large scale, ex- 
tending his operations eventually into Hooper's 
Valley and on Rea Island, and for a time he 
and his brothers virtually controlled the lum- 
ber business of this section. In partnership 
with his brother Gilbert he built grist mills at 
Apalachin and Hooper's \'alley in 1840, at a 
cost of about $6,000 each. The local mill was 
50 by 60 feet, had four sets of millstones and 
was the largest in this vicinity. Mr. Pearsall 
was prominent in the settlement and develop- 
ment of the town. When he came to the 
place it was hardly more than a camp. He 
was influential and interested always in pub- 
lic atifairs, but refused public offices and trusts. 
In religion he was a Universalist. He mar- 
ried Eliza Balcolm, daughter of Samuel and 
Polly (Knapp) Balcolm, and sister of Judge 
Ransom lialcolm, justice of the supreme court 
two terms, died in Binghamton, New York. 
She was a native of Oxford, New York. Chil- 
dren : I. George Thomas. 2. Jane E. 3. 
.Martha. 4. Cornelia. 5. Ransom S., of whom 
further. 6. Uri, died in infancy. 7. Uri B.. 
served in the civil war in the Thirty-eighth 
Wisconsin Regiment, enlisting as a private; 
commissioned lieutenant, and was on staff of 
General W. T. Sherman ; commanded a regi- 
ment with rank of lieutenant colonel ; was in 
engineering corps in the Red River expedition ; 
promoted to brigadier-general by brevet; set- 
tled in Fort Scott, Kansas, and was elected 
county treasurer ; ap])ointed c|uartcrmaster at 
Fort Leavenworth National Soldiers' Home 
(where he died), an office in which his son 
Charles succeeded him. 8. Mary E., living 
at Leavenworth, Kansas. 9. Charles W. 

(VlII) Ransom Sutton, son of William 
Sutton Pearsall, was born in .Apalachin, New 
York, January 23, 1838. He attended the 
public schools of his native town and the acad- 
emies at Owego, Oxford and Binghamton, 
New York. He engaged in business when he 
was eighteen years old in partnership with his 
father, and in 1863 he and his brother George 
bought the business of their father. After 
continuing it two years they sold it and en- 
gaged in lumbering. In the same year the 
floods caused him to lose heavily, and he went 
out of the lumber business. He has continued 
in diversified business ever since, and also 
conducted a farm. He has taken a keen inter- 
est in town affairs. In 1884 he was elected 




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justice of the peace, and was re-elected in 
1888, serving eight years on the town board, 
and proving himself a just and capable mag- 
istrate. He was postmaster of Apalachin dur- 
ing the second administration of President 
Cleveland. He is one of the overseers of the 
poor of the town of Owego. In politics he 
is a Democrat. He is a Presbyterian. He is 
a member of Els-Kwa-Ta-Wa Tribe, Im- 
proved Order of Red Men, No. 261, of .\]ia- 
lachin. 

He married, February 22, 1865, Adaline \ . 
Hillings, born January i, 1846, in Apalachin, 
dangiitcr of Clinton and Ann (Goodsell) Hil- 
lings. Children: i. Grace L., born December 
20, 1865 : clerk in the insurance department, 
Albany, New York. 2. William Clinton, born 
January 22, 1869; inspector of immigration, 
iVew York City. 3. Anna L., born June 27, 
1871 ; married Edgar S. Lane, of Endicott, 
New York ; child, Mildred P., born January 
1, 1902. 4. Emily Gertrude, born July 15, 
1879; stenographer in the excise (le])artmfnt. 
Albany, New York. 



.Abial Baker was born in Penn- 
I'AKER sylvania. He came to Rhode 

Island about the time of the be- 
ginning of the revolution. His name does not 
appear in the provincial census of 1774 in 
Rhode Island, but he was a soldier in the rev- 
olution from Providence, in Rhode Island, a 
private in Captain Dexter's company, Colonel 
Lippett's regiment, in September, 1776. In 
1790 he was living in Cumberland, Rhode 
Island, and according to the first federal cen- 
sus taken in that year he had four sons under 
si.xteen and three females in his family. He 
married Louise Swan, born 1751, died 1847, 
aged ninety-six years, daughter of Duty Swan, 
of .Attleborough, Massachusetts. Children : 
Abial, Esek, Hiram, Lemuel, mentionel below ; 
William, Arnold, Polly, married Silas Whip- 
ple : Elizabeth, and a daughter who married 
Philemon Fuller. 

(II) Lenniel, son of Abial Baker, was born 
in Cumberland, Rhode Island. During the war 
of 1812 he served on a privateer under the 
command of James De Wolf. He was 
drowned at Providence, Rhode Island, in 1844, 
and buried in that city. He married Rebecca 
Brownell, of an old Rhode Island family, born 
1798, died in Owego, New Y'ork, May 17, 
1872, and buried in Owego, New York. Chil- 
dren born in Rhode Island: i. Hiram A., born 

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December 11, 1817, died in Owego, New 
Y'ork. 2. Harriet M., born October 27, 1819, 
died at Syracuse, New Y'ork ; married Justice 
P.. Pease. 3. William, born November 27, 
1821, died in Owego, April 9, 1879. 4. John 
D., mentioned below. 5. Charles W., born 
August 22, 1826, died in DeKalk, Illinois. 6. 
Albert A., born April 23, 1829, died July 21, 
1901, in Huntsville, Alabama, 7. (George, 
bom July 28, 1831, died in Sterling, Illinois. 
8. Emeline E., born September 30, 1833; mar- 
ried Amos Ross, died in Muskogee, Oklahoma. 
January, 1912. 9. James Russell, mentioned 
below. 10. Mary, April 6, 183 — , died in 
Owego, New Y'ork. 

(Ill) John D., son of Lemuel Baker, was 
born in Providence, Rhode Island, May 31. 
1824, died in Springfield, Long Island, Jan- 
nary 2, 1876, buried in Owego. He came to 
Owego at an early day, and lived there dur- 
ing the remainder of his life except the last 
two years, spent in Springfield, Long Island. 
By trade he was a carpenter, and for many 
)ears he was in business as a contractor and 
builder in Owego. He married Julia A. For- 
syth, born in Owego, New York, May 26. 
1828, died October 11, 1897, daughter oi 
Elisha and Wealthy (Lawrence) Forsyth. 

(I\') Francis ]\Iarion, only son of John D. 
and Julia A. (Forsjth) Baker, was born at 
C^wego, New York, March 26, 1846. He at- 
tended the public schools of his native |)lacc 
and Ames' Business I'niversity, Syracuse, 
New Y'ork. For a time he worked at the car- 
penter's trade in the enijiloy of his father, but 
the business was distasteful to him and he 
turned to more congenial pursuits. In Feb- 
ruary, 1864, he entered the employ of the Erie 
railroad as clerk in the freight office under 
John C. Worthington. He was [jromoted to 
the rank ui chief clerk in this office, and Sej)- 
tember I. 1872, was appointed station agent 
of the Southern Central railroad at Owego, 
New Y'ork. He resigned this position Novem- 
ber I, 1882, to become general superintendent 
of the -Addison & Northern Pennsylvania 
railroad, and continued to discharge the duties 
of this office with ability and efficiency until 
he resigned to accept the appointment of rail- 
road commissioner of the state of New Y'ork, 
made by Governor Levi P. Morton, December 
17, 1896, to fill vacancy caused by the death 
of Michael Rickard. Fie was reappointed by 
Governor Frank S. Black. In 1895, by ap- 
pointment of Governor Morton, he was a 



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member of the commission representing tlie 
state of New York at the Cotton States Ex- 
position at Atlanta, Georgia, and was elected 
treasurer of the commission. While superin- 
tendent of the Addison & Northern Pennsyl- 
vania railroad, he was also from 1887 to 1891 
in charge of the Bradford, Eldred & Cuba rail- 
road, as agent for the receiver. In the winter 
of 1894-95 he superintended the construction 
of the Darien & Western railroad, of which 
he was general manager. P'rom 1886 to 189'') 
he was general superintendent of the Gaines 
Coal Company, and during those years he was 
also freight and passenger agent of the Addi- 
son & Northern Pennsylvania road. In 1895 
he established his son, George H. Baker, in 
the hardware business in Owego, in partner- 
ship witli George S. Chatfield. Mr. Chatfield 
died the following year, and since then the 
father and son have continued the business 
under the firm name of Frank M. Baker & Son. 

In politics Mr. Baker is a steadfast Repub- 
lican, and he has always been greatly interested 
in public affairs. He was a member of the 
council of the incorporated village of Owego 
in 1873-74-76-79-80, and president in 1877. 
In 1881 he was elected school commissioner of 
Owego, and served three years. In 1909-10 
he was again president of the village of 
Owego. He has for many years been promi- 
nent in the fire department of Owego. For 
♦hree years he was president of the board of 
trustees of the Owego fire department, and in 
1 88 1 was chief engineer. He was instrumental 
in organizing the State Firemen's Association, 
of which he was secretary from 1874 to 1884, 
and president in 1884-85. In 1S93 he was the 
leading spirit in organizing the Central New 
York Volunteer Firemen's Association, of 
which he was president from the first. He is 
treasurer of the Firemen's Home at Hudson, 
iVew York. In addition to his other numer- 
(3us official and business interests he is treas- 
urer of the Glenn Mary Sanitarium, of Owego. 
and vice-i)resident of the Tioga National Bank 
of Owego. He is a member of Ahwaga Lodge 
of Free Masons, of Owego, of the Baptist 
church, and president of the village Cemetery 
Commission. 

He married, in 1869. Mary E. McOuigg, 
born in Owego, New Y'ork, May 13, 1846. 
died January 6, 191 1, daughter of Jesse and 
Mary E. McQuigg. Their son, George Ho- 
bart. born in Owego, August 28. 1871. was 



educated in the public schools ; he is junior 
partner of the firm of Frank M. Baker & 
Son ; he married Fannie D., daughter of Gil- 
bert E. and Dell (Ingersoll) Webster; chil- 
dren : Marion Esther, born May 6, 1893 ; 
Frank M. (2), May 13, 1896. 

(Ill) James Russell, son of Lemuel Baker, 
was born in Tioga, Tioga count)', New York, 
August 26, 1837. He received his education 
in the public schools of his native town. His 
life has been spent in Tioga and in the adjoin- 
ing town, Owego, where he owns several large 
farms, and valuable real estate in the village of 
Owego. Besides his large agricultural inter- 
ests he conducts an extensive ice business, sup- 
plying the town of Owego for the past twen- 
ty years or more and employing twenty hands 
throughout the year. He is a prominent citi- 
zen, and has been on the board of assessors 
for forty years in succession. He is a mem- 
ber of Tioga Lodge, No. 335, Odd Fellows, 
and of Ahwaga Tribe, Improved Order of Red 
Men. of Owego. In politics he is a Repub- 
lican. 

He married, January 3, 1874, J. Belle 
Decker, born at Dundaff, Pennsylvania, May 
14, 1852, died at Owego, December 4, 1891, 
daughter of Peter Decker. Children: i. Ella 
J., born May 21, 1875; married Thomas S. 
Millard, of Owego; children: James Milas, 
born June 2, 1901 ; Florian D., Jatniary 23, 
1905; Francis Baker, November 13, 1907. 2. 
Edward, born .\ugust 13, 1877: farmer; mar- 
ried, .\ugust 25, 1897, Bertha Hecock ; chil- 
dren: Lillian, died in infancy; Everett, born 
May II, 1899; Nellie, .August 19, 1901 ; Har- 
old, September 9. 1906. 3. Delos, born 
.August 6, 1879; engaged in the ice business: 
married, October 2, 1902, Emma Billings ; 
children: Raymond, born October 13, 1903; 
Delos and DeForrest. twins. May. 1907. 4. 
James N., born October 27, 1881 ; an electri- 
cian with the R. Hoe Printing Press Manufac- 
turing Company, of New York; married 
Winifred .Arthur. 5. Harry E., born Septem- 
ber 3, 1883 ; engaged in the ice business ; mar- 
ried, June 8, 1902, Lela M. \'andervoort ; chil- 
dren : Russell, born June 9, 1903, died Octo- 
ber 23, 1907: Ella, born .August 13. i<>05; Le- 
roy. born August 27, 1907; Emma, February 
27, 1909. 6. Bertie, born January 19, 1886, 
died October 20,~1887. 7. .\rthur D., born 
October 14. 1888; student at -Ann Arbor, 
Michigan, taking a sjjecial course in electricity. 



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Joshua Sims was a native of the 

SIMS town of Cockermouth, England, 
and lived and died in England. He 
was a woolen manufacturer. He had four 
sons, William, Joshua, Joseph, mentioned be- 
low, and Daniel, and one daughter. 

(H) Joseph, son of Joshua Sims, was born 
in county Cumberland, England, about 1809, 
and died in New York City in 1871. Like his 
father, he was a manufacturer of woolens and 
made fine blankets. He also owned graphite 
mines and manufactured lead pencils. In 1847 
lie came to this country and spent the rest of 
his days in New York City. He was asso- 
ciated with the firm of Brown & Gudit, con- 
tractors, of New York City. He married, in 
England, Jane Cass, born in England, about 
1812, died in New York City in 1866. Chil- 
<iren : Daniel, mentioned below; Joshua (de- 
ceased ), Joseph William (deceased), John, who 
was lost at sea in a hurricane at Samoa 
Islands, in the Pacific ; Mary. 

( 111 ) Daniel, son of Joseph Sims, was Imrn 
at Braithwaite, county Cumberland, in the 
north of England, December 20, 1839. He 
came to .America with his parents when he was 
eight years old, and attended school in Eng- 
land and in New York City. He began his 
business career as clerk in a bank, and contin- 
ued in the banking business for over sixteen 
years. In 1876 he went west, and for a num- 
l)er of years was in the creamery business. 
Since 1893 he has been with the Stantlard But- 
ter Company of Owego. New York, as book- 
keeper. He has taken an active part in pub- 
lic affairs and has been honored with various 
offices of trust and responsibility. He was tax 
collector, trustee of the incorporated village, 
and is a member of the board of education and 
president of the library board of the Coburn 
Free Library, and served on the building com- 
mittee in charge of the erection of the new 
library building. In politics he is an Inde- 
pendent. 

He married. Jaiuiary 31. 1864. hVances X. 
Shultz, born at Red Hook. Dutchess county, 
.\'ew York, July 2t,. 1842, daughter of Ben- 
jamin D. and Julia E. ( Stanton ) Shultz, 
granddaughter of Edward and Julia ( Hollis- 
ter) Stanton. Children: 1. Grace C, born in 
New York City, October 13, 1865; married 
C. S. Hammond, of New York, map manu- 
facturer ; children : Dean C, Robert and Helen. 
2. Joshua .\.. born May 30, 1867, died May 
18," 1872. 3. William Ai.,'born September 11. 



1872; a draughtsman in Owego Bridge Works. 
4. Lucy S., born Febniary 15, 1878. 5. Ruth 
E., born June 5, 1880; married Charles L. 
Raymond, bank clerk of Owego. 



John Leonard was of Knole. 

Ll^ON.ARD county of Kent, England. He 

was born in 1479 and die<l in 

1556- 

(II) John (2), son of John (I) Leonard, 
was also of Knole, county Kent, Englanil. He 
was born in 1508 and died in 1590. 

(III) Samson, son of John (2) Leonard, 
was the eleventh Baron of Dacre. He was 
born in 1545 and died in 1615. He married 
Lady Margaret Fienes. 

(IV) Sir Henry Leonard, son of Samson 
Leonard, was twelfth Baron of Dacre. He 
was born in 1569. He married Lady Chriso- 
gona, daughter of Sir Richard Baker, of Sis- 
singhurst, county Kent, England. 

( \' ) Richard, son of Sir Henry Leonard. 
was thirteenth Baron of Dacre, seated at 
Chevening. He died in 1630. He married 
Lady Anne, daughter of Sir Arthur Throck- 
morton: (second) Dorothy, daughter of Dud- 
ley, Lord North. 

(\'I) Thomas, son of Richard l^eonard, 
was of Pontipool, Wales. 

(\TI) James, son of Thomas Leonard, of 
Pontipool. Wales, was born in Cireat Britain, 
and came to America about 1645. He settled 
first in Lymi and later in Taunton, Massachu- 
setts. He was the first to establish iron works 
in .America, at Saugus, near Lynn. He was 
not living in 169 1. 

(\III) Captain James Leonard, son of 
Richard Leonard, was born about 1643, and 
died November i, 1736. He lived in Taunton. 

He married (first) Hannah , who died 

February, 1674; (second) Lydia, daughter of 
.Anthony Gulliver, of Milton. She diet! July 

24, 1705. He married (third) Rebecca , 

who died April 3, 1738. 

I IX ) Stephen, son of Captain James Leon- 
ard, was born at Taunton, December, 1680, 
and died in 1741. He was a judge of the court 
of common pleas. .About 1722-3 he settled in 
what was then called Hammer, Hunterdon 
county. New York ; Hammer is now Morris. 
New York. In 1724 he was judge of the 

commission in Morris. He married Mary . 

Children: Zephaniah, born 1704, was major 
of militia, judge, etc. : Mary, married Sam- 
uel ; Joshvia, mentioned below : Huldah, 



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married Philip Halley, of Taunton ; Rev. Silas, 
graduate of Yale College, 1736, ordained at 
Gorham, Connecticut ; Paul. 

(X) Joshua, son of Stephen Leonard, was 
a bloomer and master iron worker. He died 

in 1760. He married Sarah . Children: 

Zephaniah, Paul, Silas, mentioned below ; 
Stephen, Mary, Martha. 

(XI) Silas, son of Joshua Leonard, was 
born in 1756, in Parrippany, New York, and 
died in Owego, New York, September 29, 
1832. During his first years in business he 
was engaged on a large scale in the manufac- 
ture of leathern knee breeches in New York. 
Later he moved to Massachusetts, then to 
Towanda, Pennsylvania, and in 1803 to 
Owego, New York, where he lived the rest of 
his life. While in New York he lived on 
Wall street, about halfway between East river 
and Broadway. He married Joanna Gregory. 
of Bridgeport, Connecticut, and she died in 
Owego, September 27, 1816, aged fifty-five. 
Children : Seth G., Milton, General Harry C, 
died February 20, 1844, aged forty-four; 
.Stephen B., mentioned below ; daughter, died 
and buried in Towanda. 

(XH) Stephen Banks, son of Silas Leon- 
ard, was born on Wall street, New York, April 
I5> 1793- The house in which he was born 
stood on the ground now occupied by the Cus- 
tom House. He died in Owego, New York, 
May 8, 1876, where he came when he was 
ten years old. In 1806 he entered the printing 
office of Judge Mack, who printed the Amer- 
ican Farmer. Later he went to .Mbany and 
worked in the job office of Solomon South- 
wick, in order to learn more of the art of 
printing. He returned to Owego in 181 3. 
buying the American Farmer. In 1814 he 
changed the name of the paper to the Owego 
Gazette, and published it until 1835, when he 
was elected to congress, where he served for 
two terms until 1841. From March 11, 1816, 
until May 15, 1820, he was postmaster of 
Owego, and also held that position from No- 
vember 20, 1844, until April 18, 1849. He was 
village trustee in 1822-23, in 1854-56 he was 
supervisor, and during the administration of 
President Buchanan he was deputy United 
States marshal. In 1816 he established the 
first stage route from Owego to Bath, and be- 
fore that time he had carried the first mail 
through Tioga county on horseback in order 
to deliver his newspapers. He helped to ob- 
tain the incorporation of Owego Academy. He 



was the founder of the Public Library, going 
to Albany to secure grants of books, .\fter his 
terms as congressman he became a farmer, 
and spent the last years of his life in the vil- 
lage. He was a prominent member of the Ma- 
sonic fraternity and of the Presbyterian 
church. He married, February 22, 181 8, Es- 
ther Henrietta Sperry, born September 6. 
1798, at New Alilford, Connecticut, daughter 
of Jared and Esther (Bostwick) Sperry. 
Children : William B., mentioned below ; Her- 
man Camp, born January 31, 1823; George 
Stephen, April y, 1827, died March 20, 1907; 
Henrietta, May 20, 1830, married Oliver 
Bulkley : Emily Caroline ; Worthington Irv- 
ing, March 12, 1835, died May 17. 1874; 
Laura Ann. 

(XIII) William Boardman, son of Stephen 
Banks Leonard, was born in Owego, New 
York, June 17, 1820, and died there July 2, 
1893. He attended the public schools and the 
Owego .\cademy. At the age of sixteen years 
he went to Trumansburg, New York, to live 
with an uncle, Herman Camp, and was em- 
ployed as clerk in his store. When he came 
of age he went to New York City as salesman, 
and afterward formed a partnership with 
Benjamin Pomeroy in the wholesale dry goods 
business. Upon the dissolution of this firm 
he became a partner in the firm of Hulburt. 
Sweetser & Company, and afterward was in 
partnership with the \'an \'alkenbergs. For 
a few years he was in partnership with Har- 
vey Farrington in the wholesale grocery and 
cofifee trade. Subsequently he founded the 
commission house of Leonard, Rhodes & 
Grosvenor. and the banking house of Leon- 
ard. Sheldon & Foster, afterward Leonard, 
Sheldo!! &• Company, with offices at 10 Wall 
street. New York. Mr. Leonard retired in the 
eighties, after a very successful career in busi- 
ness, but retaining for a few years a silent 
])artnership in his firm. .After his marriage 
.lie resided in Brooklyn. New York. He was 
vestryman in the Church of the Holy Trinity. 
He tilled many positions of trust with scru- 
pulous fidelitv and efficiency. He was a di- 
rector in many corporations, president of the 
Homoeopathic Hospital ; president of the 
Kings County Bank ; president of the Society 
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 
and active in many charitable organizations. 
He was one of the first board of trustees in 
charge of building the first Brooklyn Bridge, 
and his name, with those of his colleagues. 



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is inscribed on the bronze tablet high on the 
stone tower supporting the structure. He was 
interested especially in music, and was presi- 
dent of the Apollo Club. Twenty years be- 
fore his death he bought his summer home at 
Riverhead. Owego, New York, and spent the 
summer months there. Twice he declined the 
noinination for mayor of the city of Pirooklyn. 
In politics he was a Democrat, and he was 
chairman of the electoral college in the Gar- 
field-Hancock campaign. 

He married, in 1847, 'it Southport, Con- 
necticut. Louise Bulkley, born September 7. 
1823, died March 11, 1900, a daughter of An- 
drew and Sally D. Bulkley. Children: i. 
Right Rev. William Andrew Leonard, born at 
Southport, July 15, 1848, an Episcopal clerg)-- 
man, Bishop of Ohio, living at Cleveland ; 
married, April 17, 1873, Sarah Louise, daugh- 
ter of Thomas and Phebc (Saxton) Sullivan, 
of Brooklyn. 2. Lewis Herman, mentionetl 
below. 3. Louise Bulkley, born at Brooklyn, 
March 21, 1853; married, 1876, John Van 
Nostrand, of Brooklyn ; one son, John James 
Van Nostrand, died February 5, 1906. 

(XIV) Lewis Herman, son of \\'illiam 
Boardman Leonard, was born .August 13, 
1850, at Southport, Connecticut. He attended 
the public schools of Brooklyn and the Eagles- 
wood Military .\cademy at Perth .Amboy, New 
Jersey. He began his business career in his 
father's banking house and afterward estab- 
lished the \\^all Street Stores, having ware- 
houses and docks in Brooklyn, and was suc- 
cessful. Afterward he became a partner in 
the firm of J. P. Robinson & Company in the 
warehouse and salt business. New York City, 
and continued in this house until it was dis- 
solved in 1897. He then made his home in 
Owego. New York, where he owns a large 
stock farm, making a specialty of raising 
brown Swiss cattle. 

He married, in Brooklyn, January 10, 187 1, 
Elizabeth DeWitt Robinson, daughter of Jere- 
miah Potter Robinson. Children: I. Esther 
Henrietta, married (first) John G. L'nderhill, 
of Montclair, New Jersey; (second) Rev. Sid- 
ney Winter Epes, a clergyman of Owego, New 
York : children : Hermon and John Epes. 2. 
Josephine P.ulkley, married Charles S. Towle, 
of Mamaroneck, New York. 3. William 
Roardman, Jr., born in Brooklyn, Augnst 14, 
1873: educated in Sheffield Scientific School of 
Yale University, and Stevens Institute of 
Technology ; now a civil engineer, engaged in 



subway work in New York City, and also in 
the employ of the New York, New Haven & 
Hartford Railroad Company; married, No- 
vember 16, 1898, .\lice Holden Howell, of 
New York ; children : Elizabeth DeWitt, born 
January 12, 1904, and William Boardman (3), 
born at New Rochelle, New York, January 13. 
1908. 4. Mabel, married Henry T. Dumbell, 
of New York City : children : Mabel and 
Henrv. 



The Albertsons of New 
ALllERTSON .Amsterdam came from 
Stemeyck, Holland, early 
in the history of the colony. Jan Albertson, 
his wife, and si.x children, were here previous 
to 1663, and settled at Wythnyck, near King- 
ston, New York, and June 17, 1663, he, with 
his wife and a young daughter, were killed by 
the Indians, the mother being pregnant at the 
time. Jacob Olbcrtson ( .Mbertson) was an 
emissary to the Indians at Rockaway, Long 
Island, from New Amsterdam, in 1643. Hans 
Albertson was a citizen of New .Amsterdam in 
1657. Hendrick Albertson and his wife came 
over in the ship "De Houthuyn," arriving at 
Fort Orange, now Albany, August 13, 1642. 
He was the first ferryman across the Hudson 
river at that place. 

The family name is spelled many different 
ways, all believed to be descendants of the 
same ancestry. It is a most difficult problem 
to search out family history in the early Dutch 
records, as there were many strange customs, 
one of which was that a man at the time of 
his marriage might, if he so desired, adopt the 
name of his wife, or that of her mother-in-law, 
and the records show that this was fre(|uently 
done. At one period one branch of the fam- 
ily on Long Island were known for a time by 
the name of Terhune. and later by the original 
name. Also, the method of sjielling was unique 
often. The New Jersey branch of the fam- 
ily, which traces the ancestry back to Wil- 
liam Albertson, of Long Island, has a care- 
fully compiled genealogy which appears in the 
"Daily Union Histon,- of .Atlantic City," New 
Jersey. 

(I) .Albert .Albertson owned land in .Ames- 
port. Long Island, in 1^)53. He is thought to 
liave been a brother of the Jan .Albertson who 
was killed by the Indians at Wythnyck, near 
Kingston, New York, June 17, 1663. Also, 
he was doubtless a brother of Eli>ert Elbertson, 
whose land joined his, and of Hans .Albertson. 



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of Fort Orange, and also of Jacob Olbertson. 
the emissary to the Indians. 

(II) Derrick, son of Albert Albertson, was 
buried at Glen Cove, Long Island. 

(III) Derrick (2), son of Derrick ( i ) .\\- 

bertson, married Wilmet , who after 

his death married Roots. 

(IV) William, son of Derrick (2) Albert- 
son, was born doubtless before 1700, and died 
March 26, 1729. His will is recorded at Ja- 
maica, Long Island, in Liber C, p. 132, April 
17, 1731. He married Mary T*arker, who died 
August 9, 1754. 

(V) William (2), son of William (i) .\1- 
bertson, was born November 27, 1726, and 
died April 17, 1764. He was a clothier at 
Southampton, Long Island. He married 
Charity Woodhull, born October 10, 1731, died 
December 12, 181 2. 

(VI) Daniel, son of William (2), was born 
on Long Island, about 1750, and died in Or- 
ange county. New York, after 1812. He came 
to Orange county about 1780. He had sons 
Daniel and Nathaniel, and two daughters, one 
of whom married Daniel Fullerton. 

(VII) Daniel (2), son of Daniel (i) Al- 
bertson, was born at Southampton, Long 
Island, May 27, 1768, and died at Elmira, New 
York, January 10, 1849, aged eighty years. 
About 1780 he came with his jiarents to Or- 
ange county, living in Ridgebury until 1844-45, 
when he moved to Victor, New York. There 
he lived with his daughter, Ruth Goldsmith, 
until a short time before his death, when he 
moved to FJmira to live with his son IViah, 
on Water Cure Hill. He went for a short 
walk on the day of his death, about noon, and 
when he did not return as soon as they ex- 
|)ccted a search was made, and he was found 
dead, lying near a straw stack by the barn. He 
was first buried in a small burying ground near 
the mouth of Wymcoop creek, but when the 
Dry Creek cemetery was opened about 1852 
his remains were moved there. He married, 
September, 1789, Sarah Harding, born .\pril 
'I. ^77?i< '''c<' in Ridgebury, Orange county, 
New York. November 27. 1824. She was 
buriefl in the southeast corner of Pine Hill 
cemetery, near Micldletown, New York. She 
was a daughter of .Abraham Harding, who 
fought in the revolution, and who was born 
in Connecticut, in 1740, and died in Monroe 
county, New York, about 1830. Children 
born in Ridgebury: i. Winifred, born July 6, 
1791. died May 24. 1872: married John Hliz- 



zard. 2. Abraham, February 22, 1794, died 
-May 20, 1870; married Rhuey Hoyt ; had 
Andrew, Sarah and Mary. 3. Olive, July 16, 
1796, died November 4, 1856; married, Decem- 
ber, 1828, Thomas Wheat. 4. .Ann, May 17, 
1798; married Samuel Stenebach. 5. Uriah, 
February 28, 1800, died December 2, 1882; 
married, 1824 or 1825, Delilah Penny; had 
George W., Mary, Eliza and X'irgil. 6. Ruth, 
October 24, 1801. died December 19, 1867: 
married (first), 1818, George Knight, ( second") 
Hudson Goldsmith. 7. John Caton, Decem- 
ber 4, 1805, died April 6, 1808. 8. William. 
.April II, 1807, died January i, 1857; married 

(first) '■ Smith, (second), 1852, Ruth 

Beamer : had Ruth. Sarah, Richard and Ar- 
minda. 9. Daniel, May 19, 1810, died Septem- 
ber 28, 1890; married Deborah Hawkins; lived 
in Chemung, buried at Dry Brook ; had 
Pauline, Charles and Mary. 10. Lewis, men- 
tioned below. II. Pernina, September 8, 
1815, died Tulv 24. 1877; married .Alfred 
Allen. 

(\TII) Lewis, son of Daniel (2) .Albertson, 
was born in Ridgebury, November 12, 1812. 
and died in \\'averly, New A'ork, July 19, 1878. 
He was a farmer and lived for several years at 
Hazzardville, in the town of Windsor, Broome 
county. New York, until .April i, 1856, when 
he moved to Great Bend. Pennsylvania. He 
lived there for a year and then moved to the 
town of Chemung, Chemung county. New 
York, where he had bought a farm. In April. 
1878. he moved again to the village of Wa- 
verly, Tioga county. New York, where he lived 
the rest of his life. He married, in 1850. 
Caroline Stewart, born in South Bainbridge. 
now .Afton, Chenango county. New York, 
.August 7, 1824, died in Waverly, at the home 
of her son, Charles L. Albertson, November 
25, 1910. .She married (second) George H. 
Buck, who died in 1900. Children: George 
.A., born at Hazzardville, June 18, 1852; 
married, January 10, 1877, Sarah Swain; had 
Mabel and .Ada ; Charles Lewis, mentioned be- 
low ; .Alice E.. born June 22, i860, died No- 
vember. 19CX). married Eugene Crawford, May 
15. 1879. and had Stella. 

(IX) Charles Lewis, son of Lewis .Albert- 
son, was born at Hazzardville, in the town of 
Windsor, Broome county. New York, Jan- 
uary 5, 1856. Thence he removed with his 
parents to Great Bend. Pennsylvania, and 
after about two years to the homestead two 
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liveil until he was eighteen years old. He at- 
tended the district schools in the towns in 
which he lived. In 1874 he went to New York- 
City. He was appointed to the police depart- 
ment there, February 4. 1879, and in due 
course was promoted to the rank of rounds- 
man, sergeant, ca])tain and inspector. He was 
retired .^pril 28, 1903, and since then has re- 
sided at Waverly, New York. Captain .-\lbert- 
son is fond of good books, and having the 
means and taste, has accumulated one of the 
finest private libraries in the state. In his col- 
lection are many rare and almost priceless 
volumes. With characteristic generosity, Cap- 
tain Albertson gives to his neighbors, and in 
fact the general public, the use of his books 
freely. He is president of the Humane So- 
ciety and a citizen of public spirit, keenly 
interested in the welfare of the community in 
which he lives. At the present time he is 
engaged in writing a history of the town of 
Waverly. He married, October 18, 1876, Ad- 
die M. West, born October 22. 1856, daughter 
of Andrew and Eleanor West. Children : 
Lewis A., born .April 25, 1878; Emma, March 
24, 1880, died December 11, 1881 ; Dacie G., 
born March 27, 1886; Earl D., October 18. 



David Miller was born and died 

.NHLLER in England. He married there 

Susan Kennedy. Among tiieir 

children were sons : George, mentioned below : 

David ; Thomas ; W^illiam. 

(II) George, son of David Miller, was born 
in county Cumberland, England, 1766, and was 
killed by a falling tree in Groton, New York, 
October 16, 1846, aged eighty years. He was 
educated in England and learned the trade of 
blacksmith there. He came to .\merica in 1839 
to join his son John who had preceded him in 
this country about six years. With him came 
other members of his family. He was a skill- 
ful craftsman and lived a long and useful life. 
He married, in England. Jane Dalton, who died 
December 24, 1852. aged eighty years. Chil- 
dren: I. Mary, lx)rn October 21. 1794, died 
aged eighty-eight years. 2. Thomas, Novem- 
ber 16. 1795. died June 9. 1872. 3. John, men- 
tioned below. 4. Richard. September 24, 1800, 
<lied February. 1872. 5. Jane, May 8. 1802, 
died May, 1887. 6. Margaret, May 16, 1804, 
died .April 26, 1868. 7. George, March 9, 1806, 
ilied lanuarv 3. 1888. 8. William. December 



24. 1808. died October 10, 1890. 9. Isaac. June 
2'i, 181 2. died in .August, 1895. 

( III ) John, son of George Miller, was born 
in county Cumberland, England, .September 24. 
1797, died in East Homer, New York, .August 
20, 1848. He learned the blacksmith's trade 
in England, and after serving a long apprentice- 
ship, worked as a journeyman at his trade in 
England. He came to this country in the spring 
i>f 1833 and located first at Tully, .\'ew York, 
where he remained a month, and later was at 
Preble West Hill, where he remained fifteen 
months. In the fall of 1835. he removed to 
the town of Tru.xton. New York, where he 
lived until 1842, when he came to East Homer. 
.New 'Sork. and he lived in that town the re- 
mainder of his life. He is said to have been 
the first Englishman who settled in Truxton. 
He followed farming in this coimtry. His 
death in the prime of life was due. it is thought, 
to excessive hard work at the trade of black- 
smith in his younger days. He married, in 
England. Isabelle Wallace, born there .April i, 
1802. (lied June 2, 1892. daughter of Thoma> 
and Hannah (Bell) Wallace. Children: i. 
Thomas, born June 14, 1824, died in Illinois. 
2. Jane, born June 27, 1826, living in East 
Homer, New York (1911); married Isaac 
Foster, born in England in 1827, came to 
.\merica in 1849. ^I'l '1'^'' ^t V.2.'t.\. Homer in 
January. 1910. 3. Hannah. Ixirn June 21. 
1828; married William Wilson, deceased. 4. 
Mary. Ijorn July 7. 1830; married Robert Jack- 
son, of Tioga county. New A'ork. 5. John, 
born March 31, 1832. 6. and 7. Twins, bom 
March 24, 1834, died same day. 8. Isabelle. 
born Alarch 3. 1835: married Hartley Coats, 
of Kansas. 9. George Wesley, mentioned be- 
low. 10. Margaret .\nn. born 1838; married 
Ellis R. I'.riggs. of East Homer, n. Sarah. 
l)orn 1841, died in 1843. 12. W'illiam. born 
June. 1843. lives in California. 13. Son, born 
August. 1843. died same day. 14. Sarah. Feb- 
ruarv 3. 1848: married James Stowell, of 
Cayuga county. New York. 

( I\') George Wesley, son of John Miller, 
was born in Truxton. Cortland county. New 
York. November 5. 1836. He received his 
education in the public schools of his native 
town and at the East Homer .Academy. He 
removefl to East Homer with his jjarents in 
earlv youth. He assisted his father on the 
farm and afterward followed farming on his 
own account. He went west in 1833 and re- 



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mained a short time. He enlisted in the civil 
war from McHenry count)-, Illinois, August 
II, 1862, and was honorably discharged, Au- 
gust 17, 1865. He served in Company E, 
Ninety-fifth Illinois Regiment of Volunteer 
Infantry, and look part in the siege of Vicks- 
burg, in the Red River expedition, in the two 
days' fight at Nashville, Tennessee, and in all 
the other numerous skirmishes and engage- 
ments in which his regiment participated. He 
was with the Army of the Tennessee through- 
out the service. He was corporal of his com- 
pany. After he was mustered out he remain- 
ed in Illinois a short time, and in the fall of 
1865 came to East Homer, New York, where 
he has lived since, making agriculture his occu- 
pation. In politics he is a Republican, and has 
taken an active part in years past in political 
afifairs. He is a member of Alvey Baker Post, 
No. 517, Grand Army of the Republic. He 
married (first), December 15, 1869, Ann Mul- 
len, born in Ireland, May i, 1847, died Febru- 
ary 4, 1880, tlaughter of Martin and Alary 
(Mellody) Mullin. He married (second), Feb- 
ruary 17, 1885, Anna T. Mead, born in Tioga 
county, New York, January i, 1852, daughter 
of Levi and Betsey (O'Connell) Mead. Chil- 
dren by first wife: i. John M., mentioned be- 
low. 2. Ella A., born April 9, 1877; married 
Rockwell Battie, of East Homer, New York ; 
children : Mildred .Ann and Ellen Miller Battie. 
Child of second wife: 3. Wallace W., bom 
.September 29, 1890. 

(V) John M., son of George Wesley Miller, 
was born in East Homer, New York, Decem- 
ber 9, 1870. He attended the public schools of 
his native town and worked at farming until he 
was twentv years old. He then entered the 
employ of Burgess & Bingham as clerk in their 
men's furnishing store in Cortland, New York. 
In 1894 he engaged in business as partner in 
the firm of Bingham & Miller in the same line 
of business. In 1907 the business was incor- 
porated under the name of the Bingham-Miller 
Company and has continued thus with uninter- 
rupted prosperity and success to the present 
time. Mr. Miller is a member of the Benev- 
olent and Trotective Order of Elks and of the 
Cortland Club of Cortland. He has taken an 
active interest in public affairs and has been 
foreman of Orris Flose Company, No. 2, of 
the local fire department. In politics he is a 
Republican. He married (first). January i, 
i8()5, Lena .Stevens, of Cortland, born in Tru.x- 
ton, died January 1, 1900, daughter of Irving 



and .A^nna Stevens. He married (second), 
June 25, 1901, Anna Elizabeth Manning, of 
"Cortland, born May 22, 1875, daughter of An- 
drew Shaw and Arestine (Edwards) Manning, 
of Broome county. New York (see Manning 
IX). Mr. and Mrs. Miller have no children. 

(The Manning Line). 

(I) William Manning, immigrant ancestor, 
was born in England as early as 1592, perhaps 
earlier, and came to New England at an early 
date. He came (from best evidence) from 
county Essex, England. From his own account, 
he lived the first nine or ten weeks in Rox- 
bury, Massachusetts. He then removed to 
Cambridge, where documents were first signed 
by him, in 1634 and possibly earlier. He was 
on the list of landholders in February, 1638. 
.-\n old church record says "payd our brother 
Manninge for a bellrope." This was dated 
1648, when he was engaged in "a business 
laudable and commendable." He had doubt- 
less been a merchant in England. In 1658 he 
bought four acres of ground in Charlestown. 
He was a freeman in 1640. .After his second 
marriage he removed to Boston and united 
with the church there in 1684. He died in 

1685-86. He married (first) , (second) 

Susannah , who died in 1650, (third) 

Elizabeth , who survived him. Children, 

as far as known : W'illiam. mentioned below ; 
Hannah. 

(in William (2), .son of William (i) Man- 
ning, was born in England, about 1614, and 
came to New England about 1634. He settled 
in Cambridge, purchased lands and engaged in 
business as a merchant. He also owned a 
warehouse, boathouse, on a canal to which 
boats had free access, and constructed with his 
own hands a wharf by his boathouse. He was 
highway surveyor in 1651 ; ganger of casks 
and constable, 1652-53; selectman, 1652-66-70- 
72-75-81-85; member of the grand jury in 
1686-88. in 1668 he was sent to England to 
[)rocure another minister, and in 1670 he was 
appointed "to catechise the youth" of the town. 
He was selected as one of the committee of 
two who had in charge the rebuilding of Har- 
vard College, to receive and disburse funds for 
that purpose. He died March 14, 1690. He 

married Dorothy . Their gravestones 

are in the canetery at Harvard Square. Chil- 
dren : Hannah, born June 21, 1642; Samuel, 
July 21, 1644, mentioned below; Sarah, Janu- 
ary 28. 1645-46; Abigail, January 15, 1647- 



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48, died May 10, 1648; John, March 31, 1649; 
Mary, about 1651 ; (perhaps) Timothy. 

(III) Samuel, son of WilHam (2) Manning, 
was born July 21, 1644. About the time of his 
marriage he settled in Billerica, and while 

EA there his house was twice attacked by Indians. 
IH In 1696 his house was made a garrison. He 
'■ * was corporal in 1682; sergeant, 1684; ensign, 
1699. He was a farmer by occupation, and a 
prominent man. He was surveyor of high- 
ways, 1668 ; sealer of weights and measures 
from 1675 to 1700; constable, 1677; jury- 
man, 1679 ; assessor, 1694-98-1702 ; tythinginan, 
1679-83-97-1704-09; town clerk, seven years; 
selectman, eighteen years ; and deputy to the 
general court, 1695-96-97. He was admitted 
freeman in 1670. He was a large landholder 
and his will was dated February 21, 1710. 
He married (first), April 13, 1664, Elizabeth 
Stearns, who died June 24, 1671. He married 
(second). May 6, 1673, Abiel Wight, born at 
Medfield, January i, 1654, daughter of John 
and Ann Wight. He died February 22, 1710- 
II. Children of first wife; Samuel, mentioned 
below; John, born i6(36. Children of second 
wife; Timothy, March 28, 1675; William, June 
27, 1677; Mary. September 12, 1679; Sarah, 
.August 26. 168 1 : Dorothy, June 27, 1683; 
Isaac, April 15, 1685; Ephraim, September 11, 
1686; Elizabeth, March 14, 1689-90; Timothy. 
March 4, 1691-92; Eliphalet, July 23, 1693; 
Abiel, December 16, 1698. 

(IV) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (i) Man- 
ning, was born in Billerica, about 1665. He 
took the oath of allegiance, September 8, 1681. 
In 1693 the town of Billerica granted him lib- 
erty to set up a shop and to lay timber about, 
and set a cart near to the passage over the 
river, during the time of his keeping the ferry. 
He removed to Cambridge, before 1695, and 
in that year had the custody of the town's 
ammunition. In January, 1698, his father sold 
to him the homestead at the southeast corner 
of Dunster and South streets, Cambridge, to- 
gether with the boathouse, etc. After this, he 
is called "waterman" in deeds. In 1714 he 
bought land in Windham, Connecticut, between 
Herrick and Beaver Brook. He sold his Cam- 
bridge property, and after 1722 lived in Wind- 
ham. His house was in that part of the town 
which became tlie Scotland parish. At Billerica 
he was highway surveyor in 1693. At Cam- 
bridge he was sealer of weights and measures, 
thirteen years; highway surveyor, 1702; in- 
spector of the "Great Bridge over the Charles- 



town river" in 1704-05; constable, 1707; clerk 
of the market, 171 5. At Windham he was 
tythingman and school committee in 1722; 
selectman, 1723-24-32-33. He was ensign of 
militia in Billerica. His will was dated March 
2, 1750, and he died at Windham, February 
~o, 1755. He married (first) Deborah Spald- 
ing, born at Chelmsford, September 12, i06y, 
died August 2. 1727, daughter of Edward 
.SpaUling. He married (second), at Norwich, 
June 10, 1731, Sarah Gale, of Canterbury, who 
died October 11, 1746, perhaps widow of Rich- 
ard Gale. Children of first wife; Dorothy, 
born January 17, 1688-89; Samuel, January 
14, 1690-91, mentioned below; Sarah, October 
I, 1693: Deborah, died January 30, 1723-24, 
unmarried; John, ba[)tized January 17, 1696- 
97; Abigail, baptized May 14, i(X)9; Elizabeth, 
November 21, 1701 ; Mary. March 17, 1703-04; 
Joseph, May 12, 1705. 

(V) Samuel (3), son of Samuel (2) Man- 
ning, was born in Billerica, January 14, 1690 
91, died June 3, 1727. He spent his early 
years in Cambridge, and removed to Windham 
as early as 1716. He was admitted as an in- 
habitant, Se])tember 24, 17 16; was assessor, 
1720 and 1726: highway surveyor, 1722. Both 
he and his wife were members of the Wind- 
ham church. He married there, April 20, 1719, 
Irene, born August 24, 1700. died January 
20, 1726-27, daughter of Joshua and Hannah 
(Bradford) Ripley, granddaughter of John 
and Elizabeth (Hobart) Ripley, and great- 
granddaughter of William Ripley. The latter 
came from England, 1638, to Hingham, Massa- 
chusetts, where he was freeman, 1642. and died 
July 20, 1656. Her father. Joshua Ripley, was 
the first town clerk and treasurer of Windham 
and justice of the peace. Her mother, Han- 
nah ijradford, was a daughter of Deputy Gov- 
ernor William Bradford Jr. and granddauehter 
of Governor William Bradford, of the "May- 
flower." Her grandmother, Elizabeth Hobart, 
was a daughter of Rev. Peter Hobart, first 
pastor of the Hingham church. Children, born 
at Windham: losiah, March 18, 1720; Heze- 
kiah. .\ugust 8. 1721 ; Abigail, November 25, 
1722; Sarah. February 22, 1723-24; Samuel. 
October 22. 1725 ; David. January 14. 1726-27. 

(VI) David, son of Samuel (3) Manning, 
was born in Windham, January 14, 1726-27. 
He married (first), in Sharon, Connecticut, 
August I, 1751, Anne, daughter of David 
Hamilton, formerly of Lebanon, and a man of 
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before 1768, Miriam Simonson, who survived 
him, and after his death Hved with her son 
Ripley in Owego, New York. She died there 
June 7, 1808, aged seventy-three years. He 
was in Sharon at the time of his marriage, and 
again in 1768, but iiis whereabouts between 
those dates is uncertain. For several years 
after 1768 he continued to live in Sharon, and 
in 1794 removed to Lisle, Broome county, New- 
York, where he died September 29. 1807. In 
1758, in the French and Indian war, he was a 
soldier under Captain Samuel Elmer (or El- 
more), with the Connecticut troops, from June 
3 to October 27. Children, order of birth not 
known: Joseph, living in 1789; John, living in 
1791 ; Sarah, married, at Sharon, February 10, 
1777, Samuel Sackett : David, about 1759, men- 
tioned below; Anna, about 1762; Ripley, bap- 
tized September 11. 1768; Eunice, July 31. 
1776. 

(VII) Major David (2) Manning, son of 
David (i) Manning, was born about 1759. 
died at Manning\'ille, in Lisle, Broome county. 
New York, 1816. He married (first) in that 
part of Woodbury, Connecticut, now called 
Southbury, October 6, 1785, Lucy Peck. He 
married (second) Anne, daughter of Colonel 
Giles and .\nne Thomas Jackson, born Alay 
15, 1761, died August 5, 1847. He was a 
soldier in the revolution and his name appears 
on fourteen different muster or pay rolls. His 
service was as follows : From .\pril to Sep- 
tember 21, 1775, Colonel Benjamin Ilinman's 
regiment, sent to secure Ticonderoga and Crown 
Point from recapture; 1776, Colonel Charles 
Burrell's regiment. Captain David Downs" com- 
pany, served in the Northern Department, to 
reen force the troops besieging Quebec under 
Benedict Arnold; January i, 1777, to Decem- 
ber 31, 1779, Colonel Joseph Vose's regiment. 
Captain Closes Ashley's company. During his 
service under Captain Downs in 1776, his com- 
pany was in an engagement at the Cedars, 
about forty miles from Montreal, May 19, and 
nearly the whole company was captured by the 
British. Of this inmiber, David Planning was 
one. He continued in service as late as Janu- 
ary 25, 1780. but how nnich longer is not 
known, .\fter the war he lived for several 
years in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. From 
January, 1703. to 1795, he was brigade major 
of the Ninth Berkshire Division of the state 
militia of Massachusetts. In 1795 he removed 
to Lisle, Broome county, New York, where he 
sfient the remainder nf his life, ("hild of first 



wife: Lucy Peck, born November 5, 1786, 
Stockbridge. Children of second wife, born 
at Stockbridge: Sophronia, June 15, 1789; 
Charles Giles, 1790; John Jackson, April 2, 
1792; David Ripley. September 20, 1795, men- 
tioned below : Nancy, 1797 : Abigail, March 12. 
1800, Lisle; George, about 1801, died April 14. 
1804; Mary Anne, .\ugust 5. 1805, died .Au- 
gust 15, 1810. 

(\'III) David Ripley, .son of Major David 
(2) Manning, was born September 20, 1795, 
at Lisle, New York, died January 25, 1861, at 
ManningA'ille. He married, December 25, 1827, 
Caroline, daughter of Andrew and Melissa 
Shaw, born 1810, died June 22, 1848. He 
lived in Lisle and Manningville. Children, 
born in Lisle: George Jackson, March 8, 1829; 
.Anne Melissa, October 5, 1831 ; Andrew Shaw, 
December 17, 1834, mantioned below; Nancy, 
May 21, 1837; Helen Sophia, January 20. 1841 : 
Caroline Elizabeth, October i, 184;^- 

(IX) Andrew Shaw, son of David Ripley 
Manning, was born in Lisle, New Y'ork, De- 
cember 17, 1834. Tie married, at Yorkshire. 
New York, January 2, 1873, .\restine Edwards. 
He lives at .\uburn. New York, and is engaged 
in commercial pursuits. Children : Anna Eliz- 
abeth, born May 22, 1875. married John M. 
Miller (see Miller V) ; John Ripley. May 5. 
1877, at Lisle: David Burr, October 13, 1878. 
at Lisle; George Radcliffe, June 16. 1888, at 
.-Xuburn. 



This name appears in twenty- 
KINGM.AN five different forms, the earli- 
est mention being in 1418. One 
<if the Kingmans was deputized by a king to 
take the monarch's treasure from the city to 
his country mansion in the year 1418. It is 
supposed from this that they must have been 
employes of the royal household of Henry V. 
Thev occupied positions as high sheriff, rector, 
and bishop of the Gmrch of England. Many 
of them were wealthy "lords of the manor," as 
thev were called in that country. 

( 1) Henry Kingman, the ancestor of all the 
Kingmans in the United States, sailed with his 
family fmm Weymouth, England, March 20. 
1635, a,nd landed at Weymouth, Massachusetts. 
May 6, 1C135. The vessel was forty-six days 
on its voyage. He was admitted a freeman 
March 3, 1635-36: was licensed March 3. 1635- 
36. to keep the ferry at Weymouth during the 
lileasure of the general court, and was author- 
ized March 12. 1635-37. "to take two pence a 



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443 



peece for transportation of people" across it; 
was licensed June 6, 1637, to keep a house of 
entertainment at Weymouth ; was a grand juror 
in 1637, deputy from 1638 to 1652, and com- 
mittee to lay out highways in 1649. His wife, 
Joanna, died April 11, 1659, aged sixty-three 
years. His will is dated May 24, 1667. The 
exact date of his death is not known, but his 
will was admitted to probate July 31, 1667, 
two months after it was executed, and he prob- 
ably died in July, 1667. The will says he was 
aged seventy-four years, or thereabouts. Chil- 
dren of Henry and Joanna Kingman : Edward, 
born 1619; Joanna, 1624; Anne, 1626; Thomas, 
\f>28: John, of whom further; Henry, died at 
Wej'mouth, Massachusetts, 1660; Bridget, mar- 
ried, December 13, 1649, Tobias Davis, of 
Roxbury, Massachusetts. The five first named 
were born in England, the others in Weymouth. 
Massachusetts. 

(H) John, son of Henry and Joanna King- 
man, was born in England, in 1633. He is 
mentioned in his father's will, May 24, 1667. He 
was a freeman in 1666. He removed from Wey- 
mouth to Bridgewater. Massachusetts, about 
1685, and settled on a farm which was after- 
ward occupied by Caleb Kingman, where he 

died in 1690. He married Elizabeth . 

Children, all born at Weymouth, Massachu- 
setts: John. April 30, 1664; Henry, May 11, 
1668 ; Samuel, of whom further ; Elizabeth, July 
9, 1673, married Thomas Mitchell; Deliver- 
ance. Alarch 12. 1676, married Jacob Mitch- 
ell; Susanna, March, 1678, died soon after- 
ward ; Susanna, April 12, 1679, married Chil- 
ton Latham. 

(HI) Samuel, son of John and Elizabeth 
King:nan, was born at Weymouth, Massachu- 
setts, May 28, 1670. He married, at Bridge- 
water, Massachusetts, January i, i6g6, Mary, 
daughter of Jacob Mitchell. His will of 1740 
was proved in 1742, naming a widow, Hannah, 
probably a second wife, and perhaps she was 
married ( second ) , in 1 75 1 , to John Wade. Chil- 
dren of Samuel Kingman, all born at Bridge- 
water, Massachusetts: Susanna, 1697, married 
Solomon Packard: John, 1699; Joanna, 1701, 
married Akerman Pettingill ; Jane, 1704, mar- 
ried Isaac Kinginan ; Mary, 1706, married Ben- 
jamin Vickery : Samuel, of whom further. 

(IV) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (i) King- 
man, was born at Bridgewater, Massachusetts, 
May 13, 1710. He married, February 3, 1737, 
Phoebe Washburn, of Kingston, Massachusetts. 



He removed to Canaan, Connecticut, some time 
after 1742. Children, first three born at Bridge- 
water: Eunice, December 29, 1737; Hannah. 
October 22. 1740, married Charles Richardson ; 
Ititebe, August 5, 1742; Mitchell, of whom 
further : Samuel, born perhaps at Salem, Massa- 
chusetts, died at Stonington, Connecticut; Jo- 
seph, born 1753, at Canaan, Connecticut. 

(V) Mitchell, son of Samuel (2) and Plioebe 
(Washburn) Kingman, was born in 1744. His 
birthplace is supposed to liave been Canaan, 
Connecticut. In the Connecticut Historical 
Society Collections, vol. 8, Revolutionary Rolls, 
it is stated that Mitchell Kingman enlisted at 
Wethersfield in Colonel Chester's Sixth Regi- 
ment, Captain Wells' company, in the revolu- 
tionary war. He then lived at W'ethcrsfield. 
In 1781 he lived at Sheffield, Massachusetts, 
and in 1783 at Rutland, \'ermont. In the 
United States census of 1790 his name appears 
as a resident of Sheffield, with his wife, four 
sons, and one daughter. He lived at Addi- 
son, \'ennont, as late as November, 1812, in 
which year he removed to Cincinnatus, Cort- 
land county. New- York, where he died October 
22, 1 8 19, aged seventy-five years, and where 
his wife died .'\pril 18, 1835, aged eighty-five 
years six months. He married, at Killing- 
worth, Connecticut, in 1770. Keturah, daugh- 
ter of John and Anna (Grimes) Latimer, of 
Wethersfield, Connecticut. She was born at 
Wethersfield, November 22, 174S. Children: 
1. John, of further mention. 2. Hannah, born 
1772, at Wethersfield, Connecticut; married 
Luther Ferre ; died November 24, 1832. 3. 
Phcebe, married (first) Carpenter, (sec- 
ond) Gamaliel Case. 4. Mitchell, born at 
Wethersfield, Coimecticut, died September 6. 
1863. 3. Huldah, born at Sheffield, Massachu- 
setts, ^iarch 13, 1781, died in 1819. 6. George 
Washburn, born at Rutlanrl. Vermont, Septem- 
ber 12, 178"?, died in 1867, aged eighty-four 
years. 7. Justus. 8. Polly, married Amos 
Pangburn. 9. Harriet, born 1795, married 
.\aron Root. 

(YD Colonel John Kineman.. son of Mitchell 
and Keturah (Latimer) Kingman, was born at 
Wethersfiela. Connecticut, October 5, 1770. 
He lived at Lenox until 1798, when with his 
wife and two sons he removed to Cincinnatus. 
Cortland county. New York, driving through 
the woods with a horse and cutter, and settled 
on a piece of fifteen acres of land in the woods. 
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obtained one hundred and fifty acres. He built 
the first store and schoolhouse, and kept the 
first inn at Cincinnatus. In a military capacity he 
was at first a second corporal; in 1804 he was 
captain in Lieutenant-Colonel James Knapp's 
Onondaga county regiment of infantry ; in 1808 
he was major commandant of a battalion set 
off from the regiment of militia commanded by 
Lieutenant-Colonel Knapp; April 13, 1812, he 
was assigned to the colonelcy of the One Hun- 
dred and Twenty-fourth Regiment, Thirty- 
sixth Brigade of Infantry, which he organized. 
He resigned his commission in 1814. Colonel 
Kingman held various town offices, and was 
supervisor of the town of Cincinnatus for 
eleven successive years from 1808 to 1819, 
inclusive. He died January 30, 1859. He 
married, at Lenox. Alassachusetts, February 
12, 1795, Miriam, born at Lenox, August 9, 
1772, died at Cincinnatus, December 8, 1854. 
daughter of Oliver and Sarah (Wilson) Isbell. 
Children, the first two born at Lenox, the 
others at Cincinnatus: i. C)liver, born Novem- 
ber 10, 1795. 2. John, October 13, 1797. 3. 
Charles. March 6. 1800. 4. Lyman, May 4, 
1802. 5. George Isbell, September 5, 1804, 
<lied December 23. 1863. 6. LeRoy Wilson, 
of w^hom further. 7. Harriet, June 24, 1810, 
died April 8. 1841. 8. Alonzo, April 27, 181 2, 
died December 2, 1832. 9. Betsy, December 
12, 1815, married Dr. Franklin Thompson May- 
bury; she died March 6, 1887. 

(VII) LeRoy Wilson, son of Colonel John 
and Miriam (Isbell) Kingman, was born at 
Cincinnatus, New York, August 9, 1808. He 
was a merchant at Speedsville, New York, 
where he was a justice of the peace, and post- 
master from February 5, 1835, to December 
21, 1848. He lived there until 1849, when he 
removed with his family to Owego, New York, 
where he died March 2, 1861. He was clerk 
of Tioga county two terms from 1853 to 1859. 
He was elected a vestryman of St. Paul's Epis- 
copal Church in 1844 and served until his 
death. He married, May 8, 1837, Maria, born 
in Spencer. Massachusetts, June 14, 1813, died 
in Owego. March 26, 1901, daughter of Colo- 
nel William and Sally (Loring) Livermore, of 
Spencer, Massachusetts. Children: i. LeRoy 
Wilson, of whom further. 2. William Liver- 
more, born at Speedsville, New York, Febru- 
ary I, 1842. 3. Stella Maria, born at Speeds- 
ville, New York. May 16, 1845, married Henry 
Campbell. 4. Emily Loring, born at Owego. 
New York. July 24, 1855. 5. Helen Elizabeth, 



born at Owego, New York, November 13, 
i860, married Charles Kirk Eastwood. 

(\^III) LeRoy Wilson (2), son of LeRoy 
Wilson (i) and Maria (Livermore) Kingman, 
was born Alarch 15, 1840, at Speedsville, New 
York, and removed with his parents to Owego, 
New York, in 1849. He afterward lived in 
New York City, where he held a clerkship in 
the United States Express Company's office 
at 82 Broadway. In 1870 he became associate 
editor and proprietor of the Owego Gazette, 
and in 1880 sole proprietor. In 1901 the 
Owego Gazette Company was formed, of which 
he was chosen president, and he has since con- 
tinued as editor of the paper and business 
manager of the company. He married, De- 
cember 22, 1867, Clara Eugenia, born in New 
York, November 21, 1845, died in Owego, No- 
vember 30, 1885, daughter of Carl A. and 
Clara (Ordronaux) Molau. Children: i. Will- 
iam Livermore (2), born in Eighty-fifth street. 
New York City, November 7, 1868. 2. Charles 
Molau. born at 221 East One Hundred and 
Twelfth street, New York City, May 24, 1870; 
married, September 9, 1899, Cornelia May, 
daughter of William H. and Hannah Rector, 
of Owego ; she was born at McClure Settle- 
ment, Broome county, New York, May 25, 
1875; children: Charles Molau Jr.. born at 
Owego, October i, 1900, and Paul LeRoy, born 
at Oneida, New York, December 6, 1903 ; they 
live at Oneida. 3. John Ordronaux, born at 
Owego, May 9, 1873, died December 12, 1873. 
4. LeRoy, bom at Owego, May i. 1874. 5. 
Henry Ernst, born at Owego, August 31, 1875; 
married, June 19, 1906, Louise Delphine, daugh- 
ter of Dr. Charles L. and Alarietta (Archi- 
bald) Stiles, of Owego. 6. Oliver, born at 
Owego, February 10, 1877; educated at Owego 
Academy, from which he was graduated in 
1899; Hobart College, graduating in 1902; and 
the General Theological Seminary in New 
York City, from which he was graduated in 
1908 ; he was ordained deacon at Trinity Epis- 
copal Church, Elmira. New York, June 14, 
iC)o8, and to the priesthood at Grace Church, 
L'tica, New York, December 22. 1908; is now 
(1911) rector of St. Paul's Church, Holland 
Patent, New York. 7. Wyatt, born at Owego, 
July 21, 1880; graduated from Hobart Col- 
lege, 1904; now (1911) conducting an assay- 
ing office and chemical laboratory at V^aldez, 
Alaska. 8. Miriam, born at Owego, January 
6. 1882. 9. Maria, born at Owego. April 5, 
1883. died August 20. 1883. 



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The San ford family of Eng- 

SANP"ORD land and America is descend- 
ed from Thomas de Sanford, 
a Norman follower of William the Conqueror. 
His name appears in the Battle Abbey Roll. 
Fie held the manors of Sanford and Rothal, 
and the former manor is still in possession of 
descendants. Coat-of-arms: Quarterly first and 
fourth per chevron sable and ermine in chief 
two boars' heads couped close or, second and 
third quarterly per fesse indented azure and 
ermine. Crest : .A falcon with wings endorsed 
preying on a partridge proper. Motto: Xcc 
temcre ncc tiniide. 

(I) Thomas Sanford, the immigrant ances- 
tor, was probably the son of Anthony and Joan 
Sanford, of Stratford, and grandson of Rauf 
of Stow, Gloucestershire, England. He was 
born in England, about 1610, and died in Octo- 
ber, 1681. He came to Boston, Massachusetts, 
in 1631, and was in Dorchester in 1634, and in 
Milford in 1639. He married (second) Sarah 

, who died in 1681. He left an estate 

of £450. Children : Ezekiel, born 1635 ; Sarah, 
1637: Mary, January 16, 1641 ; Samuel, April 
30, 1(143; Thomas, December, 1644: Ephraim, 
mentioned below: Elizabeth, August 27, 1648. 

(H) Ephraim, son of Thomas Sanford.'was 
born May 17, 1646, and settled at Milford. 
Connecticut, where he died. He was a witness 
to the will of Benjamin Fenn, of Dorchester 
and Milford, in 1672. He married, in 1669. 
at New Haven, Mary Powell, daughter of 
Thomas. His estate was divided by the court 
November 16, 1692, among the widow and 
children. Children : Samuel, mentioned below : 
Ephraim, Thomas, Nathaniel and Zachariah. 

(HI) Samuel, son of Ephraim Sanford, was 
born at Milford, May 9, 1674, and died there 
in 1749. He married, November, 1695, Han- 
nah Baldwin, born July 11, 1674, died January 
14, 1726; (second) Esther, widow of Deacon 
Nathaniel Parmelee, of Killingsworth, Con- 
necticut. His first wife was admitted to the 
church May 19, 1697, and he was admitted 
May 15, 1698. His will, dated October 21, 
1742, proved August 5, 1749, bequeathed to 
wife and children. Chifdren, by first marriage: 
Hannah, born June 25, 1696 : Samuel, May 29, 
1698: Joseph, mentioned below: Mary, born 
July 5, 1702 : Jonathan, July 13, 1704; Stephen. 
November 20, 1706; David, May 2, 1708, died 
1708; David, September 8, 1709: Esther, No- 
vember 9, 171 1 : Abigail, October 14, 1714: 
Elizabeth, December 13, 1716. 



(IV) Joseph, son of Samuel Sanford, was 
born about 1710. He settled in Litchfield. 
Connecticut, and married Mary, daughter of 
Joseph Clark; she was born ^larch, 1704, at 
Milford, and died September 9, 1766. He was 
a member of the colonial legislature several 
times, and captain of the militia. He had his 
home on Prospect Hill. It is said that he start- 
ed the first dry goods store in Litchfield. Chil- 
dren : Hannah, born July 23, 1729 ; Sarah, July 
28, 1 73 1, died July 30, 1731 ; Oliver, born Au- 
gust 22, 1732; Jonah, August i, 1735; Mary, 
October 4, 1739; Joseph, mentioned below. 

(V) Captain Joseph (2) Sanford, son of 
Joseph (i) Sanford, was born in Milford, July 
28, 1745, and died December 13, 1813, at South 
Farms. Connecticut (now Morris). He mar- 
ried. March 7, 1769, Mehitable Young, of Long 
Island, who died at South Farms. March n. 
1835. He was a farmer. He served in the 
revolution ; he was lieutenant of Third com- 
pany, trainband, of Norwich, Connecticut, June 
10, 1761, in the Third regiment of the colony: 
on May 9 and June 3, 1765, he was (|uarter- 
inastcr of the second troop of horse, and was 
made lieutenant by the assembly. On June 8. 
1778. he was captain of the Eleventh company, 
trainband, in the Thirteenth regiment of the 
state. He was in service also at Peekskill with 
the main army in New York. Children, born 
in Litchfield: Stephen, January 12, 1770, died 
April 22. 1772; j\Iehitable, March 6, 1771. died 
April 15, 1772; Joseph, born March- 15, 1773; 
Olive, November 3, 1774: Stephen, September 
6, 1776: Edmund, mentioned below; Ozias. 
August 24, 1784; Clarissa, January 19, 1786. 

(\'I) Edmund, son of Captain Joseph {2) > 
Sanford, was born in Litchfield, October 25. 
1781, and died at Sherburne. New York, Janu- 
ary 9, i860. He married (first), June 7, 1804. 
Sarah Lynde ; (second). 1844, Betsey Sheldon. 
They settled first in Herkimer, and later in 
Sherburne, New York. Children, by first wife: 
Caroline Amelia, born March 22, 1805; Charles 
Watson. November 17, 1806; Edmund Jr.. 
January i, 1809; Sarah Eliza, February 17. 
1810: Horatio Wolcott, January 21, 1813; Sid- 
ney Dwight, mentioned below. 

(VII) Sidney Dwight, son of Edmund San- 
ford, was born Februar}' 16, 1819, at Sher- 
burne, and died there April 15. 1906. He was 
a farmer. He was a capitalist, being a director 
of the Sherburne National Bank. In politics 
he was a Republican. He was a well known 
and wealthy citizen of Sherburne. He mar- 



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ried, September 12, 1843, Margaret Jones, born 
in Schenectady, New York, March 25, 1822, 
died at Sherburne, February 2, 191 1, daughter 
of David and Margaret ( De Graff) Jones. 
Children : Charles Horatio, mentioned below ; 
Caroline Eliza, born February 28, 1858, mar- 
ried, June 9, 1887, Dr. Orrin Augustus Gorton, 
who is a retired physician at Sherburne, and 
their children are: Caroline Sanford, born June 
5. 1888, and Charles Warren, July 6, 1891. 

(\'III) Charles Horatio, son of Sidney 
Dwight Sanford, was born in Sherburne, New 
York, June 10, 1844, and died January 3, 1884, 
as the result of an accident. He was changing 
cars at Earlville for Syracuse, and in some 
way slipped from the station platform between 
the cars, receiving a severe cut on his forehead, 
and having his hand and arm run over by two 
coaches. The shock of it proved too severe 
and resulted in his death. 

Cliarles H. Sanford received a public school 
education. He then worked as clerk for the 
Sherburne National Bank, and after a trip to 
Europe entered the hardware business with 
Walter F. Blanchard, as Sanford & Blanchard. 
Later J. P. \\^ilbur succeeded Mr. Blanchard, 
and the firm name became Sanford & Wilbur, 
."^.fter some time Mr. Sanford had the whole 
business, and under his good management a 
fine store has been built up, and he became one 
lif the foremost men of the place. He was 
chosen town auditor. Through his influence 
a high standard has been kept up in the fire 
department, as he saw the need of good service 
in this particular. In religion he was an Epis- 
co])alian. He married, September 11, 1867. 
•Marion A. Blanchard, born in Hamilton, New 
York, August 18, 1844, died in Sherburne, De- 
cember 14. 1908. daughter of Walter Frank- 
lin and .'\manda (Williams) Blanchard. Wal- 
ter F. Blanchard was born at Stockbridge, 
Massachusetts, and was a manufacturer of 
sashes and blinds: although he was unfortunate 
in having two factories burned down, he was 
successful in his business, and was one of the 
well-to-do men of the town. Child of Charles 
II. Sanford: Walter S., mentioned below. 

(IX) \\'alter Sidney, son of Charles H. 
Sanford, was born in .Sherburne, Chenango 
county. New York, November i, 1877. He 
attended the iniblic schools of his native town 
and tlie Hotchkiss School at Lakeville, Litch- 
field county, Connecticut. He entered Yale 
College, from which he was graduated with 
the degree of bachelor of arts in the class of 



1900. He has been in the banking business 
practically all the time since he graduated, and 
has been cashier of the Sherburne National 
Bank since 1905, and he is also a director. He 
has taken an active and responsible part in 
public aiTairs, and served as trustee of the 
incorporated village of Sherburne for two 
years and also as president. He is a communi- 
cant of Christ's Protestant Episcopal Church, 
of which he is one of the wardens and trustees. 
He is a member of the Zeta Psi college frater- 
nity. In politics he is a Republican. 

He married, July 21, 1908, Grace Gladding, 
of Norwich, New York, born May 8, 1882, 
daughter of Judge Albert F. and Grace (Van 
Etten) Gladding. They have no children. 



There were three immigrants of 
BE.\CH the name of Beach under Colony 
Records of 1639 among the set- 
tlers of the New Haven colony — Richard, John 
and Thomas — and the evidence that they were 
brothers appears conclusive. Richard Beach 
came from London in 1635 in the ship "Eliza- 
beth and Ann," Captain Robert Cooper, and 
settled as early as 1639 in New Haven; he 
owned a house and lot there, February 7, 1643, 
and in 1645 married the widow of .Andrew 
Hull. Thomas Beach, proven by the records 
of New Haven to have been a brother of Rich- 
ard, was in New Haven before March 7, 1647, 
when he took the oath of fidelity. He removed 
to Mil ford and is said to have lived for a time 
in Wallingford, but returned to Milford be- 
fore his death in 1662. He was the ancestor 
of the Hartford Beaches. 

(I) John Beach is first on record in New 
Haven colony in 1643, when he is fined "two 
shillings for twice late coming," and another 
two shillings for "defect gini." Richard Beach 
ajjpears earlier in 1643. John Beach became 
a householder in 1647. The last entry concern- 
ing him in the New Haven colony is "John 
Beach came to -Stratford and bought his first 
land May 21, 1660. of Ensign Bryan of Mil- 
ford, one house lot, two acres ; he had then a 
wife and two children." In January, 167 1. he 
was made an auctioneer by the following vote : 
"John Beach was chosen crier for the town, 
and to be allowed four pence for everything 
he cries, that is to say for all sort of cattle and 
all other things of smaller value, two years." 
He was a large landowner in Wallingford, 
Connecticut, also. He married, in 1650, Mary 
. Children: I. Elizabeth, born March 



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a, 1652; niarrietl Elisaph, sun of William Pres- 
ton, one of the first settlers of New Haven. 2. 
John, April, 1654; married Hannah Staple. 3. 
Mary, 1656. 4. Thomas, May, 1659; married 
(first) Ruth Peck, (second) Phebe Wilcoxson. 
5. Nathaniel, of further mention. 6. Hannah, 
December, 1665; married (first) Zachariah 
Fairchild, (second) John Burit. 7. Sarah, No- 
vember. 1667. 8. Isaac, June 29, 1669; mar- 
ried Hannah Birdsey. born February, 1671. 9. 
Joseiih, February 5, 1671 ; marrieilAbia Booth, 
ro. Benjamin, March, 1674; married Mary 
Hitchcock. 

(H) Nathaniel, third son of John and Mary 
Beach, was born March, 1662, in Stratford, 
where he died in 1747. He married, in 1686, 
.Sarah, daughter of Nathaniel and Sarah 
( Ciroves ) Porter ; she died in 1734. Children: 
1. Ephraim, born May 25, 1687 ; married, 1712, 
Sarah Patterson. 2. Elizabeth. November 14. 
1689. 3. David. May 15. 1692: married, 1717, 
Hannah, daughter of Matthew Sherman, and 
granddaughter of Samuel Sherman. 4. Josiah. 
August 16, 1694; married (first) Patience 
Nichols, 1721 ; (second) .\bigail Wheeler, 1750. 
5. Nathaniel, December 28, 1696. 6. Sarah, 
November 12, 1699; married, 1726, John Beach 
(her cousin). 7. Daniel, January 15, 1700; 
married Hester, daugliter of Benjamin Curtiss. 
8. Anna, March. 1704; married, 1728. Elnathan 
Beers. 9. Israel, mentioned below. 10. James, 
August 13, 1709; married Sarah Curtis, born 
September 2, 17 10. 

(HI) Israel, sixth son of Nathaniel and 
Sarah (Porter) I'each, was born May 3, 1707, 
in Stratford, where he died in 1793. and was 
buried in Stratford old burial place. He set- 
tled on what is known as the Bear Swamp 
farm, where he built a house in 1735, which 
was in an excellent state of preservation twen- 
ty-five years ago. He cleared up this farm and 
establisheil a good home. In 1758-59 he was 
a soldier in the F^rench war, and marched to 
Canada and back. The powder horn which he 
carried is still preserved by a descendant in 
Chicago. By trade he was a carpenter. His 
descendants settled near him and are still in 
possession of the property. He married, July 
I, 1 73 1, Hannah Burritt, born December 3, 
171 1, daughter of Joseph and Mary ( Wakeley) 
Burritt. Children : Phebe, Nathaniel, Mary. 
Israel, Hannah, Eben and Charity. 

(IV) Nathaniel (2), eldest son of Israel 
and Hannah (Burritt) Beach, was bom July 
30, 1735, in Stratford, where lie was killed by 



the overturning of a load of wood. I'"ebruary 
2J, 1818, in his eighty-third year. He was a 
carpenter, and resided on Bear Swamj) farm. 
He married, March 22, 1758, Patience Peet, 
born in Septeiuber, 1735, daughter of Davi(i 
and Mary (Titharton) Peet. His first child, 
name unrecorded, was baptized in 1759. Two 
others were: .\biah, born September, 1760; 
Nathaniel, died young; Phebe, baptized No- 
vember I, 1765: Nathan, mentioned below; 
Nathaniel. October 21, 1772. 

I \' ) Nathan, second son of Nathaniel (2) 
and Patience (Peet) Beach, was born about 
1770, and settled at Easton, in the town of 
F"airfield, Connecticut. In 1816 he removed to 
Liberty, Sullivan county. New York, where 
both he and his wife died. Children: Isaac, 
Nathan, Mary, luarried .\braham Hunt, and 
two other daughters, one of whom married a 
Lawrence and the other a Messiter. 

( \T ) Nathan (2), son of Nathan ( i) Beach, 
was born A])ril 17, 1800, in Easton, and died 
January ft. 1888, in Owego, New York. He 
was sixteen years of age when he removed 
with his parents to Liberty, and there grew to 
manhood. About 1837 he went to I'nadilla, 
Otsego county. New York, and in the spring 
of 1838 settled in the town of Owego, Tioga 
county. New York, where he engaged in farm- 
ing. He was a very religious man, an earnest 
stu''ent of the Bible, and wrote on the flyleaf 
of his P.ible the number of books, chapters, 
words and letters therein. He married (first), 
at Liberty, .\nna Floover, born there Septem- 
ber 12, 1804, died in Owego, March i, 1861 ; 
(second) Olive Ingersoll, who died .September 
12, 1900. Children, all born of the first wife, 
the first three in Liberty : William A., men- 
tioned below; Isaac N., born June 12. 1828. 
supposed lost at sea; Minerva J., September 
15, 18^1, married Henry Kinp, of Owego, and 
died September I, 1853; Eli G., December i, 
1838. in Owego, now living in that town. 

"(\ II) William A., eldest child of Nathan 
(2) and Anna (Hoover) P.each, was boni 
October 30, 1823, in Liberty, and died May 10. 
1892, in Owego. His education was supplied 
by the public schools of Liberty, I'nadilla and 
Owego, and he became a millwright and sta- 
tionarv engineer. For a time he resided in 
Alleghenv county. Pennsylvania, and subse- 
quently in the west, where he operated engines 
in sawmills. Settling in the town of Owego, 
he engaged in farming there until his death. 
He married, in 1853, Helen Frances Griffin. 



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born December 26, , died January ri, 1905, 

born in Cambridge, Washington county, New- 
York, daughter of Alfred and Cynthia (Ris- 
ing) Griffin. They were the parents of two 
children : Arthur Nathan Alfred and Otis Seth ; 
the elder, born November 13, 1858, is a tele- 
graph operator, employed by the Erie railroad 
at Hornell, New York. He married Iretta 
Van Buren. 

(\'III) Otis Seth, younger son of William 
A. and Helen F. (Griffin) Beach, was born 
February 24, i860, in Owego, and completed 
his education at the Owego high school. At 
the age of eighteen years he became a clerk in 
a drug store at Owego, of which he subse- 
(juently became and is now owner. In 1882, in 
company with Alburn W. Parmelee, he pur- 
chased the business, and this was conducted 
under the firm name of Beach & Parmelee 
until 1895. '^^ this time Mr. Beach purchased 
the interest of his partner, and since then has 
conducted the business alone. He is a member 
of the Business Men's Association, and the fire 
department of Owego, of which he has been 
chief engineer. He is active in various fra- 
ternal bodies, having attained the thirty-second 
degree in Free Masonry, a member of Friend- 
ship Lodge, No. 153. Owego (past master) ; 
New Jerusalem Chai)ter, No. 47, Royal Arch 
Masons (past high priest) ; Malta Command- 
ery. Knights Templar, Binghamton (past com- 
mander) ; and is a member of Kalurah Temple, 
.Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic 
Shrine, of Binghamton. He is also a member 
of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 
Improved Order of Red Men, and Benevolent 
and Protective Order of Elks. In politics he 
is a steadfast Democrat; he served as a trustee 
of the village in 1886, and was elected super- 
visor in 1890, and again in 1907 and 1909. In 
1910 he was elected to represent his district 
in the state assembly, and served on three com- 
mittees — those of printing, insurance, taxation 
and retrenchment. 

Mr. Beach married, October 26, 1892, Lena 
M. Writer, of Owego, daughter of Gabriel M. 
and Hannah (Cable) Writer. They have two 
children: Harold Franklin, bom September 15, 
1894, and Jeannette Helen, September 14, 1896. 



John Ball, the immigrant ancestor, 
B.ALL was born in England, and came to 

this country from Wiltshire before 
1650. He was admitted a freeman at Watertown, 
May 22, 1650, and was buried at Concord, 



Massachusetts, November i, 1655. He lived 
in that part of Concord now the town of Bed- 
ford. He married Joanna . Children : 

I. Nathaniel, settled in Concord; had sons 
Ebenezer, Eleazer, John and Nathaniel ; many 
of his descendants live in Worcester county, 
Massachusetts. 2. John, mentioned below. 3. 
Abigail, born at Watertown, May 26, 1656. 

(II) John (2), son of John (i) Ball, was 
born in England, about 1620; married (first) 
Elizabeth Peirce (or Pers), daughter of John 
Peirce, of \\'atertown, one of the founders of 
the town. The wife was insane in 1660, and 
soon afterward died. He married (second), 
October 3, 1665, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas 
Fox, of Concord and Watertown. Ball was a 
tailor by trade and also a farmer. He sold his 
farm at \\'atertown, originally purchased from 
John Lawrence, and went to Lancaster, where 
during King Philip's war, September 10, 1675, 
he and his wife and infant son were among 
the victims of the Indian massacre. His son 
John was administrator of the estate. Children 
by first wife: John, mentioned below; Mary, 
mentioned in will of her Grandmother Peirce ; 
Esther : Sarah, born 1655 ; Abigail, born April 
20, 1658, died young. Child of second wife: 
loseph, born ^Iarch 12, 1669-70. 

(III) John (3), son of John (2) Ball, wa^ 
born at Watertown, in 1644, and died there 
May 9, 1722. He was a farmer in Watertown. 
He married there, October 17, 1665, Sarah 
Bullard. Children, born at Watertown : Sarah, 
July II. 1666: John, June 29, 1668: James. 
March 7, 1670: Joseph, May 4, 1674; Benja- 
min, mentioned below ; Jonathan. March 29. 
1680; Daniel, .August 2. 1683; .Abigail, October 
5, 1686. 

( I\") Benjamin, son of John (3) Ball, was 
born in Watertown, about 1678, and settled 
about 1703 in Framingham, Massachusetts. He 
leased in 1703 forty- four acres of land on the 
north side of Stone Brook, Framingham, near 
Colonel Buckminster's place, and took the deed 
of his farm January 21, 1734. He built his 
house on the south side of the brook, near 
Bullard's bridge, and March 7, 1751, sold the 
place to Allen Flagg, of Worcester. Children : 
Benjamin, born December 17, 1704; John, 
mentioned below ; Abraham, born December 
29, 1707, married, January 13, 1732, Martha 
Bridges, and lived in Holliston ; Isaac, mar- 
ried, 1738, Rachel How, of Marlboro, and 
settled in Brookfield, Massachusetts ; Jacob, 
born May 28, 1712, married Deborah Belknap. 



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daughter of Jedediah, resided in Brookfield ; 
Thomas, born August i6, 17 14, married, Feb- 
ruary 17, 1739, Hannah Wright, daughter of 
Edward Jr.; JMary, born February 11, 1717, 
married Simon Mellen Jr. ; Daniel, born De- 
cember 29, 1722. 

(V) John (4), son of Benjamin Ball, was 
born in \^'atertown, July 16, 1706. He mar- 
ried Margaret Heminway, of Hopkinton, and 
Lydia Perry. 

(VI) Josiah, son of John (4) and Lydia 
( Perry) Ball, was born at Watertown, Decem- 
ber 16, 1742, and died at Berkshire, New York, 
July 26, 1 810. He came from Alassachusetts 
to Berkshire in June, 1794, and was among the 
early settlers of the town. He was a shoe- 
maker by trade. He had an extra log house 
which he kept for the accommodation of pio- 
neers while they were building their cabins, 
and at other times it was used as a school- 
house and for a shoe shop. He was a soldier 
in the revolution, from Stockbridge, IMassachu- 
setts, in Captain David Pixley's company. Colo- 
nel John Brown's regiment, June 20 to July 
26, 1777, in the northern department. He mar- 
ried, February 26, 1768, Esther Ward, born in 
^\'orcester, March 7, 1750, died March 9, 1836, 
daughter of Major David and Mary (Coggin) 
Ward. Children : William, died aged two 
years; Daniel, born December 27, 1769; Wil- 
liam, October 18, 1771 ; Stephen, mentioned 
below; Clarissa, November 14, 1775, married 
Isaac Brown; Samuel, November 13, 1777; 
Henry, November 21, 1779; Josiah, January 

28, 1782; Isaac, December 27, 1783; Electa, 
June 9, 1788, died September 6, 1869; Charles, 
September 4, 1790, died January 4, 1814; Cyn- 
thia, April 24, 1793, married Luke Bates Win- 
ship; Mary, July, 1801, died January 12, 1803. 

(VII) Stephen, son of Josiah Ball, was 
born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, January 

29. 1774, and died in Berkshire, New York, 
February 19, 1857. He was one of the first 
settlers in Berkshire, coming thither in 1793 
He settled on lot No. 336, on which he him- 
self cut the first tree, made a clearing and built 
a log house. He went back to Stockbridge and 
the following year returned bringing a cow. 
In June his parents followed him. He spent 
the rest of his life in Berkshire, following 
farming. His name is associated with many 
of the most important events of the early his- 
tory of the town. He erected the hotel which 
stood for more than three-quarters of a cen- 
tury in the village, and also the house opposite 



the hotel. He married, in 1801, Polly Leonard, 
died October 3, 1850, a daughter of Captain 
Asa and Olive (Cliurchill) Leonard. Chil- 
dren: I. Olive Leonard, born November 2, 
1 801 ; married Robert Akins. 2. Mary, born 
May 12, 1803, died March 21, 1815. 3. Har- 
riet, born July 19, 1805; married Aaron P. 
Belcher. 4. Eliza Ann, born October 7, 1807 ; 
married Charles Brown. 5. Richard Leon- 
ard, born June 9, 1809, died May 21, 1848. 6. 
James Ward, born May 24, 181 1; married 
Sylpha Watson ; settled in Ottawa, Illinois. 7. 
Caroline, born May 14, 1813; married Car- 
lisle M. Johnson. 8. Levi, born March 26, 
1815; married Betsey Ann Royce. 9. Anson, 
born .March 19, 1817, died April 27, 1884; 
married Caroline Moore. 10. Asa, born April 
26, 1819; married Esther Maria Manning. 11. 
Mary Sophia, born February 2, 1821 ; married 
Dr. Edward H. Eldridge. 12. Robert Henry, 
mentioned below. 13. Frances Calista, born 
January 2, 1825, died October 21, 1853: mar- 
ried George Clark Royce. 

(\'III) Robert Henry, son of Stephen Ball, 
was born February 25, 1823, in Berkshire, 
New York, and died June 7, 1900. He attend- 
ed the public schools. He followed farming on 
the homestead cleared by his father and grand- 
father, and lived there all his life. He was for 
some years town clerk of Berkshire. He was 
a member of the Congregational church. He 
married Henrietta Maria Conklin, born in 
Erie county. New York, February 24, 1827. 
died in Berkshire, January 30, 1901, daughter 
of William C. and Henrietta M. (Patterson) 
Conklin. Children: i. Polly, born October 
2, 1852, died March 26, 1882; married Dem- 
ing A. Payne, of Ithaca, New York; chil- 
dren : Luther C. and Robert Henry Payne, now 
living in Liberty, New York. 2. George Pat- 
terson, mentioned below. 3. Francis C, born 
July 31, 1857, died July 18, i860. 4. Anna 
Waldo, born September 19, 1859, died Feb- 
ruary 14, 1875. 5- Robert Henry Jr., born 
May 31. 1862, died October 17, 1886. 6. Cor- 
nelia Babcock, born December 14, 1870; mar- 
ried Irving C. Robbins, of East Bloomfield, 
Ontario county. New York ; children : George 
Ball. Robert Henry and Glenn Edward. 

(IX) George Patterson, son of Robert 
Henry Ball, was born April i, 1855, ^t Berk- 
shire, New York. He received his early edu- 
cation in the public schools of his native town. 
He began his business career as a buyer for 
E. B. Waldo, a produce merchant of Berk- 



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sliire. and continued for ten years. He suc- 
ceeded to the homestead, and has been farm- 
ing there since he was a young man, and has 
ahvays hved in the house where he was born. 
For twelve years he was justice of the peace 
and member of the town board, and lie has 
held the office of tax collector. Since 1898 
lie has been postmaster of Berkshire. For 
five \ears he was president of the board of 
education. He is a Republican, and has been 
active in politics, serving several years as a 
member of the Republican county committee 
from Berkshire. In religion he is a Congrega- 
tionalist and a trustee of the Congregational 
Society. He married, October 3, 1877, Jane 
C. Leonard, born in Berkshire, daughter of 
Joseph \\'aldo and Mary Ann ( Canfield ) 
Leonard. Children: i. Anna May. 2. Edith 
Leonard, married Bert L. Gray, of Deposit, 
New York ; children : Eleanor, George Luther 
and Frederick. 3. Elizabeth Waldo, married 
Dr. William J. Tiffany, second assistant phy- 
sician at Binghamton State Hospital : one 
child, Marjorie. 4. Ruth, married Joseph .\. 
['>arr, of Berkshire : children : William and 
Richard. 5. Louis Robert. 6. Waldo Leon- 
ard. 7. Lucv lirewster. 



William Witter, the immigrant 
WITTER ancestor, was born in England, 

in 1584, and died in 1659. He 
came from England in the .ship "Mary and 
John," in 1639, and settled at Lynn, Massa- 
chusetts. He was called into court May 2. 
1646, "for antagonizing infant liaptisni." He 
had a case in court with an Indian known as 
Duke William, who claimed his land. His 
will, dated .August 5, 1652. inventory Novem- 
ber 15, 1659, proved June 24, 1661, bequeathed" 
to wife Annis, son Josiah and daughter Han- 
nah, wife of Robert Biu-deu, or Burdick. Ik- 
owned much land at what is now Xahant. 
Children: Josiah and Hannah. 

(II) Josiah, son of William Witter, died 
before 1690. He settled at Stonington, Con- 
necticut, soon after his marriage, lie bought 
large tracts of land at Stonington, and Ijuilt a 
house near Thomas Wheeler's, where all his 
children were born. His house was at what 
is now- .Vorth Stonington, near the place lately 
owned by James T. Brown. He married 
(first), February 25. 1662. Elizabeth, daugh- 
ter of Thomas and Mary Wheeler: she died 
.'\ugust 5, 1672, and he married (second) 
Sarah, daughter of Elder John Crandall ; she 



married (second) Peter Button, and had chil- 
dren : Peter, Mary, Mathew and Eliphal But- 
ton. John and Ebenezer relinquished their 
right in their father's estate in 1689. Children 
of first wife: Elizabeth, born ]\larch 15, 1663; 
Mary, February 20, 1665 ; Ebenezer, March 
2, 1668. Children of second wife: John, men- 
tioned below; Sarah, February 9, 1679; Han- 
nah, March i, 1671. 

( HI ) John, son of Josiah Witter, was born 
March 11. 1677. He married (first) Sarah, 
daughter of Samuel Tefft, of South Kingston, 
Rhode Island. She died before March 16, 

1725, and he married (second) Mary . 

who died soon after December 22, 1743. He 
w^as a freeman of Westerly. Rhode Island, ad- 
mitted January 29, 1702. He was a prominent 
citizen and large landholder of \Vesterly, 
Rhode Island. Children : Sarah, John, mar- 
ried, September 7, 1740, Annie Davis; Joseph, 
mentioned below ; Alartha, married, October 
18, 1747: Stephen Lewis. 

( I\" ) Joseph, son of John Witter, was born 
at Westerly, April 4, 1716, and died January 
12, 1799. He married, December 9, 1736, 
.Sarah Stewart, bom May 23, 1715, died March 
23, 1802. Children born at \\'esterly or Hop- 
kinton : Joseph, died February, 1731 : Josiah, 
mentioned below : \\ illiam, married, Novem- 
ber I. 1 764, Martha Cole. 

I \ ) Josiah (2), son of Joseph Witter, was 
born January 25, 1739, at Hopkinton or West- 
erl\. Jle married "Tacy Reynolds, born March 
ig, 1743, daughter of Zacheus Reynolds: they 
were married P'ebruary 2, 1764, at Hopkinton, 
by Justice John Burdick. Children, born at 
Hopkinton: Weeden, .April 30, 1765: Susan- 
nah, May 7. 1767: Lois, October i. 1768: Han- 
nah, .\ugust 12, 1772: Joseph, mentioned be- 
liiw: Eunice I'., (October 31. 1775; Josiah, 
.March 28, 1777; Sarah, I-'ebruary 6, 1779. 

(\'I) Joseph (2), son of Josiah (2) Wit- 
ter, was born at Hopkinton, Rhode Island, 
March 28, 1773. He came to Lewis county. 
New York, in 1800, and settled in the town of 
Pinckney. He was a soldier in the war of 
1812, and died in Jefferson county, of disease 
resulting from exposure in the service. He 
married (first), in 1803. Waity Greene, born 
December 20, 1787, died in Adams Center, 
Jefferson county. New York, September 9, 
1873. She married (second) John Trowbridge. 
The Witters lived in Rensselaer, then Madison 
county. New York, whence they came to Jef- 
ferson countv before 1812. She was a mem- 



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ber of the Seventh Day Baptist church. Chil- 
dren of Joseph and Waity Witter : Emily, born 
1804, died at home of her brother Russell, in 
\erona, New York, February 10, 1852, aged 
forty-seven, unmarried ; ]\Iaria, Eunice, Polly, 
Russell G., mentioned below. 

(\'II) Russell G., son of Joseph (2) Wit- 
ter, was born September i, 1806, and attended 
school in Adams, New Y'ork. During all his 
active life he followed farming. He married, 
.September 22. 1828, Sarah Williams, born 
.March 2'j . 1798, died at X'erona. December 21, 
i8f)3, daughter of Captain William Williams, 
who was in the coasting trade and was lost at 
sea before his daughter Sally was born. The 
Williams family came to Verona, New Y'ork, 
and Sally was left an orphan when quite 
\'oung, and was brought up by her uncles and 
aunts. Mr. Witter was a Democrat before the 
civil war, but in later years a staunch Repub- 
lican. In religion he was a Seventh Day Bap- 
tist. He died at \'erona, May i, 1861. Chil- 
dren: I. Mar\- .\nn, born September i, 1830, 
died .Xovoniber 2~ . 1873; married Alben Saun- 
ders, who died May 5, 1864. 2. ^\'illiam El- 
bridge, mentioned below. 3. Susan A., born 
December 18, 1837: married October, i86g, 
< )rin Peckham, of Worcester, Massachusetts: 
two children. 

( X'lH) William Elbridge. son of Russell G. 
Witter, was born. July 8, 1832. He spent his 
youth on his father's farm, and attended the 
])ublic schools of his native town. He fol- 
lowed farming and lumbering when a young 
man. and then engaged in business as a builder 
and owner of canal boats. In the course of 
time he became extensively engaged in the 
transportation business, and for twenty years 
had an office in Buffalo, New York. For many 
years he was doubtless the largest owner and 
operator of canal transportation in the country. 
He also dealt to a large extent in live stock, 
and was a general merchant for many years. 
He owned many farms. A self-made man, he 
was the architect of his own fortune, and one 
of the leading factors in the development of 
this section. He retired with a competence in 
igoo, and since then has lived quietly in the 
city of Oneida, enjoying the well-earned leis- 
ure and substantial fruits of a busy career and 
long years of activity and industry. He is a 
member of the Seventh Day Baptist Society 
of Oneida and of Lodge, No. 270, Free Ma- 
sons. In politics he is a Republican. 

He married, June 6, 1861, J. Louisa Lawton, 



born in Yerona, Oneida county, New ^■ork. 
November 26, 1833, daughter of Joseph Law- 
ton, and granddaughter of Joseph, Jr., and 
Joanna (Belknap) Lawton. Joseph Lawton, 
father of her grandfather, Josejjh, Jr., married 
.Vancy Dennison ; they came from Rhode Island 
and Connecticut respectively. Children of 
Mr. and Mrs. Witter: 1. Eva May, born 
March 26, 1862 ; married, January 9, 1894, 
Willis Brundidge, of Oneida; children: \'iolet 
and Orville. 2. Alice Louisa, born .\ugust 24, 
1863: married, July 20, 1892, William M. 
Price, of London, England, later of Des 
Moines, Iowa, and now of St. Louis, Missouri ; 
children: Elbridge Witter, Priscilla Louisa, 
William Stanley, Alice Catherine, Cecil Lit- 
ten. 3. Sarah J., born .\ugust 23. 1865: mar- 
ried, March 17, i886, S. .\. Campbell, of Bos- 
ton : children : Archie Witter, Russell and 
Marian Campbell. 4. Jennie, born September 
9, 1867 ; married Dr. Eugene \\. Carpenter, of 
Oneida, in June, 1S98: children: Eugene and 
child who died in infancy. 5. Carrie 15., born 
July 4. 1869: married, September 13, 1899, Dr. 
Marcus L. Clawson, of Plainfield, New Jer- 
sey, and has one child, Elbridge Witter Claw- 
son. Three children of Mr. and .Mrs. William 
E. Witter died in infancy. 

(Tlie Greene Line 1. 

( 1 ) Juhn (ireene, the immigrant ancestor, 
is first found on the records in 1639 as living 
with Richard Smith Sr., at a trading-])ost 
near the village now called Wick ford, in .Xorth 
Kingston, Rhode Island. There is a family 
tradition that he came from England, and 
had the name of Clarke before he changed 
it to Greene. He may have come from Glou- 
cestershire, England, with Smith. John 
Greene, of Newport, and the surgeon, John 
Greene, of Warwick, settled in those places 
about the same time that this John Greene 
was in North Kingston. In 1663 he was 
brought before the Rhode Island court for 
declaring himself under the jurisdiction of 
Connecticut instead of Rhode Island, as his 
land was in Quidnesset Neck, which was pur- 
chased from the Indians contrary to the orders 
of the Rhode Island general court. .Mthough 
he answered the charges with so much spirit 
that he had to ask pardon, the court agreed 
to protect his title to the land, and declared 
him still a freeman. He took the oath of alle- 
giance to Rhode Island, May 20, 167 1. and 
January I, 1672, was one of six who bought 



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a large tract of land at Narragansett from the 
Indians, and in 1672-74 his name is written as 
witness to transfers of land. July 29, 1679, 
he signed a petition with forty-one other men 
of Narragansett asking the king to end the dis- 
pute between Rhode Island and Connecticut 
in regard to the jurisdiction of their territory. 
He deeded 120 acres of land on Allen's liar- 
bar to his son Daniel, March 24, 1682, and 60 
acres adjoining it to his son James, for which 
they were to pay him a certain sum each year 
as long as he lived. He signed an address to 
the king, July 16, 1686, and May 13. 1692, he 
was witness to a deed. His name is not on 
the list of freemen for 1696, so he doubtless 
died between 1692 and 1696. His wife's 
name was Joan. Children : John, Jr., born 
June 6, 165 1 ; Daniel; James, born 1655; Ed- 
ward : Benjamin, mentioned below. 

(II) Benjamin, son of John Greene, was 
born about 1665, in North Kingston. He was 
on the list of freemen there in 1696, and in 
1698-1703 he was deputy to the general as- 
sembly. In 1701-1704 was member of the 
town council, and in 1702 was ratemaker. He 
was appointed to lay out highways in 1703. 
March 26, 1705, he sold land in Kingston and 
removed to East Greenwich, where he lived 
until his death in 1718-19. His will, dated 
January 7, proved March 5, 1719, in East 
Greenwich, mentions wife and twelve children. 
He married, about 1687, Humility, daughter of 
Joshua and Joan (West) Coggeshall, of New- 
port and Portsmouth ; she was born in Ports- 
mouth, January, 1671. Children: John, men- 
tioned below; Mary, born about 1690; Ben- 
jamin, about 1692; Ann, about 1694; Henry, 
about 1696; Phebe, about 1698; Catherine, 
about 1700; after 1700: Caleb, Sarah, Dinah, 
Deborah, Joshua. 

(III) John (2), son of Benjamin Greene, 
was born about 1688, doubtless at Quidnesset, 
North Kingston, Rhode Island, and died at 
West Greenwich, March 29, 1752. His will 
was dated March 26 and proved April 25, 
1752. October 13, 1726, he gave a receipt 
for his wife's share of her father's estate. He 
is called Lieutenant John in 1732, and in some 
family records he is called "White-Hat John". 
January 9, 1733-4, he bought land in West 
Greenwich, and in 1743 he sold farms which 
had formerly belonged to his father and 
brother Caleb, both dead. His homestead was 
on the Cranston farm in \Vest Greenwich. He 
married (first), about 1708, Mary .'\ylsworth. 



born as early as 1688, daughter of Arthur and 
Mary (Brown) Aylsworth, who came from 
England or Wales to Quidnesset ; Mary Brown 
was daughter of Rev. John and Mary 
(Holmes) Brown, of Providence, and grand- 
daughter of Rev. Obadiah Holmes, the Bap- 
tist minister of Newport who was persecuted 
by the Puritans of ^lassachusetts. He mar- 
ried (second), .August 24, 1741, Priscilla 
Bowen (or Barney), of Swansea, and she sur- 
vived him. Children, probably by first wife: 
Thomas, born about 1710; Philip, about 1712; 
Mary, probably died before 1752, not men- 
tioned in her father's will; Josiah, about 1715; 
Amos, January 17, 1717; Benjamin, about 
1719; Caleb, Jonathan, Joseph, mentioned be- 
low; Elizabeth, Ruth, William, about 1732; 
Joshua. (The order of birth of daughters is 
not certain). 

(IV) Joseph, son of John (2) Greene, was 
born about 1725, probably in East Greenwich, 
and moved to Westerly, Rhode Island, between 
1768 and 1774, where he very likely lived for 
over twenty years, iie was living in West 
Greenwich in 1774, according to the census 
of June. He was a Seventh Day Baptist. Late 
in 1779 or early in 1780 his children and their 
families moved to Little Hoosick (Berlin), 
Rensselaer county. New York, and he and his 
wife may have gone with them. He married, 
September 20, 1747, in W^esterly, Margaret 
Greenman, born October 17, 1725. daughter of 
Edward, Jr.. and Sarah (Clarke) Greenman, 
of Charlestown. Children. Charles, men- 
tioned below ; Luke, born September 18, 1751 ; 
John, June 10, 1754; Rhoda, April 29, 1756; 
Edward, March 20, 1760; Perry. February 
20, 1762; Joseph, October 3, 1764; Olive, 
March 5, 1768. 

(V) Charles, son of Joseph Greene, was 
born in Westerly, June 19, 1749, and died in 
Pinckney, Lewis county, New York, when an 
old man. He was a farmer, and served in the 
revolution in 1777-78 in Colonel John Top- 
ham's regiment, in Rhode Island, with his 
brothers John and Edward, and later for two 
years as an officer in Captain Samuel Shaw's 
company, Sixth Albany Regiment, Fourth 
Rensselaerwyck Battalion. He was com- 
missioned ensign August 11, 1780, and lieuten- 
ant August 15, 1781, and his four brothers 
served in the same company. According to 
the census of June, 1774, he lived in West 
Greenwich, having a girl and two boys, and 
probably in 1779 he moved to Little Hoosick, 



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where he Hved until he moved to Pinckney, 
where lie died. He married (first), Novem- 
ber 24, 1768, in West Greenwich, Waite Bai- 
ley, who was born in East Greenwich, March 
9, 1751, and died in 1791, aged forty-nine. 
She was daughter of Caleb and Mary (God- 
frey) Bailey, and aunt of Elder Eli S. Bailey. 
He married (second) Mrs. Burdick, who died 
in Brookfield, New York. Children by first 
wife, the first five or six born in Rhode Island: 
Josiah, born March 24, 1771 ; Ethan, February 
7, 1773; Mary (Polly), April 20, 1775; Mar- 
garet, October 6, 1777; Charles, October 10, 
1778; Russell, January 20, 1781 ; Caleb, Sep- 
tember 13, 1783; Paul, August 5, 1785; 
Waity, December 20, 1787, married Joseph 
W'itter (see Witter) ; Jared, August 28, 1789; 
William, August 13, 1791. 



This is a name found in Eng- 
HORTON land at a very early period. In 
the twelfth century Robert de 
Horton was possessed of the manor of Hor- 
ton in Lincolnshire, England. This form of 
the name indicates that it is of Latin origin 
and came from France into England. Its 
first beginning and significance is lost in the 
mazes of the remote past. The French sylla- 
ble "de" signifies "of," and shows that the 
name is derived from a locality or manor. The 
Hortons were possessed of a manor, including 
mill and land at Great Horton, in England. 
William Horton, Esq., of Firth, had a home- 
stead at Barksland, in Halifax, England. He 
is said to have been a descendant of Robert 
de Horton. His wife Elizabeth was daughter 
of Thomas Hanson, Esq., of Toothill, and died 
about 1640. They had sons William and Jo- 
seph. The latter born about 1578, may have 
settled at Mousley, and was possibly the 
father of the immigrant ancestor of this 
country. In early generations here the fam- 
ily was engaged chiefly in tilling the soil, but 
later generations have engaged in professional 
life, and are found among manufacturers and 
other leaders of industry. They have been 
conspicuously identified with the settlement 
and history of Westchester county, where 
many representatives now occupy prominent 
positions in the business world. 

(I) Barnabas Horton was born July 13. 
1600, in Mousley, Lincolnshire, England, and 
died July 13, 1680, in Southold, Long Island. 
He came to America in the ship "Swallow," 
owned and commanded by Jeremy Horton, 



between 1635 and 1638, and was landholder 
at Hampton, Massachusetts (now New Hamp- 
shire), where his house lot was granted in 
June, 1640. In the following year he was in 
Ipswich, Massachusetts, where he sold six 
acres of land March 12, 1641. He was .subse- 
quently at New Haven, Connecticut, with his 
wife Alary and sons Joseph and Benjamin. 
He appears as one of the organizers of a 
church in New Haven, October 31, 1640, and 
was deputy to the general court of Connecticut 
several times between 1654 and 1661. Fle may 
have been at that time a resident of Southold, 
then considered under the jurisdiction of Con- 
necticut. He was constable at Southold in 
1656-59, and collector of customs in 1658-59. 
He appears as a freeman at Southold, Octo- 
ber 9. 1662, and was commissioner for that 
town in 1663-64. The records show that he 
had property at Southold in 165 1. and he was 
made a member of a committee at New Ha- 
ven to buy lands of the Indians at the east end 
of Long Island, December 7, 1665. He brought 
with him from England a Bible, printed in 
1597, which is preserved by his descendants, 
and also the musket which he used. He built 
the first frame liouse on Long Island, and this 
was still standing in 1875, the sides still cov- 
ered with the original shingles. He is de- 
scribed as a pious man, an advocate of civil 
and religious freedom. His homestead at 
Southold remained in the hands of his de- 
scendants until 1873, when its last owner, Jon- 
athaii G. Horton, willed it to an ado])ted 
daughter, having no children of his own. In 
a table of Long Island rates made in 1775 
he was assessed for thirty-seven acres of land 
at lyj: nine oxen, £54; four three-year-old 
cattle. £16; four two-year-olds, £10; four year- 
lings, £6 : sixty-nine sheep, £23 ; six horses, 
ij2; one colt, £3 ; eight swine, £8. His chil- 
dren were: Joseph, Benjamin, Caleb, Joshua, 
Jonathan, Hannah, Sarah, Mary, Mercy, Abi- 
gail. 

(II) Joseph, eldest child of Barnabas and 
Mary Horton, born about 1625, in England, 
died before June 12, 1696. He resided near his 
father in Southold until about 1664, when he 
removed to Rye, now in \\'estchestcr county. 
New York, then under the jurisdiction of 
Connecticut. He was admitted a freeman of 
the Connecticut colony October 9, 1662, then 
residing at Southold. In 1665 he sold his 
house and land at Southold, his father being 
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was a selectman of Rye, and about the same 
time was on a committee to procure a minis- 
ter. In 1672 he was deputy to the general 
court, and in 1676 was a commissioner em- 
powered to administer oaths to town officers. 
In 1678 he was justice of the peace, and com- 
missioner for Rye 1681-83.. He was con- 
firmed by the general court of Connecticut, 
May y, 1667, as lieutenant of the train band at 
Rye. and was later a captain. He was empow- 
ered to marry couples in 1678. In 1691 he 
inherited land from his brother Benjamin, 
and in 1695 was chosen vestryman of the 
church at Rye. He was a miller by occupation, 
and many of his descendants were similarly 
engaged. He married, about 1655, Jane, 
daughter of John and Catherine Budd, of 
Southold. John Budd was one of the original 
thirteen Puritan settlers of Southold, in 1640, 
and moved to Rye before 1664. This probably 
led to the removal of Joseph Horton to Rye. 
The latter's children were: John, Joseph. 
Samuel, David, Jonathan, Benjamin and Han- 
nah. 

(Ill) David, fourth son of Joseph and 
Jane (Budd) Horton, was born about 1654, in 
Southold, and settled in White Plains, New 
York. Before 1700 he bought land there of 
his brother John, and October zy, 1707, re- 
ceived a quitclaim from his nephew to lands 
previously owned by Joseph Horton in White 
Plains. His earmark was registered in 1719. 
He was one of the patentees of the White 
Plains purchase, and as such was a grantor to 
fellow members of the association January 
18. 1723. He deeded land at White Plains to 
his son David, March 5, 1726. He was among 
those who signed a petition to the general 
court of Connecticut, Alay 11, and October 5, 
1727, relating to the building of a meeting 
house at Rye. He quitclaimed land formerly 
owned by his brother Samuel to a nephew 
April 24, 1733. He married Esther King; 
children : David. Rebecca, William, Thomas, 
Joseph, Daniel and John. 

(lY) John, youngest child of David and 
Esther ( King) Horton, was born about 1696, 
in White Plains, and resided in Rye, where he 
operated a mill on Horton's Mill Pond from 
1747 to 1769. He married Elizabeth Lee; 
sons : Ricliard, John, David and Daniel. 

(Y') Richard, eldest son of John and Eliza- 
beth (Lee) Horton, was born 1721, at White 
Plains, and settled in Peekskill. He married 



Jemima Wright; sons: Elijah, George, Wil- 
liam and Richard. 

(YI) George, second son of Richard and 
Jemima (Wright) Horton, was born March 
2},, 1760 ( ?), in Peekskill, and died October 
28, 1835, aged seventy-five years. He was a 
pioneer settler in the town of Nichols, Tioga 
county. New York, where he passed his life 
engaged in farming. He married Elsie Shoe- 
maker, born August 19, 1760, died F"ebruary 
4, 1827. Children: Daniel, born December 26, 
1780; Benjamin, November 10, 1783; Anna. 
October 11, 1785; Elizabeth, August 2, 1787; 
Esther, April 25, 1789; George C, mentioned 
below; Elsie, April 13, 1793; Abraham, March 
4, 1795; Sarah, May 21, 1796: Eleanor, Sep- 
tember 4, 1798; Jane Depew, November 24. 
1800. 

(YTI) George Cummins, third son of 
George and Elsie (Shoemaker) Horton, was 
born June 2, 1791, and died May 28, 1863, in 
Tioga, New York. About 1812 he settled in 
Tioga, where he took up a few acres of land 
at first, built a log house, and began clearing 
his land. By thrift and industry he kept add- 
ing to his farm until he had more than eight 
hundred acres in one body at the time of his 
death. He married, February 23, 1812, Han- 
nah Cortwright, born November 25, 1797; she 
survived her husband more than twenty-four 
years, and died November 24, 18S7 in Tioga. 
Childien: i. Rachel C, born December 6, 
1812; married Lucian Anthony, and lived in 
Nichols, Tioga county. New York; died No- 
vember 24, 1864. 2. Daniel B., January 11, 
1815; lived in Tioga, New York, and died Oc- 
tober 4, 1878. 3. Stephen S., February 18, 
1817; lived in Nichols, Tioga county, and died 
March 21, 1887. 4. George Silas, March 2"/, 
1819, lived in Tioga, and died December 23, 
1872. 5. Hannah B.. January 14, 1821, mar- 
ried Ephraim Goodrich, lived in Tioga, and 
died September 19, 1898. 6. Jane D., Decem- 
ber 30. 1822, married Miller Wood, and died 
September 12, i860, in Tioga. 7. Benjamin, 
March 10, 1824, died September 15, 1881, in 
Tioga. 8. Emeline M., January 29, 1826, 
married Emanuel Ennis, died October 10, 
1897, in Spencer, Tioga county. 9. Avery B., 
December 25, 1828, lived in Tioga, and died 
April 9, 1863. 10. Phebe Ann, died ten days 
old. II. Gurdon H., mentioned below. 12. 
Charlotte H., July 22, 1835. married Alexan- 
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Hornell, Steuben county, New York. 13. 
Isaac, Tioga. 14. Abram, Tioga. 

(VHI) Gurdon H., sixth son of George C. 
and Hannah (Cortwright) Horton. was born 
December 4, 1833, in Tioga, where he died 
August 17, 1904. He received such education 
as the schools of his native town and com- 
munity afforded, and spent his Hfe in the town 
where he was born, where he had a farm of 
some two hundred acres. He married. Alarch 
26, 1863, Mary C. Goodrich, born February 
20, 1839, in Tioga, daughter of Silas and Mary 
Ann (Goodrich) Goodrich. They were the 
parents of Fannie and Fred Goodrich Horton. 
The daughter, born November 2, 1863, mar- 
ried J. C. Vandermark, of Candor, New York, 
and has daughters Reva and Ruth. 

(IX) Fred Goodrich, only son of Gurdon 
H. and Alary C. (Goodrich) Horton, was born 
Xovember 9, i86(), in Tioga. He prepared 
for the activities of life in the town schools, 
the Owcgo high school and a business college. 
Since attaining his majority he has been en- 
gaged in the real estate and insurance busi- 
ness in Owego, and since 1900 has conducted 
business on his own account. Besides doing 
a general insurance business he has large 
farming interests in the town of Tioga. He 
has taken an active part in the conduct of 
local affairs, and is present clerk of the county 
board of supervisors and president of the 
Business Men's Association of Owego. He 
is a member of the Baptist church, of the 
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and 
of the Masonic fraternity, in which he has 
attained the Royal Arch degree. He is a mem- 
ber and one of the vice-presidents of the New 
Y'ork State Association of Local Fire Insur- 
ance Agents, also a member of the National 
Association. 

He married February 10, 1898, Lillie Josh- 
uean Worrick, of Owego, daughter of Na- 
thaniel S. and Joshuean (Whitney) Worrick. 
Their only child, Mary Joshuean, was born 
May 19, 1907. 



This is one of the oldest 
STANBROUGH English familieson Long 

Island, or even in the 
state of New York, as Josiah Stanborough 
(the original form of the family name), the 
ancestor, w^as one of the original "undertak- 
ers," or promoters, and settlers of the town 
settled in the state. He came from Stanstead, 
Kent, England. His rank and position are 



known as "Mr." and "Gentleman," at a time 
when only a very few had any claim to those 
titles. With the rest of the original settlers 
he came to Lynn, Massachusetts, and while 
there made an agreement to purchase land and 
found a new colony on Long Island. They 
sailed from Lynn and landed on Long Island 
at a place called North Sea. in the town of 
Southampton, June 12, 1640. Like all the rest, 
he had his home lot on the main street of 
Southampton, but about i<i56 he purchased 
several lots of land at a place called Saga- 
1)1 mack, which is the southeast part nf the 
town of Southampton, a region noted fur the 
fertility of its soil, and lying ne.xt to the ocean. 
March 9, 1638, his house in that place is men- 
tioned, and that was the first mentioned in 
what is now known as the flourishing village of 
Bridgehampton. Shortly after settling there 
his wife died. He then married Alee, widow of 
Thomas Wheeler, of N'ew Haven, who brought 
with her two children, John and Mary 
Wheeler. The following is an abstract of the 
will of Josiah Stanborough, which is the first 
will recorded in Suffolk county : 

In the n;uiu' nf Gofl, Aimii. I Jcisiali Staiibor- 
ougli. being sick in body, but of perfect memory do 
make and ordain this my last will and testament 
this 6 of July. 1661. I commit my Soul to .Mmighty 
God and my body to be buried at Sagapimack by 
my former wife. I leave to my wife Alee, one-third 
of my land within fence, during her life and then 
to my sone Peregrine Stanborough. 

To my daughter Sarah. 12 head of cattle. To my 
daughter Mary. 10 head of cattle and 20 sheep. To 
mv son Josiah all my land unfcnced and 10 head of 
cattle and 20 sheep. To the poor of Southampton, 
£5. I make my son Peregrine, executor. 

This will was proved September 3, 1661. 
Mary Stanborough married John Edwards, of 
East Hampton. Whether her sister Sarah 
married is not known. 

(II) Peregrine Stanborough lived and died 
on the homestead of his father, situated at 
the south end of the street of Sagaponack. and 
still bears the name of "Stanborough Lot." 
In the ancient burying ground at Sagaponack 
is a tombstone with this inscription: "Air. Per- 
egrine Stanborough, Deacon in ye Parish, de- 
])arted this Life, Jan. ye 4, 1701, in ye 62 
\eare of his Age." The will of Peregrine .Stan- 
borough is recorded in the "Lester \Vill Book," 
in Suffolk county clerk's office, and is printed 
in Pelletreau's "Early Long Island Wills." The 
year 1701 should be 1702 according to the 
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From this it appears that he was born in the 
same year that the town was settled, and it is 
a tradition that he was the first child born in 
the town. Peregrine Stanborough married 
Sarah, daughter of Rev. Thomas James, the 
first minister of East Hampton, December 15, 
1664. Issue: John, born December 11, 1665; 
Ruth, June 4, 1668; Olive, July 18, 1670; 
Mary, October 14, 1672, married Jonathan 
Strickland ; Hannah, January 28, 1674, mar- 
ried John Lupton ; Sarah, May 26, 1677, mar- 
ried James Herrick ; James, October 28, 1679; 
Eunice, November 8, 1682, died November i, 
1701, unmarried; Elizabeth, born January 24, 
1686; Ann, Martha. 

(H) Josiah, brother of Peregrine Stanbor- 
ough, married Annah, daughter of Thomas 
Chatfield, of East Hampton, Long Island. He 
removed to Elizabeth, New Jersey, where his 
descendants are still to be found. 

(III) John, eldest son of Peregrine Stan- 
borough, inherited his father's homestead at 
Sagaponack, Long Island. He married Martha 

: children: Josiah, John, Peregrine, 

Eleazer, see forward ; Abigail, married 

Rhodes; Martha, Mary. 

(IV) Eleazer, third son of John Stanbor- 
ough was born at Sagaponack, Long Island, 

in 1709. He married Mehitable . Issue: 

Eleazer, Zerviah, Lewis, Eunice, Thomas, see 
forward. 

(V) Thomas Stanbrough (in which form 
the family name now appears), youngest child 
of Eleazer Stanborough, was born in Mor- 
iches, Long Island, November 25, 1749, and 
died November 12, 1801. He was one of the 
Long Island minute-men during the revolu- 
tion. He married Katharine Goldsmith, born 
March 21, 1755, died 1837. Children: Mary, 
born May 5, 1772, died May 5, 1809; Mehita- 
ble, born October 5, 1774, died 1794; Lewis, 
born August 23, 1776, died June, 1810; James, 
born March 3, 1779. died 1862; Clarissa, born 
August 4, 1782, died September i, 1789; Kath- 
arine, born May 6, 1784, died August 23, 
1825; Sally, born February 15, 1789; Thomas 
Goldsmith, of whom further. 

(\T) Thomas Goldsmith, youngest child of 
Thomas and Katharine (Goldsmith) Stan- 
brough. was born at Sag Harbor, Long 
Island, February 20, 1790, and died in New- 
burg, New York, in 1862. He was a cabinet- 
maker there, and for many years manufac- 
tured both furniture and pianos. He married 
Jane Eager, born October 27, 1788, died in 



May, 1861. Children: Thomas E., born 1815, 
died June 15, 1905; Peter, born December 16. 
1817; Catherine, born June 16, 1820, died 
January 29. 1839; Lewis H., born December 
14, 1822; Margaret A., born October 15, 1825, 
died 1859; John Blake, of whom further; 
Rufus M., born September 22, 1832, died 
June, 1905. 

(VII) Dr. John Blake Stanbrough, son of 
Thomas Goldsmith and Jane (Eager) Stan- 
brough, was born in Montgomery, Orange 
county, New York, September 16, 1829, and 
died in Owego, New York, January 20, 1908. 
He learned the trade of cabinet and piano 
making with his father, but at the age of six- 
teen went into a general store in the capacity 
of clerk. After four years he learned prac- 
tical dentistry with his brother, and began 
practice in 1851, at LTnion, thence removed to 
Lisle, and from the latter place to Farmers- 
ville, Seneca county. New Y'ork, where he re- 
mained until 1854. He came to Owego and 
practiced until 1859, then removed to New- 
burg, where he lived until 1862. In July and 
August of that year he recruited a company 
of infantry for service in the L^nion army, 
and was elected first lieutenant. After fonr 
months service with Company I. 124th New 
York Infantry Regiment, he was discharged 
for disabilities. He then returned to New- 
burg and to his profession, continuing to 
May, 1864. In the latter year he came to 
Owego and became a member of the firm of 
Beam, Stanbrough & Holdridge, general hard- 
ware dealers, and after four years became 
sole proprietor. Edwin Stratton soon became 
partner under the firm name of Stanbrough 
& Stratton, which firni was in business until 
1879. when Dr. Stanbrough bought out his 
partner's interest. In the fall of 1895 the hard- 
ware stock was closed out, and from that time 
until his death Dr. Stanbrough continued in 
business, dealing exclusively in stoves and hot 
water heating apparatus, and doing a general 
plumbing business. 

He was ever a prominent figure in social and 
political circles in Tioga county. He was a 
firm Republican, and as such was one of the 
village trustees in 1872-73. For several years 
he was a member of the board of education, 
and was otherwise identified with the best 
interests of the locality. He was appointed 
loan commissioner for Tioga county by Gover- 
nor John A. Dix in 1873. ^"^ was reap- 
pointed by Governor Cornell in 1880. He 



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was appointed a trustee of the Binghamton 
State Hospital by Governor Flower, March 
21, 1892, and was reappointed to the same 
position by Governor ^lorton in December, 
1896. In every position of honor and trust 
he acquitted himself with ability and honor. 
In Masonic bodies Dr. Stanbrough was espe- 
cially prominent. He was made a Master 
Mason in Farmersville Lodge, in 1852, became 
a Royal Arch Mason at Ovid, in 1853, and in 
Owego became a member of Friendship Lodge 
and New Jerusalem Chapter. He organized 
Highland Chapter, No. 52, Royal Arch Ma- 
sons, in Newburg, in 1863, and in 1866 like- 
wise organized Ahwaga Lodge, No. 587, of 
Owego, and became its first master, and this 
office, with others of great prominence in other 
Masonic bodies, he was frequently called upon 
to fill at various times. He married, April 25, 
i860, Adeline Truman, born in Owego, New 
York, December 18, 1838, daughter of Lyman 
and Emily M. (Goodrich) Truman. Children: 
Dora T., born October 26, 1861, in Newburg, 
New York; Lyman T., of whom further; 
Frank T., born in Owego, New York. June 7, 
1867, died July 17, 1901. 

(\III) Lyman Truman, eldest son of Dr. 
John Blake and Adeline (Truman) Stan- 
brough. was born in Newburg, Orange 
county. New York, January 11, 1864, and 
was one year old when his parents came to 
Owego. He received a liberal education, at- 
tending Owego Academy, Highland Falls 
.\cademy, Cornell L'niversity, where he was 
a student two years, and the L^nited States 
Military Academy at West Point one year. 
He read law under the office preceptorship of 
C. A. & H. A. Clark, in Owego, and MacFar- 
land, I'oardman & Piatt, in New York City, 
also attending the Columbia Law School, from 
which he was graduated in June, 1887, and was 
admitted to the bar in November, 1887, and 
engaged in business in Owego. He has never 
taken up a general active court practice, but 
has mainly devoted his attention as counsel 
in large and complicated affairs, for which he 
possesses commanding ability both as a law- 
yer and man of affairs. He has served as 
counsel for several large estates, among them 
that of Lyman Truman, for which he is also 
executor and trustee. He is a director in the 
First National Bank of Owego, a vestryman 
of the Episcopal church and a member of the 
Masonic fraternity, lodge and chapter, the Im- 



proved Order of Red Men and college fra- 
ternities. 

Mr. Stanbrough married, in January, 1904, 
Jane H. Barton, daughter of (ieorge W. and 
Mary (Watson) Barton, of Owego. They 
have one daughter, Margaret, born in Feb- 
ruary, 1906. 

It is believed that the 
GREENLEAF Greenleaf family was of 
Huguenot origin, the name 
being a translation of the French "Feuille- 
vert." The name is rarely found in England, 
except at Ipswich, county Suffolk. It is 
thought that the family fled from France with 
other Huguenots and settled in England. 

(I) Edmund Greenleaf, the immigrant an- 
cestor, was baptized January 2, 1574, at the 
parish of St. Mary's la Tour, in Ipswich, 
county Suffolk, England. He was the son of 
John and Margaret Greenleaf, and among the 
family relics still preserved is the cane brought 
to this country by Edmund Greenleaf, bearing 
the initials "J- G." on a silver band near the 
handle. He settled in Newbury, Massachu- 
setts, and lived near the old town bridge, where 
he kept a tavern many years. He was by trade 
a silk dyer. He was admitted a freeman 
March 13, 1639, and licensed to keep a tavern 
May 22, 1639. He served in the militia and 
November 11, 1647, requested his discharge 
from the service. He removed to Boston about 
1650, and there his wife died, and he mar- 
ried again, not very happily, as his will shows, 
written, it is supposed, by his own hand, dated 
December 22, 1668. proved February 12, 1671, 
in which his second wife is not mentioned, 
and a note is attached explaining the omission 
at length. He lx;queaths to son Stephen, to 
daughter Browne, widow, and to his daughter 
Coffin ; to grandchildren Elizabeth Hilton and 
Enoch Greenleaf ; to Enoch's oldest son James, 
to cousin Thomas Moon, mariner : sons Ste- 
phen Greenleaf and Tristram Coffin, execu- 
tors ; refers also to W'illiam, Ignatius and 
James Hill, his wife's sons, and to bequests 
to them from their aunt. He married (first) 
.Sarah Dole, and (second) a daughter of Igna- 
tius Jurdaine. of Exeter, England, widow first 

of W'ilson, and second of W'illiam Hill, 

of Fairfield, Connecticut. He died March 24, 
1671, in Boston. Children: Enoch, baptized 
December i, 1613, died 1617; Samuel, died 
1627 ; Enoch, born about 1617 : Sarah, baptized 



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March 26, 1620; Elizabeth, baptized January 
16, 1622; Nathaniel, baptized June 27, 1624, 
buried July 24. 1634; Judith, born September 
2, 1625 : Ste])hen, mentioned below ; Daniel, 
baptized August 14, 1631. 

(11) Stephen, son of Edmund Greenleaf, 
was baptized August 10, 1628, at Sti Mary's, 
in Suffolk, England, and died December i, 
1690. He married (first), November 13, 1651, 
Elizabeth Coffin, who died November 19, 1678, 
daughter of Tristram and Dionis (Stevens) 
Coffin, of Newbury. He married (second), 
March 31, 1679, Esther, daughter of Nathaniel 
Weare, and widow of Benjamin Swett, of 
Hampton. New Hampshire : she died January 
16. 1718, aged eighty-nine years. Children, all 
by first wife: Stephen, mentioned below: 
Sarah, born October 29. 1655 ; Daniel, Febru- 
ary I", 1657-8, at Boston; Elizabeth. April 5. 
i6(5o, at Newbury: John, June 21. 1662: Sam- 
uel, October 30, 1666; Tristram, February 11, 
1667-8: Edmund. May 10. 1670: Mary, De- 
cember 6. 1671 ; Judith. October 23. 1673. 

(HI) Captain Stephen (2) Greenleaf. son 
of Stephen (i) Greenleaf, was born August 
15, 1652, in Newbury, and died there October 
13, 1743. He was a prominent man. famed for 
his services in the Indian wars, and known as 
the "Great Indian fighter." He was wounded 
in the battle of Hatfield, .\ugust 25, 1675, and 
commanded a company in the battle with the 
French and Indians at Wells, Maine, in 1690. 
He was in King Philip's war also. May 18, 
1693, he filed a petition for relief, and j)re- 
sented a bill for the services of a physician in 
caring for a wound received while moving a 
family w'ho had been taken from Newbury by 
the Indians. In 1696 he was granted land to 
build a wharf. He married (first). October 

23, 1676, Elizabeth Gerrish, born Sejnember 
10. 1654. died August 5. 1712, daughter of 
William and Joanna ((joodale-Oliver) Ger- 
rish, of Newbury. He married (second), 171 3, 
Mrs. Hannah Jordan, of Kittery, Maine, who 
died September 30, 1743. Children, all by first 
wife: Elizabeth, born January 12, 1678-9; 
Daniel, mentioned below: Stephen. August 31, 
1682, died October 15, 1688: \\'illiam. .Ajiril i. 
1684, died .April 15, 1684; Joseph, born .-Xpril 
12. 1686; Sarah. July 19. 1688: Stephen. Octo- 
ber 21, 1690; John, August 29, 1693; Ben- 
jamin, December 14, 1695; Moses, February 

24. 1697-8. 

(I\') Rev. Daniel Greenleaf, son of Ste- 
phen (2) Greenleaf, was born in Newbury, 



February 10, 1679-80, and baptized February 
22, 1679-80. He was graduated from Harvard 
College in 1699, and for about si.x years prac- 
ticed medicine in Cambridge. About 1706 he 
began to preach, and in 1708 was ordained pas- 
tor of the church at Yarmouth, succeeding 
Rev. John Cotton. He remained there for 
nearly twenty years, and in 1727 removed to 
Boston, whither his wife and twelve children 
had preceded him. The last years of his life 
he was confined to his bed as the result of a 
fall. He died August 26, 1763. He married, 
November 18, 1 701, Elizabeth Gookin, born 
November 11, 1681, died November, 1762. 
daughter of Samuel and Mary Gookin, and 
granddaughter of ^lajor-General Daniel 
Gookin. Children : Daniel, mentioned below : 
Hon. Stephen, bom October 4. 1704; Mary. 
August 29, 1706; Elizabeth, August 24, 1708: 
Sarah, April 16, 1710; Samuel. May 9, 1712; 
Jane, May 24, 1714; Hannah. October 3, 
1716: Dr. John, November 8. 1717; Mercy. 
November 29. 1719; Gooking, September 18. 
1721 ; Susanna, November 12, 1722; Hon. 
William. January 10, 1725. 

(V) Dr. Daniel (2) Greenleaf. son of Rev. 
Daniel ( i ) Greenleaf, was born in Cambridge. 
November 7. 1702. and died July 18, 1795. 
He was for a number of years a practicing 
physician in Hingham. and removed to Bol- 
ton in 1732. He married (first), July 18, 1726, 
Mrs. Silence ( Nichols) jMarsh, born July 4. 
1702, died May 13. 1762, daughter of Israel 
and Mary ( Sumner) Nichols, of Hingham. and 
widow of David Marsh. He married (sec- 
ond), intentions dated October 22, 1762, Mrs. 
Dorothy Richardson, November 18, 1762: she 
was widow of Josiah Richardson. Children, 
all by first wife, born in Hingham: David 
Coffin. January 29. 1728. died September 30, 
1728: Elizabeth, born October 30, 1729; Dr. 
Daniel, September 2. 1732. Born in Bolton: 
Israel, March 29, 1734: Stephen, October 15, 
1736, in Boston: David, July 13, 1737, in Bol- 
ton : General William, mentioned below ; Cal- 
vin, March 31. 1740: Mary. July 3, 1742; 
John, June 13, 1744. died .August 2. 1744. 

( \'I) General W'illiam Greenleaf. son of 
Dr. Daniel (2) Greenleaf, was born in Bol- 
ton. Massachusetts, August 23, 17,^8, and bap- 
tized August 2"], 1738. He lived first in Bos- 
ton, and then moved to Lancaster, Massachu- 
setts, where he resided until his death. He 
was a druggist in Boston. He was prominent 
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^\'orcester county for many years, and he was 
a brigadier-general in the mihtia of the state. 
September 8, 1777, he gave returns of a cen- 
sus of male citizens of military age, as a se- 
lectman of Lancaster. November 19, 1781, at 
Lancaster, he formed and headed the military 
company, marching through the town in cele- 
bration of the capture of Cornwallis, antl after 
the procession was over they had a feast at the 
Sun Tavern. He was sherilif during the time 
of the Shay insurrection, being then Colonel 
William (Ireenleaf. Wednesday, November 
22, 1786, he read the riot act from the court- 
house steps of W^orcester, and harangued the 
mob which had gathered to prevent the sitting 
of the court of general sessions. When one 
of the orators of the mob replied that one of 
their desires was to rid themselves of the 
sheritY and his exorbitant fees, the colonel 
answered: "If you deem my fees for execution 
oppressive, gentlemen, you need not wait 
longer for redress ; I will hang you all for 
nothing with the greatest pleasure." He also 
served as town clerk in Lancaster. He mar- 
ried, December 19, 1763, Sally, daughter of 
Edmund (Juincy. of Boston. She died March 
12, 1790, and he died January 13, 1793. Chil- 
dren : William, born in Boston, January 26, 
1766; Edmund, December 10, 1767; Eliza- 
beth, September 2, 1769; son, born August 8, 
1771, died in infancy; Sarah, Eebruary 21, 
1773; John Hancock, mentioned below; son, 
born November 15, 1776, died in infancy ; Dan- 
iel, born October 9, 1778, in Lancaster. 

(VH) John Hancock, son of General Wil- 
liam Greenleaf, was born in Lancaster, April 
30, 1775, and died January 28. 1852. He 
learned the trade of cabinet maker and house- 
joiner in Boston, and then settled in Granville. 
Washington county, New York. He moved 
to Tioga county, New York, in March, 181 7, 
and lived there the rest of his life. In ap- 
I)earance he was of medium size, fair com- 
plexion, dark brown hair, dark eyes and high 
forehead. He walked very erect, and was a 
sedate man with very strict habits. For nearly 
fifty years he was a member of the Baptist 
church. He married, February i, 1801, Polly 
Norton, born October 23, 1780, of Granville. 
Children: Betsey Gardiner, born about 1803, 
died in infancy; John Matthew, mentioned be- 
low; Martha Norton, born April 17, 1809; 
Betsey Gardiner, September 25, 181 5 ; William 
Josephus, September 25, 1815; Amos Canfield, 
March 8, 1818, in Owego, New York. 



(\'in) John Alatthew, son of John Han- 
cock Greenleaf, was born May 19, 1806, and 
died August 23, 1881. He lived in Owego, 
New York, where he removed with his par- 
ents in 181 3. Until 1826 he lived in the town- 
ship of Rich ford, and then moved to Owego, 
where he soon formed a partnership with Mr. 
Truman in a general store, becoming one of 
the pioneers in the business. In 1849 a fire 
destroyed the business section in the town, and 
after his store was burned he retired. He 
lived in Owego for fifty-six years. He was 
an honorable, upright man, retiring in disposi- 
tion, of sound judgment, kintlly and charita- 
ble to the poor and unfortunate, a good judge 
of men, successful in his affairs and enjoying 
the respect and confidence of his neighbors. 
He married (first), June 20, 1837, Lucy Tal- 
cott, who died July 4, 1842; (second), Sep- 
tember 27, 1843, Emeline Wilbur. He died 
August 23. 1881. Child, born at Owego, by 
first wife: Ann Elizabeth, July 28, 1841, died 
June 28, 1843. Children of second wife: John 
Talcott, mentioned below ; Frederic Hewitt, 
born October 11, i8ss. died December 20, 
1872. 

(IX) Dr. John lalcott Greenleaf, son of 
John Matthew Greenleaf, was born at Owego, 
New York. January 26, 1847. He attended 
the public schools and Owego Academy, and 
began the study of medicine under the instruc- 
tion of Dr. Lovejoy. He afterward attended 
medical lectures in the New York Homoeo- 
pathic ^Medical College, and was graduated 
with the ilegree of AI. D., March 2, 1867. 
After practicing a short time in Candor, New 
York, he located in Owego, where he has 
been in active practice to the present time and 
taken high rank in his profession. In the lat- 
ter part of 1888, Dr. Greenleaf conceived the 
project of any asylum for the insane, con- 
ducted on homoeopathic principles, and in part- 
nership with Dr. E. E. Snyder and Daniel 
Johnson he founded the Glen Mary Home of 
Owego, and was for many years its superin- 
tendent. The institution was given official 
recognition by the state authorities in charge 
of the insane. In addition to his medical ])rac- 
tice and duties at the insane hospital. Dr. 
Greenleaf has taken an active part in public 
affairs, and co-operated in every movement for 
the welfare and development of town and 
county. He was a member of the board of ed- 
ucation of Owego for many years, and the 
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in no small degree to his interest and efforts. 
In politics he is independent. He is a member 
of the Presbyterian church. 

He married (first), September 4, 1867, Lib- 
bie C. Manning, who died December 20, 1867. 
He married (second), December 21, 1870, 
Martha S. McMaster. who died March 11, 
1872. He married (third), October 22, 1873, 
Hattie Meeker. By his second wife he had 
one child, born March 11, 1872, died Septem- 
ber 28, 1872. 

George Hubbard, the immi- 
HUBB-ARD grant ancestor, was born in 
i6or. probably in eastern or 
southeastern England, where many of the 
name were found. His name first appears 
on the records here in 1639, on a list of the 
early settlers of Hartford. He was one of the 
number of those who came from the vicinity 
of Boston in the years 1635 and 1636, and set- 
tled in Windsor, Hartford and Wethersfield, 
Connecticut, and in Springfield, !Massachu- 
setts. He was granted by the. town six acres 
of land, "with privilege of Wood & keeping 
cows on the common". He lived on a lot ad- 
jacent to the land of James Ensign and George 
Graves, on a road parallel with the Connecticut 
river, according to an early map. .\fter his 
marriage in 1640 he was given a home-lot and 
land on the east side of the "Great River". 
On September 4, 1640, he was appointed, with 
William .Swayne, as an appraiser of the es- 
tate of Edward Mason: on .'\pril 24. 1649, he 
was fined for exchanging a gun with an In- 
dian. In March, 1650-51, he seems to have 
sold his property and moved with about fifteen 
other families to Mattabesett, later, in 1653. 
Middletown, Connecticut. About this time he 
had a commission from the colonial govern- 
ment as "Indian agent and trader for the Mat- 
tabesett district". He was made freeman in 
1654. He lived on the east side of Main street, 
on opposite corners with his son-in-law, 
Thomas Wetmore. He also owned much land 
on the west side of the street and on the east 
side of the river. These tracts were recorded 
Se]3tember 5. 1654. He with three others on 
the west side of the street gave land for the 
second meeting house : the first meeting house 
was started Eebruary 10, 1652. George Hub- 
bard, w'ho lived adjacent to it, was appointed 
its keeper, and on December 17, i(566, he was 
allowed forty shillings for his services, and 
those of his son Joseph, who beat the drum to 



announce church and give warning of Indians. 
On March 22, 1670, his property was ap- 
praised at ninety pounds ten shillings fifteen 
pence, and in 1673 '^ amounted to one hundred 
and thirty-two pounds ten shillings. The inven- 
tory at his death amounted to two hundred and 
forty-three pounds ten shillings, and he owned 
over one thousand acres of land. His will was 
dated May 22, 1681, when he was eighty years 
of age, and the inventory was taken May 13, 
1685. He died ^larch 18, 1684, and his widow 
died in 1702. A record of him says that he 
was "highly respected, and of marked integ- 
rity and fairness". He and his wife were 
buried in the Middletown Riverside cemetery. 
He married, in 1640, Elizabeth, daughter of 
Richard and Elizabeth Watts. Children : 
Mary, Joseph, mentioned below; Daniel, Sam- 
uel, George, Nathaniel, Richard, Elizabeth. 

fll) Joseph, son of George Hubbard, was 
born in Hartford, December 10, 1643, died in 
Middletown, December 26, 1686. He was as- 
sistant to his father in the first church at Mid- 
dletown. In 1667 he had lands recorded to 
him. In December, 1686, the inventory of his 
estate amounted to one hundred and forty 
pounds, including four hundred and seventy- 
two acres of land. His uncle. Captain Thomas 
Watts, left him one hundred pounds. He 
married, December 29, 1670, Mary Porter, 
sister of Dr. Daniel Porter, died i6go, and 
Robert Porter, died 1689, of Hartford and 
Farmington. She was born in 1650, died in 
Middletown, June 10, 1707. Children: Joseph, 
born October 22, 1671, died 1686: Robert, Oc- 
tober 30, 1673 : George, October 7, 1675 ; John, 
mentioned below: Mary, January 23, 1681, 
died .April 19, 1682 ; Elizabeth, March 26, 1683. 

(Ill) John, son of Joseph Hubbard, was 
born in Middletown, July 30, 1678, died there 
January 2. 1726-27. He owned land on the 
cast side of the river in what is now Portland, 
and he also had land granted him by the pro- 
prietors of the town. On July 21, 1703, he 
bought eighteen acres of woodland near the 
straits, about two miles below the city on the 
west side of the river. In 1704 he received 
seventeen and a half acres of his father's 
lands for which he was to pay his sister Eliza- 
beth. He was given the home-lot in this dis- 
tribution and was to support his mother the 
rest of her life. He married, February 10, 
1702-03, Mary Phillips, who died October 21, 
1736. Children: Joseph, born March 21, 1703- 
04: John. August 13, 1705: Abigail. April 9, 



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1707; Nathan, mentioned below; Daniel, July 
16, 1710; Hannah, July 13, 1711, died July 
10, 1714; Mary, September 20, 1713; Solomon, 
August 20, 1715; Hannah, August 8, 1718. 

(I\') Nathan, son of John Hubbard, was 
born in Middletown, May 4, 1709, died in 
Sandisfield, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, 
May 18, 1788. In 1730 he sold his property 
in Aliddletown to John \\'hittemore. In 1733 
the children of John Hubbard signed an agree- 
ment to a new distribution of his property, 
because of dissatisfaction with the former 
distribution. In 1734 he sold his home-lot antl 
moved to \\'aterbury, Connecticut, and later to 
Berkshire county. Massachusetts. He married 
(first), at Waterbury, Lydia, daughter of Na- 
thaniel Judd. of X^'allingford, Connecticut ; 
(second), in Berkshire county. ^lary Hough, 
born March 8, 1715. died in Sandisfield, No- 
vember 2. 1812. She was blind for many years. 
Children by first wife, born in Waterbury: 
John, mentioned below ; Imer or Inimcr. born 
July 30, 1741, died Januarj- 13, 1745 : Eli. born 
"May 23, 1745: Nathan, born at \Vallingford, 
February 29, 1747; Lydia. June 23, 1750: 
Juss Imer or Judimer, May 20. 1751 ; i\Iary. 
July 28. 1756: Nathaniel. November 17, 175 — ; 
Sarah, born in Berkshire county. March 4. 
1762, died October 26, 1764. possibly child of 
second wife. 

(V) John (2), son of Nathan Hubbard, 
was born in Waterbury. December 22. 1736. 
and died in Sandisfield. at the home of his son. 
Captain Josiah. December 8. 1825. He lived 
in Waterbury. Sheffield, and Sandisfield. He 
was lieutenant in Captain \\'illiam Baker"s 
company. Colonel John Fellows. Eighth Mas- 
sachusetts Regiment. On April 21, 1775, two 
days after the Lexington Alarm, this company 
was on the way to Boston. They were in camp 
at Roxbury. ilay 23, 1775. They fought at 
Bunker Hill and were eight months about 
Boston. He married. January 12, 1764. Han- 
nah Paine, born in 1745. died in Sandisfield. 
September 19, 1822. Children: Sarah, born 
September 8. 1767; Josiah, November 27. 
1768: John, August 25. 1770: Theophilus, Oc- 
tober 13, 1773: Solomer and Solomon, twins. 
January 4. 1775. one died in 1776: Hannah, 
November 16. 1781 : Lydia, January 5. 1784: 
Clarissa. July 18. 1786. 

The Hubbards of Sandisfield and vicinity, 
in Berkshire county, Massachusetts, are de- 
scendants or relatives of this John Hub- 
bard (?). In 1790 there were at Sandisfield 



heads of families: John, Seth, Juddinier and 
Nathaniel Hubbard ; at Sheffield : John, Noah, 
Timothy and Moses Hubbard. John Hubbard, 
of Sandisfield, bought land there of Daniel 
Brown, August 7, 1764, and Seth bought land 
of Judah Fuller, November 28, 1796. John 
owned Lot No. 45, in the third division of 
Sandisfield. 

(\TI) Jacob Hubbard, grandson of John 
Hubbard, mentioned above, was born in Sand- 
isfield, Massachusetts, October 13, 1774, died 
September 21, 1855., The name of his father 
has not been ascertained, for want of the rec- 
ords of this town, but the Hubbards of Sandis- 
field, the family to which he belonged have 
been outlined above. He removed to North- 
ville. New York, and followed the trade of 
miller. He married Catherine Storer, born 
February 21, 1781. Children: Jacob, born 
January 10. 1812; Allen, born August 23, 
1820, died SeDtember 21, 1856; William, men- 
tioned below ; Barnes, born December 24, 1828 ; 
Walter, born April 12. 1799: Harriet, born 
December 7. i8i6, died 185 1, married Samuel 
Dunham : Eliza, married Rufus Gift'ord ; Electa, 
born April 11, 1801, married Nathaniel Mead; 
Laura Ann, born June 30, 1805; Ruth, May 
15, 1808; George, June 8, 1810, died August 
25, 1843: Pelina, April 13, 1814; Seth, June 
I, 1819; Jane E., November 10, 1825. 

( \TII ) William, son of Jacob Hubbard, was 
born April 13, 1803, in Northville, Fulton 
county, New York, and died April 25, 1887, 
at Owego. New York. He was educated in 
the common schools and learned the trade of 
millwright. In 1848 he removed to Lanesboro, 
Pennsylvania, and thence in 1852, to Owego, 
New York. He owned a mill there, and manu- 
factured woodenware and shingles. During 
the last fifteen years of his life he was retired, 
owing to physical disability, making his home 
in Owego. He was a member of the Baptist 
church. He married Oily Chapman, born April 
29. 1803. in Fulton county. New York, died at 
Owego. in 1866. daughter of Jehiel Chapman. 
Children : Truman ^Iyron, mentioned below ; 
Theda Ann, married Aimer G. Newall, and 
had children, Myron G., .\lice and William 
Oily. 

(IX) Truman Myron, son of William Hub- 
bard, was born in Fulton county. New York, 
near Northville. September 27, 1833. He at- 
tended the public schools and learned the trade 
of carpenter when a young man. For a time 
he engaged in the sash and blind business and 



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in 1852 he began to manufacture sash, doors 
and blinds in Owego. In 1872 he estabHshed 
himself in business as an undertaker in Owego 
and was very successful in this business. Dur- 
ing the civil war he was in the Union service, 
enlisting August 2"], 1862, in Company C. One 
Hundred and Thirty-seventh Regiment, New 
York \'olunteers, and served to the end of the 
war. He was in the campaigns in the Caro- 
linas ; took part in the siege of Atlanta, and 
also in the battles of Chancellorsville, Gettys- 
burg, Lookout Mountai;i, Buzzards Roost. 
Marietta, and other engagements, and on 
through Georgia with Sherman. After the 
first five months of service, he was appointed 
hospital steward of his regiment. 

After the war, he returned to Owego and 
resumefl the manufacture of sash and blinds 
until 1872 when he went into the undertaking 
business. In 1880 he admitted to partnership 
O. G. King and the business was conducted 
under the firm name of Hubbard & King for 
eight years. The firm was then dissolved and 
during the ne.xt ten years Mr. Hubbard was 
in the employ of Mr. McDonald, an under- 
taker. In partnership with L. S. Colby, tmder 
the firm name of Hubbard & Colby, ^Ir. Hub- 
bard resumed business on his own account and 
has continued in it to the present time. He 
has buried upwards of 5.300 people and has 
ridden on a hearse over 100,000 miles. He is 
a member of I'abcock Post, Grand Army of 
the Republic. In politics he is a Republican 
and he has been prominent in public affairs. 
For six years he was a trustee of the incor- 
porated village, and for a time he was over- 
seer of the poor of the town. In religion he 
is a Baptist. 

He married (first), in 1861, Jane Manly, 
(seconfl) Ella Newell, (third) Lydia New- 
man, daughter of Martin Newman, (fourth) 
Elizabeth D., widow of Dr. James Newman. 
She has two children, Elizabeth \'an Gilder 
and Lynda Young. Child of his second wife: 

Lena M., married — Dawney. Children 

by third wife: Burt N., agent of the United 
States Express Company at Oneonta, New- 
York ; Edith 1'.., married P. G. King, and has 
two children. Rowcna and Ruth King. 



The surname Eastman is sy- 
EASTM.VN nonymous with Easterling. A 

native of the east of Germany 
was known as "an easterling." In medieval 
times merchants trading with the English in 



that quarter were known as iiicrcatorcs cs- 
trenses. The .surname is also synonymous with 
Eastniond. Estmond. Easemond, Easman antl 
Esmond. A branch of the family went earh 
to the Barbadoes. The only coat-of-arms of 
the Eastman family is: Gules the dexter chief 
point an escutcheon argent charged with a lion 
rampant. The Eastman genealogy gives the 
abstract of the will of John Eastman, of Rom- 
ney, .Southampton, England, dated September 
24, 1602. proved October 22, 1602, providing 
for his burial there and bequeathing to sons 
Roger and John and daughters Elizabeth and 
Margaret, all minors. 

(I) Roger Eastman, the immigrant ances- 
tor, was born in Wales, England, in 161 1. and 
died in Simsbury, Massachusetts ( now in Con- 
necticut), December 16, 1694. He came from 
Langford, Wiltshire, England, in the ship 
"Confidence," John Jabson, master, in 1638. 
as a servant of John Saunders. He settled in 
.Salisbury. Massachusetts, where he received 
land in the first division in 1640-43. He con- 
tributed to the minister's tax in 1650. He was 
a house carpenter by trade, and was a pro- 
prietor in Salisbury in 1639. He deposed 
April II. 1671, that he was aged si.xty years, 
and his wife deposed the same day that she 
was aged about fifty. They were both mem- 
bers of the church in Salisbury in 1644. He 
died December 16, 1694. He married Sarah 
Smith, born 1621, died March 11, 1(197-98. 
Children, born at .Salisbury : John, mentioned 
below; Nathaniel. March 12. 1643; Phili]). Oc- 
tober 20. 1644; Thomas, .Se])tember 11. 1646; 
Timothy, September 29. i()48: Joseph, Novem- 
ber 8, 1650: Benjamin. December 12. 1652; 
Sarah. July 25, 1655 ; Samuel, September 20, 
1657; Ruth. January 21, 1661. 

( II ) John, son of Roger Eastman, was born 
in Salisbury. Massachusetts. January 9. 1640. 
and died there March 25, 1720. He took the 
oath of allegiance in 1677. anfl was made free- 
man in 1690. He was representative from 
Salisbury to Bo.ston in the general court in 
1691. He married (first). October 27. 1663, 
Hannah Ileilie: (second). November 5. 1670, 
Mary Boynton. born in Rowley. Massachu- 
setts, May 23, 1648, daughter of William Boyn- 
ton, of Rowley, who was a school teacher, 
tailor and jilanter. Children: Hannah, born 
November 2^, 1673. died December 18, 1(173: 
John, born .August 24. 1675: Zachariah. men- 
tioned below; Roger, born February 26. 1682: 
Elizabeth. .September 26. 1(185: Thomas. Feb- 



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ruary 14, 1688. died August 2"/ . \(y^\ ; Thdiiias. 
1691 ; Joseph, June 23, 1692. 

(Ill) Zachariah, son of John Eastman, was 
born in Salisbury, August 24, 1679, and died 
in Ipswich, Massachusetts, November 18, 1732. 
He marrietl (first), May i, 1703, Martha 
Thorn, of Ipswich, who (Hed June 6, 1718; 
she was achnitted to the church in Sahsburv, 
July 28, 1706. He married (second) Fhebe 
West, who died March 3, 1723. He married 
( third ), September 3, 1724, Deborah I'illsbury. 
widow of ReuljL'n Whittier ; she iiad seven 
children from her first marriage. They lived 
in Ipswich. Children by first wife: Jeremiah, 
mentioned below; Martha, born November 19, 
1705: Abigail, December \(^. 1708; Jacob, 
March 29, 171 1: Ruth, May 25, 1713. died 
May 2^. 1714. Children by second wife: Will- 
iam, born March 9. 1719: Mary, November i^. 
1721 : lienjamin, I-'ebruary 2, 1723. Chililren 
bv third wife: Tiniuthv, .\ugust 10, 172s: 



daughter. (Jctoher 15, 
birth. 

I I \ I Jeremiaii, son 
was born in Ipswich, 
30. 1704. He settled 



diei 



oon after 



of Zachariah Eastman. 
Massachusetts, March 
in Piyfield, Massachu- 



setts. He married, February 10, 1725. Lydia. 
daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth liruwu. of 
Newbury and Salisbury, Massachusetts. Chil- 
dren : Lydia, born November 8, 1726; Hannah, 
died June 29, 1730; Martha, born December 
17. 1730; Jeremiah, November 28, 1732: Mer- 
iam, February 28, 1740; Mary, .Se])teniber 3. 
1745; Ephraim, mentioned below: Phebe, May 
I, 1750 : Benjamin. 

(\') Ephraim. sou of Jeremiah Eastman, 
was born in Byfield, Massachusetts, August 4, 
1747, and died Jaiuiary 26, 1836. He lived 
first in Kingston and later in Deerfield, New 
Hampshire, where both he and his wife died. 
He married, February 28, 1771. I'-lizabeth 
Colby, who died September 20, 1820. Chil- 
dren: Jose])h, born 1772: Israel, died young: 
Lydia, born March 3, 1774; Polly, 1775; Han- 
nah, November 25, 1778; Jeremiah, mentioned 
below; John, July 21, 1783; Daniel. October 
I"' 1785: Isaac Benson, June 17, 17SS. 

(AT) Jeremiah (2). son of Ephraim East- 
man, was born in Kingston, New Hampshire. 
January 8, 1780. In 1816 he moved from 
Deerfield, New Hampshire, to Schoharie coun- 
ty. New York, where he lived only a short 
time, moving finally to Broome county. New 
York, He was drowned June 18, 1834. in the 
Susquehanna river, near Cnion village. New 



N'ork. In appearance he was six feet si.x inches 
tall, strong and active. He served in the war 
of 1 81 2. being stationed at Fort Constitution. 
He married Sally Web.ster, born May 19, 1780, 
died June 11, 1838. Children: Hannah, born 
1804; .\senath, 1809; (jeorge Washington, 
mentioned below: Daniel; Sally; Nathaniel, 
September i, 1816; Webster, died \oung : 
Webster ( 2d ) ; child, died young ; . 

i\H) George Washington, son of Jere- 
miah ( 2 ) Ea.stman, was born in Deerfield, 
.\ew Hampshire, February 12, 1812, and died 
in P)erkshire, Tioga county. New York, )une 
<;, i8f)6. He was a tanner, farmer and currier, 
and lived in Berkshire. He served in the civil 
war, enlisting in the One Hundred and 'Hiirty- 
seventh New York Infantry. He married, in 
Homer, New York, January 17, 1835, Nancy 
Walter Atw'ater, born in Ht>mer, March 17, 
1813. died in Berkshire, December 10, 1893, 
daughter of Ira and Philanda (Stone) .Vt- 
water, and a descendant of David Atwater, 
one of the original ])lanters of New Haven, 
Connecticut. Children, three of whom served 
in the civil war: 1. James .Archibald, born in 
I'erkshire. New ^'ork, August 17, 1837. 2. 
Charles Watson, born December 24, 1838. died 
Jul\- I, 1839. 3. (leorge Dw-ight. February 14, 
1 84 1 : served in civil war in Fir.st New York 
.Mounted Rifles, and died on board llciating 
liiispital. October 20, 1862. 4. Charles Robert, 
fxirn in Cortland, New York, March 19, 1843: 
enlisted in Third New York Infantry, reen- 
Isted in l-"ifth .New York Cavalry: served 
throughout the war: sergeant. 5. Sarah Jane, 
October 8, 1844, flied June 9, 1874. 6. John 
Du I'ay. February 8, 1846, died July 2, 1874: 
served in civil war in ( )ne I lundred and Thirty- 
seventh New \'ork Infantry. 7. Ralph De 
Witt, mentioned below. 8. Leonard Du l-'ay. 
born ill Berkshire, September 10. 1854, died 
.\l)ril 7. 1855. 9. Leonard Odell. July 7, 1857, 
died .September 15, 1897; school commissioner 
of Tioga county, seven years; graduated in 
medicine from Buftalo Cniversity in 1889, 
practiced in Cnion. New York, at time of 
death: married, December 17, 1884, Mary A. 
.\tchison : children: I'lorcnce, born March 9, 
i88<): Kathcrine, November 11, 1895. 

(\ 111) Dr. Ralph DeWitt Eastman, son of 
C.eorge Washington Eastman, was born in 
Cortland, New York. .August 31. 1848. He 
received his early education in the public 
schools of I'erkshire and Owego, New ^'ork, 
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years was employed by the state board of 
regents as an instructor. He studied medicine 
at the University of Buffalo and was graduated 
in 1878. In the same year he located in Berk- 
shire, and has been in general practice there 
since that time. He has been United States 
pension examiner for Tioga county since 1890, 
and has been president of the Tioga County 
Medical Society, of which he is at present the 
secretary. He is a member of the New York 
State Medical Society, the American Medical 
Association, and of various college fraternities. 
In politics he is a Republican. He is a member 
of the Congregational church. 

He married (first), June 19, 1878, Helen 
Stark, of Penn Yan, New York, born at Penn 
Yan, died June. 19, 1879, daughter of Oliver 
and Sabra Stark. He married (second), Feb- 
ruary 12, 1884, Catherine S. Van Duzer, of 
Horseheads, born June 27. 1850, died March 
19, 1906, daughter of William Henry and 
Susan Rachel (Sayre) Van Duzer. Mr. East- 
man has no children. 



The surname Beebe is of very 
BEEBE ancient origin. Ancient family 

papers said to be in the archives 
of Aston Hall, Warwickshire, England, show 
that this family descended from two Norman 
knights, Richard and William de Boebe, who 
were of the royal guard of William the Con- 
queror, and went to England at the time of 
the conquest. They were granted land in War- 
wickshire, where the family afterwards lived. 
The name has many variations of spelling, as 
Beebe, Beby, Beeby, Beeboe, etc. The coat-of- 
arms borne by the Dilley Court family of Eng- 
land is : Azure a chevron or, three bees of the 
second. Crest : A beehive or. Motto : Sc de- 
fcndcndo. During the parliamentary wars, 
John Beebe of Dudleston Hall, county War- 
wick, with two sons, having ardently stood by 
the popular cause against the Stuarts, fighting 
under Essex and Hampden, and all through 
Cromwell's campaign, were, at the restoration 
of the monarchy, exposed to persecution by 
the court officials. They were summoned to 
take the oath of allegiance before the king's 
governor at Warwick, but refused to recognize 
the right of that court. They, with others, at 
once emigrated to the province of York, and 
settled on estate within the royal demesne. 
Soon afterwards another branch of the family 
settled in Roxbury. Massachusetts and held 
correspondence with Lord Stanley and Henry 



Fairfax of Durham. These letters were pre- 
served by William Watt, Esq., lord of the 
manor of Aston, Warwickshire. The immi- 
grant, mentioned below, is undoubtedly con- 
nected with this family. 

(I) John Beebe, the immigrant ancestor, 
was born in Broughton, county Northampton. 
England, and sailed for New England in April 
or May, 1650. He was accompanied by five 
children. His will was written on shipboard, 
and indicates that he died the same day, as he 
writes : "Being by Gods good hand brought on 
a voyage towards New Engl'd to sea and there 
smitten by the good hand of God, so as that 
my expectation is for my chaynge.'' The will 
is dated May 18, 1650. He married Rebecca 
, who died in England. Children, bap- 
tismal dates given: John, August 11, 1630: 
Thomas, June 23, 1633, twin; Samuel, twin of 
Thomas, mentioned below ; Nathaniel, Janu- 
ary 23, 1635; Mary, March 18, 1637: Hannah, 
June 23, 1640, probably died in England ; John, 
about 1 64 1. 

(II) Samuel, son of John Beebe, was bap- 
tized at Broughton, England, June 23, 1633. 
He came to New England and settled at New 
London, Connecticut, where land was granted 
him, December 2, 1651, and afterwards. He 
married (first) Agnes, daughter of William 
Keeney. He married (second) Mary Keeney. 
born 1642, sister of his first wife. She lived, 
a widow, in Colchester, and on May 8, 1716, 
conveyed to Samuel Fox, of London, land 
granted originally to William Keeney, her 
father. Samuel Beebe probably moved to Plum 
Island and died there early in 1712, as admin- 
istration was granted on his estate April 6. 
1712, to his widow Mary and son Samuel of 
Southold, Long Island. Children: Samuel, 
born about 1660; Susannah, about 1663; Will- 
iam, about 1665 ; Agnes, about 1667 : Nathan- 
iel, about 1668; Ann, about 1672: Jonathan, 
mentioned below ; Mary, about 1678 ; Thomas, 
about 1682. 

(III) Jonathan, son of Samuel Beebe, was 
born in New London, Connecticut, in 1674. 
Pie settled at Millington, Connecticut, near the 
northeast comer of Long Pond, in East Had- 
dam, coming from New London as early as 
1704. He was a man of consequence in the 
town. He owned land in Colchester. He died 
at East Haddam, October 12, 1761, aged 
eighty-seven. He married (first) Bridget, 
born at Lyme, January 9, 1671-72, died April 
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(Briggs) Brockway; (second), October 4, 
1759, Elizabeth Staples, widow, of Millington, 
"each aged about eighty years," at the time of 
their marriage. Children : Jonathan, mention- 
ed below; William, about 1700; Joshua, about 
1713; Caleb, before 1717. 

(IV) Jonathan (2), son of Jonathan (i) 
Beebe, was born about 1693-95, and died in 
East Haddam, Connecticut. He married (first) 
Hannah Coley, (second) Lydia Spencer, 
(third) Remember Nye. Children, born at 
East Haddam: Jonathan, about 1720; David, 
1724; Samuel, mentioned below; Daniel, 1728; 
Ebenezcr, 1732; Hanna, 1726; Rachel, April 
4- ^73^ > Joshua, September 16, 1733; Eliza- 
beth, July II, 1736. 

(V) Samuel (2), son of Jonathan (2) 
Beebe, was born at East Haddam in 1725, died 
October i, 1786. He married Jemima Beebe, 
born at New London, Connecticut, January 25, 
1732, daughter of Ezekiel and Hannah 
(Rogers) Beebe. He was a private in the 
French and Indian war. Children, born at 
East Haddam: Stewart, mentioned below; 
Samuel, born in 1761, died in 1784. 

(\'I) Stewart, son of Samuel (2) Beebe, 
was born at East Haddam, Connecticut, in 
1759. He married (first) Hannah Butler, 
(second) Huldah Beebe, (third) Dorothy Col- 
ton. He lived in Massachusetts. He received 
a commission as captain from Governor John 
Hancock. He was one of the founders of Wil- 
braham, Massachusetts. Children : Stewart, 
mentioned below ; Samuel, Rhoda, married 
Shotwell. 

(VII) Stewart (2), son of Stewart (i) 
Beebe, married Sophia Gilbert. Children : Lu- 
cius, Junius, Marcus, Decius, Cyrus, mentioned 
below. 

(VIII) Cyrus, son of Stewart (2) Beebe, 
was born in Connecticut, and settled in North 
Brookfield, Madison county. New York, where 
he died about 1890, at the age of ninety years. 
He was a carpenter and builder and also fol- 
lowed farming. He married (first) Rhody, 
(second) Phebe, both daughters of Harris and 
Martha Chesebro (see Chesebro). Children: 
Judson L.. mentioned below; Cyrus. 

(IX) Judson L., son of Cyrus Beebe. was 
born in Sangerfield, Oneida county, New 
York, in 1823, died in North Brookfield, New 
York, in 1893. He was a contractor and 
builder at Sangerfield and North Brookfield. 
He married Susan Blanding, of Brookfield. 
New York. Children : Hiram J., mentioned 

30— c 



below ; Alice, married Frank Barber, of Wash- 
ington, D. C. ; Lucina, died in infancy. 

(X) Iliram J., son of Judson L. Beebe, was 
born in Brookfield, Madison county, in 1848, 
died in Candor, New York, January 21, 1906. 
He was a carpenter by trade and was in busi- 
ness in Brookfield until 1899 when he removed 
to Candor, where he became engaged in the 
printing business. In politics he was a Dem- 
ocrat ; he was ta.x collector, and held other 
offices of trust and honor in the town of 
Brookfield. In religion he was an Episco- 
palian. 

He married, Amelia, born in Brookfield, 
April 19, 1849, daughter of James and Chloe 
(Clark) Hills. Children: i. William Lyman, 
mentioned below. 2. Winifred L., married 
George L. Smith, of L'nion Hill, New York; 
children, Louise and Raymond. 3. James H., 
resides at Carthage, New York. 

(XI) William Lyman, son of Hiram J. 
Beebe, was born May 9, 1869, in South Byron, 
Genesee county. New York, and was educated 
in the public schools of that town and Brook- 
field, and the Brookfield Free Academy. He 
learned the printer's trade in the office of a 
cousin at Brookfield. .\fterward he started 
a printing office at Earlville and conducted it 
until 1899, when he came to Candor, Tioga 
county, and established a weekly newspaper, 
the Candor Courier, which he has conducted 
ever since. This newspaper is of large circu- 
lation and influence. In ])olitics Mr. Beebe is 
an Independent. He has been town clerk for 
five years. He is a member of Oneka Tribe, 
Improved Order of Red Men, and of the Bap- 
tist church. 

He married, December 18, 1890, May A., 
born April 14. 1870, daughter of Truman and 
Olive (Damon) Payne, of Madison county. 
New York. Children: i. Susan T., born 
August 18, 1894. 2. C. Arthur, born May 3, 
1899. 

(The Chesebro Line). 

(I) William Chesebrough. the immigrant 
ancestor, was born in England in 1594, prob- 
ably in or near Boston, Lincolnshire, where he 
is known to have lived some eleven or twelve 
years before he came to America. He came 
on the ship ".Vrabella" with his wife .Anna and 
three children ; the ship was the Admiral of the 
fleet of fourteen which carried the passengers 
who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and 
it set sail from Cowes, Isle of Wight, Tuesday, 
March 30, 1630. Sarah Chesebrough, whose 



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name stands No. 78 on the roll of the First 
Church of Boston, Massachusetts, was doubt- 
less a passenger on the ship, and is thought 
to have been William's mother. They settled 
first at Charlestown, July 30, 1630, but in three 
months moved to Boston, where the names of 
William and his wife are on the roll of the 
First Church. He was made a freeman in 
May, 1 63 1, and was chosen one of the two 
deputies from the town ; he was also constable 
and assessor of rates ; he served on a com- 
mittee to allot to "able bodied men and youth" 
grounds for planting. In 1637 or 1638 he 
moved to Mount Wollaston, later Braintree, 
where he was representative and commissioner 
or local judge for certain cases. Later he 
moved to Seekonk, near Plymouth Colony, 
where he was a prominent man. He was op- 
posed to renaming the town Rehoboth, and be- 
cause of a prejudice which arose against him 
from this he went to Pequot, where he was 
urged to settle, but he finally settled in Weque- 
tequock Cove, in Pavvcatuck, and was assisted 
in his moving by Roger Williams. Soon after 
this a false charge was made against him by 
jealous neighbors, declaring that he intended 
to carry on trade with the Indians in fire- 
arms, and the federal court of Connecticut 
issued a warrant requiring him to answer this, 
and though at first he refused, he finally an- 
swered and cleared himself. Both Massachu- 
setts and Connecticut claimed the land at Pe- 
quot, and Connecticut tried to gain it by found 
ing a new town on Chesebrough's side of the 
river. Thomas Stanton, the famous Indian 
interpreter, joined him, with Palmer and 
Miner, in settling Stonington, which at first was 
called Southington, then Mystic, then Stoning- 
ton. For the last three years of his life he 
was selectman of the town, until June 9, 1667. 
when he died. He married Anne, daughter of 
Peter Stevenson, by license, December 15, 
1620, in St. Botolph's Church, Boston, Lin- 
colnshire, England. His wife died August 24, 
/ 1775. Children, baptismal dates given: Marie, 
May 2, 1622, died in infancy ; Martha, Sep- 
tember 18, 1623. died in infancy; David, died 
in infancy; Jonathan, Sejitember 9, 1624, twin 
of David ; Samuel, mentioned below ; Androni- 
cus and Junius, twins, February 6, 1629; Na- 
thaniel, January 25, 1630; John, September 2, 
1632; Jabez, May 3, 1635, died young; Elisha, 
June 4, 1637; Joseph, born July 18, 1640. died 
young. 

(II) Samuel, son of William Chesebrough, 



was baptized April i, 1627, at Boston, England, 
buried July 31, 1673, in Stonington, Connecti- 
cut. He was made freeman in 1657 and signed 
the Pawcatuck Articles of Association in 1658. 
He served as constable, selectman in 1660, dep- 
uty to the general court in 1665-66-67-70-71- 
72-73. He lived in Boston, Braintree and Re- 
hoboth, Massachusetts. He married, Novem- 
ber 30, 1655, Abigail , who married 

isec(ind), June 15, 1675, Joshua Holmes, of 
Westerly, Rhode Island, and (third), July 
4, 1698, Captain James Avery, of New Lon- 
don, Connecticut, who died April 18, 1700, 
leaving her again a widow. Children : Abigail, 
born September 30, 1656; Marie, February 28, 
1658; Samuel, November 20, 1660; William, 
April 8, 1662; Sarah, December 24, 1663; 
Elisha, mentioned below ; Elizabeth. January 6, 
1669. 

(Ill) Elisha, son of Samuel Chesebrough, 
was born April 4, 1667, and died September i, 
1727. He married (first). January 27, 1692, 
Marie, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Avery) 
Miner, born October 6, 1671, at Stonington, 
died November 29, 1704, buried at Togwonk. 
He was received into the Stonington church 
February 5, 1705. His will was proved No- 
vember 14, 1727. He married (second) Re- 
becca Mason, February 6, 1707, daughter of 
Daniel and Rebecca (Hobart) Mason, born 
February 10, 1682, died January 15, 1742. Chil- 
dred by first wife: Mary, born December 15, 
1692; Elihu and Elisha. twins, September 15, 
1694; John, October 25. 1696; James, men- 
tioned below: Jabez. January 10, 1701 ; Zebu- 
Ion, July 6, died November 24, 1704. Children 
by second wife: Rebecca, November 16, 1707; 
Jedediah, October 12, 1710; Zebulon, June 
13. 1712; Prudence. July 12, 1716, died young; 
.Abigail. September 28, 1717; Lucy, July 2, 
1722; Nathaniel, September 6, 1724, died 
March i, 1725. 

(I\') James, son of Elisha Chesebrough, 
was born May 20, 1699, at Stonington. He 
married, November 24. 17 18, Prudence Har- 
ris, of Middletown, Connecticut, born January 
I, 1700-T, daughter of U'illiam and Martha 
(Collins) Harris. She married (second), 
August 21, 1746, in North Stonington, Captain 
Daniel Brown. Children : Prudence, born Oc- 
tober 16, 1 7 19; Jabez. July 21, 1 721, died young; 
Idisha, baptized April 28, 1723: Rebecca. Feb- 
ruary 6. 1726: Sybil. August 24, 1729; Jabez, 
February 13. 1732; James, June 27. 1736, men- 
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(V) James (2), son of James (i) Chese- 
brough, was born June 27, 1736. He married, 
December 10, 1758, Lucy, daughter of Josep.i 
and Sarah ( Worden) I'endleton, "of Lottery 
village fame". She was baptized Alay 5, 1742. 
Children: Paul; James, died March 25, 1848, 
aged 86; Harris, mentioned below; William, 
born January 22, 1764; Joseph Leroy : Ben- 
jamin; Isaac, March i, 1774. 

(\'l) Harris Chesebro. son of James (2) 

Chesebrough, married Martha . He 

was a sailor. Children, born in Hopkinton, 
Rhode Island: Patty, September 19, 1790; 
Harris, Jr., July 13, 1791 ; Lydia, July 24, 
1794; Samuel Champlin, April 13, 1796; Na- 
than, married Lydia Downing; Rhody and 
Phebe, both married Cyrus Beebe (see 
Reebe) ; Jared, married Sarah Brown; Eli, 
married Eliza Blanding; Phebe, married Ly- 
man Palmer. 



The Stiles name is of Anglo- 
STILES Saxon origin, and is derived 
from the dwelling-place. The 
names Styleman, Styel and Styell are also de- 
rived from style. The family is very ancient in 
England. 

(I) John Stiles, the immigrant ancestor, was 
baptized in St. Michael's Church, Milbroke, 
Bedfordshire, England, December 25, 1595. 

He marrie;d Rachel , in England. She 

was the first person to step ashore at Connecti- 
cut when the Plantation was begun in 1636. 
John Stiles was forty years of age when he 
came to Windsor, Connecticut, where he had a 
home lot next to his brother Francis. In 1663 
his son Henry had this lot and lived on it until 
1673, when he exchanged with John Gaylord. 
In 1660 he gave his son John a lot twelve acres 
wide near Henry's lot, which he sold in 1653 
to Nathaniel Bissell. In 1659-60 he paid for 
a seat in the meeting-house at Windsor, the 
price being six shillings for man and wife. He 
died at Windsor, June 4, 1662-3, ^g^'' sixty- 
seven, and his wife died September 3, 167.;.. 
His will was dated May 30, 1662. Cliildren, 
born in England : Henry, about 1629. and John, 
about 1633; Isaac, mentioned below; Sarah, 
born in Windsor, Connecticut. 

(II) Isaac, son of John Stiles, was born in 
Windsor. Connecticut, and died at Stratford, 
Connecticut, January 5, 1714-5. On January 
2^, 1 7 10. there is a record of his baptism in a 
journal kept by Rev. Mr. Sharp, an Episco- 
palian clergyman in New York, during Lord 



Cornbury's administration, stating that he was 
"the first male child born in the Colony of 
Connecticut, a man of 80 years of age." He 
probably ba])tized him <luring a trip through 
Connecticut with the governor. Savage says 
that if he were the first child born in Connecti- 
cut he must have been about seventy-six years 
of age instead of eighty. He married Hannah 
. and settled in Wethersfield, Connecti- 
cut, about 1665. After 167 1 he moved to 
Stratford, Connecticut, where he lived the rest 
of his life. The only deed found given by him 
was to his son Jonathan, a deed of twenty-four 
acres of division lands, dated June 26, 1705, 
recorded July 20, 1706; this was on condition 
that he take care of his father for the rest of 
his life, and also pay three pounds each to his 
sisters Hannah, Sarah and Deborah. Isaac 
was one of the petitioners to the Bishop of 
London in .April, 1707, for the establishment 
of Christ Church, at Stratford. Children: 
Isaac, mentioned below ; John, who according 
to President Stiles died before 1710, and 
whom, like John, Cothren does not find on the 
records ; born at Stratford, Connecticut ; Sarah, 
November 18, 1677; Deborah, January 18. 
1682; Jonathan, March 10, 1688-9, founder of 
large New Jersey family ; Hannah, November 

3. •694- 

(III) Isaac (2), son of Isaac (i) Stiles, 
was born in 1663, married Hannah, daughter 
of Roljert Rose, of Stratford, Connecticut. Her 
father came from Ipswich, England, in 1634, 
in the ship "Francis," aged fifteen, with his 
father, Robert Rose Sr.. and settled in 1648 

in Stratford ; married Hannah , and had 

eight children, of whom the youngest was 
Hannah. Isaac Stiles died in 1690. and the 
inventory of his estate \: dated December 15, 
1691. The widow Hannah and Isaac Bennit 
were appointed administrators ; she married 
(second) Samuel Hargar. of Derby, Connecti- 
cut, May 9, 1693. 'Children of Isaac and Han- 
nah Stiles : Deborah, married Samuel Shethar ; 
Isaac, mentioned below. 

(I\") Isaac (3), son of Isaac (2) Stiles, 
was born April 5, 169-, and settled first at 
Stratford, then at Woodbury, Connecticut, 
where he died .April 6, 1787. aged ninety-seven 
vears. He married (first), F'ebruary 25, 1718- 
0. .Abigail .Adams, of Milford, Connecticut, 
born September 25, 1696; (second) Sarah 

. who died December 19, 1771. Cothren, 

in his "History of Woodbury," says that Abi- 
gail, the first wife, "seems to have died before 



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1724, for in that year his wife Sarah was dis- 
missed to the Ripton church from Stratford". 
Children, born at Stratford, except the young- 
est : William, January 23, 1718-20; Sarah, De- 
cember 19, 1721 ; Abigail, April 6, 1723; Han- 
nah, July 12, 1726, died November 4, 1726; 
Isaac, mentioned below; Mabel, April 11, 
1730; Betty, July 2, 1732; Mary, September 
21, 1734; Samuel, June i, 1736; John, August 
21, 1738; David, born at Woodbury, June 18, 
1741. 

(V) Isaac (4), son of Isaac (3) Stiles, 
was bom at Stratford, Connecticut, April 17, 
1728. He married Elizabeth . Chil- 
dren: Eunice, baptized July 14, 1751, died 
1776, unmarried; Annis, baptized July i, 
1753, married Nathaniel Bristol, November 
10, 1777: Gideon, baptized May 15, 1757; Na- 
than, married Betsey Wagner ; Truman, born 
at Southbury, Connecticut, 1761, married La- 
vinia Leavenworth and Anne Jarrett ; Lewis, 
mentioned below; Simeon, died April i, 1777, 
aged eleven years. 

(VI) Lewis, son of Isaac (4) Stiles, was 
born about 1764, at Southbury, Connecticut, 
or Minisink, New York. The records of 
Southbury show that Lewis Stiles married at 
Bethlehem, Connecticut, September 15, 1793, 
Sarah Wray ; according to the family tradi- 
tion his wife's maiden name was Wood. He 
lived and died in Minisink, Orange county. 
New York. His home was near Greenville. 
He was a captain in the war of 1812. He lived 
to the great age of eighty- four years. By 
occupation he was a farmer. Children : 
Lemon Nathaniel, mentioned below ; Lewis, 
Artey, married Overton ; Phebe, mar- 
ried Hoyt ; one other child. 

(VII) Lemon Nathaniel, son of Lewis 
Stiles, was born at Mount Hope, Orange 
county. New York, March 24, 1807, and died 
at Binghamton, New York, May 7, i8go. He 
was educated in the district sTchools, and in his 
younger days was a school teacher. Afterward 
he was a dealer in clocks, tinware and Yankee 
notions, and had stores and peddler's carts from 
which he sold his wares, after the custom of 
the trade in those days. In later years he" was 
a hotel proprietor. He owned a hotel at Otis- 
ville and another at Mount Hope, New York. 
He spent his last years in retirement from ac- 
tive business, making his home with his daugh- 
ter in Binghamton, where he died. He mar- 
ried Cynthia Green, born at Mount Hope, in 
1812, died December 6, 1891, daughter of 



Charles and Polly (Woodward) Green. Chil- 
dren: I. Charles Lewis, mentioned below. 2. 
Ambrose Woodward, born October 27, 1838, 
died in Florida ; married Margarett Claflin ; 
son Charles, born 1864, died 1907. 3. Mary 
Frances, born October i, 1840; married Joseph 
Gillespie, of Binghamton. 

(VIII) Dr. Charles Lewis Stiles, son of 
Lemon Nathaniel Stiles, was born in Sussex 
county, New Jersey, October 24. 1834. He re- 
ceived his early education in the district schools 
of Alount Hope and Otisville, New York. Len- 
der the instruction of Dr. S. M. Hand, of Nor- 
wich, New York, he began the study of medi- 
cine and continued with him four years, after- 
ward taking the course at the Geneva ATedical 
College, Geneva, New York, from which he 
was graduated with the degree of M. D. in the 
class of 1865. For five years he was in general 
practice at Gibson, Susquehanna county, Penn- 
sylvania. In 1870 he removed to Owego, New 
York, and he has continued in practice to the 
present time and enjoyed a large measure of 
success and a high reputation for skill and 
learning. He is a member of the Tioga County 
Medical Society, Broome County Medical So- 
ciety, Steuben County Medical Society. Che- 
mung County Medical Society, Susquehanna 
Comity Medical Society, Lake Cayuga Medical 
and Surgical Association, Binghamton Acad- 
emy of Aledicine, Elmira Academy of Medi- 
cine, Si.xth District of the New York State 
Medical Society, and the American Medical 
Association. In religion he is a Congregation- 
alist and has been deacon and trustee of the 
Congregational church of Owego. He is also 
a member of the Minisink \'alley Historical 
Society of Port Jervis. New York. In politics 
he is a Democrat. 

He married. May 18, 1864, Marietta Archi- 
bald, born in Owego, 1840, daughter of Al- 
mond W. and Abbie (Bates) Archibald, and 
granddaughter of James Archibald, who came 
from Scotland and settled in New York state. 
Children of Dr. and Mrs. Stiles: i. Archi- 
bald Wilson, born September 27, 1872; grad- 
uated in medicine from Baltimore Medical 
College, and passed medical examinations in 
New York, Tennessee and Mrginia ; now en- 
gaged in insurance business in Indianapolis. 
Indiana ; married Kathleen Barnett, of \'ir- 
ginia ; has daughter Kathleen Barnett Stiles ; 
his wife is deceased. 2. Jennie Frank, born 
March 7, 1876, died in infancy. 3. Lora Belle, 
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Corey Jr., of Owego, a merchant. 4. Louise 
Delphine, twin of Lora Belle, married Henry 
E. Kingman, of Owego, son of Leroy W. 
Kingman, editor and publisher of the Ozccgo 
Gazette. 



In a recent genealogy of one line 
D.W'IS of the descendants of John Davis, 
of Derby, Connecticut, the author, 
George T. Davis, of New Rochelle, New York, 
says : "I have no positive knowledge of the date 
of the arrival of the original Davis in the col- 
onies." Although John Davis was called a 
Welshman, he appears in Derby, Connecticut, 
about 1690, at a time when very little immigra- 
tion was taking place and in a section where 
other Davis pioneers had come. The relation- 
ship of the numerous Davis pioneers in the 
first century of the settlement of New Eng- 
land has never been determined by genealo- 
gists. We know that many were related, and 
there is a strong probability that many were 
of Welsh ancestry. John Davis may have been 
son of Tobias Davis, of Roxbury. His wife 
Mary was widow of Jasper Gunn, who came 
from Roxbury, Massachusetts, to Derby, Con- 
necticut. Tobias Davis was in Roxbury as 
early as 1646, and his wife Sarah was buried 
there February 15, 1648. He married (sec- 
ond), December 13, 1649, Bridget Kinman ; he 
died April 25, 1690. His son John, born April 
17, 1651, is mentioned in his will. There was 
also a William Davis in Roxbury early. Be- 
fore 1650 there were in Massachusetts alone 
thirty or more heads of families of the Davis 
surname. The name of John Davis' first wife 
and his age are not known. 

(I) John Davis located in Derby, Connecti- 
cut, between 1685 and 1690, and became a 
prominent citizen. He married (second). May 
12, 1691, \\'idow Mary Gunn. He and Mary 
Gunn were witnesses to a deed dated Febru- 
ary, 1691 (p. 94, Derby records). His request 
about this time for half a rood of land near his 
house on the eastern side of the highway along 
the hill toward Mr. Powers and the meeting 
house, in order to have room for a barn, was 
granted. He shared in a division of land in 
March, 1702. His name is in a list of inhab- 
itants of 1696. He married (third), about 
1692, Abigail Tibbals, daughter of John, of 
Milford, Connecticut. Children of first wife: 
Sarah : John, mentioned below : Samuel, mar- 
ried Mercy Bennett ; George, Children of third 
wife: Mary, born August 2, 1693: Nathaniel, 



February 26, 1698; Jabez, July 24, 1703; Eliz- 
abeth, July 31, 1707; .\bigail, April 28, 1709. 

(H) John (2), son of John (i) Davis, was 
born about 1680, and came to Derby, Connecti- 
cut, with his father. He married, July 15, 
1706, Sarah, daughter of John and Anna 
(Harger) Chatfield : she was born December 
5, 1686, and died June 20, 1721. Children: 
Joseph, mentioned below ; Dan, born January 
17, 1710, married Ruth Wooster Mindwell, 
February 4, 1712; Abigail, November 20, 
171 3; Rachel, July 5, 17 16: Betty, October 11, 
1 7 19, married Ebenezer Keeney. 

(HI) Captain Joseph Davis, son of John 
(2) Davis, was born in Derby. Connecticut, 
June 20, 1708. He was active in military af- 
fairs, was an ensign in 1750, lieutenant in 
1752, captain in 1754, of the Derby company. 
He married (first), April 25, 1734, Mary, 
daughter of Sanniel and Lois Wheeler, of 
Stratford; she was born in Stratford, May 30, 
1714, died January 18, 1764. He married 
(second), January 30, 1765, Amy Foote, 
widow, of Newtown, Connecticut, January 30, 
1765. There is a tablet to his memory in the 
church at Oxford (St. Peters), the land for 
which he deeded December 22, 1766. Chil- 
dren by first wife: Sarah, born November 26. 
1735, married Isaac Nichols ; Abigail, April 
12, 1738, married Abel Gunn; Mary, October 
15, 1740; Joseph, July 10, 1743; Hannah, 
1744, married Richard \\'elton ; John, Febru- 
ary 2, 1748, died young; Rachel, July 4, 1752, 
married John Church ; John, mentioned below. 

(IV) Colonel John (3) Davis, son of Jo- 
seph Davis, was born at Oxford, formerly 
Derby, Connecticut, September 28, 1755, and 
died there November 27, 1848. He was a 
prominent citizen and was colonel of a regi- 
ment in the militia. He was admitted a free- 
man September 16, 1777. Soon after the or- 
ganization of the town of Oxford in 1791, a 
green was provided for a common and train- 
ing field, but this ground was overgrown with 
brambles, which were cleared away by the men 
of the town under the direction of Colonel 
Davis, then captain. He became commander 
of the Thirty-second Connecticut Regiment. 
He retained his faculties to a remarkable de- 
gree to the end of his long life. At the age of 
ninety he broke a colt and rode him from Ox- 
ford to New Haven, a distance of a dozen 
miles. In the summer he was ninety-three he 
worked with a scythe in the hayfields. No- 
vember 27, 1848, his house was destroyed by 



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fire, and over-exertion at the fire, togetlier with 
a fall from his horse, ultimately caused his 
death, December 27, 1848. 

lie married, April 19, 1782, Mehitable 
Thomas, born at New liaven, April 12, 1764, 
daughter of Captain Reuben Thomas and 
Rhoda (Clinton). His wife died December 27, 
1852, and was buried at his side in the ceme- 
tery at the rear of St. Peter's church, O.xford. 
Children: Sarah, born March 31, 1783, at Ox- 
ford, married Addison Bischo; Anson, Sep- 
tember 5, 1785, married Sally Prudden ; Tru- 
man, March 13, 1787, married thrice; John, 
September 8, 1788, married Laura Riggs ; Lu- 
cretia, September 22, 1790, married Samuel 
Mallory; Mary, May 28, 1792, married Abi- 
jah Hyde; Charity, February 8, 1794, married 
Peter Prudden; Nabby, December 21, 1795. 
married Harvey Osborne ; Nancy, twin of 
Xabby, married Cyrus Humphrey ; Joseph 
Wheeler, .August 13, 1798, married Henrietta 
Newton ; Sheldon, September 3, 1800, died 
May 30, 1813; Lewis. January 26, 1803, mar- 
ried Lucinda Perkins ; Burritt, mentioned be- 
low ; Julia Maria, July 4, 1810, married Eben- 
ezer Riggs. 

(V) Burritt, son of Colonel John (3) 
Davis, was born at Oxford, July 12, 1806, on 
Chestnut Tree Hill, and died at Oxford, May 
24, 1893. He attended the public schools of 
his native town, and settled on the farm of his 
father there. He was a man of sterling quali- 
ties, and respected by all who knew him. In 
1879 he took an active part in the organiza- 
tion of the Davis family reunion, and, being 
the only survivor of the fourteen children of 
Colonel Davis, he was elected first president, 
and held the office until his death, attending 
fourteen annual reunions. His portrait is on 
page 217 of the "Genealogy of Col. John 
Davis" (1910), by George T. Davis, of New 
Rochelle. He married, December 11, 1828, 
Sarah Electa Osborne, of Oxford, born May 6, 
1808, died in Oxford, January 4, 1889, daugh- 
ter of Hiram Osborne. Children: Burr J., 
mentioned below; Sarah E., born October 11, 
1832, married Frederick O. Cable; John H., 
born September 20. 1834, died November 6, 
1835. 4. Barnard H., born May 22, 1843. 

(VI) Burr Jay, son of Burritt Davis, was 
born at Oxford, September 6, 1829, and died 
at Owego. New York, March 6, 1897. His 
early life was spent in Connecticut, and he 
was educated in the public schools. He re- 
moved to Owego, New "S'ork, in 1857, but on 



account of ill health returned to Oxford and 
afterward went abroad. In i86g he represent- 
ed his town in the general assembly of the 
state. Soon afterward he went to Owego again 
and assumed the management of the Central 
House until 1878, when he purchased the Ah- 
waga House, which he conducted during the 
rest of his life. Before 1878 for several years 
he was a partner in the oyster firm of Davis, 
Corey & Company. In 1878 he was elected 
supervisor of the town of Owego as a Green- 
back candidate, endorsed by the Democrats, 
and held that office for two terms. In 1881 he 
defeated William Elwell, the Republican candi- 
date for sheriff, overcoming a Republican ma- 
jority of 1,500, and served a term of three 
years. L'pon the death of Sheriff" Cleveland, in 
May, 1889, he was appointed sheriff of Tioga 
county by Governor Hill, and served until 
January, 1890. He was a lifelong Democrat, 
except for the period when many Democrats 
supported the Greenback movement, and he 
was popular with men of both parties. He 
was past master of Friendship Lodge, No. 153, 
Free Masons, and past high priest of New Je- 
rusalem Chapter, No. 47, Royal Arch Masons, 
and a member of Malta Commandery, Knights 
Templar, No. 21, of Binghamton. He became 
a Mason in 1864, and was prominent in that 
order all the rest of his life. He was a char- 
ter member of Starr Lodge, L^nited Workmen, 
of Owego. He was always fond of outdoor 
sports and recreation, especially fishing and 
hunting. He married (first), December 9, 
1857, Ellen Jane Fai'rchild, of Seymour, Con- 
necticut, born I\Iay 24, 1833, died at Owego, 
July 26, 1863, daughter of Natlian and Au- 
gusta Fairchild. He married (second), June 15, 
1870, Sarah F. Sperry, of New Haven, Con- 
necticut. Child by first wife: Anna A., born 
March 17, 1839, married John Ward, proprie- 
tor of the Ahwaga Hotel, Owego; child, Ma- 
bel E. Ward. Children of second wife: Fred- 
erick Jay, mentioned below ; Ellen E., born 
September 15, 1874, married Howard Mal- 
lery. of Syracuse, New York ; child, Frances 
•S. Mallery; John B., born May 9, 1881. 

(\TI) Frederick Jay. son of Burr Jay 
Davis, was born in Owego, .August 12, 1871. 
He attended the oublic schools of his native 
town, the Owego .Academy and Cornell LTni- 
versity, from which he was graduated in the 
class of 1896 with the degree of bachelor of 
laws. In June of that year he was admitted to 
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nership with Martin S. Lynch under the firm 
name of Lynch & Davis, and continued in this 
relation in general practice in Owego until 
1905. Since then he has practiced there alone. 
He is now (1911) serving his fifth term as 
corporation counsel of Owego. He is a di- 
rector of the Owego Water Company. He is 
past master of Friendship Lodge, Ko. 133, 
Free Masons: member of the Delta Tau Delta 
fraternity of Cornell ; of Defiance Hook and 
Ladder Company; member of the Country 
Club, president of the Owego Rod and Gun 
Club, and a member of the Camp Fire Camp of 
.■\merica. In politics he is a Democrat, in re- 
ligion an Episcopalian. 

He married, October 16, 1901, Clara S. 
Chamberlain, of Owego, born in Owego, 
daughter of Stephen and Romietta Chamber- 
lain. Their only child died in infancy. 



Theophilus Whiting, the im- 
W'HITIXCi migrant ancestor, was born in 

England, and came to this 
country about the time of the revolution, and 
settled in Connecticut. 

(II) Thomas, son of Theophilus Whiting, 
was born in Connecticut, and remained there 
until 181 1, in Litchfield, when he removed, 
with his wife and eight children, to SpafTord, 
Onondaga county, New York. He was one of 
the original settlers of the latter town, then 
called Rabcock Settlement, and spent most of 
his life there. He was a farmer by occupation. 
He died at Onondaga Hill, near Syracuse. 

(III) Anson Lord, son of Thomas Whiting, 
was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, and lived 
there until he was four years old, when he re- 
moved with his parents to SpafTord. There 
he lived until he was a young man, and be- 
came a farmer. In 1833 he removed to the 
town of Scott, and carried on a mercantile 
business there for sixteen years. He also 
manufactured flax for many years. He was an 

J. extensive land owner, and shortly before his 
death gave each of his five children a good 
farm. He was a keen and energetic business 
man and accumulated considerable money. In 
politics he was at first a Whig, and later a 
Republican. He was active in political mat- 
ters, and held a number of public offices ; for 
many years a member of the board of super- 
visors, and also town clerk. In religion he was 
a Seventh Day Baptist, and contributed largely 
to the support of that church. He married 
Nancy, daughter of Henry and Jemima 



(Crandall) P.urdick. Her father was of 
Scotch descent, born in Ilopkinton, Rhode 
Island, where the family had settled. There 
he remained until 1800, when he came to 
Scott, and bought a farm. .After staying there 
for two years he returned to his native state, 
but finally came back to Scott, and with him 
came his father, mother and four brothers, 
Joseph, Paul, Jesse and Russell. They all set- 
tled within five miles of the town, and with 
the exception of Paul, became prosperous and 
successful farmers. The latter became an 
inventor, and had a son Orin who became well 
known all over the country by his connection 
with the Osborne reaper. Henry was a pioneer 
settler of Scott, and one of its leading citi- 
zens. He cleared a farm of his own, contain- 
ing one hundred acres, and afterward cleared 
farms for others. He was justice of the peace 
for many years, and served on the board of 
supervisors. He married Jemima Crandall. 
Children : Elmira, married Daniel Babcock, of 
Scott, deceased ; Sallie, married Abel Lewis, of 
Scott, deceased ; Nancy, mentioned above ; 
Betsy, deceased ; Henry Lee, Jared C, a prom- 
inent publisher in New York City, at the head 
of the "Ladies' Wreath and Parlor .Annual ;" 
Russell M.. a prominent business man of 
Hartford. Connecticut, also interested in the 
cultivation of oranges in Florida ; William M., 
.Asher B., publisher of Helper's "Impending 
Crisis;" he died in 1869, agetl eighty-nine 
\ears. Anson Lord Whiting died at Scott, in 
1896. Children: Lucelia O.. married Hon. S. 
.A. Childs, deceased ; Henry Lee, was a mer- 
chant in Hartford for twenty-five years, re- 
turned to Scott in 1892 and died there same 
year; Hamilton I., mentioned below; Lorinda 
F., married James B. Spencer ; Adelle O., 
married Leland Griffin, of Scott. 

(1\') Hamilton Ira, son of Anson Lord 
Whiting, was born in Scott, Cortland county. 
New York, February 13, 1839, and died in 
Homer, New York, July 5. 191 1. He received 
his primary education in the district schools 
of his native town, and afterward attended 
^he De Ruyter Institute, of Madison county. 
New A'ork. .At the age of eighteen he left 
school and engaged in the manufacture of 
flax, in company with his father, under the 
firm name of .A. L. \\'hiting & Son. Eight 
years later he began the manufacture of green 
tow, and continued about fifteen years. He 
was the first in that section to engage in that 
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merchandise store in Scott, and conducted it 
alone until 1898, when he admitted his son, 
Merton A., as a member of the firm. A year 
later he retired from active business, and his 
son has since carried the same business with 
great success. He went to Homer to live in 
igoo, and spent his last years in the super- 
vision of his farm of one hundred and forty- 
eight acres. He married, in 1858, Josephine 
A., daughter of Dr. \\'illiam M. and Hulda L. 
(Babcock) Truman, of Alfred Center, Alle- 
gany county. New York. Her father, Dr. 
Truman, was born in Madison county. New 
York, and studied medicine in Scott, gradu- 
ated when nineteen years old. and then went 
to Richburg, Allegany county, where he prac- 
ticed for about seven years. He then removed 
to Alfred Center, where he acquired a large 
practice, and spent the rest of his life. His 
children were Josephine A., mentioned above ; 
Elosia A., Adelbert W., M. D., living in Roch- 
ester, New York ; J\lary, deceased. Josephine 
A. Truman was born in Richburg in 1836. 
Children of Hamilton I. Whiting: William I., 
born i860, clerk and manager of a grocery 
store at Skaneateles, New York ; Lena M., 
1863, married John B. Brown, a farmer of 
Scott ; Merton Anson, mentioned below ; 
Mary E., married Alvah Norton, of Spafford. 
Mr. Whiting was a Republican in politics, and 
took an active interest in both state and local 
politics. He served as county committee- 
man, and for one term as supervisor. He 
was also a director of the Homer National 
Bank. 

fV) Merton .Anson, son of Hamilton Ira 
Whiting, was born in Scott. June 26, 1868, 
and was educated in the district schools of 
that town and in Homer Academy. After 
leaving school he went into the business of 
general merchant in Scott, with his father, 
imder the firm name of H. I. \Miiting & Son, 
a ]>artnersliii) which continued for three years. 
In i8qo he bought out his father's interest and 
until 1901 he continued the business alone un- 
der the name of M. A. Whiting. In the latter 
year he removed to Homer and became iden- 
tified with D. D. Newton and A. W. Gibbs in 
the manufacture of woolen cloth and shirts, 
under the firm name of D. D. Newton & Com- 
pany. From ic)02 until iQio he travelled on 
the road in the interests of this firm. In iQio 
thev began the manufacture of fish lines, also, 
and of this department he has since had the 
management. In politics he is a Republican, 



and has held several town offices — postmaster 
of Scott and town clerk for eight years. In re- 
ligion he is a Congregationalist. He married, 
in 1892, Addie AI., daughter of Jared E. and 
Mary M. (Clark) Babcock. Children : Archie, 
born July 8, 1901, in Scott; Herbert C. June 
30, 1909, in Homer. 



Rev. Adam Blakeman, the 
BL.ACKMAN immigrant ancestor of the 
Connecticut Blakeman and 
Blackman families, located in Stratford, Con- 
necticut, and his was undoubtedly one of the 
first seventeen families which founded this 
town. He was born in 1598, in Staffordshire, 
England, and Alay 28. 161 7, matriculated at 
Christ's College . After he graduated he 
preached for a time in Leicestershire and Der- 
byshire. He came to this country in 1638, 
and died at Stratford in September. 1665. His 
widow died in 1674. Children: i. Mary, born 
1636, married Joshua Atwater, of New Ha- 
ven, (second) Rev. John Higginson. 2. John, 
mentioned below. 3. James, married, 1657, 
Miriam \Mieeler, (second) Bathsheba Pensin. 
4. Samuel, married, November, 1660, Eliza- 
beth Wheeler, and died 1668. 5. Deliverance, 
married, 1685, Hannah Bonfield. 6. Rev. 
Benjamin, graduate of Har\-ard College, 1663, 
minister at Maiden, Massachusetts, and at 
Scarborough, Saco and Boston : married Re- 
becca Scotto. The family name variously ap- 
pears as Blackman and Blakeman. 

(II) John Blackman, son of Rev. Adam 
Blakemen, married, about 1653, Dorothy, 
daughter of Rev. Henry Smith, of Wethers- 
fiel(l, Connecticut, and made his home at 
Fairfield, where he died in 1662. His widow 
"appears to have possessed remarkable charms, 
either of person, intellect or heart, for besides 
passing through a case of litigation in court 
for her hand she married four times, twice 
after she was over fifty years of age." Rev. 
Adam Blakeman, who survived his son John, 
said in his will: "I give to my daughter 
(daughter-in-law) Blakeman if she marry 
not John Thomas and shall take her friends' 
consent in the matter, or continue a widow, five 
pounds." The general court nullified a mar- 
riage or contract with John Thomas, who 
failed, in the language of the court, to "make 
good his claim to that woman." Anyhow, the 
widow married her attorney in the case, 
Francis Hall, October 31. 1665. She mar- 
ried again !Mark St. John, who died in 1693, 



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and for her fourth husband, Deacon Isaac 
Moore, of Farniington. She died in 1706. 
Cliilih-en of John Blackman : John, married 
Mary Kimberly ; Ebenezer, mentioned below ; 
Joseph, a cooper, married Hannah Hall. 

(HI) Ebenezer, son of John Blackman, 
married (first), October 24, 1681, Patience 
Wilcoxson. From them are descended the 
Blackmans of Newtown and Monroe, Con- 
necticut. He married (second), November 3, 
1692, Abigail, daughter of Nathan Curtis. He 
died in 1715. Children by first wife; Dorothy, 
born March 18, 1682-3: John, April 4, 1685; 
Elizabeth, February 10, 1688 ; Ebenezer, 
August 9, 1693. By second wife: Jonathan, 
April 24, 1696: David, January 6, 1697-8, died 
young; Abigail, November 20, 1700, died 
young; Nathan, September 29, 1702; Sarah, 
April 3, 1705: David, 1707. 

(VI) Lewis, of the fifth generation from 
Adam Blakeman, or Blackman, was born in 
Fairfield county, Connecticut, about 1765. He 
married Charity Smith, born 1771. died 1871. 
He settled and died at North Pitcher, New 
York. Children : David, Sheldon, Roswell, 
Charles, Smith, Roxi, Dolly and Dotea. 

(VII) Charles, son of Lewis Blackman, 
was born in Connecticut, March i, 1802, and 
died at Pitcher, New York, December 28, 
1884. He married, September 14, 1835, Nancy 
Beach, born at Pitcher, November 10, 1810, 
died there July 7, 1896, daughter of Asa and 
Amelia Beach, of an old Connecticut family. 
Children: i. Minerva, born November 3, 
1836, died July 8, 1840. 2. Artelissa, Septaii- 
ber 5, 1838: married Bigelow Packard, and re- 
sides in Pitcher ; her son Lynn lives in Syra- 
cuse, New York. 3. Theron, May 13, 1843, 
died June 21, 1891. 4. Emma, June 19, 1848, 
died October 8, 1851. 5. Thurlow, February 
I, 1853, mentioned below. 

(\'III) Thurlow, son of Charles Blackman, 
was born in Pitcher, New York, February i, 
1853. He was educated in the public schools 
of Pitcher. In his youth he was employed 
in the mills in Pitcher and afterward was en- 
gaged in the grocery business in Binghamton, 
New York, and in partnership with his brother 
Theron in the same line of business in Pitcher. 
For a few years he was in the dry-goods busi- 
ness in New York City, and afterward was a 
dealer in boots and shoes and men's furnish- 
ing goods in Cohoes, New York. Thence he 
went to Little Falls, New York, and finally 
returned to Pitcher, where he conducted his 



father's farm for a few years. In 1895 he be- 
gan to manufacture shirts in Homer, and es- 
tablished a flourishing business. Since 1905 he 
has had his son in partnership, and the busi- 
ness has been conducted under the firm name 
of lilackman & Son. In politics he is a Pro- 
hibitionist and in religion a Congregational- 
ist. He married Julia Ellen Hakes, of Pitcher, 
born December 31, 1855, daughter of George 
and Louise (Hinman) Hakes (see Hakes). 

( IX ) Harry Hakes, only son of Thurlow and 
Julia Ellen (Hakes) Blackman, was born in 
Pitcher, New York, August 22, 1881. He at- 
tended the public schools of his native town, 
Homer Academy and a business college at 
Syracuse, New York. He became associated 
with his father in the manufacture of shirts 
and was admitted to partnership in 1905. The 
present name of the firm is Blackman & Son, 
and Mr. Blackman is superintendent and man- 
ager of the factory. In religion he is a Con- 
gregationalist. He married. November 1 1, 1903. 
Jeanette Cecile Fassett, of Homer, New York, 
daughter of Joseph and Mattie (Blackmar) 
Fassett. They have one child, Martha Helen, 
born in Homer, New York, August 18. 1905. 

(The Hakes Line). 

(I) Solomon Hakes, the immigrant ances- 
tor, was born about 1688, in England. The 
name appears to have originated as Hake and 
Hakes, in Devonshire, England, and various 
families of this stock bear coats-of-arnis. He 
was at Westerly, Rhode Island, as early as 
April, 1709, and was at that time propounded 
to be a freeman. In I\Iay he was duly elected 
and granted a hundred acres of land. He re- 
moved to Stonington, Connecticut, in January, 
1710, and that month filed an earmark for his 
cattle, which was continued by his son and 
grandsons. He married Anna Billings, born 
October, 1681, daughter of Ebenezer and 
Anna (Comstock) Billings, of Stonington. 
January 16, 1718. He died about 1753, and 
he and his wife are buried in the old bur>-ing 
ground a mile northwesterly from the village 
of North Stonington. Children: George, 
mentioned below ; Mary, married Ebenezer 
Darling: Jonathan, married Hannah Brown, 
November 2t^. 1752 : Solomon, lived at Canaan. 
Litchfield county, Connecticut. 

(II) George, son of Solomon Hakes, was 
born about 17 19. He married Joanna, or 
Hannah Jones, of Stonington, May 15, 1739; 
(second), October 10, 1779, Sarah Coy, 



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widow, of Preston, Connecticut. Children : 
Richard, mentioned below ; Solomon, born 
January 20, 1743, died October 2-j, 1773; Han- 
nah. February 4, 1745, at Stonington, mar- 
ried Colonel Reuben Hewitt, soldier in the 
French and Indian war and in the revolution ; 
Olive, December 12, 1749; George S., Jan- 
uary 27, 1 75 1, married Zerviah Church ; James, 
March 25, 1752, was a soldier in the revolu- 
tion, married Martha Adams. 

(HI) Richard, son of George Hakes, was 
born at Stonington, April 8, 1741. He was 
a soldier in the war of the revolution, and 
took part in the battle of New London. Dur- 
ing the war he accumulated a fortune, but hav- 
ing it in the form of Continental currency, 
which became worthless, he lost about all of 
his possessions. He had planned to settle in 
New York, but on account of this misfortune 
was delayed until about 1800, when he re- 
moved to Pitcher, Chenango county, New 
York, where he purchased a tract of land. He 
married, August 11, 1763, Mary Babcock, of 
Stonington. He died at Pitcher, July 15, 181 5. 
He was a farmer by occupation. Children : 
Charles, born 1804, moved to Iowa and died 
about 1865; George, mentioned below; Fanny, 
1808; Roswell, 181 1, died 1816, at Pitcher; 
John M.. 1813. died 1816; Polly, 1815; Lucy, 
"1818. 

(lY) George (2), son of Richard Hakes, 
was born at Pitcher, New York, February 16. 
1806. He was a farmer in Pitcher. He mar- 
ried there (first). October 3, 1830. Harriet 
Baldwin, (second), January 23, 1849, Louisa 
Hinman. Children, born at Pitcher: i. Solo- 
mon, July 9. 1831 ; married. January 19, 1859, 
Julia De Bell. 2. ^lary Ann, born April 27, 
1833 ; married, March 3, 1875, Harrison 
Hatch, resided at Eaton, New York. 3. Ros- 
well, born September 20, 1835; married. Jan- 
nary. 1873, Cornelia De Bell; he died January 
5. 1885. 4. Nancy. February 17, 1838: mar- 
ried, June 12, 1856. 5. Harriet, August 6, 
1840, resides in New York City. Children by 
second wife, Louisa: 6. Emma, October 27, 
1850; married, August, 1880, John McElliot. 
7. George F., January 24. 1852, died at 
Pitcher, Sejitcmber 6, 1863. 8. Charles M., 
May 26. 1853: married, September 6, 1881, 
Catharine Fairchild. 9. Julia Ellen, born De- 
cember 31. 1835; married May 16. 1877, 
Thurlow Blackman (see Blackman). 10. 
Wellington Hakes, February 19, 1868: resides 
at Pitcher. 



Sir Peter Wouters Van der Meu- 
MILLS len, of Amsterdam, Holland, was 
knighted for distinguished ser- 
vice in the improvement of dykes and canals 
in his native land. His eldest son, Peter \'an 
Meulen, born in Holland, in 1622, came to 
America from Leyden, where he had been 
studying at the university. About 1650 he had 
joined the refugees who came for the sake 
of religious freedom from England, and thus 
aroused the displeasure of his father, who dis- 
inherited him. In the colonial records of Con- 
necticut, where he afterward lived, it is stated 
that his name was changed to the English form 
of Peter Mills by his own recjuest. Van der 
Meulen being in Dutch "man of the mill." He 
settled at Windsor, Connecticut, where he 
married (first) Dorcas Mersinger, born Sep- 
tember 23, 1650, died August 18, 1688; (sec- 
ond), December 10, 1691, Jane Warren, of 
Hartford. This record is from the history 
of Windsor, but if the dates given are correct 
he was nearly thirty years older than his wife. 
It may be suggested that Dorcas, therefore, was 
not his first wife, or that there were two 
Peters, father and son. Peter died, April 12 
or 17, 1710. He owned land at Haddam, Con- 
necticut, before 1669, but probably never lived 
there. He was called "the Deucheman 
(Dutchman)" in Haddam records. He was a 
tailor by trade, and is frequently mentioned in 
the manuscript of Rev. Timothy Edwards. 
Children : Peter, Return, Dorcas and Ebenezer. 
born February 8, 1687-8. 

From this Peter Mills most of the Connecti- 
cut families of colonial days were descended, 
especially those of Fairfield county. In 1790, 
according to the first federal census, one Ste- 
phen Mills lived in Newtown. Fairfield county, 
and had two females in his family. Another 
Stephen Alills. of Ridgefield. Fairfield county, 
had four females in his family. 

( I ) Stephen Mills, believed to be a descend- 
ant of Peter and son of one of the Stephen 
Mills mentioned, was born in Connecticut. Be- 
fore or during the revolution he removed to 
New York state, and the lack of records pre- 
vents the tracing of the line. There is proof 
that he served in the Connecticut militia in 
the revolution, although there is no record 
in the rolls that have been saved and printed. 
He was granted a pension, and his name 
duly enrolled February 20, 1833, for service 
in the Connecticut militia. He was then of New 
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Documents, 1833-4, p. 413, 514). This record 
shows that he was born in 1757. He died in 
Barton, Tioga county, New York, April 27, 
1845, 3ged eighty-nine, indicating that he was 
born late in 1756 or early in 1757. In 1787 
he was living in Nichols, New York, removing 
in 1791 to Barton, New York, of which he was 
one of the first settlers. He married Sabra 
, who died May 11, 1841, aged sixty- 
nine years. Children : Daniel, Lewis, mentioned 
below ; Samuel, Abigail and Sally. 

(H) Lewis, son of Stephen Mills, was born 
in New York state, in 1801, and died May 8. 
1862. He is buried in the Ellistown cemetery. 
He owned a farm at Talmadge Hill, in the 
town of Barton, comprising one hundred and 
twenty acres. He married (first) Elizabeth 
Hanna, daughter of John Hanna, who came 
from Scotland and was one of the early settlers 
in Barton. He married (second) Catherine 
Hyatt. Children by first wife: Miama, mar- 
ried Sylvanus Wright; William G., mentioned 
below ; John, died at Sayre, Pennsylvania. Chil- 
dren by second wife: Flavilla. married a Sew- 
ard, and lives in California ; two others died in 
childhood. 

(HI) William G., son of Lewis Mills, was 
born in Barton, New York, June 11, 1818, and 
died August 17, 1904. He was educated in 
the public schools and followed farming during 
his active life, on the homestead on which 
his father settled on Talmadge Hill. He mar- 
ried, December 11, 1840. Susan Shackelton, 
born August 3, 1819, died July 22. 1886, 
daughter of John D. and Mary (Winter- 
marsh) Shackelton. Children: i. Charles L.. 
born June 6, 1842. died in 1906; married, Feb- 
ruary 14, 1866. Julia Blizzard. 2. Mary E., 
born March 7, 1844, died in 191 1; married, 
February 9, 1864, Cornelius Case. 3. Char- 
lotte, born February 19, 1846: married, Feb- 
ruary 9, 1870, Spencer Brougham, of Sayre, 
Pennsylvania. 4. Wilson, born March 17, 
1848; married, February 4, 1879, Kate Fitler ; 
lives at East Athens, Pennsylvania. 5. Theo- 
dore, mentioned below. 6. Adolphus. born 
February 21, 1853; married, April 3, 1895. 
Jane Logan ; lives on the homestead, Talmadge 
Hill. 7. Imogene, born March 23, 1856; mar- 
ried, June 23, 1877, John D. ^IcDonald. 8. 
Augusta, born October 16, 1859, died July 4, 
1900; married. December 20, 1881, Thurlow 
Gale. 9. Addie, born January 24. 1864: mar- 
ried, August 16. 1893, James Rhoades, of 
Waverly. 



(I\') Captain Theodore Mills, son of Will- 
iam G. Mills, was born in Barton, Tioga coun- 
ty. New York, July 21, 1850. He attended the 
district school on Talmadge Hill and the Wav- 
erly high school. For many years after leaving 
school he followed farming for his occupation. 
He started in the business of manufacturing 
soda water in Waverly, New York, and in 
March, 1883, purchased the interests of his 
partner, Mr. Barlow, and admitted to the firm 
Silas Wolcott, under the firm name of Mills & 
Wolcott. In March, 1884. M. D. OT.rien be- 
came partner of ^Ir. Mills, under the firm 
name of Mills & O'Brien. Sub.sec|uently the 
business was incorporated under the name of 
Caj.t. T. Mills Bottling Works, ..f which Cap- 
tain Mills is president, general manager and 
principal owner. In politics Captain Mills is 
a Republican. In religion he is a Methodist. 

Captain Mills married, December 18, 1872, 
Phebe, daughter of Peter and Huldah Lewis, 
of New Jersey. Captain and Mrs. Mills, have 
no children. 



(IV) Peter Peck, son of Samuel 
PECK Peck (q. v.), was born about 1704. 
He lived in Greenwich, Connecti- 
cut, where he died about 1759. He married 

Sarah . Soon after his death his wife 

removed, with her children, to New Milford, 
Connecticut, where she doubtless died. Chil- 
dren, born in Greenwich : Peter, in January, 
1746: Sarah, in 1748: Jemima, in 1750; Enos, 
mentioned below ; Elizabeth, married Benja- 
min Newman : Mary, married David Terrill. 

( \' ) Enos, son of Peter Peck, was born in 
Greenwich, Connecticut, in 1752, died in Camil- 
lus, Onondaga county. New York, May 23, 
1835. He married (first) .\nna Marsh, and 
(second) Lavina \\'ilcox. .About 1789 he 
moved from New Milford to New Haven, 
\'erniont, and about 1800 he moved again to 
Onondaga county. New York. Children, born 
in New Haven, \'ermont, except last three who 
were born in Pompey, New York: Elihu, Jan- 
uary I. 1775; Phebe, May 4. 1777; Martha, 
May 9, 1781 : Peter, mentioned below; Anna, 
January 6, 1785 ; Enos, August 14, 1790; Isaac, 
April 4, 1793: Rachel, February 14, 1796; 
Chloe, June 11, 1799; .Almond. October 16, 
1801. 

(\'I) Peter (2), son of Enos Peck, was 
born September 8, 1783, in New Haven, Ver- 
mont, died in \''an Buren, New York, January 
3, 187 1. He was a farmer. He married 



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Eunice Beckwith, who died in January, 1844. 
Children, born in Van Buren : Lydia, May 10, 
1815, married Joel Foster; Harriet, September 
lo, 1818, married William Davis, and died in 
Camillus, New York, in 1875; Betsey, May 15, 
1822, married Asahel K. Clark; Daniel, July 2, 
1826, married Betsey Foster; William, men- 
tioned below. 

(VII) William, son of Peter (2) Peck, was 
born in \'an Buren, October 2^, 1830. He 
was one of the leading farmers of his native 
town. He married ]\Iatilda, daughter of Har- 
rison Lamerson, and she died in 1888. Chil- 
dren, born in Van Buren : Tammy E., Novem- 
ber 29, 1855; William A., March 27, 1859, 
resided in \'an Buren ; James L., August 24, 
1861, resided in \^an Buren ; Wilbur H., June 
18, 1863, resided in \'an Buren; LeRoy J., 
May 16, 1865, resided in Van Buren, for twen- 
ty-five years resided in Wyoming, now in 
Onondaga county. New York ; John P., De- 
cember 3, 1867, resided in Wyoming and 
Alaska for some twenty years, now resides in 
Van Buren ; George Homer, mentioned below ; 
Kendall D. Y., July 2, 18 — , reporter on Syra^ 
cuse Post Standard, in which capacity he served 
for eighteen years. 

(VIII) George Homer, son of William Peck, 
was born at Van Buren, New York, September 
27, i86g. He attended the public schools of 
his native town and the Baldwinsville high 
.school. After teaching school for one term he 
became a clerk in the grocery store of A. L. 
Spaulding at Warners. He resumed schooling 
afterward at the Syracuse Business College 
and after completing his course entered the 
employ of Mr. Bentley at Warners in the 
capacity of bookkeeper. He assisted his father 
during one summer, and in 1891 accepted a 
position as clerk in the grocery store of Jones 
& Company in Syracuse, New York. In 1892 
he took charge of the office of the Thomas 
Millen Cement Works at Wayland, New York, 
and continued there two years, and in 1894 
entered the employ of T. M. Toll, dealer in 
coal and wood, at Baldwinsville, and a year 
later purchased a half interest in the business 
of his employer with whom he formed a part- 
nership under the name of George H. Peck & 
Com]iany. For thirteen years the business 
was carried on by this firm successfully, and 
then Mr. Peck acquired the interest of his 
partner and continued the business alone. Two 
years later the real estate occupied by the 
business was taken for the purposes of the 



barge canal and Mr. Peck was obliged to lay 
out a new plant. He erected four of the mod- 
ern coal pockets near the Delaware, Lacka- 
wanna & Western railroad station, equipped 
with electric power, and erected an office build- 
ing. His present equipment constitutes one of 
the best coal yards in the county, and as in the 
past he is handling a large and flourishing 
trade. He is a member of the Baptist church 
of Baldwinsville and for nine years he was 
superintendent of the Sunday school. He is 
past noble grand of Mohegan Lodge, No. 29, 
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is a 
member of the ]\Iodern Woodmen of America. 
In politics he is a Republican. 

He married, 1892, Martha, born in Van 
Buren, daughter of Charles and Adelia Bor- 
den. Children : Matilda' Lamerson, born July 
5, 1893; George Borden, February 27, 1897; 
Thyrza Adelia, February 5, 1899, died Decem- 
ber 10, 1908, and a twin sister who died in 
infancy; Mary E., ]\Iarch 4, 1901 ; William 
Peter, November 15, 1904; Charles Wilbur, 
February 4, 1908; Harris, February 4, 191 1. 



The family is of German origin. 

TAYLOR They first settled in Scotland, 
where they remained between 
one and two years, then removed to the town- 
ship of Oldham, England, at a place called 
Lawside, in the hamlet of Gladwick. Here 
they possessed a considerable estate in land 
which became valuable in consequence of con- 
taining large quantities of coal. 

(D Jonathan Taylor was born in England, 
lived and died there. By his wife Mary he 
had a son John, mentioned below. 

(II) John, son of Jonathan Taylor, was 
born at Gladwick, Oldham, England, April 25, 
1773, died at Leominster, Massachusetts, July 
6, 1844. He came to America in June, 1794, 
landing in Boston in August and locating in 
Leominster, W^orcester county, Massachusetts, 
where from 1800 to 1828 he manufactured 
woolen cloth. He married, in England, .Anne 

, born at Gladwick, Oldham, February 

24, 1769, died at Leominster, IMarcli 8, 1842. 
Cliildren : i. Mary, born September 21, 1792, 
died .Apr'l 21, 1793. 2. John, June 29, 1794, 
died June 3, 1809. 3. Mary, August i, 1798, 
died September i, 1849. 4. Robert, February 
4, 1801, died September 22, 1803. 6. Jane, Jan- 
uarv 6, 1 806. 7. John James, mentioned below. 
8. Elizabeth, born November 22, 1812, died 
March 13, 1838. 



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(III) Hon. John James Taylor, son of John 
Taylor, was born at Leominster, Massachu- 
setts, April 27, 1808, died at Owego, New York, 
July I, 1892. He attended the public schools 
of his native town, the New Ipswich Academy, 
New Hampshire, Groton Academy at Groton, 
Massachusetts, and entered Harvard Univer- 
sity, from which he was graduated in the class 
of 1829. He taught school for a time in Phila- 
delphia, Pennsylvania, at Franklin Institute. 
In 1830 he began to study law in the office of 
Judge David Bird, at Troy, New York, and he 
continued afterward in the office of Hon. John 
A. Collier, in Binghamton, New York. He 
spent two years, partly in study and partly in 
practice, in the town of Greene, Chenango 
county, New York. He came to Owego, De- 
cember 31, 1834, and spent the remainder of 
his life there. He was a law partner of Judge 
Stephen Strong from January, 1835,10 August, 
1838. He w-as one of the leading lawyers of 
the county, and was honored with many offices 
of trust. In politics he was a Democrat, and 
for many vears was one of the foremost men 
in that party in the state. He was appointed 
by the court of common pleas to the office of 
district attorney in 1838 and he held the office 
by appointment and subsequent elections for 
five years. In 1846 he was a delegate from 
Tioga county to the state constitutional con- 
vention. He was a candidate for congress in 
1850 in the twenty-sixth district, but his party 
was in the minority and he was defeated. He 
was elected, however, in 1852, and served with 
distinction in congress. He was a member of 
the committees on foreign affairs and on the 
District of Columbia. He was offered the ap- 
pointment of commissioner to settle the north- 
western boundary of the United .States by 
President Franklin Pierce, but he declined the 
office. In 1858 he was a candidate for lieuten- 
ant-governor of New York, on the ticket with 
Hon. .^masa J. Parker, nominee for governor, 
but was defeated at the polls. He was one of 
the organizers of the Bank of Tioga, which 
afterward became the National Union Bank, 
and for many years was president of this insti- 
tution. For many years he was vice-president 
of the Southern Central Railroad Company 
and afterward its president. In religion he 
was a Unitarian. 

He married, May 18, 1837, Emily G. Lan- 
ing, born in Owego, New York, October 5, 
1818, died November 25. 1879, daughter of 
General John and Mary .\nne (Hollenback) 



Laning, of Owego. Children : John Laning, 
mentioned below; Sarah H., born June 2^, 
1842, married L. Burr Pearsall, she died May 
4, 1869. 

(IVj John Laning, son of Hon. John James 
Taylor, was born in Owego, New York, June 
24, 1839, died there September 9, 1908. He 
attended the public schools, Owego Academy, 
Phillips .\cademy at Exeter, New Hampshire, 
and the Xew \'ork State .Xgricultural College 
at Ovid, Xew York. He was always engaged in 
farming and ranked among the most pro- 
gressive and successful farmers of the county. 
For some years prior to the death of his father 
he was associated with him in various lines of 
business, and from his father's death in 1892 
to his own in 1908 had charge of the estate. 
In politics he was a Democrat. 

He married, March 22, 1865, Sarah J. Reed, 
of Candor, New York, born December 16, 
1845, daughter of Timothy C. and Sarah J. 
(Richardson) Reed, granddaughter of Timo- 
thy and Susanna (Osborne) Reed. Her grand- 
father came from Alaine to Candor. Children : 
I. Robert J., born October 25, 1865; a farmer 
in the town of Owego ; manager of Spring 
Meadow farm, which belonged to his father, 
John L. Taylor, one of the finest farms in the 
southern tier of counties ; he makes a specialty 
of Holstein cattle and dairying; married Es- 
telle J. Storms, and has one child, .Sarah J. 2. 
George H., died aged four years. 3. Emile G., 
born May 9, 1870, died January 12, 191 1 ; stu- 
dent of Cornell Law School in 1890; deputy 
postmaster of Owego until 1894 and afterward 
manager of the Owego Dairy Company, which 
operated several stations ; married. June 28, 
1893. Theresa K. ATersereau ; children: John 
Laning Jr., George Mersereau and Walter R. 
4. Mary Laning, born February 9. 1874, re- 
sides with her mother in the home of her father 
and grandfather. 5. Emily L., born March 14, 
1881 ; married James Holmes (2), of Apa- 
lachan. New York. 



Walter Dowdle was born in 
DO^^'DLE Ireland in 1816. When a young 

man he sought his fortune in 
this country and in 1841 located in Oswego, 
New York.' He died there .\pril 18, 1876. He 
married .Ann Dorman, who died .August 22, 
1892, aged sixty-eight years. Children: John; 
James, born December i. 1845. ^^ Oswego, 
partner in the firm of Mollison & Dowdle, in- 
surance agents, president of the Oswego Gas- 



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light Company, alderman in 1873, mayor in 
1884, married, September 18, 1873, Mary 13. 
Lynch ; Peter ; Edward ; William J. ; Frank 
W., mentioned below. 

(II) Frank W., son of Walter Dowdle, was 
born in Oswego, New York, in 1861. He re- 
ceived his early education in the St. Paul 
parochial school, and engaged in business as a 
painter and decorator. In religion he is a 
Roman Catholic, and in politics a Democrat. 
He married, in 1884, Margaret O'Neil, who 
was in Oswego New York, in 1862. Chil- 
dren: I. Anna, born in 1886, died young. 
2. Edward, mentioned below. 3. Jessica, 
born May 14, 1890; resides in Oswego: a 
school teacher by profession. 4. Frank D., 
born June 5, 1892; resides in Oswego. 5. 
Margaret, born April 14, 1895; ^ student at 
Oswego high school. 6. Mary, born Novem- 
ber I, 1899; a student at the St. Paul parochial 
school. 

(III) Dr. Edward Dowdle, son of Frank 
W. Dowdle, was born at Oswego, New York, 
June 17, 1887. He attended the St. Paul 
parochial school at Oswego, the Oswego high 
school, in which he fitted for college, and in 
June, 1909, he graduated from Cornell Uni- 
versity ^ledical School. He spent two years as 
interne in Bellevue Hospital, New York City, 
and then began to practice his profession, open- 
ing an office at Oswego, New York, February 
20, 191 1. Dr. Dowdle earned his education 
by his own efforts, receiving scholarships in 
college and earning money in various ways. 
.\lthough a young man in his profession he is 
fast gaining the confidence of the people and 
is making rapid progress. On April 21, 191 1, 
he was appointed first lieutenant of Medical 
Reserve Corps, United States of America. He 
is an Independent in political matters, and a 
member of Nu Sigma Nu Society. 



Jacob (2) Faatz, innnigrant an- 
FA.'VTZ cestor, was born in Germany, and 

came to America with his father, 
Jacob ( I ) Faatz. They settled in Wayne coun- 
ty, Pennsylvania, where about 1800 his father 
was engaged in the manufacture of glass, and 
he and his father are said to be the first glass 
makers in .\mcrica. Children: William G., 
.Augustus, Frank, Henry G., mentioned below. 
(Ill) Henry G., .son of Jacob (2) Faatz, 
was born in Woodstock, New York, October 
20, 1826, died in Lestershire, Broome county. 
New York, November 23. 1902. He followed 



his father's work, glass manufacturing, dur- 
ing the active period of his life, until he re- 
tired to live in Lestershire. He learned the 
trade from his father, and built it up until he 
was the owner of several factories in W ayne 
county. He married Jane, born July 29, 1825, 
at Great Bend, Pennsylvania, died February 
28, 191 1, daughter of Seneca and Alida (Em- 
mons) Mayhew. Her mother, Alida (Em- 
mons) Mayhew, was born in Litchfield, Con- 
necticut, May 2, 1800, died April 16, 1871. 
Children: i. Herman A., born January 18, 
1851. died July 12. 191 1; married Amanda 
Pulis : chil<lren : Edith D. and Mabel. 2. Ella 
A., born .August 15, 1853; married William 
Crocket ; child, Florence. 3. Gilbert H., born 
-August 4, 1855 ; married Helen D. Henderson : 
children : Gilbert H. and Harold L. 4. Emma 
J., born October i, 1857; married F. H. 
Brooks : children : Carrie, Henry. William and 
Roy. 5. Euphemia. born December 20, 1859: 
married Oscar Pulis ; children : Emma, Lulu, 
and Norma. 6. Frank L., born June i, 1862: 
married (first) Clara Sherman, (second) Kath- 
leen Lee; child. Hugh, by second wife. 7. 
William G., mentioned below. 8. Myra E., 
born .April 20, 1868, died January 24, 1901 : 
married Frank Bishop ; children : Maud L., 
Mabel, Arthur and Royt 

( 1\') \\'illiam G., son of Henry G. Faatz, 
was born near Honesdale, Pennsylvania, De- 
cember 22, 1864. He received his early edu- 
cation in the ])ublic schools of his native town. 
When a young man he engaged in the manu- 
facture of brushes at Susquehanna, Pennsyl- 
vania, and continued in that business for four 
years. Afterward he engaged in the manu- 
facture of felts at Lestershire, Broome county. 
New York. For a number of years he was 
chief of the fire department of that village and 
he served four years in the National Guard of 
Pennsylvania. He was made a mason in 1889, 
and is now affiliated with Otseningo Lodge, 
No. 435. He is a member of Royal .Arch Ma- 
sons; Imperial Council, Royal and .Select Mas- 
ters ; Malta Commandery, Knights Templar ; 
Kalurah Temple. He is an attendant of the 
First Baptist Church, and a Republican in 
politics. He resides in Binghamton, New York, 
retired. 

He married, at Bufifalo, New A'ork, Decem- 
ber 24. 1891, Rose M. Moore, born at St. 
Catherines. Ontario, Canada, Sq)teml)er 10. 
1872, daughter of Malum and Sarah J. (Ems- 
ley) Moore. Children i. Raymond W., born 



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January 2. 1893. 2. Priscilla R., December 21, 
1894. 3. Pearl Dorothy, November 25, 1897. 

(The Moore Line). 

Malum Moore, son of William and Sarah 
( Wilson ) Moore, was born in St. Catherines, 
Ontario, Canada, March 28, 1835. During hii 
active life he was engaged in the ice business 
at St. Catherines, and died there October 29, 
1880. He married Sarah Jane, daughter of 
William and Jane (Umpleby) Emsley. She 
was born in St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada, 
October 18, 1835, died at P)Uffalo, New York, 
June I, 1902. They had four daughters: i. 
Priscilla J., born May 16, 1886, died August 
8. 1894. 2. Lovina E.. born March 15, 1868: 
married Robert L. Cumming, December 14, 
1890; they had three sons: Millard P)., Everett 
T., Robert L. 3. Minnie Pearl, born March 
10, 1870; married Oliver G. Morse, December 
24, 1891 ; had one daughter, Mildred L. 4. 
Rose M., married William G. Faatz, Decem- 
ber 24, 1891 (see I-"aatz I\'). Jane Umpleby 
Emsley died July 8, 1874. William ^loore 
died November 8, 1858: Sarah Wilson Moore 
died March 24, 1889. 



Thomas Meays was a native of 
ME.\YS Northamptonshire, England. He 
came to this country in 1836, 
when a young man. He married and settled 
at Vienna, New York, where he followed 
farming the remainder of his life. Children: 
I. George Barton, enlisted in Company G, 
Fourteenth Regiment, Xew York \'olunteer 
Infantry, and served two years in the civil 
war ; reenlisted in Company E, One Hundred 
and Seventeenth Regiment, New York Infan- 
try: was wounded at Cold Harbor, \'irginia. 
and died at the Emory Hospital. Washington, 
District of Columbia, July 11, 1864. 2. John 
Henry, mentioned below. 

|H) John Henry, son of Thomas Aleays, 
was born at X'ienna, New York, in November, 
1840. He was educated in the public schools. 
He became a manufacturer of cheese and had 
the largest cheese factory in Oneida county. 
New York, receiving a medal at the Centennial 
E.vhibition at Philadelphia, in 1876. and many 
other prizes. In 1880 he engaged in business 
as a general merchant at \^ienna and continued 
until loio. when he retired. He has been active 
in public afYairs and served the town of \'ienna 
three terms as supervisor. For six years he 
conducted a general store at Svlvan Beach and 



while in business there was postmaster and 
prime mover in securing the village incorpora- 
tion, also one of the first board of trustees of 
the incorporated village. 

He married Minerva, daughter of Charles 
Case, of Black Creek. His wife died in 1886. 
Children: i. Barton C, mentioned below. 2. 
Orson H., born April 20, 1874; a general mer- 
chant at New \\'oodstock, New York. 3. Mary 
M., married James D. Cook. 

(Ill ) Barton C, son of John Henry Meays, 
was born in \'ienna. New York, October 20, 
1872. He attended the public schools of his 
native town and was graduated from the Cam- 
den high school. After teaching school a year 
he became assistant postmaster of Sylvan 
Beach, where his father was postmaster, a 
position he held for three years. He began 
the study of law in the office of Davies & John- 
son, and after three years entered the Albany 
Law School, from which he was graduated in 
June, 1897. In the same year he was admitted 
to the bar, and on the first of .\ugust he open- 
ed an ofiice at Baldwinsville, New York, where 
he has continued to the present time in gen- 
eral practice, taking a leading place among the 
lawyers of the county. He has served the town 
as justice of the peace. In politics he is a Re- 
publican. He is a member of Seneca River 
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ; Riverside 
Chapter, Royal Arch ^Iasons, and of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal church. He married, Decem- 
ber 28, 1899. Ida May, daughter of Dr. A. C. 
Taylor. Children : Helen, born November 5, 
1900: Barton T., July 5, 1902. 



Dennis Flaherty was born in 
FLAHERTY Ireland. He came to this 
country when a young man, 
and was employed on the Delaware. Lacka- 
wanna & Western railroad as switch tender, 
at Binghamton, New York. He married Mary 
Murphy. Children: Theodore, Demiis, Mich- 
ael, and Thomas W., mentioned below. 

(II) Thomas W.. son of Dennis Flaherty, 
was born in Kittleville. Broome county, New- 
York, October 20. 1857. He received his edu- 
cation in the public schools, and then learned 
telegraphy. His first aiJpointment was as sta- 
tion agent for the Delaware. Lackawanna & 
Western railroad at Messengerville. New York. 
In four years he was transferred to Killawog, 
Xew York, where he remained until 1904. 
working there eleven years. He next removed 
to Baldwinsville. New York, where he has 



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since been station agent for the Delaware, 
Lackawanna & Western railroad, and has 
proved to be very successful in this position. 
For four years at Killawog he was postmaster, 
until the change of administration, when he 
served as deputy postmaster for four years. 
In politics he is a Democrat. He is a member 
of Mohegan Lodge, No. 29, Independent Order 
of Odd Fellows, lie married, 1888, Sarah L., 
daughter of Clinton Laird. Children : Thomas 
C. and Lillian. 



The Knapp family originated in 

KNAPP the province of Saxony, Ger- 
many, and the English branch has 
been traced to county Sussex in the fifteenth 
century. In 1540 a Roger Knapp distinguished 
himself at a tournament held at Norfolk, Eng- 
land, and was specially honored by Henry V. 
and granted a coat-of-arms. In 1630 three 
brothers came to this country, Nicholas Knapp. 
mentioned below ; Roger Knapp, who settled 
in New Haven and Fairfield, Connecticut ; 
William, born in Sussex in 1570, settled at 
Watertown, Massachusetts, where he died 
August 30, 1659, a carpenter by trade. 

(I) Nicholas Knapp, immigrant ancestor of 
this family, was born in England and came to 
America in the fleet of Winthrop and Salton- 
stall in 1630. He settled in Watertown. He 
sold his lands and rights at Watertown, May 
6, 1646, and removed to Stamford, Connecti- 
cut, where he died April 16, 1670. He married 

(first) Elinor , who died August 16, 

1658. He married (second), 1659, Unity 
Brown, widow of Peter Brown, and previously 
widow of Clement Buxton, who died in April, 
1670. Children, born in Watertown, by first 
wife: Jonathan, buried December 27, 1631, 
aged seven weeks ; Timothy, born December 
14, 1632; Joshua, January 5, 1634; Caleb, 
January 20, 1637; Sarah, January 5, 1638; 
Ruth, January 6, 1640; Hannah, March 6, 
1643. Children born in Stamford: Moses, 
Lydia. 

(TI) Caleb, son of Nicholas Knapp, was 
born at Watertown, January 20, 1637, and set- 
tled at Stamford. His will was dated there 
December 11, 1674. He was admitted a free- 
man in 1670. He married Hannah . 

Children, born at Stamford: Caleb, Novem- 
ber 24, 1661 ; John, mentioned below; Moses, 
Samuel, mentioned below; Sarah, Hannah. 

(HI) John, son of Caleb Knapp, was born 
at Stamford July 25, 1664. He married, June 



10, 1692, Hannah Ferris. Children, born at 
Stamford: Samuel, August 27, 1695; John, 
.August 14, 1697; Hannah, March 10, 1698-99; 
Peter, August 5, 1701 ; Charles, May 9, 1703; 
Deborah, June 28, 1705; Moses, August 6, 
1709. 

(IV) Peter Knapp settled at Scott, New 
York. He was a descendant, without doubt, 
of the Stamford branch given above. In 1790, 
according to the first federal census, Peter 
Knapp was of the town of North East, 
Dutchess county. New York, and had in his 
family two males over sixteen, three under 
si.xteen and five females. Moses and Joseph 
Knapp were heads of families in the same 
county. Silas and Peter Knapp were heads of 
families in Woodstock-, Lister county. New 
York. 

(V) Stephen C, son of Peter Knapp, was 
born in Scott, New York, and married Eliza- 
beth H. Smith. Children : Edwin H., lives at 
Fabius, New York ; Cynthia, married George 
D. Green and lives in Portland, Oregon ; Bur- 
dette R. ; Adelbert, lives at Preble, New York ; 
Alice, died in Portland, Oregon, married Jesse 
C. W^alrouth ; Anna (twin of Alice), lives in 

Hood River, Oregon, married John ■ ; 

Willard H., lives in Syracuse; Ezra Fred, a 
teacher at Syracuse, New York ; Sarah, died 
in infancy. 

(VI) Burdette R., son of Stephen C. 
Knapp, was born in Spafford, Onondaga 
county, New York, June 3, 1850. He is a 
farmer and stockraiser in Cortland, New 
York. He is a prominent member of the 
Patrons of Husbandry, and has been active 
in organizing granges. He is a prominent 
member and steward of the Methodist E])is- 
copal church of Cortlantl. In politics he is a 
Republican. He married, September 16, 1874, 
Ada M. P)Urhans, born September 5, 1854, in 
Pompey, New York, died June 4, 1910, daugh- 
ter of Owen W. and Charlotte M. (Hays) 
Burhans (see Burhans). They had one son. 
Owen .Arthur, mentioned below. 

(VII) Owen Arthur, .son of Burdette R. 
Knapp, was born in Cortland, New York, 
August 12, 1876, and educated in the public 
schools of his native town and at the State 
Normal School at Cortland. He was employed 
at Wickwire Brothers' Manufacturing Com- 
pany for sixteen years. Since the early part of 
1910 he has been engaged in the insurance 
business and he is also associated with his 
father in raising and selling Shetland ponies 



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and thoroughbred horses. He is a member of 
Vesta Lodge, Odd Fellows, of Cortland. He 
married, August 12, 1896, Blanche D. Rose, 
of Homer, New York, daughter of Lafayette 
and Mary (Jackson) Rose. They have no chil- 
dren. 

(Tlie Burhans Line). • 

(I) Jacob Burhans, immigrant ancestor, 
was born, according to family tradition, in 
Holland, and first appears in this countrj' as a 
soldier in the service of the Netherlands, on 
the Esopus, March 28, 1660. December 7, 
of the same year, his name is third on the list 
of church members at Wiltwyck (Kingston), 
New York, at the date of the first organiza- 
tion of the church there. June 15, 1661, he 
was on the muster-roll, and November 21, 
i(/ii, he was appointed collector of church 
rates and excise on consumption of wine and 
beer. This appointment was by Peter Stuyve- 
sant. November 24, of the same year, he was 
by ordinance authorized to collect arrears. In 
June, 1663, he had two houses burned down, 
ill the second Esopus war, in the "New \'illage 
outside the Stockade". March 7, 1665, he was 
sworn as curator of the estate of Hendrick 
Jansen and Willem Jansen, but asked to be 
excused on account of his age. April 28, 1666, 
he was elected and confirmed as justice-mag- 
istrate of the court at Kingston for one year, 
and November i, 1667, was again commis- 
sioner of the court. He owned several lots 
of land in Kingston and also in Esopus. He 
was evidently a man of note and ability, and 
filled with credit the various public positions 
accorded him. There is no mention of any 
wife or children until the arrival of Jan Jacob 
llurhans, at whose admission as a church 
member Jacob officiated as a witness. The 
former was admitted under the name of Jan 
Jacob Burhans, which confirmed his parentage. 
The record of death of Jacob Burhans does 
not appear, but it must have occurred before 
.September 27, 1677, at which date his son 
Jan Jacob deeded a house and lot, formerly 
belonging to his father, according to the deed. 

(II) Jan Jacob, son of Jacob Burhans, ar- 
rived in America, April lA, 1663, in the ship 
"Bonte Koe" (Spotted Cow). July 3, 1664, 
he was admitted a member of the Reformed 
Dutch church at Kingston. October 17, 1671, 
he, with two others, obtained a patent at Bra- 
bant (Esopus), New York. October 6. 1673. 
he was appointed magistrate for the town of 
Swaenburgh. October 2, 1678, he and his 



wife, Helena (Traphagenj Burhans, were on 
the list of church members. In 1685-96-99 he 
was chosen elder of the church, and served 
until December 8, 1701, when he rentlered 
his account and vacated the office. September 
I, 1689, he was one of the inhabitants who 
took the oath of allegiance. He was appointed 
magistrate of the town court at Kingston and 
served until November 6, 1695. December 30, 
1701, he is mentioned as freeholder in a peti- 
tion to King William, and the following year, 
October 2, was one of the signers of an address 
to Lord Cornberry, and is spoken of by the 
latter as being one of the "chief est inhabi- 
tants". There is no date of marriage of Jan 
Jacob Burhans and his wife, Helena Trapha- 
gen, but they appeared as man and wife at a 
baptism, April 23, 1675, when they stood as 
sponsors. She was the daughter of Willem 
Jansen Traphagen and his first wife, Jannetje 
Claessen (Groenvis) Traphagen, of Meppelt. 
Her father settletl in this country about 1660, 
at Bushwick, Long Island, but was banished 
by the authorities at New Amsterdam to Wilt- 
wyck, May 12, 1664, for insubordination to 
said authorities. He married (second) Aeltje 
Dirricksen Meermans, and (third) Joostjc 
Willemse Nooltryck. Jan Jacob Burhans died 
about October 30, 1708, when his son Barnet 
executed a bond to his brothers and sisters in 
relation to their father's estate. His widow 
died between 1728 and 1732, as shown by the 
date of her will and of its proof. Children : 
Janneke. no record of birth, married, October 
12, i(xj~. Pietcr Du Bois; Hillitje, no record of 
birth, admitted as a member of the church, 
December 13, 1696, married, June 18, 1700, 
Edward Whitaker ; Jacob, baptized in King- 
ston, March 2, 1679, probably died young; 
Barnet, baptized in Kingston, April 24, 1681 ; 
Johannes, baptized at Kingston. August 2y, 
1682; Elisabeth, baptized at Kingston, July 7, 
1684; Willem, baptized at Kingston, March 7, 
1686; Hendrick. baptized at Kingston, Novem- 
ber 6, 1687 : .Abraham, baptized at Kingston. 
January 28, 1692; Isaac, baptized at Kingston, 
January 28, 1692, mentioned below; Samuel, 
baptized at Kingston, June 3, 1694; David, 
baptized at Kingston, November 24, 1695. 

( HI) Isaac, son of Jan Jacob Burhans, was 
baptized at Kingston, January 28. 1692. He 
married there, July 22. 1722, Necltje. daugh- 
ter of Symon and Neeltje (Quackenboss) 
Westehael, baptized at Kingston, December 
25, 1700. She married (second), October 25, 



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1737, at Rhinebeck, Ary Roosa. Isaac Bur- 
hans was a blacksmith by trade. He died in 
the prime of life, and according to tradition 
was killed by the falling of a tree. There is 
no satisfactory record of his children ; there 
were at least five. Children, the first three 
baptized at Kingston, the last two at Rhine- 
beck: Nelly, baptized November i, 1724; Hel- 
ena, baptized March 12, 1727; Symon, bap- 
tized June 8, 1729; Henry, born probably 
about 1731, mentioned below; Geertje, bap- 
tized March 17, 1734. 

(IV) Henrv, son of Isaac Burhans, was 
born about 1731, died in Lanesborough, Mas- 
sachusetts, December 31, 1802. After the sec- 
ond marriage of his mother, he was placed 
in the care of a farmer at New Milford, Con- 
necticut, and lived with the latter until his 
twenty-third year. He then served for seven 
years in the French war. At its close he set- 
tled in Sherman, Connecticut. There he mar- 
ried Zerviah Hall, and later removed to Lanes- 
borough. His widow died at Newtown, Con- 
necticut, February 9, 1823. Children: i. Isaac, 
born 1760. 2. Daniel, born at Sherman, July 
7, 1762; became an Episcopal clergyman of 
note, rector of Trinity Church, Newtown, for 
thirty years ; was given the degree of M. A. 
at Williamstown, 1804, and the same at Gen- 
eva, 1834, the degree of D. D. by Trinity Col- 
lege, 1831 ; rector of St. Peter's Church, 
I'lymouth, 1832, and later at Oxford, where he 
remained until 1839. 3. Helena, born about 
1764. 4. Henry, born June 22, 1766, men- 
tioned below. 5. Amy, 1768. 6. John, 1770, 
died February 12, 1784. 7. Daughter, bap- 
tized at Sherman, March, 1773. 8. Polly, 
died April 9, 1794, aged seventeen years. 9. 
Liertius, baptized at Sherman. January, 1778, 
died at Lanesborough, April 16, 1794. 10. 
Zerviah, 1782, died March 10, 1785. 

(V) Henry (2), son of Henry (i) Bur- 
hans, was born June 22, 1766, died Septem- 
ber 18, 1848. He was then living in Syracuse, 
New York. He married. 1797, Lydia, daugh- 
ter of Spencer Churchill, born January 11, 
1777, died March 2, 1847. Children: Liertius, 
born .April 13, 1799. mentioned below: Maria, 
October 6, 1800: Minerva. September 11. 
1802: Henry, April 22, 1804; Melanchthon, 
February 20. 1806 : .Abigail, December 29, 1807 : 
Lvdia, July 14, i8oc); Tryphena, .April 12, 
181 1 : Spencer Churchill, July 11, 1813; Dan- 
iel, November 29, 1815; Mary, February 7, 
1818. 



(VI) Liertius, son of Henry (2) Burhans, 
was born April 13, 1799, died September 13, 
1875. He married, May 19, 1825, Eliza Ann 
Westcott, born November 15, 1801, died 
November 14, 1872, daughter of Gorton 
Waric (Knight) Westcott. Children: Owen 

•W., born March 18, 1826, mentioned below ; 
Lydia, August 26, 1827; Gordon W., .\ugust 
10, 1830: Henrietta E., October 8, 1833, died 
February 6, 1835. 

(VII) Owen W., son of Liertius Burhans. 
was born March 18, 1826. He married, Feb- 
ruary 5. 1852, Charlotte M. Hays, born May 
21, 1826, daughter of John B. and Samantha 
(Lewis) Hays. He lived in Cortland, New 
York. Children : Mary E., born January 9, 
1853, died September 3, 1856; Ada M., Sep- 
tember 5, 1854, married, September 16, 1874, 
Burdette R. Knapp (see Knapp \T ) ; Charles 
H., September 6, i860: Clara .A., September 
29, 1862. 

(Ill) Ensign Samuel Knapp, 
KN.APP son of Caleb Knapp (q. v.), set- 
tled soon after the first settlers 
in Pocono, now Danbury, Connecticut. The 
names of his children, as far as known, are 
found in wills. His son Samuel Jr., born 
1700, died before his father, making will at 
Danbury, January 8, 1739-40. The will was 
]iroved F"ebruary 12, 1739-40. He bequeathed 
to his brothers John and Francis; wife Sarah 
and children : Samuel, James, Elnathan, David 
and a posthumous child. In the will of Ste- 
phen Curtis, of Danbury, there is mention of 
this Francis Knapp, who was a brother-in-law 
of Curtis and of his brother, Joshua Knapp. 
Samuel Knapp, Sr., was a prominent citizen, 
an ensign in the militia company. Children : 
Samuel, John, mentioned below ; Francis and 
Joshua. 

(IV) John, son of Samuel Knapp, of Dan- 
bury, was born about 1710-20. He is men- 
tioned in the will of his brother Samuel. 

(\') Samuel (2), son of John Knapp, was 
born in Danbury about 1740-45. He served 
in Colonel Mead's regiment of the Ninth Con- 
necticut Regiment of Militia, and was one 
that went to the saw pits in Rye. New York, 
under the command of General \\'ooster in the 
Continental service. From the record of this 
.Samuel Knapp many descendants have joined 
the Sons and Daughters of the Revolution. 
After the revolution he settled in Rensselaer- 
wyck, now Trov. New York, and at Nassau, 



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which was formed of various towns in Rens- 
selaer county, in 1806. Israel and Abiel Knapp 
were also at Nassau before 1800. Among his 
children was a son Samuel, mentioned below. 

(\'I) Samuel (3), son of Samuel (2) 
Knapp, was born about 1760-70. He was a 
farmer and lived to the great age of eighty- 
four years. He lived in Dutchess county and 
at Nassau. New York. He married Anna 
Mott. Children : Jeremiah, Samuel, Levi, 
mentioned below ; Sarah, married Thomas 
.\rmstrong ; Tamer, married Williams. 

(VH) Levi, son of Samuel (3) Knapp, 
was born March 23, 1798, in Dutchess county. 
New York, where his parents lived before go- 
ing to Nassau, and he died at East Homer, 
New York, February 28. 1879. He went with 
his father to Nassau. At the age of thirty he 
settled at Winfield, Herkimer county, New 
York. In 1849 he came to East Homer, Cort- 
land county, where he lived to the time of his 
death. He followed farming all his active life. 
He married, March 12. 1S20. Phcbe Shaw, 
born in Dutchess county, New York, October 

6, 1804, died September 17, 1873, daughter of 
Jacob and Elizabeth (Boice) Shaw. Her 
mother was born November i, 1779, died 
March 19, 1865. Children: i. John B., born 
June 10, 1823; a soldier in the civil war, lives 
in Preble, New York (1911). 2. Susan M., 
.April 23, 1825; married James Howard. 3. 
Henry W., June 27, 1827, died March 15, 1899 

4. Jacob Shaw, mentioned below. 5. Syrena 
H. 6. Edward A., born May 2, 1835: deceased. 

7. Roselle. March 25, 1838: resides in Ohio. 

5. Levi D., November 4, 1840, died January 
21, 1876. 9. Charles, Januars' 20, 1844; men- 
tioned below. 10. Phebe A., August 16, 1847, 
died .April 17, 1878; married Charles Gutchess. 

(\'III) Charles, son of Levi Knapp, was 
born in West Winfield, Herkimer county, New 
York. January 20, 1844. He came to the town 
of Homer with his parents when he was five 
years old. and was educated there in the pub- 
lic schools and at Homer Academy. He has 
lived since then at or near East Homer and 
has followed farming for his occupation, mak- 
ing his dairy a specialty. In his later years he 
has retired from active life, and makes his 
home on a small place near East Homer. He 
married, in 1871, Annie Barton, of \'irgil. 
New York, daughter of Samuel and Rebecca 
Barton. Children: i. \'ernon L., mentioned 
below. 2. Raymond, born January 4, 1878. 



resides in Cortland, New York. 3. Howard 
B., December 24, 1886, lives in Colorado. 

(IX) Vernon L., son of Charles Knapp, 
was bom at Homer, New York, April 23, 
1876. He attended the public schools of his 
native town and Homer Academy. For sev- 
eral years he followed farming and then was 
clerk in a general store at East Homer. In 
1905 he entered the employ of the Cortland 
Beef Company in Cortland and continued for 
four years. In December, 1909. in j)artner- 
ship with his brother, Howard B. Knapp, he 
engaged in business in Preble under the firm 
name of Knapp Brothers. The firm carried 
a stock of groceries and meats and maintained 
an up-to-date store and delivery service. Mr. 
Knapp bought out the interests of his partner, 
after a time, and at the present time is con- 
ducting the business alone wdth abundant suc- 
cess. He is a member of Preble Lcxlge, No. 
164, Odd Fellows, of Preble. In politics he is 
a Republican. He married. February 2, 1898, 
.Mice R. Slater, born in Geneva, New York, 
daughter of Charles and .Augusta ( Davenport ) 
Slater. Children: Willis, born .April 2, 1899; 
Helen, May 18, 1903. 



(VIII) Jacob Shaw Knap]), 
KX.APP sop of Levi Knapp ( (|. v.), 
was born in West Winfield. 
Herkimer county. New York, April 18, 1830, 
died in Cortland, New York, .August 22. 1904. 
He received a common school education in his 
native town, and learned the trade of car[)en- 
ter. He enlisted in the Seventy-si.xth New 
York Regiment of V'olunteer Alilitia during 
the civil war and was in the service three years, 
being mustered out at the end of the war with 
the rank of corporal. He took up his trade 
and followed it in Homer and Cortland as 
iourneyman and builder the remainder of his 
life. In religion he was a Methodist, in poli- 
tics a Republican. He married. November 19, 
1854, Louisa N. Alexander, born in Homer, 
New York, April 5, 1832, died November 26, 
1804. daughter of Leonard and Malvina 
(Miner) Alexander. Children: Edward Hart- 
ley, mentioned below ; Clarence A., born Feb- 
ruary 3, 1861, in Homer, married Helen, 
daughteV of DeWitt C. Carpenter; children: 
Lawrence C, Edward L.. David D. and Har- 
old C. 

(IX) Edward Hartley, son of Jacob Shaw 
Knapp, was born in Homer, New York, June 



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i8, 1856. He was educated there in the pubhc 
schools and at Homer Academy. For several 
years he was engaged in the manufacture of 
cheese, having charge of a cheese factory at 
Cortland. Afterward for nine years he was 
in charge of the milk station and creamery at 
Homer. Since 1908 he has been in business 
in Homer, dealing in farm implements, light 
and heavy wagons and hard wood. He is 
agent for the International Mowers, Reapers, 
Binders, the Planet, Jr., and Iron Age tools. 
He buys hides, furs and tallow from the farm- 
ers of this section and haS a large and grow- 
ing business. His store is at 9 Water street. 
The business was established in 1894. In re- 
ligion he is a Congregationalist, and in poli- 
tics is a Republican. 

He married, December 14, 1880, Harriet 
M. Rose, of Homer, born May 17, 1857, 
daughter of Luther and Ann (GolT) Rose, 
fj'randdaughter of Benjamin Goff, a soldier 
in the revolution, and descendant through 
Catherine (Allbright) Goff from John All- 
bright, another revolutionary soldier. Mr. and 
Mrs. Knapp have no children. 



Xathan Clark, of an old New 
CLARK England family, settled in Ath- 
ens, Green county. New York. 
He married a daughter of John Nicholas, of 
Waterbury, Connecticut. He was a success- 
ful manufacturer, and lived to an advanced 
age. 

(II) Edward, son of Nathan Clark, was 
born in Athens, December 19, 181 1. He re- 
ceived his education under the instruction of 
a private tutor, one Bosworth, a placid old 
bachelor who knitted his own stockings and 
lived a simple life, devoting himself chiefly 
to the teaching of small children. .Afterward, 
Mr. Clark attended the academy at Hudson, 
of which E. King was principal, and then en- 
tered Williams College, of which he was one 
of the early graduates, a classmate of William 
Cullen Bryant, the poet. .^Xfter graduating 
in 1830, Mr. Clark began in the following au- 
tumn to study law in the office of Ambrose L. 
Jordan, Esq., at Hudson, and after three years 
as a law clerk, he was admitted to the bar. In 
the autumn of 1833 he opened an office in 
Poughkcepsie, New York, and began to prac- 
tice law. In May, 1837, he became a law part- 
ner of his father-in-law, Ambrose L. Jor- 
dan, and the firm continued for a period of 
sixteen years. The office of Jordan & Clark 



was removed to New York City, May i, 1838, 
and a very successful law practice built up 
there. Mr. Jordan fully sustained his great 
reputation as an advocate and the junior part- 
ner became a lawyer of prominence. In 1848, 
Isaac M. Singer, an erratic genius who had fol- 
lowed various occupations and had invented 
many valuable mechanical devices, was a client 
of the firm. The sewing machine which he 
devised was not profitable at first, and even 
his title to the patent became involved and 
was on the point of being lost to him. Singer 
appealed to Mr. Clark for the means to re- 
deem a third interest in the patent and busi- 
ness. Mr. Clark acceded, and held the stock 
as security for his loan to Singer. Afterward, 
when it became apparent that much litigation 
would be necessary to sustain the validity of 
the Singer patents, Mr. Clark, at the request 
of Singer, took the stock in payment of the 
loan. Afterward, another third interest was 
acquired by Mr. Clark in behalf of Mr. Singer 
and himself, and thereupon a partnership was 
formed under the title of I. M. Singer & Com- 
pany, in which Mr. Clark had a half interest. 
The business of making the Singer Sewing 
Machine was conducted by this firm with emi- 
nent .success from 1851 to 1863. Mr. Clark 
devoted much of his time to the vexatious liti- 
gation in which the firm was involved until 
a final settlement and adjustment of the con- 
flicting claims of inventors was reached. In 
the meantime the business had prospered, and 
henceforth it grew to magnificent proportions. 
In order to get relief from the great cares of 
management and to provide for the future 
growth of the business. Mr. Clark secured 
the incorporation of the concern in 1863, four- 
fifths of the stock being owned by Mr. Singer 
and himself. Directly afterward Mr. Clark 
retired from active management, though he 
remained on the board of directors for sev- 
eral years. In foreign travel he sought much- 
needed relaxation, and he purchased a great 
collection of statuary and other works of art 
in the course of his visits to the European cen- 
ters. In the autumn of 1854 Mr. Clark bought 
a mansion in Cooperstown, known as ".\pple 
Hill," from George .■\. Starkwe.Uhcr, and for 
several vears Airs. Clark and the children spent 
the summers at the old house. In 1869 Mr. 
Clark erected a handsome stone residence to 
which he gave the name of "Eemleigh,'' and 
it has since then been one of the most attrac- 
tive country jjlaccs in the county. It is one of 



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the spots that all strangers in Cooperstown 
visit. Although Mr. Clark had a city house, he 
made "Fernleigh" his home. lie married, Oc- 
tober, 1835, Caroline Jordan, daughter of 
Ambrose L. Jordan. Children : Edward L. 
Clark, Ambrose Jordan Clark, Alfred Corning 
Clark. 

(III) Alfred Corning, son of Edward 
Clark, was born in 1843, ^"d 'I'^d April 8, 
1896, of pneumonia. He was the youngest 
son and last survivor among his father's chil- 
dren, and inherited a large estate, including 
a controlling interest in the great Singer Sew- 
ing Machine Company, and valuable real estate 
in New York City. His home was at Fern- 
leigh. Naturally modest and retiring in his 
manner and habits, he was an earnest, thought- 
ful, public-spirited citizen, of well-cultivated 
intellect, devout and helpful in church and 
other benevolent organizations. He was a 
communicant of the Protestant Episcopal 
church. He was generous and discriminat- 
ing in his charity but vigorous in support of 
the opinions he held on public questions. He 
was fond of music and of the classics, and 
gave to a musical society to which he belonged 
a costly structure which he erected in New 
York City. He traveled e.xtensively abroad. 
His knowledge of the modern languages is 
shown by a translation from the Swedish of 
X'iktor Rydberg of a work of about 330 pages, 
entitled "Roman Days," a scholarly contribu- 
tion to literature, which was published in at- 
tractive style and handsomely illustrated. He 
married (first) Elizabeth Severin. She mar- 
ried (second) the late Bishop Henry C. Pot- 
ter, of New York. Mr. and Mrs. Clark had 
four sons : Edward Severin Clark, Robert 
Sterling Clark, F. .Ambrose Clark. Stephen 
Carlton Clark. 

(IV) Stephen Carlton, son of .\lfred Corn- 
ing Clark, was born at Cooperstown, New 
York. August 29, 1882. He was educated by 
private tutors in early youth, and attended 
Cutter's School in New York City, where he 
prepared for college. He was graduated from 
Yale College in 1903 with the degree of Bach- 
elor of .\fts, and from Columbia Law School 
in the class of 1907 with the degree of LL. B. 
He has made his home at Fernleigh. in Coop- 
erstown. In politics he is a Republican, and 
in 1910 he was assemblyman from his district 
in Otsego county. He is a member of the 
Racquet and Tennis Club, of New York City; 
the Republican Club, the Harvard Club, of 



New York; the Yale Club, the St. Anthony 
Club, the Fort Orange Club, of .A.lbany, and 
of Otsego Lodge of Free Masons, No. 38. 
He is a communicant of the Protestant Epis- 
copal church. He is a director of the First 
National Bank, of Cooperstown. He has an 
office in the Singer Building, 149 Broadway, 
New York City. He married, February 20, 
1909, Susan Vanderpoel, daughter of Marcus 
T. Hun. 



The surname Hart is common in 
H.ART England, Ireland and Scotland, 
being sjielled in various ways — 
Hart, Hartt, Heart, Hearte and Harte. At 
least si.x emigrants of the name were in New 
England before 1650. .Among the more prom- 
inent ones were : Thomas, of Ipswich ; Law- 
rence, of Newbury ; Samuel, of Lynn ; Nicho- 
las, of Taunton ; Isaac, of W'atertown. The 
patriotism of members of this family is shown 
by the number of times the name is recorded 
in the. annals of the wars of 1775, 1812 and 
1861, where they had served as officers and 
privates. 

(I) Deacon Stephen Hart, the immigrant 
ancestor of this branch of the family, was 
born about 1605, in Braintree, county Essex, 
England, and came to the Massachusetts Bay 
Colony about 1632, accompanied by his wife 
and their two sons, John and Stephen. It is 
supposed that he was with the company that 
came from Braintree, England, and located at 
Braintree, Massachusetts, subsc(|uently re- 
moved to Newton, and constituted tlie church 
of which Rev. Thomas Hooker was invited 
from England to become pastor. Deacon 
Hart was in Newton (Cambridge) in 1632, 
and was there admitted as a freeman May 14, 
1634. In 1635 he sold his Cambridge prop- 
erty and removed to Hartford with Rev. 
Hooker's coinpany, being one of the original 
proprietors of this town. His house was on 
the west side of what is now Front street, near 
Morgan street, and there is a tradition that 
tlie town was named from the ford that he 
discovered in the Connecticut river at a low 
stage of the water, and from Hart's Ford be- 
came Hartford. It is also said that while he 
and others were on a hunting expedition on 
Talcott mountain, they discovered Farmington 
river valley, then inhabited by the Tunxis In- 
dians, a powerful tribe, and the fields being 
probably waving with grass and Indian corn, 
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value. The settlers made a bargain with the 
Indians and many of them located there. Dea- 
con Hart became one of the original proprie- 
tors of Tunxis, later Farmington, in 1672. He 
was deputy to the general court in 1647 and 
for fifteen sessions thereafter, with one ex- 
ception. In 1653 he was commissioner for 
the town of Farmington to aid in impressing 
men for the army. He was chosen the first 
deacon of the church there, and was one of 
the "seven pillars" of the church. His home 
lot, which was the largest in Farmington, was 
situated on the west side of Main street oppo- 
site the meeting house, and contained fifteen 
acres. This large lot was granted him as an 
inducement to erect a mill, to be perpetuated 
and kept running. His will was dated March 
16, 1682-3, and he died in that month. He and 
his first wife were constituent members of the 
church in Famiington, organized in 1652 with 
Rev. Roger Newton as pastor. His second 
wife, Margaret, widow of Arthur Smith, sur- 
vived him and was admitted to the church in 
Farmington, Alarch 17, 1690-1, and died in 
1693. Children, all by his first wife: Sarah, 
married, November 20, 1644, Thomas Por- 
ter; Mary, married John Lee and (second) 
Jedediah Strong ; John, mentioned below ; Ste- 
ven : Mehitable, married John Cole ; Thomas, 
married Ruth Hawkins. 

(II) John Hart, son of Deacon Stephen 
Hart, was born in England, and he and his 
wife Sarah resided at Farmington, where he 
was admitted a freeman by the general court 
at the May session of 1654. His wife joined 
the church at Farmington October 19, 1653, 
and he was admitted .-\pril 2, 1654. He was 
one of the first settlers of Tunxis, and bought 
his house lot from the original owners, being 
on the list of original proprietors of 1672. At 
the October session of the general court in 
1660 he was elected one of the committee to 
examine Thirty Mile Island with the view of 
settlement. His house, located near the cen- 
ter of the village was fired upon by the Indians 
in the night, and he and all his family except 
his son John j^erished in the flames. This son 
was absent at Nod. or Northington. since 
called Avon, where the family owned land, 
looking after their stock. The burning of the 
town records at this time was a public calam- 
ity. This tragedy occurred in i66i5, when John 
Hart was about thirty-five years of age. He 
and his wife had children: Sarah, born at 
Farmington, about iCiS?)- burned to death in 



1666 ; John, mentioned below ; Steven, born in 
Farmingjton, in July, 1657, burned to death in 
1666. 

(HI) Captain John (2) Hart, elder son of 
John ( I ) and Sarah Hart, was born in Farm- 
ington, about 1655, and baptized .April 2nd, of 
that year. He was the only survivor of the 
family after the fire in which the other mem- 
bers perished, and lived to be the progenitor 
of a numerous posterity. He was offered many 
offices of honor and trust and was a useful 
man in church and state. In May, 1695, he 
was confirmed by the general court as ensign 
of the Farmington train band, and in October, 
1703, was commissioned lieutenant, being later 
promoted to the rank of captain. For four 
years, 1702-5, he was deputy to the general 
court, and was appointed in May, 1705, one of 
the auditors of the colony. He married Mary, 
daughter of Deacon Isaac Moore, of Farm- 
ington, and both were admitted to the church 
there November 24, 1686. He died in Farm- 
ington, November 11, 1714, and his wife died 
September 19, 1738, he at the age of si.xty and 
she at the age of seventy-four years. Chil- 
dren : John, mentioned below ; Isaac, baptized 
November 27, 1686; Sarah, December 11, 
1687; Matthew, December 7, 1690; Samuel, 
Sejitember 18, 1692; Nathaniel, .April 14, 
1695 ; Mary. 

(IV) Deacon John (3) Hart, son of Cap- 
tain John (2) and Mary (Moore) Hart, was 
born in 1684, and baptized at Farmington, No- 
vember 27, 1686. He was chosen deacon of 
the church at Farmington, November 19, 1718, 
and subsequently removed to Kensington, 
where he was also a deacon. For many years 
he was town clerk, and was twenty-three times 
elected to the general court between 17 17 and 
1743. His will was dated March 2, 1752, 
was probated in Hartford, and among other 
provisions gave his son Solomon all his lands 
on Fort Hill, comprising about one hundred 
acres. His estate was appraised at more than 
fi.ooo. Deacon Hart died October 7, 1753, 
at the age of si.xty-nine years. He married 
(first), March 20, 1706. Esther, daughter of 
Samuel Gridley (the Trader), baptized in 
Farmington, May 15, 1687, and both were ad- 
mitted to the church there January 31, 1711- 
12. They lived on his father's place. His first 
wife, Esther, mother of his children, died July 
10, 1743. at the age of fifty-seven years, and 
he married (second), January 11, 1743-4. 
Widow Hannah Hull, who also died November 



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27, 1760, at the age of seventy-six years. Dea- 
con Hart had children : Esther, born Septem- 
mer 19, 1707; Judah, October 25, 1709; John, 
October 11, 17 14; Mary, March 9, 1717; 
Sarah, June 19, 1719; Solomon, mentioned 
below; Ruth, C3ctober 25, 1729. 

(V) Deacon Solomon Hart, third son of 
Deacon John (3) and Esther (Gridley) Hart, 
was born at Kensington, October i, 1724, 
lived in Congee, Farmington, and removed to 
Tyringham, Massachusetts, in 1761, and in 
1765 to Cornwall, where he died instantly, 
August 15, 1805, at the age of eighty years. 
He made several purchases of land on the 
river from Cornwall bridge to Canaan line, 
and built a large white house, which was 
called Hart's Tavern. The locality where he 
lived is known at this time as West Cornwall. 
He married, March 3, 1749-50, E.xperience, 
daughter of William and Iixperience (Gay- 
lord) Cole, of Southington, born March 16, 
1728, at Wallingford. She died of hydro- 
thorax. Children: Ruth, born December 31, 
1750; Esther, March 26, 1752; Titus, Jan- 
uary 24, 1754; Lot, 1756; Phineas, 1758; Elias, 
mentioned below ; Jemima, Experience, Solo- 
mon, and a child who died in infancy. 

(VT) Captain Elias Hart, fourth son of 
Deacon Solomon and Experience (Cole) Hart, 
was born May II, 1759, and was noted for his 
ardor and bravery in furthering the cause of 
the colonists during the war of independence. 
Although he was scarcely si.xteen years old, 
he freely gave his services to his country, and 
through seven campaigns uncomplainingly 
bore the hardships and rigors of the war. 
When smallpox was raging in the camp he 
inoculated himself and thus was able to live 
through the scourge. He moved in 1784 from 
Hart's Bridge to the farm deeded to him by 
his father in that year. He served the town 
many years in positions of trust and honor, 
and received a pension from the government 
until his death in 1834, at the age of seventy- 
five years. He married, June 14, 1781, Philo- 
mela, daughter of Appleton and Mary (Wol- 
cott ) liurnham, and granddaughter of Wil- 
liam Burnham, of Kensington, born May i. 
1764, and both were members of the Second 
Congregational church. Their children were : 
Enos, scalded to death in childhood ; Elias. 
born November 4, 1784; Oliver Burnham, 
1787; Laura, March, 1790; Philomela. June 
I?' 1793: Julius, mentioned below: Harriet. 



March, 1798; Jerusha, 1801 : .Mvin Nelson. 
February 11. 1804. 

(\TI) Julius, fourth son of Elias and Phil- 
omela ( Burnham) Hart, was born February 
29, 1796, at Cornwall, Connecticut, and was 
an active farmer. He worshipped many years 
in the old church at the Center, and contrib- 
uted right liberally to the construction of the 
church at North Cornwall and its subsequent 
support. He served in various local offices of 
honor and trust, and was very influential and 
helpful in the Washingtonian temperance 
movement of 1840. He was a man of well- 
known public spirit, and was generous in his 
support of public movements. January 7, 
1819, he married Rhoda, daughter of Deacon 
Noah and Lydia (Cornwall) Rogers, born 
June 9, 1798, at North Cornwall, and she died 
June II, 1866, at the age of sixty-eight years. 
Their children were: Julius Rogers, born De- 
cember 15, 1819; Noah Rogers, mentioned be- 
low; Lydia Julia and Julius Leavett, twins, 
born April 29, 1826, the former of whom died 
June 10, 1827; Elizabeth Wilson, born Jan- 
uary 22, 1829; Elias Burton, February 21, 
1834; George Spencer, February 11, 1837. 

(VIII) Noah Rogers, second son of Julius 
and Rhoda (Rogers) Hart, was born Septem- 
ber 12, 1821, at Cornwall, Connecticut, and 
died in Brooklyn, New York, about itpi, 
aged eighty years. He was a clerk in a store 
at West Cornwall in early life, and later be- 
came a merchant and manufacturer at West 
Goshen, Connecticut. In 1849 his early ac- 
cumulations were lost by fire. In 1853 he 
and his brother, E. Burton Hart, established a 
private boarding school for boys at West Corn- 
wall, both having previously had experience 
in the instruction of youth. In 1857 Noah R. 
Hart left this enterprise to engage in mercan- 
tile business with his brother, Julius L. Hart, 
in West Goshen. For nine or ten years he 
served as superintendent of the Sabbath school 
in Goshen, and was one of the founders of the 
Y. M. C. A. there. In 1870 he left that town 
for Paterson. New Jersey, where he lived until 
1872. then closed out his business. He later 
went to Brooklyn, New York, where he was 
engaged in the manufacture of printer's ink. 
and spent the last years of his life in that 
city, where both he and his (first) wife were 
members of Plymouth Church. In early life 
he was a Republican, and cherished the foun- 
dation principles of the party, but was inde- 



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pendent in political action. For many years 
he lived retired from active business life. He 
married (first). November 22, 1843, Lucretia 
Minerva, daughter of Micajah and Rosetta 
(Pendleton) Bamum, born March 14, 1826, 
at Cornwall. He married (second) Catherine 
V. (Hard) Hart, who survives him, and now 
lives at 185 Grand avenue, Brooklyn. His chil- 
dren, all by his first marriage, were ; Freder- 
ick Augustus, mentioned below ; Arthur Bur- 
ton, born June 26, 1855, resides in Brooklyn, 
New York ; Mary Elizabeth, born February 
8, 1859, married Charles Newton and resides 
in Brooklyn; Emma Lucretia, born March 15, 
1865, married the late George Zanes, of Brook- 
lyn, New York, where she resides. The first 
three children were born in Cornwall, and the 
last in Goshen, Connecticut. 

(IX) Frederick Augustiis, older son of 
Noah Rogers and Lucretia M. (Barnum) 
Hart, was born in Cornwall, Connecticut, July 
25, 1849. He was educated in his native town 
and came to New York City when sixteen 
years of age. For several years he worked for 
George S. Hart & Company, and later be- 
came one of the firm. On account of ill health 
he withdrew from this business connection 
and for two years dealt in Long Island real 
estate. For several years past he has been 
identified with the firm of Snecker & Quim- 
by, of New York City, produce commission 
merchants. Mr. Hart and wife are members 
of the church of the Evangel (Congregational) 
of Flatbush. In politics he is a Republican, 
but gives little attention to politics, though 
he sustains his principles as a voter. He mar- 
ried, April 9, 1874, Catherine, daughter of Wil- 
liam and Catherine (De Mund) Allen, of 
Brooklyn, and they had children: Mabel A., 
born 1875: Jessie, 1876, married Alexander S. 
Evans, with H. B. Claflin & Company, and 
they live at Montclair, New Jersey, and have 
a daughter Katherine ; Frederick A., Jr., born 
in 1878, is connected with the firm of John 
Thallon & Company, of New York, dealers 
in cheese, married Margaret McLaren, and 
they have two children, Sidwell and Dorothy ; 
Robert I'enley. mentioned below ; Ethel L., 
born in 1882 ; Edith, born in 1884, died at the 
age of sixteen years; Lilla, born 1886; Hazel, 
died at the age of ten years ; one son died at 
birth; Herbert, died in infancy; Raymond, 
bom in December, 1894; .Arthur, 1896. 

(X) Robert I'cnley, second son of Freder- 
ick Augustus and Catherine (Allen) Hart, was 



born in Brooklyn, New York, August 29, 1880, 
and educated in the schools of that city. At 
the age of seventeen years he entered the em- 
ploy of George S. Hart & Company, of New 
York City, with whom he remained until 1903, 
when the Norwich Cold Storage Company was 
organized by his father, and brother, Frederick 
A., Jr. This company was organized with 
Frederick A. Hart, president ; Howard D. 
Newton, of Norwich, vice-president, and Rob- 
ert F. Hart, secretary and treasurer. Since 
that time Mr. Hart has resided in Norwich, 
where he retains his connection with the above- 
mentioned company, and in addition conducts 
the only ice business there under his ow'n 
name. He is a packer and dealer, and his ice- 
houses are located along Canasawacta street, 
at the intersection of Fair. He conducts a 
large business, and furnishes his customers 
with a good quality of clear ice. He has built 
up this enterprise through the purity of his 
ice, and has a reputation for honorable deal- 
ing and upright business methods. He secures 
his stock from mountain streams and far-away 
points to meet the large demand for his prod- 
uct. He is one of the representative business 
men of his community and highly esteemed as 
a public-spirited citizen. He attends the Con- 
gregational church, and is affiliated with the 
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of 
Norwich. He is well-known and popular in 
many circles and recognized as one of the sub- 
stantial business men of Norwich. 

On June 16. 1906, he married Jean Ellis 
Bliss, of Glen Ridge, New Jersey, daughter of 
Lewis E. and Julia (Smith) Bliss. Her 
mother's grandfather was Conklin Brush, at 
one time mayor of Brooklyn. Children as fol- 
lows have blessed this union : Richard and 
Howard, twins, born February 23, 1907; Rob- 
ert .\Ilen, May 4, 1909; Jean Ellis, Alarch 11. 
1911. 

The name Bidwell is of Sax- 
BIDWELL on origin, the spelling Bid- 

dulph, meaning War Wolf. 
From I'.iddulph the following names are de- 
rived : Bedewelle, Bvdewell, Bidewell, Bidwell, 
Bidwill, Bidwelle. Bidle, Biddle, Bidel, Biddel, 
Bidden, Biddol, Biddoll and Biddulps. Those 
now in use are Bidwell, Bedwell, Biddel, and 
r.iddul])h. One of the oldest castles in Eng- 
land is the Biddulph castle in Norfolk county. 
It was built about 1066, and tradition says 
that one of William the Conqueror's generals 





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married the Biddulpli heiress of that time and 
assumed her name. In 1400 Sir W'iUiam 
Bordewelle is mentioned in Thetford, Nor- 
folk county, as having given a legacy. In 
1426 lands were let at Gashorp to Robert 
Berdewell, Esq., at twenty shillings per an- 
num. The following coat-of-arms is given in 
"Burke's Encyclopedia of Heraldry" as belong- 
ing to the Bidvvells of Thetford; Gyronny of 
4 or and gules ; 4 roundless each charged with 
as many martlets all counter-charged. Crest : 
A martlet proper. 

( I ) Richard Bidwell, immigrant ancestor, 
was an early settler of W'intlsor, Connecticut. 
He is called Goodman Bidwell in records, and 
ilied December 25, 1647. Children: John, 
mentioned below ; Hannah, born October 22, 
1644; Joseph; Samuel; Richard. 

(H) John, son of Richard Bidwell, married 
Sarah Wilcox, daughter of John and Mary 
Wilcox. She died June 15, 1690. Her father, 
John Wilcox, died before October, 1666; his 
wife survived him, and her will is dated March 
4, 1668-69, Hartford. John Bidwell was an 
early settler at Hartford, and had four acres 
of land allotted him in the division of lands 
there in 1639. In i()40 he had a house lot on 
the east side of Trumbull street near Pearl, and 
in 1666 he had land allotted him at East Hart- 
ford. In 1640 he had a tan yard on an island 
in Little River, in what is now Bushnell's Park. 
November 9, 1670, he was freed from "Train- 
ing W'atching and Wardeing by the town of 
Hartford." He and his wife Sarah were 
original members of the Second or Center 
Church, February 1672. May 13, 1669, John 
Bidwell and Joseph Bull had granted to them 
two hundred acres of land "in the next com- 
mons to the place where their Saw Mill stands, 
with liberty to take timber out of the common 
for the improvement of their saw mill as their 
need shall require." October 13, 1669, in a 
list of freemen on the north side of Little 
river, John Bidwell Sr. is mentioned. His will 
was dated February 10, 1680, and mentioned 
wife Sarah, sons John, Joseph, Daniel r.nd 
Samuel, and daughters Sarah House and Han- 
nah Waddams, and Mary Meekins. He died 
1687. Children: John, born about 1641. men- 
tioned below ; Joseph, died 1692 : Samuel, born 
1650: Sarah; Hannah: Alary: Daniel, born 

I Oss- 
ein) John (2), son of John (i) Bidwell. 
was born about 1641, died July 3, 1692. He 
married, November 7, 1678, Sarah, born 1659, 



died 1708, daughter of Thomas, and grand- 
daughter of Governor Welles, and is mention- 
ed in the latter"s will. John Bidwell lived in 
Glastonbury, Connecticut, and had the first 
sawmill there, 1667. Later he lived at Hart- 
ford, and his father willed him all his lands 
and buildings west of the Connecticut river. 
He had at Hartford, a saw, grist and fulling 
mill, six saw or grist mills, three at Hartford, 
and one each at East Hartford, Wethersfield 
and Middletown. He was also an engineer 
and was selected by the town of Hartford to 
deepen the channel in the Connecticut river 
between that trnvn and Wethersfield, in 1686. 
He and his wife Sarah were admitted to full 
communion at the Second or Center church, 
Hartford. February 21, 1685. He was buried 
in East Hartford. He left an estate of one 
thousand and eighty-one pounds, and his widow 
was administratrix. In Alarch, 1704, his widow 
Sarah gave to her son John land on the east 
side of the Connecticut, and her son Thomas 
witnessed the deed. Children : John, mention- 
ed below: Hannah, born .\ugust 31, 1680; 
Sarah, August 19. 1681 : Thomas, December 
27, 1682, died 1 716; Jonathan, March 5, 1684; 
David, 1687; James, 1691, died May 7. 1718. 

(IV^) John (3), son of John (2) Bidwell, 
was born in 1687, died June 24, 1738. He 
married, July 8, 1714, Mehitabel, daughter of 
Jonathan Webster. According to the Mifldle- 
town records, he sold a si.xth part of a saw- 
mill which he received from his father to Sam- 
uel Miller of that town, acknowledged March 
12, 1 712, and at the same time another share 
in the same mill to Samuel Bidwell. He is 
mentioned in the Hartford and Farmington 
town records, and June 27. I744. sold land in 
the latter town. Children : David, born De- 
cember 9, 1715, died February 7, 1716: Mabel, 
August 18. 1718: David, October 16, 1720; 
Isaac, August 16, 1723; Stephen, mentioned 
below; Jacob. August 23. 1727: .Amos, August 
18, 1729: Oliver, December 13, 1732. 

(\') Stephen, son of John (3) Bidwell, was 
born July 29, 1725, died September 12. 1808 
or 1809. In vol. 8 of the town records of 
Hartford, he is mentioned from 1748 to 17.S4: 
in vol. from 1762 to 1769; in vol. i^ from 
1767 to 1781 : vol. 14 from 1773 to 1785. He 
moved from West Hartford to Litchfield. Con- 
necticut, where in 1778 he was a grand juror 
and in 1772 a rate maker. While living there 
he bought, September 3. 1789. of Isaac Bid- 
well and Joseph Lankton, land in Farmington. 



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Again on May i, 1791, he bought land in 
Farmington of Isaac Bidwell, these purchases 
being recorded on page 266, vol. 28, and page 
25 of vol. 30, of the Farmington town records. 
On page 25 of vol. 30, the records show that 
he sold land in Farmington, December 24, 
1793, and on November 13, 1793, recorded on 
page 256. He lived for a time at Northfield. 
Litchfield county, Connecticut. He married 
Anna Rossiter, born at Harwinton, Connecti- 
cut, died aged eighty-si.x years. Children : 
Elijah, mentioned below; Stephen, born No- 
vember 23. 1765; Polly: Amy; Ruth; Mabel. 

(VI) Elijah, son of Stephen Bidwell, was 
born at Litchfield, December 9, 1760, died at 
Hannibal, New York, May 10, 1848. He was 
a grand juror at Litchfield in 1793. He moved 
to Hannibal, where he was a member of the 
Baptist church and where he died. He mar- 
ried, at Litchfield, Lucy Cole, born there Au- 
gust 26, 1766, died March 14, 1842, at Hanni- 
bal. Children: Sarah, born November 14, 1785, 
died 1835; Lucy, June 4, 1787, died Septem- 
ber 17, 1855: Bennett, mentioned below; Lur- 
ana, July 6, 1793. died December 30, 1812, un- 
married, at Rutland, Vermont ; Almira, June 
23, 1794, died August 23, 1824; Sophia, No- 
vember 23, 1797; David, January 12, 1799, 
had a small family at Potsdam, New York, 
died March 18, 1836; Josiah, October 5, 1802, 
died October 7, 1855, had children: Marcelhis, 
Rosalind, Horace and daughter, Orvelle ; Har- 
riet, .\ugust 28, 1804, died September 2. 1804; 
Sylvanus, April 6, 1808. 

(\'II) Bennett, son of Elijah Bidwell, was 
born .^pril 21, 1790, died October 18, 1830. He 

married . Chihlren, born at 

Clarenden, \'ermont: i. Darwin, mentioned 
below. 2. Harriet, born 1818, died at Sacore, 
N. M. ; was a missionary. 3. Cornelia, 1827, 
died 1867, N. M. ; was a missionary. 4. Still- 
man. September 2, 1830; graduated from Madi- 
son L^niversity, in 1858, was ordained as Bap- 
tist minister, 1816, has been pastor of ten 
churches, and is living at Syracuse, New York. 
5. and 6. Sons, died in childhood. 

(VIII) Darwin, son of Bennett Piidvvell, 
was born July 16, 1816, died in i()07. He 
came to Hannibal, Oswego county. New York, 
when a young man. He owned a fla.x mill 
there and followed farming for his principal 
occupation. He married . Chil- 
dren, born in Hannibal: i. .Mmon, born 1842. 
died at .Sterling, IQOS ; was a farmer. 2. Mary, 
1844, died in Michigan, 1888; married 



Bradt. 3. Sarah, 1846; married Emigh ; 

living at Hannibal. 4. William, mentioned be- 
low. 5. Adelbert, 1850; moved in 1904 to Con- 
necticut, where he is a carpenter. 6. Harriet, 

1854; married Jorolmon ; living at 

Weedsport, New York. 

(IX) William, son of Darwin Bidwell, was 
born in iiannibal, Oswego county. New York, 
in 1848. He was educated there in the public 
schools, and became a manufacturer of wagons 
there. He removed to Inilton, New York, and 
engaged in business as carpenter and mill- 
wright. He is a member of Hiram Lodge, No. 
144, Free and Accepted Masons. In politics 
he is a Republican. He married Jessie, daugh- 
ter of Charles and Eliza Rodgers. Children : 
Wavne E., mentioned below ; .\rline. born in 
1883. 

(X) Wayne E., son of William Bidwell. 
was born in Hannibal, Oswego county. New 
York, July 19, 1 88 1. He was educated there 
in the Dublic schools. In 1885 he came to Ful- 
ton. New York, with his parents and has lived 
there to the present time. For fifteen years he 
was a clerk in a grocery store in Fulton. In 
1909 he attended an electrical school in New 
York City, and when he returned to Fulton 
engaged in the electrical and contracting busi- 
ness and has built up a large and successful 
trade in this line. He is a member of Neah- 
tawanta Lodge, No. 245, Odd Fellows, of Ful- 
ton. In politics he is a Republican. He mar- 
ried. June 4, 1903, Pearl Combs, born Octo- 
ber 12, 1880. daughter of Stacy and Elizabeth 
Combs ; they have one child, Dorothy, Ixirn 
February 27. 1908. 



The relationship of the pioneers of 
.\MES the .\mes or Fames family is dif- 
ficult to establish from the records. 
Fisher .\mes and the Ames family of Easton, 
Massachusetts, are descended from William 
.Ames, who was baptized at Brinton, Somerset- 
shire. England, October 8, 1(305. His brother 
John, who came with him, settled at Duxbury. 
and died in Duxbury. leaving his estate to his 
hrnther"s children. They were sons of Rich- 
ard .Ames. .Anthony Fames or .Ames, one of 
the first settlers of Charlestown. jVIassachu- 
setts, was the ancestor of Congressman Butler 
.Ames, of Lowell, Massachusetts. John .Ames, 
a ship carpenter, located in Woburn, Massa- 
chusetts, gave his age as fifty-five in 1672. 

(I) Robert .Ames, brother of John .Ames, 
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Ames, was early at W'oburn. Massachusetts, 
removed to Chelmsford, now the town of Dra- 
cut, and died there April 25, 1671. He mar- 
ried Elizabeth . His will refers to his 

cousin Richard, sister Dorothy, and Newman 
Farnham, of county Surrey, England. Thomas 
Eames, of Medford, deposed in 1652 that he 
was aged thirty-one years, giving surety at 
that time for his brother Robert. The Fram- 
ingham family was closely related, it is thought. 
Children of Robert : Samuel, born April 7, 
1653 ; John, 1654, died young ; Elizabeth, June 
4, 1659; Mary, June 11, 1661 ; Priscilla. May 
2, 1663; Samuel, September 2, 1664: Abigail, 
September 22, 1666 ; John, May 9, 1668. There 
were probably older sons, Robert, of Andover, 
born about 1640, and David, who settled at 
New London. 

(II) John Ames and David Ames, "prob- 
ably brothers from Andover, Massachusetts" 
(p. 264, History of New London), settled east 
of the river about 1696. Some histories have 
called John Ames "Richard," but the history 
of New London is confirmed by the records. 
The name was spelled Eams and Emms as well 
as Ames during the first generations in this 
country. John Ames appears to be son of Rob- 
ert, brother of Robert, of Andover, and of 
David, of whom we know no more. After liv- 
ing in New London about forty years John 
Ames died June i, 1735, in that town. His 
name appears in the probate record of the 
estate of Peter Branch, 171 3 (p. 374 New 
London History). His sons were: John, men- 
tioned below ; Robert. 

(III) John (2), son of John (i) Ames, was 
born about 1695-1700. Children, born at New 
London and baptized in the New London 
church: John, baptized September 20, 1724, 
died young; Daniel. October 12, 1729: Abigail, 
August 13, 1732; John, mentioned below; Ze- 
bulon, February 6, 1744. Perhaps others. 

(IV) John (3), son of John (2) Ames, was 
born in New London, and baptized September 
II, 1737. The census of 1790 in New London 
county is not divided into towns. The heads 
of families were Joseph (3), John (3), Eben- 
ezer, Daniel, Comfort, Josiah, Lucy and Sam- 
uel. Josiah, Joseph and Ebenezer were sons 
of Joseph, grandsons of Robert, according to 
the will of Joseph, 1734. Daniel and John were 
of John's family, so we have reason to believe 
that all the families of New London county 
were descended from John Ames, mentioned 
above. John Ames (p. 122) had two sons 



under sixteen and two females in iiis family ; 
John Ames (p. 125) ha<l three females in his 
family, probably a wife and two grown daugh- 
ters. .\nother John (p. 113) had two males 
over sixteen, one under that age and four fe- 
males in his family. As Comfort Ames was a 
neighbor, and as Daniel, Ebenezer and John 
were neighbors (p. 125), we conclude that 
John (p. 125) was the John born 1737. This 
John Ames is said to have lived in Alontville, 
New London county. He may have been the 
John Ames, of Preston, who was in Captain 
John Tyler's company from May to December, 
1775, in the revolution. 

( \" ) John (4), son of John (3) Ames, was 
born in 1760, in New London county, Con- 
necticut. He removed to Plymouth, New 
York, about 1807. LTnder the pension law of 
1 818 he applied for a pension. His applica- 
tion states that he enlisted in March, 1779, and 
served fifteen months under Captain Seth 
Harding on the United States steamship, "Con- 
federacy." At the time of enlistment he was 
of New London, Connecticut, and was fifty- 
eight years old. The Connecticut revolution- 
ary records show that he served on this vessel 
in 1778-79. The "Confederacy" was built on 
the Thames, below Norwich, Connecticut, a 
vessel of thirty-six guns, and launched in 1778. 
She sailed October 20. 1779. from Philadelphia 
for France, having the French Minister Ger- 
ard aboard and during a gale November 7 fol- 
lowing lost her masts and sails. She sought 
shelter in Martinique, which was reached De- 
cember 18. In March or ,\pril, 1781, she was 
captured by the British and her crew of one 
hundred and seventy-four taken to Charles- 
ton. He married, at Montville, Connecticut, 
November 24, 1785. Sarah Fargo. Children: 
.Mice, married Phineas Newton : Mehitable, 
married Jonathan Morton ; Seldon ; John Far- 
go: Samuel ; Rufus ; Joseph ; Robert, mention- 
ed below : .Salter, marrierl Leander Haskins. 

(VI) Robert (2), son of John (4) Ames, 
was born in Connecticut. December 31, 1794. 
died in New York City, November 22. 1826, 
in the prime of life. He was educated in the 
public schools. .\t the time of his death he 
was employed in a market in New York City. 
He married, November 13, 1817, Celma At- 
k-\ns, bom May 3, 1790, died September 18, 
1801. Children: Robert, died young: William, 
died young : Sarah .-K.. married S. Russell Still- 
man : Fordvce W., mentioned below. 

(VII) Fordvce W.. son of Robert (2) 



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Ames, was born in Plj'mouth, New York, Feb- 
ruary 19, 1820, died at Deruyter, New York, 
April 25, 1901. He was educated in the public 
schools, and was a farmer by occupation. He 
lived in Chenango county, New York, in the 
town of Otselic, in his younger days, and after- 
ward at Deruyter, Madison county, where 
most of his life was spent and where he died. 
He was active in town afifairs and held various 
offices of trust and honor. In politics he was 
a Republican. He married, September 6, 1843, 
Electa E. Ray, born in Georgetown, New 
York, February 25, 1822, died October 16, 
1878, daughter of Robert and Betsey (Wight) 
Ray. Children: i. Henry Robert, born Janu- 
ary I, 1845; served four years in the civil war 
in the Second New York Heavy Artillery 
Regiment ; a farmer, living at Deruyter, New 
York. 2. Hartwell Benjamin, born February 
14, 1847; ^ wagon maker at Deruyter, New 
York. 3. Warren Whit ford, born February 
25, 1850; editor and publisher: resides at De- 
ruyter. 4. Frank Herbert, born October 8, 
1852; resides in Brooklyn, New York, and is 
in business in New York City. 5. George 
Newell, born March 21. 1854; resides at De- 
ruyter. 6. John Fremont, born May 13, 1858, 
died in 1892, killed in a runaway accident : was 
a liaptist clergyman. 7. William Elmer, born 
.■\pril 8, i860: editor and publisher, resides at 
Chenango Forks, New York. 8. Fred Lin- 
coln, mentioned below. 

(Vni) Fred Lincoln, son of Fordyce W. 
Ames, was born in Deruyter. New York, Janu- 
ary 23, 1864. He attended the public schools 
of his native town. At the age of fourteen he 
was apprenticed to learn the trade of printer 
in the office of his brother in Deruyter. and he 
continued for four years there. Afterward he 
was employed at his trade in Chicago, Illinois, 
and Madison, South Dakota, for several years. 
In January, 1894, he established a weekly 
newspaper, called The Express, at Bainbridge, 
New York, and in conducting this paper 
evinced marked ability as a man of business 
and editor. In 1897 he came to Norwich, New 
York, and for six years was city editor of the 
Chenango Telegraph. In January, 1903, he 
received a probationary appointment in the 
government printing office at Washington, Dis- 
trict of Columbia, and in the following July his 
appointment was made permanent, but he re- 
signed the position to l>ecome city editor of the 
JVorzi'ieh Sun at Norwich, New York. 

In politics he is an active and influential 



Republican. In 1904 he was appointed deputy 
county clerk, and he has been connected with 
the office of the county clerk as assistant and 
as clerk since that time. He was electerl in 
November, 1909, clerk of the county, and his 
administration of the office has given the full- 
est satisfaction to the public, regardless of 
political opinions. It has been well said that 
he was the "right man for the right place, by LI 
reason of his eminent fitness and qualifications 
and his experience in the duties of the office." 
He was deputy clerk for nearly six years and 
is well known to the bench and bar and citizens 
of the county generally. He is a member of 
the Free and Accepted Masons ; Royal Arch 
Masons ; Royal and Select blasters, and Knights 
Templar, of Norwich. 

He married, September 15, 1886, Cora Cross, 
of Lincklaen, Chenango county. New York, 
daughter of David R. and Philura (Miner) 
Cross. Children: i. Morse Elliott, born at 
Deruyter, October 16, 1888: graduate of the 
Law School of Syracuse University, class of 
191 1. 2. Ruby Pauline, born at Chicago, Illi- 
nois, February 21, 1890; graduate of Cornell 
University, class of 1913. 3. Freda Corinne, 
born in Bainbridge, Chenango county. New 
York, August 11, 1895. 



Thomas Thompson, immi- 
THOMPSON grant ancestor, was one of 

the early settlers of Hart- 
ford. Connecticut, where he died April 25, 
1655. The inventory of his estate amounted 
to five hundred and forty-nine pounds five 
shillings five pence, made by Thomas Judd and 
John Hall. In his will he "desires my two 
brothers in England and my brother (in-law) 
Thomas Welles to be overseers" of the will. A 
committee was appointed to partition the estate, 
September 21, 1686. .-\t the time the will was 
made both sons were minors. His widow set- 
tled the estate. She married (second) Anthony 
Hawkins. Children : John ; Thomas, mention- 
ed below : Beatrice and Mary. John died in 
1711-12, and his inventory was dated March 3, 
1711-12, by Joseph Hawley and Ebenezer 
Steele, his .son John being administrator. John, 
son of John, died in Hartford, in 1741. 

(II) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (i) 
Thompson, was born about 1650, died in 1705- 
06, at Hartford. His inventory mentions his 
brother John, Samuel Woodruff Sr. and chil- 
dren, Samuel, mentioned below ; Daniel and 
Mercy. His will was dated January 18, 1705- 



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06, and the estate was distributed April i, 
1708, to Thomas, the eldest, Elizabeth and 
Mary Woodruff, children of his daughter Mrs. 
Woodruff'; Samuel, mentioned below; Ann; 
Daniel and Mary or Mercy. 

(III) Samuel, son of Thomas (2) Thomp- 
son, was born about 1690. His will was dated 
January 17, 1738-39. He married Hannah 

. Children : Samuel, eldest ; Daniel ; 

Thomas; Barnabas, born 1725; Ruth, married 
Judd; Mary, married Wood- 
ford ; Bethiah and Hannah, aged thirteen in 
1739; Anne. 

(IV) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (i) 
Thompson, was born about 1725. He resided 
in Farmington and had a son Samuel, men- 
tioned below. 

(\') Samuel (3), son of Samuel (2) Thomp- 
son, was born about 1760, in Farmington. In 
1795 he and Joseph Messenger went from 
Farmington to Deruyter, New York. At last 
accounts his descendants still owned part of 
lot No. 4 on which he settled. He was in later 
life known as Squire Thompson. He was a 
marked character, a famous hunter, a wonder- 
ful marksman, and from his various charac- 
teri>tics similar to one of Cooper's heroes was 
called "Leather Stocking" in this section. In 
a sketch of Squire Thompson printed some 
years ago by the Deruyter Nczc Era, a writer 
said : In his prime he was a bundle of nerves 
and bone, nothing else. On a time he went to 
the village of Cazenovia, or as it was termed 
in those days, 'up to the lake.' His business, 
which was with the late Colonel Lincklaen, be- 
ing over, Thompson stepped into the street and 
passing along unconscious of danger met a sort 
of craz\- drunken chap who without prelude 
or ceremony struck him a most unexpected 
blow over the head. Sudden as a flash the 
assailed returned the 'how d'ye do' with a tre- 
mendous whack over the other's head, who 
seeing the stars fall, cried out hastily, 'Oh, you 
shouldn't strike me! I'm a crazy man.' In- 
stantly the old squire whose motions were 
quick as lightning hauled oft' again, giving him 
another crack with the retort: 'Damn you. I'm 
as crazy as you be,' leaving Bedlamite sprawl- 
ing on the walk to come to his senses as best 
he might.'' He died at the age of ninety years. 
He lived for a time in Chatham, New York, 
before coming to Deruyter. He married a sis- 
ter of Chauncey Langdon ( see Langdon ). Chil- 
dren : Maria : Chauncey Langdon, mentioned 
below. 



(VI) Chauncey Langdon, son of Samuel 

(3) Thompson, was bom in Deruyter, New 
York, March 25, 1799. He married Chloe 
Spear, of Deruyter. In iSoc) her father, Eli 
Spear, was a tavern keeper and owned a potash 
plant in Deruyter. Children, born in Deruyter; 
Andrew Jackson, November 27, 1834, died in 
the service of the civil war, October 17, 1864; 
Martin \'an Buren, June 15, 1835; Samuel, 
mentioned below; Esther, April 11, 1839; 
Seth D., December 4, 1842. died April i, 1863; 
Henry DeWitt, July 23, 1S44, lives in Trux- 
ton. New York ; l-'ranklin Burdette, Mav 7, 
1846. 

(\ II) Samuel (4), son of Chauncey Lang- 
don Thompson, was born in Deruyter, New 
^'ork, July I. 1837. He married (first) Eliza, 
daughter of Michael Jejison. of Taylor, New 
York. H e married (second) Sarah Hine. Child 
b\ first wife: Samuel Ellswcjrth, mentioned be- 
low. Child by second wife: Amia, married 
Kenneth. 

(\'1II) Samuel Ellsworth, ."^on of Samuel 

( 4 ) Thompson, was born in Truxton, New 
York, April 23, 1862. He attended the public 
schools of his native town, and followed farm- 
ing for many years in various places. For 
several years past he has been with the Grand 
Cnion Tea Company, of Cortland. New \'ork, 
as salesman. Pie is a member of the Order 
of Free and Accepted Masons, and Independ- 
ent Order of Odd Fellows, of Fayetteville. 
New York. He married, September 4. 1893, 
Fannie Seacord, of Truxton. New York, daugh- 
ter of William and Mary N. (Cole) Seacord, 
of French Huguenot ancestry. She died in 
February, 1903. they had one child, Lloyd 
Seacord. born in DeWitt, New York. August 
6. 1895. 

(The Langdon Line). 
The pioneer ancestor of this family was 
George Langdon. who located in Wcthersfield. 
Connecticut, about 1636. removed thence tr> 
Springfield. Massachusetts, and located finally 
at Northampton, where he died December 29. 
1676. The name is also spelled Lanckton and 
Langton. John Langdon. a sailmaker of Bos- 
ton, and Roger Langdon. of Ipswich and Hav- 
erhill. Massachusetts, were the other early set- 
tlers of this family. George Langdon wa*; a 
tnwn officer of Springfield in 1650. He mar- 
ried. June 29. 1648. Hannah, widow of Ed- 
mund Haynes. of Springfield. His will was 
dated November 28, 1676, bequeathing to his 
wife, to son-in-law, Thomas Hanchetl ; to 



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(laughters ; son John, and grandson, Samuel 
Langdon. Children: John, mentioned below; 
daughter, married Pritchett ; daugh- 
ter, married Corbee ; Deliverance, mar- 
ried Thomas Hanchett ; Esther, married, Au- 
gust 22, 1649, John Hannum. 

(II) Deacon John Langdon, son of ("leorge 
Langdon, was born in England. He settled in 
Farmington, Connecticut, and represented the 
town in the general court, C)ctober, 16(18. He 
was admitted freeman, (October, 1669, and had 
joined the Farmington Church, July 12, 11153. 
He was deacon of the church for many years. 
He died in 1689. His will was dated July 22, 
1689. Children: John, had a son John men- 
tioned in father's will ; Samuel, baptized Feb- 
ruary 13, 1653 ; Joseph, mentioned below : Eliz- 
abeth, marriefl Luke Hayes. 

(III) Joseph, son of Deacon John Langdon, 
was born in 1660, at Farmington. He married 
(first), in October, 1683, Susannah, daughter 
of John and Mary (Kilbourne) Root. His will 
was dated .September 3, 1733, with codicil 
January 31, 1735. (One record gives his death 
as March 31, 1736. another as April, 1749). 
His wife died December 5, 1712, and he mar- 
ried (second) Mary . In his will he 

mentions Mary, his wife, and children: Joseph, 
John. Samuel, Ebenezer, Sarah Woodruff. 
Children, born at Farmington, by first wife: 
Sarah, .April 29, 1685; Joseph, March, 1688; 
John, -April 3, ifx.)i ; Samuel, December. 1692; 
Susannah. October. i6gf> : Ebenezer, mention- 
ed below: Mary, April. 1704; Mercy. .April. 
1704: Thomas, September, 1707. 

(IV) Ebenezer, .son of Joseph Langdon, 
was born at Farmington,* July 17, 1701, died 
there .April 17, 1756. He married, Novem- 
ber 30, 1727, Jemima, born September 26, 
1707. died May 22, 1793. daughter of Isaac and 
Mary (.Andrews) Cowles. Children, born at 
Farmington : Ebenezer, mentioncfl below ; Jo- 
•^eph, December 12, 1740. .And probably others. 

(V) Ebenezer (2). son of Ebenezer (i) 
Langdon. was born at Farmington about 1735. 
He married Catherine Green, of New York 
City, whose parents were born in Holland. 
.Among their children were: Ebenezer, bom 
March 4, 1775, died at Castleton. Vermont, 

September 18. 1849: married Polly , 

born in 1775, died February 6. 1855 at Castle- 
ton ; Chauncey. mentioned below : Daughter, 
married Samuel Thompson fsee Thompson). 
.According to the cen>;us of 1700 he was living 
at Farmington and had in his family three 



males over sixteen, "one under that age and 
four females. 

(\T) Chauncey, son of Ebenezer (2) 
Langdon, was born at Farmington, Novem- 
ber 8. 1763. He gratluated at Yale College 
in 1787 and studied law with Judge Sylvester 
Gilbert and settled at Castleton, Rutland coun- 
ty, Vennont, where he practiced law. He was 
register of probate in 1 792-94-96-181 3 ; judge 
of probate in 1798-99; representative to the 
legislature in 1813-14-17-19-20-22: member of 
congress, 1815-17. In 1808 and again from 
1823 until his death he was one of the coun- 
cillors of the state. He was elected a trustee 
of Middlebury College in 181 1 and remained 
one as long as he lived. From that college he 
received the honorary degree of Master of 
.Arts in 1803. In religion he was a Congre- 
gationalist and for years an officer of the Ver- 
mont Bible Society. He died at Castleton, 
July 23, 1830. He married, .April 7, 1789, 
Lucy Nona, daughter of Rev. Elijah Lathrop, 
of Hebron. She died at Castleton, January 
14, 1834. Several of his orations were pub- 
lished. He had son, Benjamin Franklin, who 
died September 22, 1796. 



Richard Lounsbury. im- 
LOUNSBERRY migrant ancestor, came 

from England and set- 
tled in New York province. He was an early 
settler and proprietor of Peningo Neck and 
is mentioned in the records of Rye, West- 
chester countv. New York, as early as 1672. 
He owned rights in the town from 1673 to 
1682. He sold his land, but afterward re- 
turned and owned land on Budd's Neck, 
which he bequeathed to his wife Elizabeth 
and his two .sons. His will is dated January 
2. 1690. His son- Thomas had by purchase 
rights in White Plains. He married Elizabeth 
Dubois, a member of a rich Huguenot family 
driven from France by Catholic persecution, 
and later wealthy silk manufacturers in Hol- 
land. Children : Thomas. Michael, mentioned 
heliiw : John, of Rye; Richard. Henry, born 
.\ugust 15. ifx*<4; Mary. 

( II) ^iichael, .son of Richard Lounsbury, 
was born about 1680. died January 20, 1730- 
31. at Stamford, Connecticut. He bought 
land in Stamford in 1703 at Pepper Ridge, 
near Taunton. He married, June 19, 1707. 
Sarah, daughter of Lieutenant Jonathan Lock- 
wood. Ixirn September 10. 16^4, died May 12, 
1688. and his wife, Sarah (F"erris) Lockwood, 



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daughter of Geoffrey Ferris. Jonathan was son 
of Robert Lockwood, the immigrant, who set- 
tled in Watertown, Massachusetts. Children, 
born at Stamford: Elizabeth and Sarah, twins, 
born June 13, 1708; Michael, January 23, 
1709-10; Jemima, March 17, 1711; Mon- 
mouth, mentioned below ; Joshua, July i, 1716; 
Kehemiah, December 2},, 1717: Abigail, Sep- 
tember II, 1719: Jonathan, October 20. 1721. 

(Ill) Monmouth, son of Michael Louns- 
bury, was born at Stamford, Connecticut. 1713- 

14. He married, , in 1738. Children: 

Thomas, born January 16, 1739; Elizabeth, 
July 25, 1 741, died young; Benjamin, men- 
tioned below; Michael, September 12, 1744; 
Elizabeth. Sqiteniber 9, 1746: Monmouth, 
July 31, 1748: William. February 28. 1749, 
died young; Jemima, December 4, 1751 ; Wil- 
liam, August 5, 1753; Tamar, September 11, 
1753 ; Abigail. 

(I\') IJenjamin. son of Monmouth Louns- 
bury. was b<^rn December 23. 1742, died in 
1 771. He had a son Benjamin, mentioned be- 
low. 

(\') Benjamin (2) Lounsberry (as the 
name is now spelled ), son of Benjamin Louns- 
bury, was born April 11, 1767, in Stamford, 
died in Nichols. New York, May 31, 1857. 
He was four years old wiien his father died. 
His mother married (second) Jonathan Piatt 
and moved to Bedford, Westchester county. 
New York, where they lived until 1774. In 
that year they moved to Nichols, New York, 
where in 1793 Mr. Piatt had bought land. 
Pienjamin Lounsberry was the first of the 
name to move to that part of the country and 
the village of Lounsberry was named after 
him and his descendants; he was the first 
purchaser of the ancestral lands still remain- 
ing in the family. He married, in 1792, Eliza- 
beth, daughter of Jonathan Piatt by his first 
wife. She died in 1838. Children: Harriet, 
born June 7, 1793, married J. \\'. Lanning ; 
Hannah. May 2},. 1795, married Samuel H. 
Dunham ; Piatt, mentioned below ; Charles, 
July 19. 1800: Horace, December 12. 1804; 
Benjamin, !VIay 4, 1807, died September 20, 
1888: James. October 7. 1809; William, De- 
cember 6. 1812, died Julv 12, 1887; Norman. 
Mav -. 181 5. 

(VI) Piatt, son of Benjamin (2) Louns- 
berry, was born in Nichols. New York. Sep- 
tember 18, 1797, died September 18. 1892. in 
TxnuT-li"rr\-. town of Nichols. He was a 
successful farmer, and owned large tracts of 



land in Nichols, where he lived all of his life. 
He married Sarah Lanning, of Nichols, daugh- 
ter of Samuel Lanning ; she died January 7, 
1877. Children; Sarah, married Robert How- 
ell ; Piatt, Mary, Amos, of Tioga ; Horace, 
mentioned below ; Prudence, married James 
H. Morey ; Elizabeth, married Andrew C. 
Hunt, of Litchfield, Pennsylvania; Benjamin, 
of Tioga ; Harriet, George, of Nichols ; Enoch, 
died aged twenty. 

(\"1I) Horace, son of Piatt Lounsberry, 
was born .August, 1832, in Lounsberry. and is 
now living there. He conducted the large 
farm on which his father and grandfather 
lived, in his younger years. He married, Sep- 
tember 15, 1857, Martha Ann Morey, born in 
Nichols, in 1840, died July 27. 1874, daugh- 
ter of William and Mary Ann (Howell) 
Morey. Children : Fred, mentioned below ; 
Stella A., born .\ugust 23, i860, married Dr. 
John T. Tucker, of Waverly, New York; Hor- 
ace Jr.. Ixirn ^larch 15. i8fi8. died .\pril 12, 
i8wi. 

(\'I]I) Fred, son of Horace Lounsberry, 
was born at Lounsberr}', May 15, 1858. He 
aLso has carried on the large farm which his 
ancestors owned, and has made a s]iecialty of 
raising Holstein cattle and Berk.'ihire swine*. 
His fariu consists of about two hundred acres, 
and is conducted in the most modern fashion. 
He was educated in the district schools, and 
in the schools of Owego, New York. For 
several years he has held the office of town 
assessor. He married, January 3. 1883. Sarah 
Tucker, born in Ithaca. Tompkins county. 
New York, November 23, 1837, daughter of 
Thomas and .Ann (Wilkins) Tucker, and 
granddaughter of Thomas Tucker, who lived 
and died in England ; her father was born in 
;\Iaidstone, county Kent, England, in 1823. 
and in 1831 came to .America in a sailing ves- 
sel, settling in Dryden, New York, later re- 
moving to \'arna. where he now lives. Chil- 
dren : Stephen Morey. mentioned below ; Lee 
Tucker, born Sejitember 13. 18S8, educated at 
Cornell three years and at Medico Chirurgical 
College of Philadelphia, graduating in 1912; 
member of Westbrook Lodge. No. 333, Free 
and .Accepted Masons. 

( IX ) Stephen Morey, son oi Fred Louns- 
berrv. was born in Lounsberry, Tioga county. 
New York, August 17. 1883. He received his 
education in the district schools and attended 
school in \\'averly for one year. .Afterward 
he spent five years in Owego Free .Academy. 



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from which he was graduated in 1906. He 
then attended the Law School at Cornell Uni- 
versity, from which he was graduated in 1910, 
and since then has opened a law office in 
Owego and at Nichols, New York. He is a 
member of Westbrook Lodge, No. 333, Free 
and Accepted Masons. 



Hiram Codner was born in 
CODNER Schoharie, Schoharie county, 

New York, December 13, 1806, 
died in Owego, Tioga county. New York, April 
21, 1894. It is thought that his father may 
have come from England. The name does 
not appear in the revolutionary rolls nor in 
the census of 1790. He moved to Owego 
about 1840 and bought a large farm about six 
miles from the village. Here he lived the 
remainder of his life, a prosperous and suc- 
cessful farmer. He married Elizabeth Merri- 
cie, who was born in Schoharie, August 15, 
1812, died in Owego, March 20, 1896. Chil- 
dren: I. Nelson, mentioned below. 2. Delia, 
born March 14, 1835, died April 2, 1843. 3. 
Phebe, February i6, 1837, married John Dan- 
iels. 4. Nancy. December 29, 1839, died June 
.10, 1859. 5. John, February 27, 1841. 6. 
Cynthia, December 30, 1842, died July 15, 
i860. 7. Ahnira, February i, 1845; married 
George Townsend. 8. Lucinda, January 17, 
1847; married Marvin Ecketer. 9. Hiram 
Peter. May 26, 1849, died January 12, 1858. 
10. Mary Jane, September 29, 185 1 ; married 
Arthur Blow. 11. Amanda, April 5, 1855, 
died January 16, 1859. 12. .-Mma Ellen, 
March 13, 1859; married Walter Tyrrell. 

(H) Nelson, son of Hiram Codner, was 
born in Schoharie, New York, September 15, 
1832, died in Owego. New York, July 30, 
1898. He was about eight years of age when 
his parents moved to Owego, and he received 
his education in the public schools there, and 
continued to live there the remainder of his 
life, on his father's farm, keeping that up as 
well as engaging in the lumber business quite 
extensively. He married, January i, 1865, 
Emma Hauver, born in Lee, Massachusetts, 
July 24, 1848, and is now living in Owego 
village. She is daughter of Samuel and Lois 
(Buttler) Hauver. Children: i. Charles Nel- 
son, mentioned below. 2. John Albert, born 
Sci)tember 16, 1868, died October, 1897; mar- 
ried P.lanche T. Hills, deceased, by whom he 
had children : George N., deceased, and John 
Albert. 3. Edgar L., October 30, 1870; mer- 



chant in Owego; married, June 8, 1898, Edith 
Andrews and has children: Lewis A., Edith 
and Lawrence. 4. Alice Elnora, February 20, 
1873; married, July 26, 1899, Fred H. Roper 
and has children : Mildred and Morris F. 5. 
Willis Archer, April 25, 1875 ; married, August 
8, 1901, Marie Yerguson, and has child, Hil- 
dred. 6. Lena Ethel, July 30, 1877 ; trained 
nurse. 7. Clarence LeRoy, October 11, 1880; 
married, June 8, 1904, Estira Brown, and has 
children : Harold and Marion. 8. Clara Grace, 
November 20, 1882; married, July 28, 1909, 
Harry Fisher, an attorney by profession, prin- 
cipal of school at Newport, New York ; they 
have child, Celia. 

(HI) Charles Nelson, son of Nelson Cod- 
ner, was born in the town of Owego, Tioga 
county. New York, January 14, 1867. He re- 
ceived his early education in the public schools 
of his native town. When a young man he 
engaged in business for himself in the retail 
meat and provision trade, and two years later 
started in the grocery business in Owego. After 
several years he sold his grocery business to 
his brother, Edgar L. Codner, and in 1895 en- 
gaged in the wholesale produce business, 
which he has followed with remarkable suc- 
cess since that time. He has also large farm- 
ing property and owns spacious warehouses 
at the Erie railroad station in Owego. " He is 
a member of Tribe No. 40, Improved Order 
of Red Men. a member and trustee of the 
Methodist Episcopal church. In politics he 
is a Prohibitionist. He married, November 
20, 1890, .\ntoinette M. Reed, of Owego, 
daughter of Herbert Reed. They have no 
children. 



There was a multitude of im- 
JOHNSON migrants bearing this name 

very early in New England. 
Among the most distinguished of these was 
Edward Johnson, "the father of Woburn," 
Massachusetts, where the name has been con- 
spicuouslv representetl down to a very recent 
date. Another early immigrant was Lieuten- 
ant Stephen Johnson, who resided for a time 
at Ipswich, and was among the original pro- 
prietors of Andover, Massachusetts. Cap- 
tain John Johnson was a member of Rev. Rog- 
ers company, which came from Yorkshire, 
England, and after residing a short time at 
New Haven returnefl to Raleigh, Massachu- 
setts, in 1650. His brother Robert was among 
the settlers of New Haven, and has a numer- 



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oils and highly respectable posterity. The 
family herein traced is of equally good quality 
and has been very active in the settlement of 
new communities and the development of their 
best interests including those of Central New 
York. 

(I) William Johnson, a native of England, 
settled in Ciiarlestown. Massachusetts, as early 
as 1634, and followed the occupation of planter 
and brickmakcr there. With his wife Eliza- 
beth he was admitted to the Ciiarlestown 
church February 13, 1635, and was admitted a 
freeman of the town March 4 following, being 
one of the proprietors. A deposition made by 
him December 29. 1659, indicates that he was 
born in 1(03. He was a grave digger at 
Ciiarlestown in 1657, and also constable. His 
death occurred September 9, 1677, and his 
widow Elizabeth married (second) Thomas 
Carter, William Johnson purchased land in 
165 1 on what are now known as Middle Row 
and Back street. Children : John, Joseph, Jon- 
athan, Nathaniel, Zachariah, Isaac, Elizabeth 
and Ruhamah. The joint estate of the par- 
ents was inventoried April 12, 1686. Their 
sons, John, of Haverhill, and Zachariah, of 
Charlestown, were appointed administrators. 
The estate was divided among the sons next 
day. 

fH) Joseph, second son of William and 
Elizabeth Johnson, vias baptized February 13, 
1637, in Charlestown, and with his brother 
John was an early settler in Haverhill. His 
house lot of five acres and two "commonages" 
adjoined those of his brother, and his farm 
was in the northwest part of the village, where 
he and his sons owned three hundred acres 
of land extending nearly a mile to the North 
Parish meeting house on the east side of the 
road. Fourteen year> before his death he 
gave by deed of gift, June 19, 1700, to his 
sons Thomas, Joseph and William, the north 
part of the homestead. He owned five hun- 
dred acres of land in Amesburj', and was a 
well-to-do farmer. He married (first), .April 
19, 1664, Marie Soatlie. who died March 22. 
1665, without issue. He married (second) 
Hannah Tcnney. Children, born in Haverhill : 
I. Joseph, October 15, 1667. 2. William. 
January 15, 1669, ancestor of Colonel William 
John.son, of Enfield. 3. Thomas, mentioned 
below. 4. Zachariah. .April 16, 1672, died Oc- 
tober 27, 1673. 5. John, November 9. 1673, 
died March 2},, 1704-05, unmarried. 6. Han- 
nah, June 10, 1675, married, December 28, 



1704, Nathaniel Osgood. 7. Mary, June 4, 
1677, married. May 16, 1697, Lieutenant John 
Johnson. 8. Jonathan, April 24, 1678, slain 
February 8, 1703-04; unmarried. 9. Eliza- 
beth, February 28, 1680-81 ; married, January 
31, 1721, Samuel Worthen. 10. Nathaniel, 
August 15, 1683: married, 1714, Ruth Gile. n. 
Zaccheus, .August 26, 1687, died unmarried. 

(HI) Deacon Thomas Johnson, third son 
of Joseph and Hannah (Tenney) Johnson, 
was born December 11, 1670, in Haverhill, 
where he died February j8, 1742. The day be- 
fore his marriage he bought of Joseph Bradley 
ten acres of land with a house thereon, and 
soon after received eleven acres from his 
father by deetl of gift as above noted. Be- 
sides the land in Haverhill he owned ground 
in that part of Ame.sbury which was 
afterward set ofif as Newton, New Hampshire. 
In 1728, when the North Parish meeting house 
was erected, he was elected deacon of the 
church, and remained in that office from 1730 
until his death, and also filled various town 
offices. Most of his estate was deeded to his 
children before his death. He married, May i, 
1700, Elizabeth Page, born September 14. 
1679, daughter of Cornelius and Martha 
(Clough) Page, and granddaughter of John 
and Jane Clough. She died in Hampstead, 
New Hampshire, June 12, 1752. Children, born 
at North Parish of Haverhill: i. Mehitable, 
February 26, 1701-02. 2. Cornelius, January 
17. 1703-04: removed to Andover and Con- 
cord, New Hampshire. 3. Thomas, January 

6, 1705-06: farmer at Plaistow. 4. Abigail, 
May 15. 1707. 5. Ruth. .August 24, 1709. 6. 
John, November 15. 171 1, mentioned below. 

7. Susannah, January 25, 1714-15. 8. Jabez, 
.April 24, 1716, died young. 9. Jeremiah, June 
30, 1717: married .Abigail Wright. 10. Eliza- 
beth. January 2, 1720-21. 

(I\') Hon. John Johnson, third son of 
Thomas and Elizabeth (Page) Johnson, was 
born November 15, 1711, in the North Parish 
of Haverhill. He joined the Haverhill church 
February 4, 1728. and in November, 1730, 
became a member of the new church in the 
North Parish, of wdiich his father was deacon. 
His father gave him land and he purchased 
five acres in the North Parish from his 
brother Cornelius, on which he settled after 
his marriage, and became not only a well-to-do 
farmer, but a merchant of note, dealing much 
in ship timber. Incidentally he did much con- 
veyancing and other legal work. In 1732 he 



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was elected hog-reeve, this honor being face- 
tiously bestowed on young married men. Sub- 
sequently he held many important places of 
trust and honor in the town and province, and 
was an inHuential citizen of his locality. In 
1648 he removed to Haverhill, district of Tim- 
berland, some six miles north, and was dele- 
gated to represent his neighborhood in peti- 
tioning for a town charter, which took him to 
Portsmouth, Xew Hampshire. He paid the 
expenses of the trip, was successful in his 
mission and at the first town meeting on the 
following month was chosen first selectman of 
the new town of Hampstead. This town was 
in Xew Hampshire from the time of establish- 
ing the province line in 1741. John Johnson 
was appointed magistrate, and was for many 
years a member of the court of sessions for 
the entire province. He erected a sawmill at 
Wash Pond outlet, and was active in the set- 
tlement of numerous towns in the province 
of Is'ew Hampshire, being an original proprie- 
tor of several of them. He died intestate 
April I, 1762, in his fifty-second year. Most 
of his real estate was disposed of by sale and 
deed of gift to his sons before his death. He 
married, November 25, 1731, Sarah Haines, 
born January 0, T710-11, daughter of Thomas 
and Hannah fHarriman) Haines, of Haver- 
hill, west precinct. She joined the church at 
Haverhill, September 18, 1726. She died Sep- 
tember 20, 1750, having had ten children. He 
married (second), January, 1751. Sarah, sister 
of Lieutenant Peter Morse. She removed to 
Newbury, \'ermont, and married (second) 

Samuel Way. She married (third) 

Barnard, and died at Newbury, in 1795, aged 
sixty-five. Children: r. Jesse, mentioned be- 
low. 2. Sarah, July 9, 17.34, died young. 3. 
Miriam. March 22. 17.33-36; married, October 
10, 1752, EbeneTier Mudget. 4. Caleb. Feb- 
ruary 3. 1737-38: reinoved to Caledonia. New 
York. 5. Slpses. .\pril 13, 1740. died Novem- 
ber 8. i7j8. 6. Thomas, March 22, 1742. 7. 
Ruth, February 3. 1743-44. 8. Elizabeth, 
^^arch 6, 1744-4;, died May i. 1747. 0- John. 
February 9, 1746-47. died .August 18, I757- 
10. Haines, .\ugust 28, 1749: farmer in New- 
bury, Vermont. Children of second wife: ir. 
Sarah, October 29, 1751 : married Jacob Page. 
12. Ruth (twin), .April 23, 1754; married 
Samuel Hog. 13. Elizabeth, twin with Ruth: 
married Jacob Currier. 14. Peter, June 7, 
1756; soldier in the revolution. 15. Judith, 
April 4, 1758: married Jesse Prescott. 16. 



John, February 9, 1760. 17. Tamar, July 6, 

1761 : married Joseph Bonat, or Nonny. 

(Y) Jesse, eldest child of John and Sarah 
(Haines) Johnson, was born October 20, 1732, 
in Haverhill, and died March 11, 1800, in 
Enfield, New Hampshire. He was among the 
original proprietors of Northumberland, Stark, 
Unity and Dummer, New Hampshire, and 
Newbury, X'ermont, and was a very active man 
of affairs. He purchased land in Enfield, 
New Hampshire, in 1788, and in the course of 
the next six years became the owner of about 
one-quarter of that town, where he cleared 
lands and built mills. He removed his family 
to that town about March, 1787. Throughout 
his life he was almost constantly in the public 
service, acting as justice of the peace, repre- 
sentative, and in various town ofiices. At 
Hampstead, December 8, 1767, he was a mem- 
ber of a committee to satisfy the Kingston 
claimants who claimed a part of the town of 
Hampstead, appointed by the freeholders un- 
der the Haverhill and Almsburg title. He was 
one of the petitioners to the governor and leg- 
islature February 3, 1768, to settle the above 
controversy. He first appears on the rate 
list of land holders in Hempstead about 1764, 
and in 1785 was among the petitioners for a 
representative to the general court from that 
town. In June, 1777, he was on a committee 
to regulate trade. December 5, 1768, by deed, 
he gave his pew on the men's stairs to the 
town. He appeared on a petition against the 
claims of Pelham, June 17, and December 30, 
1783, and on a petition for the abatement of 
taxes, August 8, 1784. He married (first), 
about 1758, Margaret McCrea, born about 
1741, died June 7, 1770. He married (sec- 
ond), in Hampstead, August 14, 1770, Pris- 
cilla Kimball, born September 5, 1749, in Brad- 
ford, daughter of Ebenezer and Mary (Kim- 
ball) Kimball. Her death is not recorded in 
Haverhill or anywhere in New Hampshire, 
but it occurred about June ist, 1788. He mar- 
ried (third), October's. 1788, Martha, widow 
of fonathan Webster, of Haverhill, and daugh- 
ter' of John and Rach<-el (Roberts) Green, 
of Haverhill, born .April 8, 1751, in that town, 
and died October 9, 1852, in Canaan, New 
Hampshire. She married (third) William 
Cummings. Children of the first wife record- 
ed in Hampstead: Belle, born April 28, 1759: 
Miriam, December 4, 1760: Jesse, October 7, 

1762 ; Sarah, July 23, 1765 ; Belle, May 5, 1768. 
Children of second wife: John, born October 



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9, 1771 ; Susannah, October 30, 1773; Chloe, 
March 18, 1776; Hannah, August i, 1778; 
Ha}Ties. Sqjtember 15, 1780; Ben, mentioned 
below; Lydia, January 28, 1785, and Sally, 
May I, 1788. 

(VI) Ben, fourth son of Jesse Johnson, 
and third son of his second wife, Priscilla 
Kimball, was born June 20, 1783, in Hamp- 
stead, and was an infant when his parents re- 
moved to Enfield. He attended the district 
school and an academy, and took up the study 
of law in the office of Foote & Rumsey, at 
Troy, New York. Among his fellow students 
was John A. Collier, and after being admitted 
to the bar they formed a partnership for the 
practice of law at Binghamton, New York, 
but this arrangement lasted only a short time. 
For a few years he resided at Hector, Schuyler 
county. New York, where he was associated 
with Richard Smith. The latter was appointed 
judge of the court of common pleas for Tomp- 
kins county upon its organization in 1817, and 
about that time Mr. Johnson settled in Ithaca, 
New York. He opened an office on Aurora 
street, and in 1819 admitted to partnership 
Charles Humphrey, with whom he practiced 
some years. Subsequent to this, Henry S. 
Walbridge was his partner until 1839. In 
that year Mr. Johnson's son-in-law, Anthony 
Schuyler, became his partner. Mr. Johnson 
was the Nestor of the Tompkins county bar, 
and his practice was large and successful. He 
was among the strongest lawyers, learned, 
witty, a ready debater, a master of sarcasm and 
a hard worker. His intellectual and physical 
strength was wholly employed in caring for 
the interests of his clients, and he gave little 
time to other matters. He was quiet, unde- 
monstrative, social and genial in disposition, 
and made and retained strong friendships. 
\\'hile he maintained an intelligent interest in 
local and national progress, he sought no office, 
but accepted from a sense of duty the presi- 
dency of the village in 1823, and was super- 
visor the following year. He died in Ithaca 
in March, 1848. 

He married, November 20, 1817, at Fayette, 
Seneca county. New York, Jane, daughter of 
Peter Day, one of the early settlers of that 
section; she was born August 29, 1798, and 
died in Ithaca, August 28, 1881. Children: i. 
Eleanor, born September 28, 1818; married, 
December 23. 1839, .Anthony Schuyler, and 
died November 5, 1849. leaving two children. 



2. Jane, January 15, 1821 ; married, February 
20, 1850, Orton Bostwick, and died March 2, 
1899. 3- Hetty, June 21, 1822; married, Sej)- 
tember 14, 1842, Charles P. Dibble, and died 
February 16, 1891. 4. Jesse, mentioned be- 
low. 5. Mary. .April 23, 1828; married, June 
5, 1848, Charles Swan, and died October 27, 
1906. 6. Louisa, December 11, 1829; married, 
June 5, 1848, Joseph Brittin Sprague, and died 
September i, 1903. 7. Ciiarles Dey, Sejitem- 
ber 24, 1831, died March 3, 1903; married, 
January 20, 1838, Mary Caroline Treman. 8. 
\\'illiam, April 23, 1824, died March 4, 1897; 
he married, Deceiuber 8, 1868, Melissa \\'lieel- 
ock. 9. Isabella. October 7, 1837 ; married, 
June Ti, 1833, Charles M. Titus. 

(\TI) Jesse, eldest son of Ben and Jane 
(De\-) Johnson, was born June 4. 1824, in 
Ithaca, and was educated at the old Ithaca 
Academy, In early life he engaged in farm- 
ing, thus continuing until 1831, when he en- 
tered the express business, with which he was 
identified thereafter many years. He was 
first employed on the Cayuga Lake & Lacka- 
wanna railroad, running from Ithaca to Owe- 
go, and was later employed by various com- 
panies in this work. In 1834 he engaged with 
the American Express Comjiany as messenger 
and agent, and thus continued eleven years at 
Ithaca. In the sjiring of 1862 he was em- 
ployed by the United States government and 
was conductor on the Richmond, Fredericks- 
burg & Potomac railroad, which he helped re- 
build several times after its destruction by the 
Confederate armies, and took the first train 
operated by the Federal government into Fred- 
ericksburg. At the clo.se of the civil war he 
returned to Ithaca, and soon after engaged in 
the oil business at Oil City, Pennsylvania ; at 
the same time he acted as agent for the I'nited 
States Express Comjiany and also the .Ameri- 
can Express Company, with which he had not 
severed his connection in the meantime. In 
1863 he retired from the express business, 
and for twenty-five years following was an oil 
producer in Pennsylvania. In 1893 ^^ ^^' 
turned to Ithaca, where he has since resided, 
and since that date has been extensively en- 
gaged in mining enterprises in Colorado, 
spending much of his time in that state for a 
period of fifteen \ears. He is still interested 
in mining, though practically retired from ac- 
tive business, at the age of eighty-eight years. 
Since 1837 Mr. Johnson has been a member 



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of the Ithaca Fire Department, and for five 
years has served as a member of the board of 
liealth of that city. 

I le married, in 1868. Fannie Perry, born 1835, 
in Covert, Seneca county, New York, daughter 
of Thomas Perry, of that town. She died in 
1908, at Itiiaca. 



This family is of ancient Saxon 
WILCOX origin, and was seated at P.ury 
St. Edmunds, county Suffolk, 
England, before the .Vorman con(|uest. Sir 
John Dugdale, in the \'isitation of the County 
of Suffolk, mentioned fifteen generations of 
tiie family prior to the year 1600, and traced 
the lineage back to the year 1200, when the 
surname Wilcox came into use as an inherited 
famil)' name. On old records the forins of 
\\ ilcox, Wilcocks, Wilco.xon, Wilcockson, and 
others, occur interchangeably. Most of the 
.\merican families are descended from two 
immigrants who came to Connecticut early. 

John ^\'ilcox settled at Hartford. Connecti- 
cut, and was chosen a surveyor there in 1643- 
44. and selectman in 1650. He died in 1651, 
and his will was dated July 24, 165 1. He was 
iloubtless buried in the Center Church burying 
ground at Hartford. His wife (name un- 
known) died about i6f)8. Children: John, an- 
cestor of many families at ^liddletown, Con- 
necticut : Sarah, married John Bidwell, and 
settled in Middletown ; Ann. born 1616. mar- 
ried John Hall Jr., and settled in Middletown. 
William Wilcox, or Wilcoxson, the other 
immigrant, was born in England, in 1601, son 
of John Wilcox, of -St. Albans. Hertfordshire, 
England: his mother married ("second) Will- 
iam Hayden, of Windsor, England. William 
Wilcdx came to this country in 1634-35, at the 
age of thirty-four, in the ship "Planter," hav- 
ing a certificate frnm the minister at St. Al- 
bnn^, 1 fe was a linen weaver by trade : he was 
admitted freeman in Massachusetts. December 
7. 1^136: settleil at Stratford. Connecticut, 1639, 
represented the town in the general assembly 
at Hartford in 1647, and died in 1659. He 
married Margaret . born 161 1. Chil- 
dren: fohn. born i6';3: Joseph, 1635; Sam- 
uel; Obadiah, ancestor of numerous families 



of Guilf(jrd, Coimecticut ; Deacon Timotiiv ; 
Elizabeth, married Henry Stiles ; Hannah ; 
Sarah ; Phebe. 

( I I Stephen Wilcox, a descendant of John 
Wilcox, was born about i~(-o. He married 
Lois Chaffee, born in Ashford, Jamiary 16, 
1763, died at Granby, September 29, 1849. 

(II) David, son of Stephen and Lois (Chaf- 
feeT Wilcox, was born at .Ashford, Connecti- 
cut, ()ctober 20, 1797. He was among the 
early settlers of (3s\vego county. New York. 
He married, January 6, 1822, Sally Starr, born 
December 19, 1802, died November 7, 1849. 
They settled at Onondaga, New York, and re- 
moved in 1834 to Oswego Falls. 

(HI) Stephen (2), son of David and Sally 
(Starr) Wilcox, was bom in Onondaga coun- 
ty. New York. He was educated in the com- 
mon schools of his native place, and as a young 
man followed farming. He lived for a time at 
Granby, Oswego county. In 1880 he located 
in Fult'^n. Oswego county, and engaged in the 
meat and provision business. He was an as- 
sessor of the town of Granby, and a member 
of the board of eilucation for a number of 
years. He was liberal in his religious views, 
and in politics was a Democrat. He died in 
Colorado, in September. 1903. He married 
Helen M., daughter of Seth Dutcher, of Hin- 
manville. Children: Elmer E., born Septem- 
ber 21, 1861 ; Carrie D., February 5, 1865; 
Charles D. (of whom further). 

( IV ) Charles D.. son of Stephen (2) and 
Helen M. (Dutcher) Wilcox, was born in 
Granby, Oswego county, New York, March 
r, 1869. He was educated in the public schrK>ls. 
In i88o he came with his parents to Fulton, 
New York, and there learned the printer's 
trade. He is now superintendent of tlie Mor- 
rell Press Company. He is a member of the 
First Methodist Episcopal Church of Fulton, 
and of Its official board. He is independent in 
politics. He married, June 25. 1897. Gertrude 
K. Wells, born June 23, 1872, daughter of Nor- 
man and Wilhelmina Wells, a descendant of 
one of the oldest and most distinguished fam- 
ilies of the Connecticut colony, ^^r. and Mrs. 
Wilcox have one child. Kenneth W.. born Oc- 
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